Game Info
Year
1935
Players
2-8
Age
8+
Playtime
90 min
Complexity
1.7/5
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Description
The classic property trading game where players buy and develop real estate and try to bankrupt every opponent.
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Adam in Wales - Board Game Design Analysis at 3:54
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- If you want to lose money consistently and predictably in the long term, you're going to need to ensure that you're remembered for all the wrong reasons.
- The algorithms definitely don't have your back.
- So, don't trust the algorithms. You've got to make it known what you're doing and why people should care about it.
- You're going to lose all of that money if the Kickstarter fails.
- I think one of the biggest risks, and this is one of the things that people have told me in the comments around this video and where I've seen it shared online and so on is people saying that people underestimate or overestimate the demand for their game and so they order a lot of copies from the manufacturer and then they end up with copies sitting in there in their garage.
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Board Game Sanctuary Rules Teach at 0:05 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction — Unpurchased properties are put up for auction starting at a minimum bid.
- bankruptcy — If a player cannot pay their debts, they go bankrupt, and their properties are auctioned.
- Building Houses and Hotels — Players can build houses and hotels on their properties to increase their value. Houses must be spread evenly across a color set.
- Cash Management — Players manage Monopoly dollars through buying, selling, trading, mortgaging, and collecting rent.
- mortgaging — Players can mortgage properties to the bank for cash. Properties with buildings cannot be mortgaged. Mortgaged properties can be traded.
- Property Acquisition — Players can buy properties they land on, or if they decline, the property goes to auction.
- Trading — Players can trade properties with each other. Houses and hotels must be cashed in before trading.
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Board Game Sanctuary Analysis at 0:40 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Strategic property investment yields income.
- Owning railway stations provides a solid income stream.
- Auctions can lead to buying property at a cheaper price.
- Staying in jail can be a strategic advantage late game.
- Calculating income tax can save money.
- Building houses evenly and to four per property limits supply for opponents and increases your control.
Cons
- Multiple ways of sending players to jail.
- Speeding rule (rolling doubles three times) leads to jail.
- Chance cards can send you back spaces, e.g., to Vine Street.
- Mortgaging properties disables rental income and incurs interest.
- Selling houses/hotels back to the bank is at 50% of original price.
- Landing on opponents' properties can result in paying large sums.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction — Unpurchased properties can be put up for auction.
- building — Houses and hotels can be built on properties to increase rent.
- Card Drafting — Chance and Community Chest cards introduce various effects, including moving players or affecting finances.
- Dice Rolling — Players move around the board by rolling two dice, and understanding probability is key.
- income tax — Players must pay income tax, with options for calculation.
- jail — Players can be sent to jail, which has strategic implications.
- mortgaging — Properties can be mortgaged for cash, disabling rental income.
- Property Acquisition — Players can purchase properties, invest in them, and collect rent.
- Set Collection — Owning all properties of a color group allows for building houses and hotels.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The orange properties are critically important to invest in with two out of the three properties being six and eight spaces away from jail.
- Players should never underestimate the power of owning a railway stations as it provides a very solid income stream.
- Going once going twice and sold to the mysterious looking Monopoly man with a curly mustache and the top hat sitting in the corner
- Developing a deep understanding of the composition of the chance and Community chess card decks is critically important for understanding where the game sends you geographically Around The Bard.
- Staying in jail means that you are avoiding moving around the board and landing on your opponents property spaces and having to Fork out big sums of money.
- You may have monopolized me this time but you'll see I'll be back with a bigger and better Top Hat I mean strategy that's that's it I'm off
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Board Game Sanctuary Review at 0:00
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Quotes (from this video)
- Monopoly Speed is a version of Monopoly that is guaranteed to take no longer than 10 minutes.
- The new rules for this version of monopoly have oversimplified monopoly and watered it down a little bit too far for me.
- It's probably a game that I would suggest that you try before you buy.
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Board Game Sanctuary Analysis at 0:15 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
- Plays fates lie in what numbers are rolled.
- No real way to negate the nasty and negative effects of a poor dice roll.
- The way players acquire the money is actually very very skewered.
- Players are desperately spending the first two or three hours of their game of Monopoly trying to get the right colored property set.
- The economic element in Monopoly really weighs it down.
- Chance cards have very short-term benefits that don't help players achieve their ultimate objective.
- Forcing other players to go bankrupt can feel incredibly punishing.
- You can often see who is going to win a game of Monopoly quite far ahead before the game finishes.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Settlers of Catan
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card draw — In Monopoly they come in the form of chance and community chess cards.
- Dice Rolling — In Monopoly the dice are used to allow the players to move their pawn around in the board in a linear fashion landing on properties income tax and free parking as they go.
- Property Acquisition — The way money is used in Monopoly, it's used in the form of collecting rent using it to purchase houses and upgrading them to hotels as well as paying for tax throughout the game. Players who can trade and acquire the most amount of money and also capitalize on the most amount of properties will win Monopoly the game.
- Set Collection — Players are desperately spending the first two or three hours of their game of Monopoly trying to get the cut right colored property set.
- Trading — Players are going to be bidding on properties that are unpurchased by the other players they're going to be trading properties they're going to be adding and sweetening the deal so that they can get the right colored properties in front of them.
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- people often see katan as the monopoly of the modern board gaming world
- settlers of guitar is far superior to monopoly in every single way
- the use of the dice in setlist guitar is far more powerful because it exploits the use of the number seven and takes it to another level that monopoly doesn't explore
- the power of rolling a seven becomes far more significant and strategic in a game like sellers of katan compared to monopoly
- the economic element in monopoly really weighs it down
- the development cards are far more superior than the chance and community chess cards of p in monopoly because of the way they are used and how they help players reach their end goal
- there is a sense of balance in a game of settlers of guitar and you feel that whatever points you scored by the end of a game of settlers guitar is based on the milestones and the victories that you have reached
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Board Game Sanctuary Discussion at 0:22 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
- Familiarity and widespread recognition
Cons
- Can involve house rules that deviate from official rules
- High costs associated with landing on developed properties
Thematic elements
- Real estate and wealth accumulation
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — Referenced in the context of landing on spaces and the impossibility of rolling a 1 with two dice.
- property development — Mentioned in the context of owning hotels on properties and the cost associated with landing on them.
- Set Collection — Implied by the mention of 'orange property' and the associated costs.
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Quotes (from this video)
- oh and do you have the game Monopoly by any chance
- it's like regular - no but it's heaps more fun
- so that's the end of the game it's time to add up the victory points and see who won all right just give me a sec x 95 by five times by the square root of 63 the times the first round school with the third round school and divide by three and take away the three points that we miscalculated earlier and adding three more points per card tucked in every egg laid and in considering the week span of each burden considering the length of the height of each day it looks like that the result of this game is a draw
- can I trade you a sheep for two wood sure only if I can trade you to eat for three bricks and then I'll trade you two wood for a sheep and then I'll trade you three bricks for two week I then upgrade my settlement to a and win the game
- how about Star Wars revealing a five-hour game that pits the Rebel Alliance against the Galactic Empire it's got a Brazilian figure in Spain and don't forget this learn to play walkthrough and 50 rules we have to learn off by heart
- hey Danny you wanna play a game of pandemic sure but which version all of them
- so tell me when you hold that game does it bring you joy yeah yes it does
- where on earth is New Zealand why on earth do they keep leaving New Zealand off the map oh wait there it is
- wingspan is a card drafting content management dice rolling game where players a tableau full of bird cuts strained out on the most victory points possible
- you're the original but you're so much newer but you're a spiel des jahres winner I totally love your victory point scoring mechanisms your decision-making is so deep but you reward long term planning
- hey dude I just got this brand-new awesome board game called draft asaurus we get to pick your own dinosaurs and build your own Jurassic Park
- because the game is called root I move my pawn across this city and remove this red cube
- a what a small board game but what a massive board game collection
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Board Game Sanctuary Discussion at 0:08 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- house rules — The discussion mentions that collecting money from the center of the board is not an official Monopoly rule, but something people house-ruled and made up over time.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Free parking, awesome. I get to collect all the money from the center of the board.
