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2019
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Description
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!
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Drive Thru Games Analysis at 31:29 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Highly Positive
Pros
- Enjoyable for families and casual play
- Offers good strategy and potential for aggressive plays
- Unique and funny theme
- Feels like an overlooked classic
Cons
- Player count of 2 is considered the weakest.
Thematic elements
- Animals carrying sloths around to collect food.
- Humorous and nonsensical
Comparison games
- Ticket to Ride
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- player interaction — Can be played friendly, but also has aspects where players can 'hose' each other.
- Route Building — Similar to Ticket to Ride, involving pulling cards and laying tracks (implied).
- Set Collection — Players are pulling up cards to move their sloth around the board collecting food.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this one i can't recommend enough
- it was really fun it was just a lot of fun again
- man i really recommend this game especially when you get a good mix of players at the table four or five players and you can just really kind of slice each other's throat
- personally I prefer doing imperium because again it's got that nasty cutthroat you know throat slice to it
- it's not really fair to compare them because they're they're two different vibes although the mechanically they're very similar but the vibe of them is very different
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All You Can Board Top 8 List at 7:05 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- novel twist on familiar pickup-and-deliver
- suitable for both new and experienced gamers
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- race with delivery of the self as the cargo
- island with animals carrying players
- light-hearted, modular board-driven
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- animal movement powers — different animals confer different movement abilities
- Modular Board — board layout changes with a large number of configurations
- pickup and deliver — race where the player is the cargo to be picked up and moved
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- i love these games that have a very interactive kind of central board where everyone is fighting over the same thing
- it's similar to stratego
- it's a two-player only game designed by reiner kenitzia
- every card feels broken
- the grandfather of all area control games
- i can't wait to actually get to the table in a physical form
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Watch It Played Top 10 List at 8:19 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Oddball and charming
- Great cover art
- Puts players in a great mood
- Interesting combos
- Efficient movement chains
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Sloths hitching rides to travel the country and eat leaves
- Forest
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Drafting — you do this by drafting animal cards and then paying with those cards to activate the animals
- pickup and deliver — fast sloths is a race game that at its core is a classic pickup and deliver game except that we ourselves are the sloths we are the cargo being delivered
- Set Collection — collect leaves on this board
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- viewers like you have told us what they've been playing and I picked out a bunch to share from some downright Classics to some fresh off the shelf hotness as always some we wonderful surprises in this month's People's Choice selection
- The modern life filled
- I loved playing this game the story really pulls me in and it made me care about the decisions I had to make I'm two missions into War Stories occupied France right now I don't know how it ends I know how our mission too ended not everyone came home from that one let me tell you this is an incredible game I really hope they do more of these in this series this is a game you have to play to to get to understand to see what it's about I'm not the biggest Choose Your Own Adventure narrative board gamer and this really is you know more than half that's what you're doing but I tell you what the story is incredible what you're doing is devastatingly difficult and punishing and satisfying what a game
- I loved fromage so much it's been mentioned on the channel before but so many people voted for this game this month that I just had to bring it here now
- It's pretty slick how the board rotate each turn and everyone takes their turn at the mini game that's in front of them
- Ever since I received my pledge copy of this game it's been an instant hit at our weekly board game Meetup several people even went as far as to order it themselves after playing it
- I'm not a huge fan of cheese but I am a huge fan of this cheese making game with its fun rotating boards and tough choices as to what cheese is to make and resources to take and adorable little cheese tokens this game has become my favorite of 2024
- I Echo that entirely fromage is in my humble opinion really one of the very best games of last year and I'm just personally so glad people are enjoying it as much as me
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All You Can Board Discussion at 51:55 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is in lieu of us doing our yearly top 10; it’s a category-based discussion.
- I think this format is more interesting and adds flexibility in terms of the games we’re talking about.
- Anyone who says this game is luck-based, you’re just wrong.
- Through the Desert is one of the greatest designs ever in my opinion.
- Magic's back in my life now because of drafting.
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watch it played Discussion at 3:26 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- New animal adds unique capabilities
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Animals
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- New Animal — Introduces a new animal that changes colors and can act as a joke or for any animal in the race.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- well hello welcome to watch it played
- boy howdy do we have a lot of promos related to that boat 5 I think here
- boy Halla D is an expression from a TV show in the 60s called Howdy Doody
- this is a very simple promo
- this one here will give you twelve dollars and the other one provides to permanent certificates but you'll notice neither of these provides you with victory points at the end of the game
- Great Western trail to an animal with a great tale with this that is a terrible segue
- I've not played this game but everyone I know who has has said good things so it's one I do hope to try
- I can live with that segue that that's acceptable
- well that brings us to the big finale and I really mean it
- it's a family game and I break out with adults and kids alike and it's a great little dexterity game packed into a small box but not any more
- this is accurately labeled the Giant Edition
- it's the same game but it's definitely a very different experience
- boy howdy is it a heck of a lot of fun
- any purchases you make after that point will help the channel here so consider using it
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Foster the Meeple Event Coverage 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)
Mechanics unknown.
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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cardboardrhino 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
none
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.
Video topics + discussion points
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 Meeple 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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