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Magic Keys

Game ID: GID0198422
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Year
2022
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Description

Let's go to the Forest of Keys to recover the king's memory!
Please find the beautiful memories of the king have sealed in the treasure chest.
The forest of Keys where true and fake keys are hidden! Now the adventures will start!

Magic Keys is simple and beautiful push-your-luck game to collect gems.
Player rolls the dice to move forward on the road. When the player stops at a space with a key, they could try to open the treasure chest.
If the key was a true key, the chest will open! They get some gems as reward according to the color of the key.
If you want more gems when open the chest, you should reach a farther space on the road! But be careful! If your all dice goes sleep, your turn will immediately end!

The game ends when a player collects required number of gems.

—description from the publisher

Description

Let's go to the Forest of Keys to recover the king's memory!
Please find the beautiful memories of the king have sealed in the treasure chest.
The forest of Keys where true and fake keys are hidden! Now the adventures will start!

Magic Keys is simple and beautiful push-your-luck game to collect gems.
Player rolls the dice to move forward on the road. When the player stops at a space with a key, they could try to open the treasure chest.
If the key was a true key, the chest will open! They get some gems as reward according to the color of the key.
If you want more gems when open the chest, you should reach a farther space on the road! But be careful! If your all dice goes sleep, your turn will immediately end!

The game ends when a player collects required number of gems.

—description from the publisher

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Sentiment: pos 2 · mix 0 · neu 0 · neg 0
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Video juPx1JBJGwM Sir Thecos Top List at 15:52 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
  • Pretty fun
  • Very easy to teach
  • Fun even as an adult
  • Very good game (as a children's game)
Cons
  • Not an A rank from adult perspective
Thematic elements
  • Children's game
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Push Your Luck — simple pushy luck game
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Count of the Nine Estates. Um, a game people keep suggesting to me and I've played it over the years off and on and I think it's not bad.
  • Distilled clear Srank. It's such an amazing game. I absolutely love this.
  • Draftosarus, also the game I very much enjoy. I will give this an A. S would be too much, but it's such a cute and nice uh drafting game.
  • Cluster. Uh you have um a circle made of like a rope like a ropes circle rope circle so to speak and everybody gets like the same number of magnets and you put the magnets in the middle and when you put down your last magnet you win.
  • Exobase also a game that I will bring a video to you at some point.
  • Magic Keys in English. I think um this is like a children game actually. It's a children's game, but we play like with like I think we were like four adults playing that.
  • Malus Hotos. I just released a preview video for that for the Kickstarter campaign and I enjoyed this game a lot.
  • Micro City is a pretty decent game in a small box. Um, but it's also nothing all too amazing, right?
  • Reforest clear as this is an absolutely amazing game.
  • Sally Face Strange Nightmares uh for the video game uh Sally Face and I found this game quite decent actually.
  • Stone Spine Architects uh in the roleplayer universe. And I like this a lot. I will give this an A.
  • Switch and signal. I'm a little conflicted on that one.
  • Yatsi. Yeah, this is like a guilty pleasure, right? We all know it's not an amazing game, but Yatsi is the basis for like a lot of other games with this mechanism of rolling your like rolling your dice and then being able to reroll some of them twice.
  • Buds and Blooms from Mark Tuck. Also a game that I enjoyed playing.
  • And actually, you know what? I'm actually missing one game. I also played Wingspan.
  • Wingspan would also be an S of course and would be up here.
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Video 7u910YDf0eE Board Game Hangover Top 10 List at 8:24 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • diverse and evolving mechanics
  • encourages strategic planning and risk assessment
Cons
  • complexity may be challenging for very young players
Thematic elements
  • risk vs reward; treasure syndicate
  • adventure around a chest with keys
  • adventure-driven
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • dice-based movement and key selection — roll dice to move; choose which key to take or reroll and lose dice
  • key-chest interaction — acquire keys to open the chest and earn diamonds; some keys fail
  • Risk Management — more valuable keys offer greater rewards but higher risk of failure
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
  • On your turn you will roll this giant dice and the color you roll is the color of the fruit you put into the basket.
  • But if on your turn you roll the raven it moves closer to your garden.
  • This is your first competitive game because you will play as one of these worms that will try to get to the finish line.
  • Biggest lesson this game teaches you is losing alone.
  • In this game, you will learn a new skill called dexterity.
  • The toy factor. It looks like a toy even though it trains your dexterity and other skills.
  • In this corruptive game, you're trying to stop the fox before it gets into its cave.
  • The farther you move, the more treasures you will get.
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