- Wait, you're not technically allowed to do that, you know. It's not an official Monopoly rule. People house ruled and made it up over time.
- I'll take what I can get.
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Board Game Sanctuary Analysis at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Buying orange and red properties is advantageous due to common dice rolls and jail proximity.
- Acquiring railroads increases the chance of opponents landing on them.
- Limiting houses on a property set to four can starve opponents of resources.
- Using auctions can lead to acquiring properties at a lower cost.
- Staying in jail can increase income by having opponents land on your properties.
Cons
none
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction — Pass up a property when landing on it to start an auction, potentially buying it at a cheaper price.
- building — Buy as many houses as possible, stopping at four houses on a property set to limit resources for other players.
- Movement — Staying in jail can be advantageous to increase the chances of other players landing on your properties.
- Property Acquisition — Buy as many railroad properties as possible, noting they take up 10% of the board.
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Quotes (from this video)
- here are my tips for winning Monopoly in 60 seconds
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Board Game Sanctuary Discussion at 0:22 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- amazing
- got every single version at home
- so much fun
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none
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Quotes (from this video)
- I just love collecting board game
- Monopoly is amazing
- I kind of like modern board games
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No Rolls Barred Discussion at 1:25 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Familiarity and fun of playing regularly ('We do Monopoly all the time.')
Cons
- Difficulty recalling all property names under pressure ('We've only got 10 seconds left', 'I DON'T KNOW!')
- The game is perceived as less engaging when not playing with the actual board ('In our defense, we never play with the actual board. No, we make our own spaces. We cover them up completely.')
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Property Acquisition — The discussion revolves around naming various properties on the board, such as 'Old Kent Road', 'Whitechapel Road', and 'Mayfair'.
- Set Collection — Players are trying to recall and identify different color groups of properties, like 'all the yellows', 'all the pinks', and 'the oranges'.
- timed challenge — The core activity appears to be a timed challenge to name all the properties.
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Quotes (from this video)
- We do Monopoly all the time.
- We've only got 10 seconds left and we haven't got enough time.
- In our defense, we never play with the actual board. No, we make our own spaces. We cover them up completely.
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Board Games UnLocked Top List at 23:56 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Got me into board games
- Fun in a group setting
- Vicious gameplay can be fun
Cons
- Ruins friendships
- Very basic
- Low BGG rating (4.4)
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Property Acquisition — Combine Monopoly boards to create like we had Lord of the Rings Monopoly.
- Trading — trading with people who actively hate you
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Quotes (from this video)
- It made my number one.
- The Making it co-op completely I was like, "This is amazing."
- It's a simplistic game, but it can also get insanely complicate like the strategy I love Dominion.
- It is one of my favorite games ever made, deck building or not.
- Does a whole unique thing where you never shuffle your deck. Every time you have to draw from your deck and you can't, you take your discard pile and flip it.
- So, this is also a massive campaign uh boss battler game.
- But it is some of the best writing in board games in my opinion.
- Uh the combat is absolutely phenomenal.
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No Rolls Barred Other at 0:29
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Quotes (from this video)
- I hate to hear you throw the word genius around, BUT I AM.
- It's a real game. And you have to try and keep Jason Statham excited, otherwise he'll just leave.
- We're Londoners.
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Discussion at 3:30
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- I think Marty for silver River the name of the game one of the neatest aspects for me was how I got my Reece.
- Where's the conflict Marty where is the Connolly if you're going to have a 4x game there's got to be some conflict.
- Battle does not automatically occur typically in games when you move into a place where somebody else is you immediately fight that's not the case here here you can move in you could be peaceful or if you want to you could say I guess what I'm gonna fight you and we're gonna attack each other.
- So there's a bluffing mechanic when you're going against other people I like that.
- If you're in for 4x type game but you don't want to spend your entire afternoon playing twilight imperium or eclipse then you definitely want to check out silver River that is now currently on Kickstarter.
- The Team's expansion for some of the board game and then finally Tony thank goodness my wallet can't stand anymore there's I know but this one comes out March 13th so you've got basically on the release of this you got one day to save up money to pick up Glen Moore 2 chronicles which we got a prototype of this is by fun tells game and Mattias Kramer the designer who did the original Glenmore.
- number one it's a rondell I'm into rondell selection mechanics so I was automatically into this game there was a lot of strategy in that rondell on which tiles you won't pick up.
- beautiful mechanic of placing a tile activating all the tiles around it very important strategy so much going on there a lot of strategy in that game.
- The scoring mechanism for all these is what you have compared to the person with the least amount.
- I hate that I missed playing Glenmore the first time around but now that I've played it I'm so glad to see this new version coming out and like you told me I'm excited to own a copy of this game.
- Hey y'all thanks for listening when this episode comes out there will only be a couple days left for the BoardGameGeek best podcast golden geek nomination oh that's a mouthful we would love your nomination and if nominations are already out and if we were so lucky to get one we would love to have your vote thank you so much for supporting your show over all these years and we'll see you next episode.
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Discussion at 1:26:32 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Familiar to many people.
- Can lead people to discover other board games.
Cons
- Often out of stock due to paper money shortage.
- Can be frustrating if played with inconsistent house rules.
- May not appeal to hobby gamers seeking deeper mechanics.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Ticket to Ride
- Settlers of Catan
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Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's a popularity contest
- those are your gateway games that will eventually lead to the pandemics
- I'm not gonna begrudge anybody to sit and play Monopoly that that's all they know man
- if you like monopoly you might like and then suggest something else
- I will play Monopoly with you anytime as long as we play by the rules
- there's the problem everybody has a slight what do you play with this particular rule no there's no house rules play by the real rules
- I think that's a natural step and I think people could easily go from monopoly to ticket to ride
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Discussion at 1:33:55 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- people can sit and play it
- people might like it if they like Monopoly
Cons
- often played with house rules
- can be a starting point for other games but not the end goal
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Ticket to Ride
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Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's a popularity contest
- those are your gateway games that will eventually lead to the pandemics
- I'm not gonna begrudge anybody to sit and play Monopoly that that's all they know man
- if you like monopoly you might like and then suggest something else
- I will play Monopoly with you anytime as long as we play by the rules
- there's the problem everybody has a slight what do you play with this particular rule no there's no house rules play by the real rules
- I think that's a natural step and I think people could easily go from monopoly to ticket to ride
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Review at 2:30
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Quotes (from this video)
- It's Indiana Jones in the age of sail.
- The players going crazy - that's a nice little spin on it.
- I want to be a designer, I want someone else to figure this all out.
- The United States spent less time in World War Two than I spent on Sea Fall.
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Watch It Played Discussion at 2:40 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
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none
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- roll and move — traditional roll and move like Monopoly and Scrabble that they might have played when they were kids
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- It was just really fun and was unlike all the games I played growing up.
- I saw Snakes and Lattes in Toronto and I realized that the board game cafe atmosphere is is just more fun to me.
- The board game cafe atmosphere is is just more fun to me.
- It was it opened a door in my mind, in my heart.
- Made me realize that there was more out there than Monopoly and risk.
- The most satisfying thing, of course, working in this sort of environment is uh is the light bulb moment is uh that moment that I had myself several years ago.
- Suddenly you're like awesome and we all get to recreate those light bulb moments for other people on a daily, sometimes an hourly basis.
- I think really when it comes down to it, nothing really can uh compare to that to that moment of of sharing the games that I love and uh passing that passion on to somebody else.
