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2015
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Description
In ancient Egypt, even a lowly peasant could seek an audience with the Pharaoh, and in Favor of the Pharaoh 2–4 players vie for the Pharaoh's favor by working their way up through Egyptian society, gathering influence (represented by dice and powers) to gain entry to the next level of society. Once any player gains the Queen's influence, a final contest occurs for the Pharaoh's favor.
Favor of the Pharaoh tasks players with building a dice-rolling engine—not to mention adding and manipulating dice—in preparation for a final roll-off between all players to gain the Pharaoh's favor and win the game.
Favor of the Pharaoh includes more than one hundred tiles, over twenty standard and custom dice, dozens of bonus tokens, level bars, locking pyramids, and more. With so many combinations of level bars and tiles, no two games will ever be set up the same!
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 1:01:59 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Liked the game
Cons
- Haven't played in a while
Thematic elements
- Building favor with the Pharaoh
- Ancient Egypt
Comparison games
- Imhotep
- Court of the King
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dice building — Players build up their dice.
- dice worker placement — Players use dice to take actions.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Positively Fifth Street and it's fantastic because it talks both about the murder but it also talks about like just how he played poker and and made the final table
- I never I never played Santa's Workshop I heard it was really really good though
- I enjoyed honey Buzz
- I thought merch of the dark Road was good
- The thing that sucks is that the hard cover for it like it's it's it's the I I mean I get they're going with as far as like the the cover but it's like the my least favorite cover of the options that they have available
- Unless the bonus is you handing me $1,000 right now in my hand cash I don't want it
- Pepsi as we all know sucks it's and it's and it's horrible
- Lincoln almost got arrested he was like you're lucky you have an out of state driver's license otherwise you'd be in front of a judge right now
- Elf Creek games is uh yeah they're defun huh y they're not answering any any emails that's that's not a good sign
- I always wonder it's like they launched a campaign in June and and I don't know I mean it it did okay but it's like it's one of those things where it's like you you you just hope that they didn't like they didn't know that they were like they were in trouble at that time
- We partnered with tabletop at the time the tabletop had their you know person there was was Bo and uh bo was like he was not really at the time you know he was just standing there and me and we we brought all the games we brought table you know chairs tables and everything so
- I started rewatching all of uh Sopranos again such a great show
- I figure if you just get your kids cynical right away beginning then they're uh set them up for Success
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TheGameBoyGeek - Hi Quality Hi Energy Board Game Reviews Analysis at 10:13 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fantastic game that uses the Yatzy mechanism
- Adds significant dice manipulation and ongoing abilities
- Features a dramatic, high-stakes ending
- Variable setup adds replayability
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Pleasing the Pharaoh through dice rolls and building influence.
- Ancient Egypt
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dice manipulation — Players use abilities and tokens to alter dice results.
- Dice Rolling — Central dice rolling mechanism.
- locking dice — Players must lock in at least one die per roll.
- Set Collection — Achieving combinations like pairs, straights, and five of a kind.
- variable setup — Different tiles each game provide varied objectives.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Yatsi, I first want to say that this was one of my most played games as a kid.
- It's such ingrained into board games. It's one of the most important games ever because of that.
- Essentially, it's called dice roll and locking. And there's actually 452 credited games that actually have selected this mechanism as being in their game.
- So it takes like this simple yachti mechanism and adds sort of an abstract game to it.
- This is a fantastic game that again uses the yatsi mechanism, uses a lot of the combos that yatsi does, but add has manipulations and ongoing ability, special abilities, all these different things for a very big peak moment ending.
- Essentially, I mean, it is Yatsi in a very different way where you're doing it to activate abilities, to combo things together to defeat your opponents.
- So, there's lots of heavier games out there that use this Yatsi mechanism as well, which is awesome because it came out as such a just little light little party game for families.
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 11:41 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
- Court the King
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's called Schllock. It's pretty good.
- I love Habitats.
- You're making a you have a movie theater and you're making like Bem movie posters to draw people into your theater and uh Yeah. It's pretty neat.
- It's like a poker game where you're trying to predict who wins the wins the hand.
- I had for our quiz today, I had I even showed the three frigin stripes. I'm like, that was way too easy.
- The scammers have figured out a way around my anti-scammers work.
- It's like an arms race.
- It's like, you know, like you you know what you want. You have expressed it. But but when it was like the the fourth and fifth time that he brought it up in the thing trying to get people to to ban behind him that that was that was the you know I I I understood shooting his shot, you know, saying saying what he wanted out of his out of his board game so he could have a really awkward game night.
- It's like, Oh, I want to play X. Well, I've got X. I can bring it. And so, it has matches.
- The thing I couldn't figure out was I finally got it to figure out how to go to the geek and like if your game is like, 'What the hell is this game?' You can click on it, it'll go to the geek, it'll do a search for Ghost Tower.
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Adam in Wales - Board Game Design Rules Teach at 3:05 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- big box release
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Egyptian theme
- ancient Egypt
Comparison games
- To Court the King
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Formula D is really the epitome of roll and move games in the modern era
- Settlers of Catan which was perhaps the most significant euro game that really sparked this whole new wave of modern board games
- Yahtzee has become a mechanic in its own right
- epitomises dice games really and how far they've come
- this is a bit of a tricky one to learn, it's well worth the effort
- ridiculously more fun than it should be
- playing with children it's fantastical
- absolutely brilliant
- this is my top 10 different ways to use dice in wooden board games
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