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Year
2022
Players
2-5
Age
10+
Playtime
45 min
Collection
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Description
The cover of FYFE shows a dreamy South Seas location with a blue sea, beach, and palm trees — but what will you find as you dig in the sand, and can you arrange your discoveries in ideal scoring combinations?
Each player has their own 5x5 grid, 7 lucky charm tiles, and 15 scoring boards. The game includes 125 tokens, with each token showing one of five colors, one of five symbols, and one of five numbers (1-5). The scoring boards show conditions that you must meet in order to earn the points listed on that board, e.g., the numbers 1-5 in sequence, tokens of the same color, tokens with different symbols, three tokens of one color and two tokens of another color, etc.
To start the game, draw two tokens from the bag and place them at the bottom of your playing board. Place one of these tokens in an empty space of your grid, then choose a scoring board and place it in the row, column, or (if appropriate) diagonal line in which that token was placed. On each subsequent turn, draw one token, place it on your game board, then choose one of your two tokens to place. If this newly placed token doesn't have a scoring board pointing at it, choose one of your unplaced scoring boards and place it in the row, column, or diagonal.
As soon as a line is filled with five tokens, if you have met the conditions on the scoring board for this line, flip it over to the side that shows points; if you are the first and only player to complete this scoring board this round, take the associated 3-point bonus tile. If you complete and score multiple lines on the same turn, take 5-20 bonus points depending on whether you scored two, three, or even four lines at once.
If someone drew a lucky charm token at the start of the round, they draw a replacement token, then all players can choose to use and discard one of their lucky charm tiles. These tiles allow you to exchange the tokens in your reserve, place a token on the board as a joker, swap an already fulfilled scoring board for another one, and so on. Each unused lucky charm tile is worth points at game's end. After 25 rounds, players tally their points for scoring boards, first tiles, lucky charm tiles, and bonuses to see who has the highest score.
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Getting Games Discussion at 21:48
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Thematic elements
- two tokens and a five-by-five grid with surfboard tokens
- beach/surfboard themed puzzle
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- grid-based token placement — two tokens in front of you, place on a five-by-five grid; scoring via surfboard alignment
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Quotes (from this video)
- it looks like this is a 60 to 120 minute game
- the balance between workers (which are warriors) and resources (which are livestock) are two sides of the same coin
- the more of uh one thing that you do the less of the other thing
- this is the next game coming out from delicious games
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All You Can Board Top 10 List at 12:47 sentiment: positive
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positive
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Comparison games
- Savannah Park
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- Evergreen is a game that I'm fairly certain I'm going to like over time.
- it's a really simple family weight game
- the biggest surprise for sure and the reason why I've chosen for this list is the fact that this game shot up the BGG rankings as quickly as it did
- Caesar sees Roman is a big positive surprise
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Gaming with Edo & Jessica Analysis at 11:54
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- The platforms Market games everything's changing all the time so it's it's just important as a Creator as somebody doing kick kickstarters to both understand sort of what works and what's what's what's stable and all the places where things have changed or or um opportunities for improvement or new ways of doing things Etc
- Vineyard is um a shared worker placement an action selection game so it's a little bit of like uh worker placement where we're all managing the same workers throughout the Vineyard and we're all working to go through this wine making process um and it has action selection I'll Concordia where you're sort of picking up cards and playing them down but it's based on your workers and you could upgrade the cards and upgrade the workers super super fun
- we're going to be participating in kickstarters pledge manager so that's um uh you know I don't know how we're not the first certainly but it's a smaller set of groups right now I don't think it's fully rolled out but we are going to be use their integrated uh uh uh pledge manager and that's different than pledge manager so we pre last campaign it was new we used pledge manager which had some integration with Kickstarter but it was like this real like oh uh our hookup just lets Kickstarter like send us their the information but it's but it's still just our own system
- It's not a 20 304 you know it's a little bit more of a big box game and it'll be more expensive at retail so
- the real stuff is that Kickstarter stuff all that under the hood stuff is very different the actual page I think is pretty common to what we're doing
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The Board Game Garden Top List at 15:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- surprised me
- fun puzzly game
- makes my brain very happy
Cons
- misconception about theme (survival)
Thematic elements
- survival (misconception)
- island
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- row and column objectives — Players make rows and columns and try to achieve objectives within them using colored chips.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I named it the cream of the crop and yes, we are doing that again this year.
