Game Info
Year
2022
Players
2-4
Age
8+
Playtime
25 min
Complexity
1.5/5
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Description
A Reiner Knizia card game in which players draft and trade coloured surfboard pieces to complete boards and score stickers and objective bonuses
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Watch It Played News at 6:29 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- surfboard shaping
- beach
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Drafting — Players draft and trade surfboard pieces to build the tallest and stockpile the most surfboards.
- Trading — Players draft and trade surfboard pieces to build the tallest and stockpile the most surfboards.
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Quotes (from this video)
- i've got a soft spot for the ridiculousness and stress that this game provides
- if you remember this film then boy does this hit hard in the nostalgia
- if it's a new game with kenitsia's name on it i'm probably gonna try it
- that's the news to continue your journey with us this one is all about the best ball game in awards and other burning ball game questions spoiler though they are only figuratively on fire
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Before You Play Discussion at 15:44 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Light and simple gameplay
- Good for conventions or quick filler
- Introduces trading mechanic
- Completed surfboards score positive points
Cons
- Not a long-term keeper for some
- Wish it was more punishing like Lost Cities
- Some decisions feel less meaningful
- Theme did not strongly resonate with one reviewer
Thematic elements
- Surfing
Comparison games
- Lost Cities
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Players take two actions per turn from options like adding to their supply, playing a card to build a surfboard, or trading with opponents.
- Objective Cards — Public objective cards provide additional scoring opportunities at the end of the game.
- Set Collection — Scoring is based on the number of stickers on cards within a completed surfboard.
- Tableau Building — Players build surfboards by playing cards of the same color and equal or higher value.
- Trading — Players can trade cards from their supply with opponents, who cannot deny the trade.
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Quotes (from this video)
- we do hope to get uh going with reviews again soon
- this is the castles of burgundy special edition
- for anybody who missed the last campaign and were really interested in the special edition then it is available on game found
- it is beautiful um they they did a really really good job with the component quality
- I do appreciate something like this but I am an old timely homely kind of guy
- there are different uh communities or populations of people that are sort of at odds in terms of this sort of uh game grandios Grand yeah gr grandiosity is that a word
- the dice that we discussed are way easier to read
- it is absolutely gorgeous uh but definitely deluxified
- king of monster island
- so if you're familiar with King of Tokyo this game features a lot of the same mechanics except instead of a sort of of a competitive battler game you have a fully Cooperative game
- after turn after turn after turn it got it felt a little exhausting doing that over and over again
- this game is definitely a bump up or two in complexity as compared to King of Tokyo
- it's just not as simple as King of Tokyo which you know I enjoyed that world for its simplicity
- faraway
- technically a uh drafting Tableau building game where the game is played over the course of eight rounds
- it becomes like a like a a crunch of like do I just want to get a lot of points like in the first three rounds that I that I played out or can I actually make something work out where I can just perfectly get everything uh in synergies
- for you know for a game like this it is very simple but it's really neat I haven't played a game that has required me to think this way or plann this way yet in a 20-minute package
- longboard
- this is a card game where players are building surfboards surf theme game
- it does sort of remind me of like a more casual version of L cities I wish it was a little bit more punishing
- this one is a lot more casual than I think I would have liked
- paper app dungeon
- it's a very interesting concept actually the way that the game works is it comes with this pencil and the pencil is your writing utensil but it is also the die that you're going to be using in order to move around this dungeon
- this is more of like a travel companion or people who just enjoy an activity on the bus or like at the airport because it's very very casual
- there is no real like benchmark Mark to know how well you're doing it's more of just like a casual activity like just go explore this dungeon and try to get as much money as you can
- those are some of the games that we have been playing recently
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The Board Game Garden Discussion at 3:19
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Pros
none
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none
Thematic elements
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- tile/draft-like drafting — a strategic drafting mechanic centered around constructing a layout and scoring opportunities
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- I am a crazy board game gal
- we are going to Mexico for like a Christmas vacation
- I am so, so excited to play all these
- I would love to know other ones for us to pick up and try
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