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Watch It Played Discussion at 4:40 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
- House rule lengthens the game artificially
- House rule prevents players from being eliminated quickly
- House rule is arbitrary
Thematic elements
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Free parking — House rule where money paid for taxes or cards goes to the free parking space, and whoever lands there collects it. This lengthens the game artificially and prevents players from being eliminated quickly.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Once you've bought the game it's yours to do with as you see fit there aren't any rules police that are going to come knocking at the door if you don't abide by the rule book
- At the end of the day if there's a rule that's just getting in the way of you being able to enjoy that game that you spent your money on then why not change it and get on with enjoying the game
- I realized that I started this video in the original table talk episode being a little more staunchly against house rules and as this discussion went on and you guys provide these different responses I had to reconsider my position I think I actually am a little more open to host rules than I first imagined myself being
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- I just missed having the option to play War of the Rings, even if I would only get the chance very seldom.
- It's hard to get rid of them, but harder still to find storage space for all of them.
- I'll tell myself, hey, maybe one of my friends would enjoy this or one of the friends I have yet to make in the future would enjoy this.
- My games often find themselves becoming gifts.
- There are games I would never part with. Even if I rarely play them, they just mean too much to me sentimentally.
- There's just something locked away in here that I enjoy reminiscing about and it creates a value or feeling I have towards the game that I don't want to get rid of it.
- I get attached to the games I purchase as well. I don't want my shelving to look bare.
- The funny thing is though, isn't it about parenting? You try to do something like that to instill a good idea and then you can create this nervousness, this anxiety in your kid because now they're worried about losing something.
- If I ever have to sell a game, I would rather give it to someone with the interest of starting that person in the wonderful world of board gaming.
- My solution is research. a lot of research before purchasing a game. Therefore, I have no games that I want to get rid of.
- Dungeon craws are my thing. They each do something different and I'm not going to throw any of them away. They are my heart.
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Watch It Played Analysis at 23:01 sentiment: negative
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negative
Pros
none
Cons
- hard to be content playing because better games exist
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Munchkin
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- I used to flip the table a lot but now I don't flip the table nearly as often as what I used to
- I think game designers buy fewer games than game players do because game designers have more exacting standards
- I don't think there's anything wrong with you determining for yourself what games you like more and which ones you like less that doesn't make you a snob I think the snobbery comes into play on how you treat other people who don't share your same interests
- I think you can get caught up in Chasing The Cult of the new and that will burn you out I think over time I don't think that can be a sustainable Joy
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Watch It Played Discussion at 15:26:20
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- I have this smile forcing its way onto my face it doesn't matter how many fingers I try to on or if I think of Margaret fater on a cold day it doesn't work
- I always make sure mine are standing straight up I cringe when people place them upside down on their side or anything
- Michael you're like a terrible architect your people keep making these horrific houses
- I sleeve the cards for almost all of my games
- I'm especially bad about neatness with magic the Gathering I change my sleeves every month or two because I can't stand the bent edges and slightly gunky feel they get from being in your hands so much
- I just wanted to reach into the screen and straighten it some of the Ed in my videos are done to cut out shots of me straightening components in Carone
- if someone places a tile that shifts the whole play area I cannot continue until all of the roads and cities are lined up again
- When playing Dominion I put cards in order by cost value and then alphabetically
- I'm sorry for the distress I caused by sweeping all of the pieces of my Twilight Struggle into the box I feel bad about it it's now organized I hope you're happy
- I cannot play a game that uses paper money I will be holding in my hand the entire game folded up like I'm one of the participants in a back alley craps game from one of those mob movies
- when a monster is in range of the heroes and they're all facing random directions I have to take their pieces and the monster and make them all face each other otherwise it just looks silly to me
- it gets me when someone keeps the communal dice in front of them when they are done rolling
- one of my many quirks is seeing game components and not knowing what game they came from
- I count all of them cubes dice mles cards boards other pieces I'll even look up the quantities on Board Game Geek if the rules don't cover it I need to do it before playing a game the first time
- I have these lying around blank cubes you know those were handy for prototyping games and things but I mean that's for a game collector that's no good
- I have to take their pieces and the monsters and make them all face each other
- I need to shuffle the cards seeing people shuffle cards horribly bothers me so much
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Getting Games Discussion at 1:00:08 sentiment: neutral
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- board games make me so happy
- I try to be happiness focused
- I don't speed up my playthroughs
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Watch It Played Discussion at 2:47
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- i don't believe in the concept of must-have game oh this is a game you must have there's no game you must have there's no game that everyone enjoys
- you know what i i have to say i think the mountie from dead of winter is my favorite promo
- i don't want to say no very very well could be
- if you enjoyed seeing me at this convention that we're now meeting in person and we're shaking hands if you enjoy seeing the things online that you do understand you made it happen like you've literally made it happen because none of this works uh without some kind of financial support at the end
- I always say that and then I don't actually keep to it.
- You know what uh oh gosh hold on one more second oh I'm gonna get something else really the stream should be over this chat is we're closing it down in just a couple of minutes this is the last time I'm getting up it really is I promise you
- I won't belabor the story here because you should buy this book.
- I don't have a link in the description to it I'll try to think to put it there but this is a great tips and tricks guide
- I really felt like the fifth edition is really quite quite cool.
- I like what they've done with it so anyway.
- I would love a a game based on the television show the prisoner
- I highly recommend it to you go out and watch that that show it's so so good
- I would love to do a rules tutorial for twilight struggle
- it's it's a fantastic game it really is
- I am not a number that is right that is a quote from the prisoner
- I hope you stay safe wash your hands be careful keep distance from everyone
- Let's just stay safe I just want all of you to stay safe
- Stay safe out there I care about you all and I really appreciate the caring and thoughtful things that people have said to me as well
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Meeple University Discussion at 10:24 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
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none
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- monopoly is out
- it's dream home
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Watch It Played Interview at 51:36 sentiment: neutral
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- Downforce is now available to play as a beta
- I almost had it... but it just couldn't quite make it happen
- Fair Dinkum time
- test test test test everything
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Watch It Played Interview at 51:40 sentiment: neutral
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- Downforce is now available to play as a beta
- I almost had it... but it just couldn't quite make it happen
- Fair Dinkum time
- test test test test everything
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Nights Around a Table Discussion at 2:10:44 sentiment: negative
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negative
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none
Cons
- The video was supposed to be the kickoff of a series but didn't gain traction.
- The thumbnail is very busy and hard to read.
- The design is considered bad and muddy.
