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Game Info
Year
1998
Players
2-5
Age
12+
Playtime
30 min
Collection
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Description
The French Revolution is famous in part for the use of the guillotine to put nobles to death, and this is the macabre subject of this light card game. As executioners pandering to the masses, the players are trying to behead the most popular nobles. Each day the nobles are lined up and players take turns killing the ones at the front of the line until all the nobles are gone. However, players are given cards which will manipulate the line order right before 'harvesting' heads, which is what makes the game interesting. After three days of chopping, the highest total carries the day.
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Nights Around a Table Discussion at 7:58 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Fond memories of playing.
- Hilarious premise.
Cons
- One specific card was later admitted by the designer to be a 'horrible idea'.
Thematic elements
- Executioners competing during the French Revolution
- Louis XIV era France
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players select cards representing nobles to behead.
- Set Collection — Players aim to collect specific types of nobles for points.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- For me to get rid of a game out of my collection I've got to dislike it pretty hard
- I don't want to be punching down on people
- this is the game that I think helped me understand that I don't really like real-time games all that much
- I don't like games where people can't be policed
- the immensely inexplicably popular and almost universally reviled flux
- life is random ah they have a little bit of random your game is fine flux is way beyond beyond anything that I can handle
- It's a drinking game is really what hex hex is and I don't drink that
- I would much rather have you know one designer two designers work on one game with components that are made specific before that game that they want me to play than just sort of this grab bag of game components and ideas and concepts
- Cyril helped me figure out that I don't really like tile placement games
- they managed to take sherlocky subject matter and build the really schlocky game out of it that feels like a zombie movie but it feels sort of slapdash
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BoardGameCo Discussion at 1:04 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
- Art direction preferable to the original version
- Potentially approachable gateway to the theme
Cons
- Host has not yet played it; unsure how the new design plays in practice
Thematic elements
- selecting and ordering nobles by head to collect points
- 18th-century France, revolutionary Paris
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — players draft action cards to influence play and scoring
- Set Collection — collect cards to maximize point totals based on noble cards
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's crazy out there.
- the week of crazy crowdfunding is continuing
- Fury of Dracula coming back with a fourth edition in 2026
- I love the pirate theme.
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The Dice Tower Discussion at 8:52 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- A good time for the game to come back.
- Introduced the mechanic of royal guards whose scoring value increases with the number played.
- The fact that it's coming to retail is appreciated.
Cons
- Very macabre theme.
- Not a particularly strategic game.
Thematic elements
- Beheading people during the French Revolution.
- 16th century France
Comparison games
- Smash Up
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — Players play cards to manipulate the order of a line of people.
- Set Collection — The game involves collecting different types of nobles to beheaded, with royal guards being worth more points the more you play.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Dice Tower.
- Lou Zocchi has passed away.
- He is credited with inventing the 100-sided die.
- If you like polyhedral dice, he is one of the the the fathers of that, for sure.
- The Mensa Select winners were announced.
- This is a great slate of games.
- A new trick-taking game from Daniel Newman, New Mill Industries.
- Guillotine's back, baby.
- This was designed in 1998, so it's 28 years old.
- This is the first game I ever played that had had royal guards in it that were worth one if you had one, two if you had two, three if you had three and I was like, this is insanely cool.
- Avalon Hill has made actually several announcements.
- This particular picture that I'm showing you previous in deluxe I really kind of think they should have showed something else because that is an upgrade, right? But that doesn't make me think deluxe, it's just like, oh, that's the new edition.
- So Mayfair is still around and I guess still reprinting things, which is good to see, but but without Catan, they were suddenly a much smaller company.
- Layers is a two-player dungeon crawl game sort of It's like Battleship where you build your own dungeon and the other person goes through it.
- I like the base game, I give it a seven. I gave the expansion a nine though. That's all that content makes Layers amazing.
- This is for Unmatched Adventures.
- Get rid of exclusives. And you know what? Later, put it on retail. This is the perfect way to do it.
- Fin Span has a new expansion that you can pre-order well, in 4 days, April 27th.
- Join us in 38 minutes where we'll be announcing the Dice Tower Award nominations.
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Grant Lyon Top List at 0:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- New artwork works well for the theme.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- French Revolution
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — You are playing action cards to move nobles around in a line so you can chop their head off.
- Set Collection — you want the most points in nobles.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Here were the top five board games I played in June.
- This has been one of my favorite card games for a long time.
- It's one of the games that got me into the modern hobby of board games.
- The dealer is a really social card game that mixes cooperation and betrayal.
- Before the rain is a great push your luck card game.
- Eight Dragons is a really unique worker placement game.
- Kokashi is all about combos and it is so satisfying.
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Grant Lyon Discussion at 0:16 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Most popular game with everybody
- New version comes with updated exaggerated artwork
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card game — This is a card game.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I think the most popular game with everybody was probably the new version of Guillotine.
- This is a dexterity game where you are trying to stack uh books and cards and build a bookshelf and we liked it but we never won once.
- I will say my 9-year-old nephew really loved this game.
- This is a definitely a good party game.
- It's a very social cooperative game.
- This one didn't go over as well.
- Keshi was an interesting one because I played this with my brother and my 9-year-old nephew, and my nine I was worried it would be too much strategy for my 9-year-old nephew, and we certainly had to help him out at times.
- This is a game made by high schoolers in the Pacific Northwest.
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Our Family Plays Games Top List at 4:22 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- very accessible for families
- high nostalgia value
Cons
- over-reliance on luck
- limited strategic depth
Thematic elements
- random progress through life events
- life progression from education to career and family
- casual, family-oriented simulation
Comparison games
- Monopoly
- Uno
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- life-event cards — random events influence career, income, or family milestones
- roll-and-move — players progress along a track by spinning or rolling to determine movement
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- that game was so mindblowing it was crazy and once I played it I knew I couldn't go back
- we had to move on because when we had our child we found that those games were still out here
- I outgrew them
- it's such a variety instead of just hanging with the only the 10 Classics that we know
- I needed something with more of a cerebral challenge
- a bunch of different mechanics that keep you coming back for more
- you got to move on to something new
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