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2006
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Description
Pirate King is a game where players take on the roles of pirate captains. Players sail around the Caribbean trying to become the Pirate King by smuggling cargo and capturing territories.
Players set sail by choosing how far they would like to move each turn and roll a d12 to determine how far they will move. Rolling too low or too high will cause a player to overshoot or undershoot his or her target, but a good roll will hit a player right where he or she wants to go. Wherever a player lands on a territory, he or she has choices to make about what actions to take, whether that be to capture the port, pay the owner a dock fee, or attempt to wrest control of the port from the current owner. Players draw cards that have good or bad effects on the Pirate's Booty or Captain's Log spaces, and further spaces have effects on players
Players gain points by holding territories, having Great Treasures, or by defeating the Commodore. The game is over when a player has 16 points.
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Our Family Plays Games Discussion at 13:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Good family game
- Engaging theme
- Straightforward goal
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Becoming the Pirate King or Queen by defeating monsters and claiming treasure
- Pirate world
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Set Collection — Players 'collect some crowns'.
- Simultaneous action selection — Players 'reveal your cards simultaneously, one by one'.
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- I wasn't a fan then.
- So, I really want to play it again. To see if I have a different opinion about Bunny Kingdom.
- It has all the big monsters from the Godzilla universe.
- Now, King of Tokyo, the original game was Grant's favorite for years.
- Because in here you're getting wooden components.
- Brumble Quest.
- Now, this one is a little crazy cuz it says from 3 to 50 players.
- So they took a mobile game and turned it into a board game.
- I mean it looks cute. I mean you're shopping to buy cute little pets and then you got to put them in a particular order and then you battle and then they they TRY TO KILL EACH OTHER. THAT'S CRAZY.
- I love box art. And so if I was out shopping and I saw this box art, it would be intriguing. I would pick the box.
- In Honeypot, players take on the role of secret agent bears trying to gather the best intel and spy supplies without getting stung.
- So, you kind of it's kind of cooperative and kind of competitive at the same time kind of sort of. I like that.
- Wondrous Creatures has now an expansion that was exclusive at the Omaha Game Convention.
- Yes. And we did have this in our hot game section with Wondrous Creatures and everybody loved it.
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Might I Suggest A Game Top List at 4:40 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Has an absolute blast playing
- Great mix of classic deck building and fun auto battling
- Extremely light on strategy with a push your luck element
- Super easy to pick up
- Always some interesting twists
Cons
- Doesn't look like much
- Busting means last pick of treasure
Thematic elements
- Swashbuckling
Comparison games
- Flip 7
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auto Battling — A system where cards and mechanics interact to determine outcomes, often related to combat or scoring.
- Deck Building — Players start with the same deck and acquire new cards (monsters, treasure) to improve their deck.
- Drafting — Players draft treasure cards and monsters based on sword values.
- Push Your Luck — Players flip cards from their deck, aiming for swords and coins, but must avoid flipping three curses which causes them to 'bust'.
- Set Collection — Players collect treasure cards and defeat monsters based on sword values.
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- And while I do love getting outside and enjoying the sunshine, you know what I love even better than that? Playing board games, obviously.
- if you want to know what new board games to pick up before we enter into cozy game night season, then might I suggest
- And one of my favorite things about this list is because I played so many different types of games at all these different events this summer, this list has something for everyone.
- And I can't wait to share them all with you. But before we get started, I want to know what your favorite game was this summer.
- And to me, that is a mark of a wonderful game.
- This game scratches that efficiency planning portion of my brain where I just want to find the perfect combo of cards in the perfect order in order to knock out as many minions as I can on a single turn.
- Making this list just made me so excited to play these games again, and that's how you know they're good.
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The Dice Tower Discussion at 8:11 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Push your luck game
- Interesting theme
Cons
- Not a favorite for the host
- Simultaneous reveal of cards is not exciting
- Not many variables
- Limited choice when busted
Thematic elements
- Piracy, treasure hunting
- Seven seas
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Drafting — in order from most to least gold, each player takes one face up loot card starting with the player who had the most gold.
- Push Your Luck — the goal is to defeat legendary monsters and claim ancient treasures to earn crowns... You have to flip another card. At this point, I think I'm just going to hold. So then I'm going to say drop anchor.
- Set Collection — you get the more swords, you can get the better monsters which give you more points if you get the more gold.
- Simultaneous action selection — whenever the captain goes one, two, three, go, all players reveal the top card from their loot pile.
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Quotes (from this video)
- We're playing four games in a roundup with four dregs.
- The goal of the game is to have the pond with the highest number of points.
- If I had three curses at the end of my turn like this guy, I would sink.
- You need to play sequentially. So, one, two, three.
- So, couple things I really like about it and I'm pitching to Cara for this.
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Grant Lyon Top List at 0:07 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Pirates
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck Building — You'll buy cards and then flip out cards from your deck.
- Push Your Luck — If you get too many curses, you bust.
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- Here are my top five board games of the month.
- I played 22 new board games in the month of August, and these are my favorite of them.
- And my number one game of the month, and I feel slightly bad saying this because it's sold out everywhere right now, is the game Drillers.
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Grant Lyon Top List at 6:46 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Push-your-luck is a favorite mechanism
- Easy to get into
- Like the aspect of buying better cards and still pushing your luck
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Pirates
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- deck-building — There's a light deck-building aspect where players buy cards to add to their deck to make it stronger for future rounds.
- Push Your Luck — Players flip cards from their deck, trying to get money and swords to buy new cards or fight monsters, but risk busting if they get too many curses.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Gen Con is upon us. The largest tabletop game convention in all of North America is here.
- This video is about the 10 games I am most excited about at Gen Con.
- These are all games that you can get for the first time at Gen Con, which is why I'm excited about them and why I think you should check them out.
- One of the most underrated mechanisms in board games, I think, is the mechanism I split, you choose.
- The Game Makers is a love letter to the board game hobby.
- If you like deck building If you like card games, if you like fun, check out Flip Tunes season 2.
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The Dice Tower Unboxing at 4:30:44
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Pros
- nicer box
Cons
none
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none
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Quotes (from this video)
- Hello everybody. Welcome to the Dice Tower most boring unboxings in the world
- This is a box made by AEG.
- Well, that looks interesting.
- I reviewed Pirate King before. This is a nicer box for it for sure.
- The embargo is as of the moment that I opened it.
- Rocket Ranchers, herding cats in space.
- Sushi Go Party! is a fun little game. It's quick.
- This is a fun little game, it's quick.
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The Dice Tower News at 5:03 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
none
Cons
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Thematic elements
- Fighting legendary monsters and claiming ancient treasures
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- push-your-luck — Players take risks for greater rewards.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- man, this theme and everything about this from One More Turn Games, I'm very pumped about this one. I love the I cannot wait.
- It's a cool cover actually. It's just not very legible, but it's a life.
- If you like gardens, that's great. You like dragons, that's great. You like them both, buy three copies.
- This is teetering on the edge. This is almost more of a tainted grail type of a look to me.
- I think of all the ones that we've mentioned, this is the one I'm least interested in
- Never mind. This might be the one I'm least interested in.
- Cuz Clank! Catacombs exists.
- that's a really good-looking prototype.
- This would have been my most anticipated game of the year or one of them had I known about it
- This is one of my most anticipated games of the year now.
- This is basically um a Star Trek version of Captain Sonar.
- We know about this for a while. We've been very excited. We've already played it actually.
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