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- I've determined on on Twitch when you're trying to to build up a following on Twitch you uh they make you commit to a schedule and yet you stream the same time every week
- This is just I I've determined on on Twitch when you're trying to to build up a following on Twitch you uh they make you commit to a schedule and yet you stream the same time every week
- My epidemic sound subscription last they want uh 15 bucks a month for their service which now that I'm looking at other competing services I think is pretty good but what you're gonna get this stream is no music and I'd be told by many people that the music is great it's great to have on in the background it'd be maybe a little bit more easy to listen to than my dulcet tones but apologies no music on this stream except for yes you're right that jazzy funky lobby music
- The way they made the blaster noises you know like the pew pew was they went to uh you know those cables that hold up telephone poles that have like they have like plaque plastic sheaths or condoms around them I guess to protect the metal from corrosion so they take that plastic sheet off sheath off and they hit that that tie with a fork and that was the sound of blasters and Star Wars I was like oh amazing
- So one of the most important things your thumbnails and your titles and so he has a big subscription to a bunch of different board game channels and he looks through and there's like you know things fly on like 60 videos a day or something like that and he just steps through and you know the ones that jump out and grab his attention he clicks on
- I know one of the people that I and many others have looked to for advice and guidance not personally but just by watching what he does is let me see if I have it open here watch yeah watch played of course rodney smith
- So you've got uh this kid Matthew Jude who's stuff I really like listen to Matthew dude he's cool I dig him um and he he's they're doing the YouTube thing where they they cut out a person they put an outline around them to separate them from the background and then I don't know these ones to me look a little bit cluttered there's a whole pile of stuff going on there and I don't know it's another thing you got to look at I don't know if they read that well when they're really small
- It drives me nuts that you spell it Quackalope because if you're trying to be like like Jackalope and Jackalopes from antelope and that's e-l-o-p-e and then quack anyway drives me nuts Jackalope is also e-l-o-p and you went a
- So the key color that he's picked for me for
- My take personally is that what Jessie's doing here I don't know it looks a little too me too YouTube it looks a little too fast food I guess to me you know what I mean like fast food they always you notice the big fast food companies they always go hot reds hot yellows hot oranges
- So you know the the type of video in the corner in red and his his background is blue with stripes I don't know color theory wise if the red works all that well with the blue I don't find that those are necessarily colors that go all that nicely together so I might do something something different
- But you know what do I know of Quake he's got 30,000 subs and I don't
- Engagement is the most important stat so that's uh you know did they click on the thing and clicking on the thing is all about thumbnail and title and if they clicked on the thing did they keep watching the thing and that's a whole other it's a whole other work stream getting them just keep watching which is something I'm clearly working on as people fly out of this stream like it's on fire
- So again you got to rely on your strengths I don't know that that's one of my strengths so I got to come up with something else but yeah so I don't know necessarily that it's their thumbnails that are getting them all those views their content is very good their banter is good they've got other other other things going for them
- The text on the Thinker Themer thumbnails is way too small like I can't I can't read it
- I think it's just readable it's clean it looks cool slightly cartoony slightly has a tie on you know it can can go both ways I think that's good this uh the kerning is not very good on it currently but currently auto kern no still don't like that touching anyway
- So what I would do now to to modify this I think Michael you whoa what the hell is this I I think Michael Todd's eyes are kind of off putting in this I don't necessarily think that I would click on that and I don't know I don't know I I don't know so what I might do for this one is the reason it's called small brain big sack by the way that's another thing too is it's click baity really only if you don't fulfill your promise
- So I have to pay attention to what um what publishers value and what they want
- The very first one I did was for castles of burgundy it's nice to go back and see how things have improved if you think they look crappy now wait till you see the older videos
- I am a creative generalist and companies they just want they want cogs for their machine and if you're not a super specialist cog first of all you're really hard to replace
- The job search petered off tapered off as soon as I found out there there just didn't seem to be anything out here in Oshawa and I've kept at this so I have tried from the very beginning
- I saw the other how to play videos that people were doing and I had criticisms of them I thought why would you put setup near the beginning of the video that is like the most boring thing about a board game how to play video puts me right to sleep if I did it and I did it at all I would put setup like at the end of the video because I know that you have to excuse me you have to capture people's attention right away you have to hook them right off the top
- I am determined to turn this into a job just because I find that I can't rely on the market to give me a job that I would want to do that's fulfilling that I'm good at uh because I'm a specially shaped cog I believe that about myself in certain areas
- So $500 and this is remember I'm spending full-time hours so you gotta ask yourself would I spend full-time hours making like a fraction of minimum wage doing the stuff if you're dumb like me maybe you would
- So what I kind of have to do is tool my content according to what publishers want and in my experience so far what publishers want is not how to play videos
- So subscribers can be misleading because people don't usually unsubscribe that's an interesting take but I could challenge you on that let me just read what Vinnie says The Dice Tower has just under three of course Dice Tower 300K despite having multiple content creators under their umbrella I'm really curious about the lone board game content creator with 1 million subscribers though
- The trick with doing something different than nobody else is doing is you have to think of something different than nobody else is doing and bank on it being something that people will find compelling I've had all kinds of ideas for stuff that nobody else is doing and I've run it by my friends and family they're being like that no that's nuts nobody would have watched that what are you doing
- If you look too much like you're trying to appeal to the YouTube crowd I.E younger people are like thrill seekers I don't think it's going to appeal to board game people
- So the very best thing if you want stuff to happen on Reddit is for somebody who's not you to promote it for you
- The reason why I don't like content and content creators is because I'm talking about perfectly shaped and sized cogs to fit in the machine that's just the machine needs something to call what we're doing and it's going to use the most commoditized term the most soulless commoditized term it can possibly come up with
- The reason why I don't know if their thumbnails are that's another case where like I don't know if it's neces like everything's necessarily worth emulating and Shut Up & Sit Down just because you know they've got a huge fan base because it might not have been the thumbnails that got them that that fan base you know what I mean so you could be the top of your game but have not the greatest thumbnails
- It's against the law like hate to sound like a giant nerd but that's the law you gotta check that box and the FTC has been cracking down on certain influencers on social media because they don't disclose like that and you gotta I mean people deserve to know whether you're being paid to make the thing right
- First Look that's a I don't know get on my case if you think that's a little bit skeezy but um there are certain words that and people in marketing know this there are certain words that are attention grabbing um free is one of them you is another if you start your YouTube video or any video out and you work the word you into the introduction it's grippier so I try to do that on TikTok
- You know I think the other thing that people look at they'll look at this logo and we'll take a look at at John Gets Games too because I think it's worthwhile but they'll look at that logo like oh yeah Shut Up & Sit Down I like what they do they'll click on it if they never heard of them I think the next thing they look at is time
- I've barely done any top fives top tens on my channel because again I'm a I'm special I don't want to be I don't want to be like everybody else and then I don't succeed like everybody else and then I complain but like uh this was one that I did that that Monopoly one again was supposed to be the kickoff of a series so top five best board games to take camping that's widening the funnel because now you're not trying to attract people based on one single board game they might be interested in zero of the board games that I talk about in that video but you're casting the net wide enough to include people who like board games and who go camping and want to take board games camping or want to know what I think about taking board games camping you see Ryan's top 10 beige games you've suggested that before on the discord server haven't you
- I think that's a lot of people I don't know I don't think that's a lot of people it's so small so small and sad
- The exception I take to that is that she doesn't three minutes four minutes look she puts it right in her banners and her banners again you can tell that she looked at Ronnie Smith too and thought okay I'll do a similar thing even down to the color that she's using
- You know what I mean so I think three minute teach of a really complicated game is a bit far-fetched
- But you know I think the other thing that people look at they'll look at this logo and we'll take a look at at John Gets Games too because I think it's worthwhile but they'll look at that logo like oh yeah Shut Up & Sit Down I like what they do they'll click on it if they never heard of them I think the next thing they look at is time
- I find really short rules coverages like rules girl three minute board games only good for quick overviews yeah I agree and they're fine for what they are I'm just saying don't call them how to plays don't call them rules videos right I think Jay from three-minute board games we should take a look at him too um
- I think the other thing that people look at they'll look at this logo and we'll take a look at at John Gets Games too because I think it's worthwhile but they'll look at that logo like oh yeah Shut Up & Sit Down I like what they do they'll click on it if they never heard of them I think the next thing they look at is time
- So you're looking at the thumbnails but you're not looking at this time like look at this Beyond the Sun playthrough and review an hour and 59
- It's very compelling but I thought that about the Monopoly video I thought that about other stuff too Secret Life of Board Games didn't work
- I think the other thing that people look
- The thumbnails are all templated they have the logo in the bottom left they've got a white banner across the bottom sixth sixth of the shot
- face it board level on this one face it board level on this one face it board level basic board level face it board level face it board level right that's their their hallmark thing
- This i'm gonna straight up say this looks like ass this is this is not not well designed at all
- I would shut up and sit down more for entertainment not really for recommendation recommendations since their taste don't match that's totally cool
- the trick with reddit is that you have to be they have sort of rules if you don't if you haven't posted 10 times before you self-promote um they boot your ass right off the platform
- I hate the word content and content creators is because i'm talking about perfectly shaped and sized cogs to fit in the machine
- you'll always know whether it's paid or not because I always check the box that says contains paid promotion
- hopefully this doesn't get around hopefully this doesn't get shared on reddit
- Secret life of board games didn't work
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Shelfside Analysis at 4:22 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
Pros
- Familiar example to illustrate dice probabilities
- Demonstrates how combining dice affects outcomes
Cons
- Not deeply explored as a probability instruction example
Thematic elements
- Economic competition and property development
- Board game on a property trading board
- Casual, example-driven
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — Rolling two dice to determine movement; outcomes influenced by sum
- Probability of sums — Two dice create a bell-curve distribution of possible totals
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- randomness is a very good tool for building tension
- let's say i roll this mana and then you can change that mana by paying stuff
- the attack modifier deck is swingier than dice
- you could change the die faces but at a cost
- this game doesn't have dice how does that work
- snake eyes
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Nights Around a Table Discussion at 2:42 sentiment: negative
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negative
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none
Cons
- should be avoided at all costs
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none
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- Ask a Board Gamer! My first question actually launches with a tragic story - i've got bad news for you Brent - i've got some bad news for you - i got bad news - Uh-oh - A fire has destroyed your entire board game collection - new stuff included - Oh no! - i know! - Oh sh*t - And you have to rebuild - i wanna know: what's the first thing you rebuild with?
