Game Info
Year
2019
Players
2-4
Age
14+
Playtime
8 min
Complexity
1.3/5
Collection
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Description
Embezzle or Invest? Make yourself richer and risk getting discovered, or grow the companies, enriching the competition? In Forks you give these problems to your competing boardroom members, sharing the wealth whilst shifting the blame, and always trying to avoid an audit.
Forks is a fun quick competitive card game in which players aim to give their neighbour a financially disastrous decision and choose the least bad option from those given to them. Working together, in the most un-cooperative way.
—description from the designer
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The Board Gaming Doctor News at 1:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Plays well with up to six players
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- tourism and marketing destinations
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — cleverly pass cards to manipulate your neighbors into marketing the ones you've invested in and avoid marketing theirs
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Quotes (from this video)
- hello and welcome to the board gaming doctor this is board game arena news
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Chairman of the Board Discussion at 11:35 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- I split you choose — another little I split you choose game
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Quotes (from this video)
- Joy Ride which is kind of a a stolen version of power boats
- Ramy uh tiny little card game where you're drafting these cards Ramy style trying to complete these objectives and that will also tailor your point scoring at the end
- take a Seat this is a you know a polyomino Style game as you're trying to fill up seats uh in a cinema with variable objectives looks like this quite a bit going on here but you know generally speaking I like polyomino style games especially when they tackle that idea from a different perspective
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Chairman of the Board Top List at 4:16 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Works well and is very streamlined.
- Super fast playing time.
- Does not outstay its welcome.
- Still fun regardless of outcome.
- Would not hesitate to play again.
Cons
- Only three most powerful suits score positively, others score negatively, creating a contradiction.
Thematic elements
- Commodity Speculation
Comparison games
- Vegetable Stock
- Gift of Tulips
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players select one card from their hand and pass the rest.
- commodity speculation — Players engage in commodity speculation based on card suits.
- Set Collection — Players collect sets of cards in front of them to increase influence in suits.
- Tableau Building — The communal tableau shows the strength of suits, influencing end-game scoring.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is where I take a look at the last five new to me board games that I've played and I rank them and review them in order of preference
- it's almost like a bit of a contrast or a contradiction when you say you're going to get a 4X game but under an hour
- I don't think that it managed to uphold the magic the you know the majesty and the epicness of what people want a forx game to be
- it's just one of those games where you can kind of turn your brain off
- I must admit that um Joy Ride you do have a lot more control and it does feel like a it kind of walks up tight route between games like Thunder Road and also games like um heat pedal to the metal
- All in all it's a lot of fun
- it's a kind of a textbook example of a solid game
- This is quite a fresh take on the roll and right polyomino sty games
- The additional mechanism which is probably the weakest part I think is a little bit tacked on
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Get into games Discussion at 19:51 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
extremely positive
Pros
- Possibly the greatest card game of all time.
- Every game is satisfying.
- Very quick to play.
- Highly addictive, people want to play again immediately.
- Joyful to play.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- market manipulation
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Market manipulation — Players interact with the market to gain advantages.
- Set Collection — Players collect sets of cards.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Accessible board gaming.
- Board games are fun for everyone, aren't they?
- The PJ effect. The PJ effect is what?
- Cards.
- Steal money bags. Colt Express.
- Board game nights are only as good as the games you bring to the table.
- Not as in how accessible colorblind friendly a board game is, but how how accessible a game is to games night.
- It is the perfect step up from a Monopoly
- I think Forks is possibly the greatest game of all time. The greatest card game of all time.
- you get Play-Doh, tubs of Play-Doh. You have to make things.
- gamers might sort of cast aside because they're not heavy enough. They're not crunchy enough. Actually, sometimes that is the perfect game.
- it's not about necessarily winning.
- The rule book is a little bit comp.
- I don't know how to play Brass Birmingham. I am so confused of what I'm doing or how I'm doing any of this.
- It's flanking and flipping.
- it doesn't need a theme. Like it doesn't have a theme.
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Get into games Interview at 59:46 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Super quick
- Super tactical
- Thinky
- Clever scoring system where stocks fluctuate
- Fun
Cons
- You always end up in the minus.
Thematic elements
- Real estate
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players pick cards from their hand to play in the middle and keep a card.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The community is everything. It's all our feedback comes from the community and not necessarily to publish a game but also once it's published things like finding spelling mistakes or this card's overpowered or this does this or or I thought it'd be cool if you ever did an expansion you did like sharks
- If you want to rescue the emperor penguins, buy buy Time Troopers at UKGE. And you can release them into the wild.
- It's it's potentially maybe the most overproduced game I've ever did see in my life ever. Um but it's it's stunning.
- Thank you, Becky. #thankyoubecky is the hashtag for the episode.
- I feel like Michael Aspel and This Is Your Life.
- I'm sorry, but some independent board game companies that will remain nameless, um have a game they worked so hard to come up with a name and end up calling it Peacock in other countries.
- Well, I didn't do very well on the British Empire quiz, but I don't know now I was doing a BTEC in uh 80s. Chris Barrie TV, I would have prepared a bit better.
- It is offset by Craig's RSPCA comments about our penguin games, but it's always a lot of fun listening.
- I don't want to do the accent. That's rude. I'll do my David Attenborough.
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