- I can already see they would probably get into my top 100 games of all time and it makes me so sad because when I was prepping for this video, I actually went back and watched the video that I did back in 2024.
- that does show just how hard it is to get games back to the table, especially being a like board game content creator.
- I desperately need to make a video of games with mini games because that is just one of like my favorite things in a board game.
- I have not been able to stop thinking about this game ever since we played it at the cottage.
- Holy crap. I'm looking at it in the camera, and it's really hard to hold it up and show you guys it because it is very reflective.
- And the part of the game that I just fell in love with with this game is the fact that each player has a hidden kind of endgame scoring.
- It makes me really sad cuz I do believe that Osprey Games is no longer going to be publishing games.
- It is so fun. Again, it has dice drafting but the dice drafting is very unique in its own way.
- It is the type of puzzly game that makes my brain very happy.
- I love themes of Japan. Francis and I went to Japan. We are going back to Japan this year, which we're very excited for and officially we have booked the flights for Japan, so we are very excited.
- Stefan Feld just he knows how to make games that make my brain happy.
- I feel like there needs to be more games that are druid themed.
- Remember, you are somebody's reason to smile.
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Top List at 1090:33:20 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Completely surprised me
- Really enjoyed Fife
- Very high on my wish list
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Archipelago
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- grid placement — Tokens are placed into a 5x5 grid of tokens.
- Objective Fulfillment — Each row and column progressively has a different objective added, which players try to achieve.
- Token drawing — Involves taking chips out of a bag with different colors, icons, and numbers.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is a tag made by the wonderful Rolling Reggie.
- It is a series of, I believe, eight questions that we are going to answer midway through the year.
- What is a game that you've played in 2026 that you want to take on a second date?
- Druids of Adora is the most recent title from the wonderful Stefan Feld, and I am a huge fan of Stefan Feld games.
- This game makes me so happy.
- What is your biggest surprise so far this year? And then also, you can, if you would like, answer what is your biggest disappointment so far this year.
- Fyfe is a Sudoku-esque puzzle of taking these chips out of a bag and they all have different colors, icons, and numbers and you're placing them into this 5x5 grid of tokens that then each row and column is progressively going to have a different kind of objective added to it and you're trying to achieve as many of these objectives as possible.
- I think I'm just obsessed with Sudoku. Am I okay? I don't know.
- Postcards. So, I was so excited for Postcards.
- Kokeshi, which in this, if you guys do have this game, this game is full of chunky acrylic tokens that are so incredibly satisfying and I have absolutely loved playing this game with those tokens.
- Trismegistus, um by the wonderful Board & Dice. This game is absolutely stunning.
- Todoku. Apologies if you can hear someone mowing their lawn in the background.
- Onirim. This is a I I don't actually think it's solo only, but a lot of people just play this one solo.
- Crits and Tricks from Inside Up Games.
- Flip Voyage, which is another game from the same publisher that did Flip Town.
- Iris from Crimson Board Games. Honestly, her content I feel like is most aligned with the type of content that I really enjoy that is still within the board game space.
- Kimothy Reads and I have been loving her content recently over on TikTok.
- J&J's Cards and Collectibles in uh Waterloo, Ontario. It is the best friendly local game store.
- the video where I was showing you guys the expansion that I designed with my friend Daryl for Mythic Visions. So we designed the Herbalist, and I did a video kind of showcasing my journey with that.
- tags were all the rage, favorites videos, which I kind of do here on the channel with my monthly wrap-up videos, but yeah, just like olden days YouTube just makes me really happy.
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