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Marabunta

Game ID: GID0201546
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Description

Each player controls a colony of ants in Marabunta. On a turn, the active player rolls the six dice, then splits them into two groups. The opponent chooses and uses the dice in one of the groups, then the active player uses the remaining dice.

Year Published
2023
Transcript Analysis
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Video ZHHvJamXnZw All You Can Board top_15_list at 17:09
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  • Small box games can sometimes get a bad rap because there's so many board games that release every year.
  • Flip Tunes is a really small box clearly.
  • it's such an easy game to teach
  • Scout is one of the best card games I've played in the last little bit.
  • Cascadia Rolling Rivers is a really satisfying game to manage the habitat cards.
  • Take Time is a cooperative game that boils down to two sets of cards, 1 to 12.
  • The Crew Mission Deep Sea is a cooperative trick-taking game for three to five players.
  • Stellar is a really great smallbox game that left my collection.
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Video qsqVSjE3N-8 Board Games Hitting My Table general_discussion at 1:35 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
  • tight two-player experience
  • nice hybrid of ice split you choose and area control
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Area Control — two-player tension with regional control to score points
  • tile drafting — drafting elements to influence control and scoring
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Quotes (from this video)
  • this is spectacular so spectacular
  • it's a very simple um tile drafting game where you are placing these different kind of nautical symbols rows and columns trying to achieve these different goals or objectives that are on the border of your little grid
  • the tile drafting is kind of inconsequential it's all about how you place them
  • one of the best little dexterity games out there
  • Kodama Forest this is such a cool polyomino Style game
  • this is such a cool party game
  • Wits and Wages... definitely one of the best party games out there full stop
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