- I would start with Splendor - Dragon Strike - Citadels - Hansa Teutonica - Mysterium - Boss Monster - Kingdom Death: Monster, hands down - 1313 Dead End Drive!
- I love it so much! I've never won a game - I have a massive amount of fun.
- It was the first real unique board game I owned.
- D6 is basically designed for individuals who don't know how to play Dungeons & Dragons, but it's a really simplified D&D board game version.
- It was like mousetrap almost. You build up this elaborate scene and you trigger traps and devices... Clue to the next level!
- I probably would start off with Scythe. I've spent so much money buying all the expansions. I've spent a ton of time going over strategy, playing with other people, teaching other people. It's a long game to get to learn if you've ever played it. I just have to get that one back.
- It is by far the best game that I have ever played. I absolutely love cooperative gameplay.
- I don't really like counter-operative gameplay, even though I know that nobody else ever calls it that.
- I tried Munchkin once, and I don't want to lose my friends over a game.
- Cosmic Encounter you want to avoid, and of course, uh, Monopoly, because everybody should avoid it at all costs.
- Kingdom Death: Monster is probably one of the most critically acclaimed and, like, artistically inspired.
- When you look at the miniatures and you look at the details, the time and the effort and the inspiration that goes into it is very very nice.
- Can you still get it? - Yes, you can! They do a lot of limited print collectors models of sorts. Those are irreplaceable.
- I don't know how I'm gonna put my kid through college since I have to buy it all again!
- There's been a fire, and it's destroyed your entire board game collection. What game do you buy first to replenish it? - Dinosaur World.
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 2:38:17
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none
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- Giving out one deck is sort of like what are you gonna do in one deck?
- The cards look amazing.
- it feels like a Tetris game like if Tetris made this game people would Rave if it was a Tetris branded it would be so far
- great filler weight game
- The way the DMV and where I live goes they they give you a ticket you go and you sit down in this big room with all these chairs and it's like it's in this old mall where that has 95 of them all is is vacant and they're actually planning on tearing the whole thing down
- it has an ending that makes you think and makes you actually go whoa that's huge
- it is the most graphically violent like movie that it is it I don't it's and it's very um it's very psychological as far as the horror goes
- it's one of those things where uh I I I want I I seriously want other people to watch all of Martyrs so I can actually talk to them about the ending so I can discuss what you think theUATION the ending means
- it is it is a extremely difficult watch
- the ending has stuck with me for like days
- it is completely and totally like uh totally popcorn TV it is there's nothing there is it is perfectly solid B material that you can just have on and like you can literally not watch it
- it's like the monster's not gonna come out of the movie
- the one genre that will be affected least by the strike will be horror because most horror films are independent
- Mario made a billion bucks let's not discredit that
- the sound is like unreal it was like one of the best sounding movies I've ever heard
- Dunkirk had the rapid noise
- I hated seeing it the movie before yeah it's awful and then I noticed a bunch of movies followed that afterwards it annoyed me every time afterwards too
- 250 000 views and you only got 30 bucks
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Shelfside Travelogue And Venue Review at 6:29 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
Pros
- Extremely familiar and accessible
- great for casual play and socializing
Cons
- Can be long and repetitive
- controllering luck-based outcomes
Thematic elements
- economic competition and resource management
- Property trading and capitalism in a stylized city
- commercial strategy with social interaction
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dice-driven movement — Players roll dice to move around the board and buy properties
- property acquisition and rent — Owning properties generates income via rent collection
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- Hero Quest is the greatest game of all time
- this place is a definitive board game hub
- I love Uncommons... there's so many memories made
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 2:44:47
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- I'm not saying that you're right or wrong here but I mean people do do so it just seems like a lot of work to get a free game.
- I feel like if you had printed it all out and set it on a table and started playing it you would have been like oh that's a problem.
- I do not think it's worth the price.
- It's a trick taking game where every trick has a contract.
- The reprint's relevance and price are questioned, suggesting it might be a 'money gouge'.
- The icons are not as big as advertised and difficult to read.
- The lack of appeal for Dice City is a recurring theme.
- It's really fun and what it comes up with makes everybody sort of like, 'Oh, why did you play that?'
- The creators of the promo pack were from the same team as Cards Against Humanity.
- It's so mind-boggling to me that they were like, 'Yeah, this will be fine.'
- The process of getting marijuana legally in some states is convoluted and expensive.
- A general decline in personalized customer service across various industries.
- The US predominantly uses the Imperial system, while most other countries use the Metric system.
- I made a video for carcass on maps and the rules go for East or West map you know so I tried to upload one video to two separate pages and it won't let me do it
- I just thought it was weird you know so I try to go do something you fought the law it's got upset got upset set his goons out Nicki came over here and whooped my ass she was upset she had to take her for like from L.A
- it's just people stations like I don't understand that one
- wingspan wingspan I don't understand that but I love it
- I just called it idiotic and stupid what they did because they got a cease and desist from stonemeyer games
- how did you [ __ ] think this was gonna go like did you think they're just gonna be cool with that adding like nuclear missiles to [ __ ] wingspan
- it's so mind-boggling to me that they were like yeah this will be fine
- duh you know you reach out to the company first like I that's like that seems stupid idiotic like you you're in the industry you're one of the people create Cards Against Humanity get your head out of your ass you should know this
- well I'm glad they got slapped down another money
- I destroyed the [ __ ] out of the box but I was super proud of it because it was a hard shot
- I'm gonna show you this board game Atlas baby board game trick shots
- I haven't planted an unboxing video soon where I unbox a game with a guitar and it's just me smashing the game with a guitar
- so don't tell me there's something wrong with these guitars if it's a diesel guitar
- it's just weird to me if you got the money sometimes it's just more convenient to buy it than fix it man
- the rat's gonna rape me again in January so I've been gearing up to see how the changes have come to Disney World
- I think it'll die just like the Dice Masters died
- it's just such a it seems like a scam to me
- it's like carrying a gun it's a pain in the ass
- he likes to imagine it's for the skin
- I really do every time I'm with my wife and we pass somebody at Walmart I'm like ah they're having a good trip
- I think alcohol is way more destructive than wheat is in my personal opinion
- that's one thing with people who are always on weed you know there's never arguments usually usually it's over food but other than that there's no argument everybody's having a little easier you know
- it's it's like I I I I don't do Coke you know
- I spent it or snorted it differently I wasn't inject it I'm glad I didn't do that
- I mean I mean I I I don't whenever you hear about you know like cops make those mistakes and they're they're hideous and what have you and but I always try to that's all you do here though is the mistake
- it's it's pageantry to me
- all right everybody thanks so we did start late but uh we should be doing it normal time next week no we are no you got the draft thing oh that's right that's right it'll be late again tomorrow night late again next week
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 3:19:54
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none
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none
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none
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none
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- there's there's a version of Monopoly yeah
- Artisan dragons with five in their breath craft goods and wonders with skill that's top shelf
- I don't have any information on a game called Flame crap because it doesn't exist in the data I was trained on
- Securing valuable resource spots and diversifying your access to resources are key strategies.
