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Year
2008
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Description
Say Anything is a light-hearted game about what you and your friends think. It gives you the chance to settle questions that have been hotly debated for centuries. For instance, "What is the most overrated band of all time?" or "Which celebrity would be the most fun to hang out with for a day?" So dig deep into your heart or just come up with something witty - this is your chance to Say Anything!
How to Play
1) Ask a question from the card you draw. For example:
- If you could have a "BIG" anything, what would it be?
- What's the most important invention of the last century?
- Which website would be hardest to live without?
- What's the best activity for a first date?
- What's the worst thing to say to a cop after getting pulled over?
2) Everyone else writes an answer and throws it face-up on the table as fast as possible. No duplicate answers are allowed!
3) Secretly choose your favorite response using a genuine state of the art SELECT-O-MATIC 5000:
4) Everyone else has two betting tokens to bet on which answer you chose. They can bet both tokens on one answer or split them between two different answers.
Who Will Like This Game?
Say Anything is a pure party game. It was designed to get a party started as quickly as possible by prompting people to talk about interesting things and to make ridiculous statements. If you are looking for great social interaction and lots of laughs, then you will probably enjoy playing Say Anything.
History
Say Anything was designed by Dominic Crapuchettes & Satish Pillalamarri. It was first work-shopped by game designers at Protospiel 2004 and refined at Protospiel 2005, PowWow 2005, the GoF 2005 - 2007, and weekly game nights at the Looney Labs.
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Discussion at 1:46:12 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Had a really good time
- Generic apples-to-apples type game but it was fun
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
- Just One
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Party Game — Players participate in a game designed for a group setting.
- Voting — Players use tokens to vote on a chosen answer.
- word association — Players put down words related to a prompt.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is where Just One I think can sometimes have an issue because we happen like three times for us.
- Monolith Arena with the brand-new expansion coming out at Gen Con from portal called academics.
- to me that game was comfort food that game is just like ah I'm so sit down
- The academics which is the brand-new faction and he introduces this new mechanic of mana where you can put mana on a unit and if you can generate mana it boosts it somehow.
- there's also healing now so you can heal up units you can heal up your your banner which is basically like your base
- all of a sudden you had to try to get around to it to take that sucker out exactly so you can't ignore that you gotta say okay if he is that supercharged mega blaster loaded up ready to go I'm gonna take a lot of damage
- As soon as I pulled up that trailer and as soon as I heard the dog, chills chills.
- people forget blade was one of the first ever comic-book movies you know from the 90s it's just forgotten because comic book movies want that big bin aside from Spider-Man blade was good
- The Russo brothers who directed the Avengers movies they directed second Captain America movie Winter Soldier they did the last two Avenger movies they announced they're bringing to the big screen one of my all-time favorite cartoons that I've mentioned on this show before from the 70s battle of the planets
- Y'all gonna be getting some games soon right you're gonna be buying some games you're gonna need some organizers for cards and bits and you can find all that stuff over at the broken token calm
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Watch It Played News at 8:17
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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none
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Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is the same designer back with another car driven engine building game back in outer space.
- It's terrifying though we know that warship gaming is a gaming company we don't quite know what type of gaming company they're going to be.
- Critical role the hugely successful actual play dungeons and dragon show have announced that they're getting into the board game game with their new venture and publishing company darrington press.
- Paper tails is a car drafting game of kingdom building war and victory points.
- Carpe diem is a game that while i love it i do i think it's really good fun.
- I'm happy that he's getting a third edition that is in yes a much more subjectively attractive package.
- Azmoday who legally now own me after a contract negotiation gone awry released a new line of print and play games in their connect and play initiative.
- And as tokyo game market is single-handedly the convention that i want to go to more than any other.
- Satish was by all accounts just a real wonderful person and while i didn't have the pleasure to know him personally i certainly have benefited personally from his impact on the board game industry indirectly.
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No Rolls Barred Playthrough at 0:24 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Encourages creativity and humor
- Accessible and quick to learn
- Strong player interaction and banter
Cons
- Humor can be inside-joke heavy
- Limited depth for heavy-strategy gamers
Thematic elements
- Humor, perception of others' ideas, playful roasts
- Casual social gathering; players answer prompts and judge picks
- Improv-driven banter; lighthearted and social
Comparison games
- Coup
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bet-with-tokens — Players spend tokens to bet on the judge's chosen answer.
- Compound Scoring — Points are awarded to the writer, bettors, and judge based on the outcome.
- prompt-and-answer — The judge reads a prompt and players secretly write an answer.
- round-based-play — The game consists of 12 rounds to determine the winner.
- scoring-system — Points are awarded to the writer, bettors, and judge based on the outcome.
- secret-judge-selection — The judge secretly selects their favorite answer.
- Written Answer — The judge reads a prompt and players secretly write an answer.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- current reigning defending board game club champion Lori Blake
- it's a hot start to uh to say anything
- i'm actually a staunch flat earther
- the selecto matic 5000
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No Rolls Barred Top List at 4:09 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Ice-breaking and easy to pick up
- Good for groups with varying gaming experience
- Fosters playful debate and group bonding
Cons
- Humor can be polarizing
- Some prompts may feel dated or cheesy
Thematic elements
- opinion-based discussion and humor
- casual social setting with a host posing prompts
- interactive and conversational
Comparison games
- Monikers
- Times Up
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- heated yet friendly banter — Encourages arguments and playful debate about opinions
- opinion polling — Players rank answers to a prompt and discuss preferences
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- interpretation is at the heart of dixit
- it's a beautifully simple game
- the closest you can get to role playing as an actual spy
- telestrations is the beautiful child of pictionary and the telephone game
- we all like each other and the experience is as comforting or as wholesome or as mean as the group wants it to be
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Adam in Wales - Board Game Design Discussion at 30:35 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- can play completely clean
- can play creatively/naughtily
- ice breaker game
- gets to know friends better
- flexible tone
Cons
- large box (takes space)
- may not fit on tables
Thematic elements
- party game
- social
- creative
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- board games are sort of absolutely central to my life really and my being my makeup and also to my relationship the relationship with evenness that's what we do we play games
- the thing about this one is I want simple games I want games which are very very small I want to be able to put them one on each of the tables
- I'm very proud of the games I've made I want to be able to show the games off to people I haven't seen for a long time
- this is what I would call a pure game it's one mechanism and that mechanism is fun that mechanism is just lying to your friends or telling the truth
- I would play this any time I absolutely love it
- it's a card game classic okay it's a staple
- every time we end up laughing every time we attract a big crowd
- it's a really good game for children but it's also a really good game for adults who don't play many games
- the great thing is I've got a German version so I can put that you know where the German contingent at the wedding can play it
- the ingenious thing is the fact that there's always a match between two two cards but only ever one thing matches it's a mathematical marvel
- it's gonna be a game that that the German people can easily pick up without me needing to have a separate sort of German Edition
- a bunch of my friends will feel more comfortable sitting down and playing a board game than they will dancing and getting rekt
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Actualol Top List at 11:51 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- great for family gatherings
- involves voting and discussion
Cons
- humor depends on participants
Thematic elements
- opinion-based prompts
- family gathering
- humorous, social
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- prompt-based writing — players write answers to prompts that reflect opinions
- Voting — the judge and others vote on favorites; highest votes win
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's brilliant it puts you in a corner which makes your attempts to get out of that corner all the funnier
- this game is a classic family party game great for dinner parties and Christmas
- Cards Against Humanity's greatest strength is its inclusive humor
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