In La Cuenta ("The Bill") you go tapas bar hopping with your little group.
At each bar someone will have to pay the bill - try not to be you! Inevitably, someone will run out of money. When that happens, whoever has the most money left wins.
Each bar you visit is represented by a round, and each round consists of an indeterminate number of turns (orders you place in the kitchen). In each turn, the player in turn must play 1 card from their hand.
If you cannot play 1 card in your turn, you must ask for the bill. Whoever has paid the bill starts the next round. If you start a round and cannot play any cards, discard your entire hand, re-draw your maximum cards and start again.
The game is over when someone runs out of savings. Immediately the winner is the one with the most savings. In case of a tie, whoever has the most actual money on them wins.
—description from the publisher
- Fun game
- Fun theme
- Trying to not have to pay the bill at restaurants
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- And the size of the box is yeah enormous.
- This is not a game for me.
- We are sitting on the floor in hall three. This is where we usually end up trying to organize this suitcase so we can get more games.
- And the people are great. like I love the games but I like the people more because without the people it wouldn't be games and you know it it would be solo games but then again you nobody would have make the game because you need the people for the games to make sense and that is like why when you hear people say oh we're looking forward to the people I think it means more than just like sitting down or seeing people you know because for me the thing about spiel is being with all the people that love board games and you see all the happy faces all the games everyone Just being there for that one thing is what makes it so special.
- It's very random and luck based, but it was fun.
- It's about trying to not have to pay the bill at the restaurants.
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- enjoyable
- cool theme
- immersive theme
- expensive tapas in-game
- tapas ordering
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — Players play cards and try to stay in the round as long as possible.
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- This is the worst month when it comes to gaming that we have had in like 10 years.
- It is the worst month we have had in in 5 years at least.
- We played 40 escape rooms. Which means we have played a lot in April, just not a lot of board games.
- But it's games.
- All In Predictions was a cooler game than I thought it was going to be.
- Rising Sun was a surprising how good it still was.
- Farmhand is an amazing game and it still is
- Farmhand is quick, it's fun, it's simple
- Rising Sun was fantastic to get back to the table.
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- I know it has its own little like um uh you know sub cult of people who enjoy it.
- I don't particularly like it because I think it has a very strong rich get richer.
- If you start winning an Outpost you were going to continue winning because if your engine gets going faster than mine there's not much I can do about it.
- But yeah this one does not This one is one I wanted to like a lot more than I did.
- it's a good back and forth two-player game.
- I like the theme of it a lot. Seems like most music games I play aren't very good.
- I I find this one amusing.
- It almost feels like you could play it randomly and have the same amount of fun, but it's a nice way to pass some time.
- It's a great little filler.
- I don't think a lot of people have played this one.
- It was replaced by Nobody is Perfect, too, because they didn't get it right the first time.
- This is what a lot of people were talking about.
- It was one of those games that I saw a little bit of buzz and I was like, "Ooh, I'll have to play that sometime." and then never heard anything else about it.
- I think that's just a really solid two-player game from Catalia.
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- It's a fun one
- Clever cute game
- Plays up to eight people
- One player culled it, the other kept it, indicating a mixed reception
- Tapas
- Spain
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Party Game — More of a party game where players try not to take the bill.
- Player Elimination — Players are out if they have no money left after taking the bill.
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- Keep or Cull, where we play all the games and decide if we want to keep them or cull them.
- We have I think 11 more games today, which means we play them and now we're going to think, are these games going to stay in the collection because as you know, we have too many games and we are trying to get rid of some of the games because we can't own them all.
- It's a cull for me, keep for you.
- It's a keep for me, a cull for you.
- It's a double keep.
- It's a double cow.
- It's a double count.
- It's a double kill.
- It's a double cull.
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- Really nice like card game
- Can easily get to the table
- Really cool theme
- Very funny
- A rank
- Trying to not empty your hand
- Trying to be like not the first one who can't play a card anymore
- going to a tapas bar and trying not to empty your hand
- tapas bar
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card game — A really nice like card game.
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- This is just my opinion, right? Yours may very well differ, so let me know in the comments what you think about the games that I will be talking about today.
- It's possible that I will rank a game differently next month.
- So usually my rankings seem to be a little bit more on the more positive side.
- It's not really a game. It's more like an activity, so I would give it a good C.
- This is an amazing small box cooperative game where you like play cooperative poker.
- I urge you if you play this, you should play real time.
- Um it works turn-based, but it's much better real time and it's even better when you speak with a few people with people somehow.
- It's like really great in person, right?
- Wingspan is a number one game.
- It's a good social deduction game that is a kind of um that is like paired with Who Am I?
- Similar to a fake artist goes to New York, just with words instead of drawing.
- It's a very solid game.