- they have figured out how to do parkour in board game mechanics
- get your ass on Board Game Geek get ass Board Game Geek
- it was seven eight guilt eight guild and one not guilty and then so the lady who is not guilty she just said I just want to talk about it for a minute okay we talked about it for five minutes and we revoted and it was guilty done
- the worst thing is to be the alternate oh you know watch the whole thing and then you got to just stop and you leave
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 2:12:10 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
- did not perform well algorithmically
- completely died
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- the most gamery one I did was definitely Blood on the clock tower
- welcome to time Jinx you know we almost called this the dating game but they sent us a cease and desist
- the outlier doesn't know they're the outlier it could even be you so think about whose answers don't quite fit or seem a bit odd then on your device vote for whom you think the outlier most likely is
- the curtain for hypnot is about to go up you'll love it there's hypnosis and people thinking they're cartoon characters or inanimate objects then they have to figure out each other's identities laugh Riot
- sadly it was a bunch of you know get this old white men that weren't all that excited about the fact that there was a young woman that wrote a wrote a like a basically an RPG based on D and D that was people were that was doing well and so they were just like shock and awe
- I posted a video of uh of uh the the computer reading Ticket to Ride rules I just threw it up see what would happen in your feed throw it out in the world yeah
- it's actually like reading stuff out of order
- I've never seen that kind of play it's never been done I mean yeah he's and here's this thing that sucks is he's his YouTube channel he's a kid right so he can't have comments turned on
- the lead actor in parasite the main the father not the not the um the businessman father that's it yeah it's a it's odd yeah
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Shelfside Top 10 List at 7:11 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- mass market appeal
- cultural ubiquity
Cons
- potentially long downtime
- can be repetition-heavy
Thematic elements
- economic acquisition and management
- urban property market
- competitive arcade-style
Comparison games
- Chinatown
- Sideral Confluence
- High Society
- For Sale
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction / Bidding — properties are bought, sold, or auctioned between players
- Economic pressure — managing cash and rent to outlast opponents
- roll and move — move around the board according to dice rolls
- Roll/Spin to Move — move around the board according to dice rolls
- trading / auctions — properties are bought, sold, or auctioned between players
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Bridge invented in the 16th century
- Dominion holy cow was this the game that made deck building the meat of your game as opposed to deck building being preparation for your game like a TCG
- Chess was definitely People's First access to 1 V1 wargaming
- Monopoly was many people's first exposure to multiplayer board gaming and seeing how those Dynamics were like you could also play with all sorts of people as opposed to risk which is more of a conflict heavy crowd
- the original Pandemic this is the one that propelled Co-op board gaming into the scene where it's Cooperative with a board
- four to five plus people with hidden roles a minority of them are bad then their goal is to kill off the good people during the night phase
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Our Family Plays Games Discussion at 36:05 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
- Received as a joke/mockery from son
- Host does not want to spend time on it
- Host would prefer the Scrabble with poker version
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Scrabble with Poker
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Pixies blew us away I love it love it love it love pixies
- the actual comic covers win you over the comic covers are great
- if you a comic lover you're going to probably love this game but if you're someone like me it's going to be all right
- the gang um it is poker on steroids now
- it is not a co-op game it's a it's on the box contrary to what it's on the box contrary to what is written on the box TR they made a mistake it is not Co-op
- we lost every time we played that thing what seven times
- some people don't know how to build a poah hand
- the thing about the game you can't talk so there's no Alpha gamer
- I'm confused most of the time with this gambling stuff that's why I don't do it in Vegas
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Beyond Solitaire Interview at 12:29
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Pros
- Obligatory chapter that readers would expect.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- the competitiveness gets crappy if like you if you cannot admit to yourself that you're competitive because that's when you will start being like horrible
- humans are I think generally really really honest with each other I think we'd be shocked really to realize how often we're quite honest that it's such a cultural norm and I think there's something lovely and delicious and interesting and empathy building about making consensual spaces where we go no we're going to do you
- games are this wonderful Embassy space where we can meet each other and uh we can kind of hang out
- the higher up that I was the better I was doing in a tournament the less eye contact there was at the table and stuff
- the joy that I experience of those kids of of completely fooling me and lying to my face I think actually does build trust and it's wonderful
- it turned out that they'd all been playing uh we one night werewolf in the dressing room and that was like a sign for like how they'd all sort of got this like developed an in team language of like of of lowering the mask to reveal that they were actually aw wolf
- I've been like loving it which is a game uh I think it's published by Hobby Japan called Builders high it's a kind of weird mix of engine building and shedding it's a card game right where you are building laying down buildings um you've got to fulfill some kind of there'll be some City contracts out right uh you're You're Building buildings but you've also got to get rid of everything in your hand and there's also you some cards have got money on and some of them are buildings and the buildings once you've built them do stuff have special powers so you're slowly building an economic engine the wrinkle in the game is that you can only spend exact amounts of money so if you get because you're it's you're basically public you're doing stuff for the city your public industry so you've got to um use up every bit of money in your contract you can't have money left over that doesn't go anywhere so um it's a really interesting game of think actually quite a lot of spending is harder than it first looks it's also a race because there's this amazing point you can't you can't end the game until you've claimed one of the contracts by building a set number of buildings and they're they're different targets right and and then the game and then what you're doing immediately there's this beautiful art where it immediately turns and you are having to shed your hand so suddenly everything you've been doing in the game up to then get money get buildings build this thing you now don't care about and you're just trying to spend everything in your hand and empty your hand onto the table so there's this lovely Arc and this lovely turn and for me the artwork is never going to be hung in the Lou um it's you know the Box looks nice but for me it just does something that um a lot of other games it just doesn't feel like anything else in my collection
- it just does something that a lot of other games it just doesn't feel like anything else in my collection
- it's found a kind of like ecological niche in every game night I've had there's always time for it
- Tim you are the most fantastically autistic person I've ever assessed
- on one level it's like well it's your special interest him you know that that's like a quite a pat answer is that you're autistic and you find meaning by diving into something in its totality and then when you're very safe in that kind of area of knowledge like almost like throwing out grappling hooks and kind of like doing boarding actions on adjacent topics and using board games as a way of like relating to everything else from this kind of uh you know Fortress of Solitude of board games
- as someone who's been particularly craving like human connection and human contact and I sometimes found that difficult and has found essentially what I would describe as a I'd characterize as kind of a uh an accessibility Aid uh through games
- we think of autism as being a uh a social impairment right as as having deficits when it comes to connecting with other human beings but I just you know and I sort of don't want to speak to soon is but like I've loved talking to you right and at no point has my talking to you felt to me difficult or strained I feel like I'm just vibing out with someone who I've only just met
- we all mask to an extent for different reasons
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Beyond Solitaire Analysis at 17:41
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- the board game is not it's programmed to facilitate a social interaction and then the social interaction develops the rhetoric so how how do we approach that it's different
- this is just that but with a different kind of text and this type of text still has an author it still has a purpose right it still has you know constraints to it um they're just a different type of constraints so the rhetorical situation still exists
- the punitive nature of that helps them much it's not going to encourage them that's for sure so I was I was trying to think of a way like how do I improve engagement not necessarily make them read but like how do I improve engagement
- I don't want this to be like the EAS the skate class right like we all took that in undergrad like I remember my dinosaurs class like I get my easy 3 credits for science I took biological toxins and poisons I really enjoyed it actually but oh that's fun
- I do feel strong about meeting them where they are like what they're interested in and what's relevant to them in their lives
- you know you you plow your way through 101 and 102 and drag these students through like you can do it just finish the paper and then all of a sudden they're very excited
- we want to legitimize it I guess to some degree that I don't know maybe sounds a little bit too like we're not we're not to that level that we can legitimize anything necessarily but just the more people doing it I think the better
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Get into games Interview at 15:49 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- nostalgia and familiarity
Cons
- long play time and potential for monopolistic plays
Thematic elements
- Array
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is a glorious day because we have our friends here.
