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Powerline

Game ID: GID0251786
Game Info
Year
2022
Players
1-6
Age
8+
Playtime
45 min
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Description

Players draft rolled dice to build power lines linking cities to new energy sources on personal boards

Description

Players draft rolled dice to build power lines linking cities to new energy sources on personal boards

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Sentiment: pos 1 · mix 1 · neu 0 · neg 0
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Video QI5ZMAtW5ZY Getting Games Top 33 List at 50:56 sentiment: positive
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positive
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none
Cons
none
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Video 9Z-RXd-SSBM UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 3:02:24 sentiment: mixed
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Mixed
Pros
  • Really cool dice selection mechanism
  • Dice mechanism is cool
Cons
  • Too much randomness
  • Can't mitigate the randomness
  • Too dependent on rolling the right numbers
  • The boards are random
Thematic elements
  • Building power lines
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Dice Rolling — Players roll six dice and place them in a specific order (black, white, blue, red, green, yellow) on their player board.
  • Route Building — Players build power lines across their board.
  • Set Collection — Players aim to build power lines by placing dice in the correct order.
  • Variable player powers — The dice values and colors determine where workers can be placed.
  • Worker Placement — Dice are used as workers to build power lines between power plants.
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  • the best game we played of the day was Nana
  • it's a stupid memory game
  • 100 bucks I will not be buying that
  • it was fine I I enjoyed it I had a good time
  • it's really good it's very good
  • Frost Haven's already on the top 100
  • I miss the old art
  • we offer a championship midgard for 40 bucks
  • it's too random it does you can't mitigate it at all and it's just rough
  • the dice mechanism is cool
  • there's a million copies of space games sitting around
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