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Game Info
Year
2024
Players
2-6
Age
8+
Playtime
20 min
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Description
Rainbow is a quick-playing hand management game where players play solo cards, sets, or runs to win points on cards in the center of the table.
The cards that were played in the previous round are the NEW points available to win in the next round. Most points at the end of the game wins!
—description from the publisher
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Discussion at 7:21 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Quick playing game (10-15 minutes).
- Simple rules, good for younger players.
- Beautiful art.
Cons
- Too simple, lacks depth.
- A bit too chaotic at the maximum player count.
Thematic elements
- Collecting cards to shed your hand first to collect a pot of gold.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- hand shedding — Players aim to be the first to get rid of all cards in their hand.
- scoring — Players collect cards played in a round, with the player who played the largest hand going first, and these collected cards become points.
- set collection — Players play single cards, sets (same number), or runs (sequence of numbers).
- Variable Play Type — Once a player plays a set or run, all other players must play that same type or a single card for the rest of the round.
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Quotes (from this video)
- We are currently in Japan right now.
- All five of these were sent by the respective publishers.
- Penguin Party is a game that was designed by RER Kitia.
- This game is everywhere. It's in board game shops. It's in cafes. So, I think this is a well-known game here in Japan.
- Rainbow is a take on card shedding, right? Hand shedding, which is basically playing combinations from your hand in order to uh shed all of your cards first.
- If Rainbow was a take on hand shedding, this is a take on trick taking. It's truly a trick taking game.
- The twist in Prey is all of the cards are doublesided, meaning you can rotate them.
- Splitto. Share everything but the victory.
- This is a simple drafting game, but it is kind of in the vein of between two cities or uh between two castles of Mat Lwig.
- You need to be you need to work together with both of your neighbors, which is something that I failed at because I don't know what it was. I think I didn't realize that your score is the multiply the you add up the points for your left, add up the points for your right, and you multiply them together.
- Three chapters. Choose, play, and score.
- This game is really cool because of the three different facets.
- This is probably my favorite of all of the games that we brought with us.
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Video z0wNmlFKFSk
Discussion at 6:49 sentiment: positive
video_pk 68484 · mention_pk 164746
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Simple card shedding game with a nice twist
- Perfect filler game
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card shedding — A simple card shedding game.
- scoring mechanism — The cards that you've played in the previous round will be the points that you're fighting for in the next round.
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Quotes (from this video)
- And the final one is three chapters.
- very reminiscent to a kind of recent hit called Fantasy Realms.
- In this one, you are playing kind of a trick taking game.
- And then you're building a tableau with all the cards you've collected throughout the game to score points.
- Just over a tenner, so just about10 to buy this one.
- I think it's a great value with tons of, you know, where you get like 50 unique cards with great artwork, different combos throwing themselves at you throughout the entire game.
- And the final game I'm going to talk about is a straightup Euro game, a kind of maybe a lighter Euro game with Loot.
- Loot is a kind of a hybrid of a puzzly almost like set collection style game.
- As you're deploying your little adventurers on or your Vikings onto this map, collecting tokens, those tokens are going to be populating your own playerboard.
- And it's all about this kind of spatial puzzle on how you line things up and position things next to each other to try and optimize your layout and squeeze every point out this game as you can.
- the uh components you get here way outweighs the cost of the game.
- You know, you can get this one for, I think, less than £20 for a full puzzle euro game experience.
- brilliantly done, and it's so charming and easy to play, too.
- So, I definitely recommend casting your eye over that one.
- So, that's all the games I wanted to talk about, and I will say, you know, I will personally advocate all of these.
- They are all in my own personal collection and I'm sure there are way more games out there which I think is a a nice sign of the strength and the position of the hobby at the moment because again despite there being um you know huge price hikes in some aspects of the hobby, there are still tons of great games out there that you can buy at a very affordable price.
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Top List at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Clever twists that make it more interesting than a simple shedding game.
- Rewarding pacing strategy.
- Quick gameplay (around 15 minutes).
- Easy to explain.
- Doesn't take up much shelf space.
- Very affordable.
- Nice bright aesthetic.
Cons
- Risk of spending cards too quickly and being locked out of the game for the rest of the round.
- Risk of waiting too long to play cards and missing opportunities.
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- hand management — The need to pace yourself carefully and not spend cards too quickly or too slowly.
- set collection — Playing sets of cards, like three threes or two fours, or runs of cards in a sequence like a 3 4 5 6.
- Shedding game — A shedding game where you are trying to score as many points as you can by playing sets of cards from your hand.
- Trick-taking — A smidge of trick-taking.
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Quotes (from this video)
- At number two, I have Rainbow.
- It's all about trying to get the most bang for your buck.
- So, very clever stuff.
- So yeah, like this one right up my alley.
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The Command Zone Playthrough at 0:00 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
none
Cons
- The game can be a tough one to climb from.
- Worst deck can lead to immediate loss.
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck building — Players open one pack each and build four three-card decks.
- infinite mana — The game is played with infinite mana.
- Life total — Each game starts with five life per player.
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Quotes (from this video)
- That card was sick.
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The Dice Tower Top List at 8:41 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- depth in a small box
- juicy decision space
- encourages planning across rounds
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- for-sale style betting with deck gestion
- card-shedding and set/column play
- compact, depth-driven card play
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card shedding — play cards to win piles while managing hand size
- pile control — cards in the middle become targets for the next round
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Quotes (from this video)
- Itto is one of the best party games ever made. It is a Dice Tower essential.
- Message from the Stars is such a great deduction game. I got a chance to teach it again recently and it just blows people's minds every time.
- I love this theme of the psychotherapists... it's so good, so rewarding.
- Rainbow has this fantastic mix of For Sale where you're trying to win different trenches of cards in the middle of the table—the depth is remarkable for such a tiny box.
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