- Beanie's first campaign and Mommy's first campaign and Daddy's first campaign.
- Don't be precious about it.
- It's never going to happen; life is what happens when you're busy making plans.
- Get into games on air; Rent Shuffle and Roll at rentshuffleandroll.co.uk with code gg50.
- Learning through board games—sharing, planning, flexibility, and teamwork.
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 9:44
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Forest Bower has a wonderful story it's not a story he has a wonderful story not much about how how he he struck at rich
- I bought it at 11 bucks I woke up there at $72 and I thought I'd be cute I thought I'd be super cute and I was like yeah I'll hold on to this until the inauguration because surely it'll go up till then
- that son of a biscuit had to have his wife launch her own shitcoin the next day day which plummeted the value of his coin which is fantastic
- I made like 1,200 bucks or over two days which uh and like I was telling Scott like the only reason I only made 1,200 was because I didn't have more money to throw at it that very moment
- Karcassonne Power Grid was 2004 Kis was 2000 uh Ticket to Ride is 2004 Kis was 2005 Twilight Struggle 2005
- Dominion it's a good game because it's it's it's foundational right it's like how many games did did Dominion create right like just that mechanic of deck building or deck uh yeah deck building
- Lords of water deep is a good game
- Castles of Burgundy oh that's got to be in there at least in my opinion
- I should probably kick it in I got an early morning
- well next week I'll I'll be able to let it fly but I just couldn't too fresh too fresh
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Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Other at 10:23
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I'm going to go and find out which board game facts are worth remembering and which ones should be lost in the shuffle
- The longest game of Risk took 1,000 hours and was played over several months in Finland ultimately ending after the players had continually taken turns for 42 days
- I picked number one I don't think they're I think they've scrapped the Monopoly one and I don't think they're actually going to make it
- Psycho Killer is a really great just casual card game if you're doing like a Halloween game night for non- gamers or casual gamers
- it just plays on all of the horror tropes in the bee horror movies that you know and love throughout the years
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Tim Chuon Analysis at 2:50 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Property ownership — The host explains that landing on an owned spot requires paying the owner money, and landing on an empty spot allows buying the property.
- Resource Management — The host discusses the need to acquire money in the game, noting that passing 'go' grants $200.
- roll and move — The host uses Monopoly as an example, mentioning rolling two dice and moving a character that many spots on the board.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- If you want to learn how to absorb board game mechanics a lot faster, especially when someone's teaching you and you're like, "How do I absorb all this information right now and learn how to play?" This video is for you.
- there is no such thing as a bad question or a dumb question. Let me rephrase that and let's say there exists avoidable questions.
- Because there's something about doing that physical action and connecting this tactile response to the information that you're absorbing. When that connection is made together, you learn games a lot faster.
- So, in summary, what do we learn today? Number one is repeating information in your head as they are teaching the game because when you reiterate what they're saying into your own head, that helps you learn a lot more, especially when you're getting double the dose of that reinforcement.
- And lastly, number three. Now, I think this one is one that's going to be a lot harder, especially if you are new to gaming, but it comes in time and you'll be a natural at it in in no time.
- So, with that said, I hope that helped you in some way in learning your next game. Use these tips the next time you are learning a game from someone.
- If you made it to the very very end, go ahead and comment connect because that's exactly what we're doing with all three tips. We are connecting questions together. We are connecting tactile information and we are connecting the dots so that way we can play games better, faster, stronger just like the song.
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The Brothers Murph Top List at 1:24 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
- Five Tribes has done it better than any other game, including Monopoly.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Five Tribes
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization is the engine builder to end all engine builders.
- In Twilight Struggle, one of the more interesting times in history is played out. And I love that each card is a real event that happened.
- Gaia Project built on Terrammystica and perfected the form. It's the best one.
- Gloom Haven: Jaws of the Lion has the best tutorial system I have ever seen in a game, and I think it legitimately creates new board gamers constantly because of the way they make it so approachable.
- Each Spirit in Spirit Island can be played over and over as you learn how to master their abilities, and there are so much content in the box. It also just plays amazing solo.
- Dune Imperium Uprising took Dune Imperium to a whole new level of scale and scope, and it's got them worms.
- It's impossible to have a bad time playing Star Wars Rebellion, especially if you love Star Wars. Okay, mostly only if you love Star Wars, but it's really fun. It's Lord of the Rings in a box, and it's perfect.
- For a solid like 6 years, Terraforming Mars was absolutely the king of the board game hobby. Unreal staying power.
- Dune Imperium uses art based on the movies, but it doesn't feel at all like a movie tie-in cash grab.
- The scale and epic stories that come out of Twilight Imperium fourth edition make it everlasting. Every time you play, you get a permanent memory and story. It's truly impressive.
- The sheer amount of content in Gloom Haven and the card play makes this dungeon crawler a Eurogamer's delight.
- Ark Nova takes Terraforming Mars' cardplay in Civilization's action card mechanisms and put it into a theme we're just way more interested in. just the absolute pinnacle of mashing up mechanisms into a masterpiece.
- Pandemic Legacy Season 1 has deserved every single ounce of acclaim and accolades it's received over the years. It was an absolute phenomena when it came out.
- I don't want to say anything nice about this game. I don't want to say anything nice about this game. I don't like this game though.
- Fine. Fine.
- Brass Birmingham is objectively a board game. Done. Easy. That was nice. Words that are written.
- Brass rhymes with ass. Got him. You're done.
- Brass Birmingham has one of the best examples of positive player interaction and a game I'd actually seek out to play for a player. Was that so hard?
- So, that was one nice thing about every single game in the Board Game Geek top 100. Many games that we actually don't even really like, but there's always something nice to say. Exactly.
- Just engage.
- We had a lot of fun making it.
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Gaming Rules! Interview at 1:53:06 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Negative
Pros
- Popular because it's popular and has momentum.
- Many different versions exist.
Cons
- Considered a bad and rubbish game by most modern board gamers.
- A terrible, terrible, terrible game.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I don't think Project L should have the video theme category applied to it. I don't think so.
- my solo cadet mode for captain's chair is the best video to watch to learn how to play the game.
- you only score points for your tracks if you have completed at least one of your missions.
- Many of you, especially Mage Knight fans, will know Ricky because he did the solo playthroughs of Mage Knight, which helped make Mage Knight what it is today.
- I have news. I am not allowed to share that news. I am under um effectively an NDA.
- Marvel Champions is a fantastic, fantastic game.
- The stream was crashing and literally every 30 minutes the stream would crash and my software would crash and people would be in the chat saying the stream's gone down.
- Too Many Bones is a good game, but me being so far out of my comfort zone that I literally cannot understand how to play the characters that I'm playing whilst hosting a live stream. Yeah, I don't want to do that again. That was uh that was horrible.
- Monopoly is in that situation where it's popular because it's popular.
