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Year
2020
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Description
A 3-player trick-taking game with a must-follow trump card, but there's a 4th player (a robot: 'Robo' in play).
Suits are 1 to 13 in 4 colors. Robo will play cards according to their program, so it depends on their program whether to play small and large number cards when following suit.
You can win up to 3 tricks out of 12 tricks, but if you win 4 tricks or more, you lose points.
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Heavy Cardboard Review at 2:57 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Unique and interesting mechanics.
- Clever design.
- Exciting gameplay.
- Thematic cryptid theme.
Cons
- The font is terrible.
- Difficult to track cards and gameplay.
- Can be confusing.
- The card stock is sticky and tacky.
Thematic elements
- Cryptids
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Cycling — Cards that are discarded by winning tricks are recycled back into the player's hand, creating a dynamic and difficult-to-track game state.
- hand management — Players discard cards from their hand based on the trick they win. The lowest pit value determines the number of cards to discard, creating a new hand.
- Trick-taking — A must-follow trick-taking game with no trump suit. Every off-suit played acts as a trump, with the highest off-suit winning the trick. The goal is to survive by not being the last player with cards.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Actually designed this game out of spite of trick taking games.
- if two players play the same number, they knock each other out, which is so fun and chaotic and I love it so much.
- Bidcoin. One of my favorite trick-taking games of recent.
- The goal of the game, it's one hand is to survive.
- It is the weirdest. It's a standard trick taking game in a sense that for the f until people start recycling their hands because then you can't track what cards have left the game coupled with who has won what cards.
- The overwhelming majority of tricktaking games are mid or bad.
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The Brothers Murph Top List at 5:36 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- deterministic AI creates predictable puzzles to solve
- interesting three-player trick-taking dynamic with a robot
Cons
- not truly 4-player (robot occupant required)
- availability limited (not widely available outside Japan)
Thematic elements
- three human players competing against a deterministic four-player AI robot
- trick-taking card game with a robotic AI element
Comparison games
- traditional trick-taking games
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- AI sequencing — robot hand is face-up and follows a deterministic pattern based on position
- programming — robot hand is face-up and follows a deterministic pattern based on position
- three-player only with robot filler — you always end up in a four-player setup nominally, since one seat is a robot
- Trick-taking — traditional trick-taking with a robot opponent influencing play
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Quotes (from this video)
- We’re obsessed with board games.
- I freaking love Unstoppable.
- This game is great because there’s also it's a very open game where when a threat is out there, you can know what's on the other side of that.
- You can see from the other side like what is on the other side.
- Terra Mystica is getting a giant crazy big box version.
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