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Rolled West

Game Info
Year
2019
Players
2-4
Age
14+
Playtime
25 min
Publisher
Tasty Minstrel Games
Collection
Ratings
Creator Score
Mechanic profile
Waiting on more creator content
Vibe profile
Waiting on more creator content
Description

Prospectors roll custom dice to extract goods and build a mining empire in this roll-and-write distillation of Gold West

Description

Prospectors roll custom dice to extract goods and build a mining empire in this roll-and-write distillation of Gold West

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Sentiment: pos 2 · mix 1 · neu 0 · neg 0
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Video Tu2927MJSPU The Dice Tower Top List at 10:52 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • A fun riff on Gold West
  • Slick rolling right game
  • Available on Board Game Arena for play
Cons
  • Out of print and likely perpetually out of print
Thematic elements
  • gold rush and expansion
  • the west
Comparison games
  • Gold West
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Dice Rolling — Players roll dice to determine available actions.
  • Race for Objectives — There's a race element for contracts and sales tracks.
  • Resource Management — Players manage dice and special actions.
  • Roll and Write — A roll and write game that is a riff on Gold West.
  • Set Collection — Players collect dice to fulfill contracts.
  • track movement — Players move up on terrain tracks and sales tracks.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Iwari is gorgeous, and on top of that, it's an incredibly solid game.
  • If you like slick rolling right games, check this one out.
  • This is one that Camilla introduced me to, and I think it's a phenomenal game.
  • The goal of the game is to do this kind of Sushi Go style set collection for points, but then also to not set up your opponent, your next opponent, for a that good of a move.
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Video TfJy6XYAowI The Dice Tower Top List at 8:39 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Easy to teach and pull out
  • Clever resource collection mechanism
  • Ability to save dice
  • Mitigates dice luck
  • Push-your-luck element in saving dice
Cons
  • Requires reading rules again if not played frequently (implied)
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Dice Rolling — Players roll dice to collect resources.
  • Dice Saving — Players can save one die for future rounds and also save one die rolled by another player during their turn.
  • Resource Management — Collected resources must be used, with specific 'landscape' resources requiring wood.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • This is probably the most nostalgic of all the roll and write games for me.
  • And this to me is the quintessential roll and write game. Like when I think roll and write game, this is instantly the one that pops in my head.
  • So I I love what's done there and I love the spatial puzzle element to it as well.
  • And for me, this is also very nostalgic.
  • But I also just love how wonderfully combolicious things can be.
  • So I think that it's very clever and this is one that I wish was modular.
  • This is probably the top 10 game What am I saying? The roll and write game that I've played the most and anyways, this is Rolled West.
  • I just really feel like it mitigates the dice.
  • So, this one I loved and adored because it had the variety of, you know, add this module in, add this, you know, remove this module, and there's so many choices.
  • But, it also gave me so much combo-licious deliciousness that I kept losing track of how many how many bonuses I got, in a positive way, right?
  • Favorite roll and write game of them all.
  • So good. So combo-licious.
  • I think that that is just the most clever mechanism.
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Video WM7-8DNTuBw Getting Games Discussion at 7:32 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Flip/Roll and Write — a roll-and-write style game
  • Roll and Write — a roll-and-write style game
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
  • october is looking pretty crazy at this point
  • i'm really excited to try that one out
  • thanks for watching
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