- It's still a terrible game. It is. It is a terrible, terrible, terrible game.
- The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship, the new pandemic style game from Matt Leo. I'm going to pick that one. But caveat, I've only played it once and I haven't actually played that many games that technically have come out from 2025.
- You can't. There's too many games coming out every week.
- If you are not a Patreon supporter and you want to support me directly, you can for as little as $1 a month or $3 a month if you want access to the Slack channel, patreon.com/gamingrules.
- The secret word for this month is the game that arrived this afternoon that none of my patron supporters were able to guess.
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Quackalope Analysis at 9:20
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- But by far the worst part of producing content here on this channel has to be filming gameplay videos.
- Gameplay videos are the most challenging form of content to not only justify but also produce on, I would say, any board game channel.
- Would you rather have a gameplay video that is more fun or more accurate?
- But no matter how many fancy angles, B-roll, music, whatever we add, no matter what, board gameplay videos still get some of the lowest views across the board.
- So, what do you prefer? quick, accessible 60 to 90 minute gameplay videos or giant aggressive behemoths that take three plus hours to play, table, and cover.
- The leadup to filming is substantial as well.
- So, as you answer those questions, I wanted to give you a quick run through of the production timeline we're talking about.
- What takes a 1-hour gameplay recorded 1-hour gameplay and potentially turns it into a 12 or 13hour production nightmare?
- So, would you rather engage with a well prodduced video that lives a little bit longer on the channel that is worth coming back to and consuming at your own speed? Or are live streams just more fun?
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Gaming Rules! Interview at 46:57
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I don't feel any pressure to create content.
- This is my full-time job, right? I don't have another job to go to.
- I'm producing all of this content and honestly, if I could produce more, I would because I love what I do.
- The category here or the criteria here is massively popular, really well-respected, solid Euro games that have been around for a while and stood the test of time and are known as just really, really good games.
- No games do. It doesn't need all of the bling and everything else.
- I think most people in life are affected by what's called seasonally adjusted disorder.
- Entering is absolutely free. It doesn't cost you anything whatsoever.
- The secret word this month is haggis.
- All of my advertising revenue from all of my videos goes to charity.
- I don't make any money out of the videos themselves on YouTube. People call me crazy. They would be right.
- It's only 70 to go.
- I have not. No. Not Not even heard of that one.
- I would strongly recommend you just do it because you want to do it. Don't go out and spend £4,000 on a fancy camera, lights, and everything else and think 'Right, I'm going to be the next big channel and I'm going to get 50,000 subscribers in 6 months.'
- One thing that really annoys me is when the games come out at retail like the same time or even before and they're cheaper.
- I personally believe it is fundamentally, morally, and ethically wrong for me to sell a pre-production prototype copy of a game.
- It's International Unplayed Games Day. And the date that I've chosen... is the 1st of July.
- I have already got two of them on my channel, if not three, and I'm doing another one next Wednesday.
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No Rolls Barred Playthrough at 4:51 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Energetic host banter and interaction
- Dynamic property trading and auctions create drama
- Color set progression and hotel-building add strategic tension
- Theming with real London streets and familiar property names
Cons
- Sponsorship interludes interrupt gameplay rhythm
- Long-run nature of Monopoly may slow pacing for some viewers
Thematic elements
- Array
- Urban property trading
- Competitive, banter-heavy
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction — Unowned properties go to auction; players bid to acquire them.
- Auction / Bidding — Unowned properties go to auction; players bid to acquire them.
- Building houses/hotels — Players build houses to increase rents; hotels on Regent Street
- Get Out of Jail Free Card — Card allows exit from jail without paying.
- Go to Jail / Jail mechanics — Landing on 'Go to Jail' or drawing cards can send players to jail; exit by paying or doubles.
- Income — Landing on properties with owners pays rent; income tax and salary mechanics apply.
- Negotiation — Players trade properties to complete color sets and gain advantages.
- Rent/Income/Tax — Landing on properties with owners pays rent; income tax and salary mechanics apply.
- roll and move — Players roll two dice to determine movement around the board.
- Roll/Spin to Move — Players roll two dice to determine movement around the board.
- Set Collection — Completing a color set increases rent and enables building.
- set collection / color groups — Completing a color set increases rent and enables building.
- Tax/Salary Interactions — Income-related events and salary pay-outs during play.
- trading / negotiation — Players trade properties to complete color sets and gain advantages.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Go straight to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
- The trade was Fleet Street for White Hall plus 50. Both parties have agreed, giving you the complete red streets.
- This roll is sponsored by adverts.
- I'm the Monopoly guy. The internet. I'm the monopoly man.
- The water works is 150. 3,000 from Tokyo. Thank you.
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Get into games Top 10 List at 1:07:01 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Mixed
Pros
- Arguably the greatest game ever sold (by sales)
- Accessible entry point to the hobby for many
- Has many IP versions
Cons
- Core gameplay can be dull and luck-dependent
- Lack of player agency
Thematic elements
- Capitalism, real estate
- City/property development
Comparison games
- The Landlord's Game
- Monopoly Legacy
- Monopoly Deal
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction — implied by buying and selling properties.
- roll and move — We are rolling dice. We are moving around the board and we are buying up properties and selling properties and rolling more dice.
- Set Collection — implied by buying up properties.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- If I wanted to play the same game but be really stressed, Silver Frost would be my go-to.
- I argue I'd almost argue that it's the best artwork of any of the Everdale games.
- Whereas normal Everdale, you can kind of chill and just be like, 'Yeah, let's build these fun things and look at my little critters.'
- the landlord's game was the basic blueprint for Monopoly.
- and arguably the best game ever made. So really what we've ranked is completely wrong.
- that is quite dull. Let's say you're rolling. The only so I feel like the boring bit about it is that you're just rolling dice and you land where the dice tells you.
- Monopoly Legacy.
- The board state changes. Buildings go into disrepair and crumble around you.
- There are elections. Hire one of you becomes a mayor of the city. You can control other people's turns and what properties they're going to buy.
- How do you improve Cludo Legacy?
- Well, just dying over and over again.
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Neon Gorilla Discussion at 0:04 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
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Quotes (from this video)
- I have to break it down in three eras.
- So, the first encounter with like some serious board games was uh Monopoly way back when.
- then the second coming was when I was like 13 or 14, I discovered Magic the Gathering.
- And I was like, "Wow, this this is something else entirely."
- then, yes, the third coming was Catan where like for half a year me and my friends would get together every Friday evening and just like play for hours.
- That was like, "Wow, board games are so good."
- And then from there I just uh yeah, discovered BoardGameGeek and the rest is history.
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Neon Gorilla Interview at 6:23 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Was a gateway to serious board games
- Engaging for long play sessions in the absence of other entertainment
Cons
- Very time-consuming
Thematic elements
- Real estate/property trading
Comparison games
- Magic: The Gathering
- Catan
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Property Acquisition — Implied by the context of playing for extended periods and the theme.
- roll and move — Standard Monopoly mechanic, implied by the duration of play.
- Trading — Implied by the context of extended play and property acquisition.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Eldritch Horror was the first like really serious board game that I got into and just uh blew my mind.
- Magic is is is a rich person's game.
- It's just it's it's I think it's just not exciting for uh people who might even be wondering about the game.
- Our community on Patreon and YouTube members is honestly the reason why we're still doing it.
- We never thought about that. It's It's It always feels great when someone recognizes you, right? On the street or or or an accent.
- I would not trust myself to be 100% impartial if I have a close relationship with the publisher.
- We're we're we feel good if our community feels good, right?
- It's it's more of an art than a science.
- The audience is the most important in all all of this. So, it's important that you uh present the game accurately, cuz they will be the ones then playing that game, right?
- I'm afraid to go buy Lords of Vegas cuz I don't think it'll ever be like that again.
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