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You are sloths — cuddly, lazy, and, oh well, slothful.
All animals (including humans) like to take vacations, so everyone is together at a country resort. We sloths are sitting around, of course, while all the other animals are running throughout the resort. We want to look around, too, and traveling around the resort to pick up tasty leaves would be great — but running around ourselves is just too tedious. All the other animals are having fun, and we want that, too, but...we are so slothful.
And then we have an idea: We'll let ourselves be carried around by the other animals, thus getting around nicely. The other animals have so much energy that they'll even gladly carry us. They aren't slothful! Which of us sloths will be the first to get through the entire country and be victorious? We are ambitious, but so lazy!
Fast Sloths (a.k.a. "Faultier" in German) is a race game that at its core is a classic pick-up-and-deliver game — except that we ourselves are the cargo being delivered. We are being carried along the whole way and never take a single step on our own!
You always play with six out of twelve different animal species, and you can place the giant game board in four different combinations. On a turn, you draft 2-3 cards of different animal types from the top of their face-up decks, then you play as many animal cards as you like of a single type. Each animal provides a different type of movement or interaction with you, with ants carrying you along in a chain and the elephant throwing you with its trunk.
Fast Sloths is a game free from randomness that evolves only through the interaction between the players, doing so without any "take that" mechanisms — except for you snatching an animal from under the other players' noses because you need to use it yourself.
Each race offers new challenges for you to get to the different trees faster than the other sloths. Enjoy all 256 different combinations, each with countless starting positions of the animals on the game board...and we are already working on new game boards and more animals for even more fun combinations!
Year Published
2019
Transcript Analysis
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Foster the Meele convention_recap at 10:44 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- animals
- sloths
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
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Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- chef's kiss if you're wondering how many times I said and that's dallas
- you want to know what dice town is it's the freaking best game ever
- the fabulousness that is Dice Town
- if you like camel up uh but want like a more quick condensed version uh check out Full Throttle it's so so good
- and surfacea orus Max MH have immediately skyrocketed up my trick-taking list
- man any convention where you can sit and play Kuba twice
- any convention where you can sit down and play dominant species and Kuba Libre and you can just like get after it
- it is Criminal how ugly that game is but my God it good it's good
- I love little weird card games man
- the Ubers were kind of expensive uh but the hotel does have everything that you need
- 10 out of 10 10 out of 10 10 out of 10 trip
- we're obsessive over BGG cons now
- coming back from that convention just so reenergized re-energized
- amazing amazing amazing people in this hobby
- there's like a million different places to play games there were like all over the hotel
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Rynason game_review at 0:09 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Cute theme and art
- Family-friendly appeal
- Strategic depth for a light game
- Varied animal movement creates interesting decisions
- Arc of gameplay due to hand size and leaves
Cons
- Can require careful planning and turn management
- Possibility of being stranded if no animals nearby
- Map is large relative to animal count which can slow pacing
Thematic elements
- Whimsical animal-powered racing using various creatures and terrain.
- Animal kingdom race across a map with trees and leaves.
- Light, cute, family-friendly.
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Animal-specific movement — Each animal type (donkey, elephant, crocodile, ants, unicorn, etc.) has its own movement rules.
- Blocking / mobility constraints — Limited animals on map can cause planning and potential getting stranded.
- Card-driven movement — Players play movement cards from animal stacks to move their chosen animal.
- End game trigger via last leaf — When a sloth collects the last leaf of their color, the game ends.
- Hand management and card depletion — Begin with a hand from the board; the number of cards in hand is affected by leaves collected.
- set collection / resource collection — Collect leaves and place on your board; leaves determine end-game trigger.
- Tie-breaker by movement points in hand — In a tie, the player with the highest total movement points in hand wins.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- this game was a very pleasant surprise to me
- it's definitely unique and peculiar
- it's a great choice for gamers and for families as well
- you cannot afford to lose turns where you don't manage to move that much
- it's still super cute
- six different types of animals
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Foster the Meele - Board Games Channel top_10_list at 15:41 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- theme matches no bones day vibe
- simple and quick to teach
- engaging but low-pressure with a silly premise
Cons
- interaction can be light; some may crave more direct competition
Thematic elements
- pickup-and-deliver with quirky animal motion
- no bones day theme with adventurous sloths
- humorous, lighthearted
Comparison games
- Captain Flip
- Dorf Romantic
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Asymmetric animal abilities — each animal card gives unique movement and interaction rules.
- pickup and deliver — sloths are moved along by animal teammates; players collect 'leaves' to win.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's a beautiful little production
- it's just such a fun little quick game
- it's adorable it's very chill
- it's the exact same idea in pollen you're going to be placing out tiles
- you surround that bug and whoever has the most of that bug type wins
- it's basically Tetris in a board game
- there's no winning or losing this game it's the same kind of thing as romantic
- the production is incredible
- it's very easy to teach
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Brothers Murph top_10_list at 20:52 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Very unique take on pickup and deliver
- Shared animal mechanic is interesting
- Asymmetric animal abilities create strategic options
- Variable animals and maps prevent sameness
- Silly and fun atmosphere
- Creative animal movement mechanics
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Lazy sloths being transported to gather leaves
- Jungle with various animals
- Humorous asymmetric animal-powered transport
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Asymmetric animal abilities — Each animal type has unique movement patterns: giraffe picks up from 2 spaces, elephant throws 3 spaces, etc.
- Goal collection — Sloths must reach leaf locations around board for scoring
- Map variation — Different board layouts change game experience
- Pickup and deliver variant — Instead of moving yourself, you manipulate shared animals to pick you up and move you
- Shared animal infrastructure — All players share the same animal movers; no individual ownership
- Variable animal pool — 12 animals in box but only 6 used each game, creating varied gameplay
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- this doesn't feel like any other game... that's kind of what made us think about this
- this is a really interesting 3D puzzle where you are trying to build up stuff so that you can place it out but not score points
- you can strategically kind of change reality, which is just really, really kind of cool and unique
- I fundamentally do not understand how a brain thinks of a game like this. It's just so cool.
- I fundamentally don't understand how it works, but it works really, really well
- what if battleship was real time with a bunch of people and everyone had different roles
- it's fun to kind of cosplay as a collectible card game player, uh, but while keeping it still a board game at the end of the day
- For our money, the most unique game out there is Millennium Blades
- they provide an experience that... there's no other game that does it quite like those games do it
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Foster the Meola Channel game_review at 15:10 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Ridiculous, silly, and extremely fun; highly thematic.
- Excellent family-friendly appeal; easy to teach and play.
- Large board and dynamic interactions keep everyone engaged.
Cons
- Setup can be a bit fiddly with variant components and tracking paths.
Thematic elements
- Humorous, lighthearted animal race with hitchhiking and path interactions.
- A sprawling map with various animals and a central goal to gather leaves.
- very playful, thematic with a fun, chaotic vibe.
Comparison games
- Patchwork
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card management / action pacing — Cards influence movement and actions; setup may vary by variant.
- Hitchhiking / companion movement — Players move by riding on animals and using their paths and interactions.
- Race / route progression — Players race to collect leaves and reach scoring thresholds along a map.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I freaking love this game
- highly recommend if you're looking for a holiday themed game
- it's oozing and dripping with theme
- I freaking loved it
- it's very simple
- I love set collection games
- this is a great little game
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