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The town of Scoville likes it hot! Very hot! That means they love their peppers – but they're too busy eating them to grow the peppers themselves. That's where you come in.
You've been hired by the town of Scoville to meet their need for heat. Your role as an employee of Scoville is to crossbreed peppers to create the hottest new breeds. You'll have to manage the auctioning, planting, and harvesting of peppers, then you'll be able to help the town by fulfilling their orders and creating new pepper breeds. Help make the town of Scoville a booming success! Let's get planting!
A round of Scoville consists of a blind auction, which determines player order, a planting phase, a harvesting phase, and a fulfillment phase. Each round, the players plant peppers in the fields. Throughout the game, the available opportunities for crossbreeding increase as more peppers are planted. When harvesting, players move their pawn through the fields, and whenever they move between two planted fields, they harvest peppers. If, for example, they harvest between fields of red and yellow peppers, they crossbreed those and harvest an orange pepper. Harvested peppers are then used to fulfill the town's peppery desires!
Year Published
2014
Transcript Analysis
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Foster the Meepolo top_10_list at 10:00 sentiment: positive
video_pk 8303 · mention_pk 24357
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Sounds like fun
- Scoville spiciness theme
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Cooking competition
- Farm
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Collection and cooking — Plant, crossbreed, harvest and sell and cook your peppers to win the chili festival
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No key topics recorded for this video.
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- We love trick taking games
- This game is so much freaking fun
- I adore GMT games, they are becoming one of my favorite game publishers
- If you remember Vast Crystal Caverns is in my top five games of all time
- We bloody love it
- We can't stop playing
- It's a blimp game not a train game
- That's just work
- I don't think I want to play it
- I'll get it eventually
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Shelf or Sell general_discussion at 2:05 sentiment: positive
video_pk 6822 · mention_pk 20192
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- high reputation on BGG cited in discussion
- strong artwork and theme
- enjoyed by the presenter in the past
Cons
- could be crowded by other similar titles in collection
- not guaranteed to stay in every future rotation
Thematic elements
- pepper farming / culinary competition
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- hand-management — players manage a hand of cards to assemble dishes.
- push-your-luck / drafting — draft ingredients and try to assemble high-value dishes while managing risk.
- set collection — collect pepper cards to complete recipes and earn points.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- you are a pepper farmer
- this is eclipse this is a four second dawn for the galaxy 4e game that i have actually played
- i'm teaching alex this
- i'm so excited that i now know how to play this game
- it's a tile laying game where you're laying out a map
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Our Family general_discussion at 26:57 sentiment: positive
video_pk 5566 · mention_pk 16562
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- tightly themed, tactile peppers
- engaging decisions
Cons
- some players may find it punishing if unlucky
Thematic elements
- spicy peppers and production
- pepper farming and recipe creation
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Resource management — manage peppers to complete recipes and gain points
- set collection / card drafting — build a pepper farm by drafting and playing peppers
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's not a sprint it's a marathon
- representation matters so i want to see that
- wear a mask, social distance
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Our Family Plays Games top_10_list at 49:21 sentiment: positive
video_pk 4416 · mention_pk 12936
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique theme with tasty pepper flavor
- engaging mix of auction and set collection
Cons
- Can be chaotic at higher player counts
Thematic elements
- food industry and risk
- Pepper cross-breeding in a bustling peppers town
- competitive yet humorous
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- auction/bidding — Bid on peppers for breeding rights
- grid movement — Move on board to harvest and plant
- hand management — Manage peppers and cards
- recipes/fulfillment — Create recipes to score points
- set collection — Assemble pepper breeds for recipes
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's basically Jurassic Park in a box
- the art is beautiful, it's ugly beautiful
- we love Scoville
- we ain't scared
- Amen to you
- the World's Fair is a great game
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Officers and Family Plays Games (OFPG) general_discussion at 7:27 sentiment: positive
video_pk 4311 · mention_pk 12599
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Classic game being revived
- Possible changes to improve gameplay
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- cooking
- peppers
- agriculture
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
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Hot Turtles top_10_list at 11:27 sentiment: positive
video_pk 3407 · mention_pk 10089
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- High player interaction
- Interesting decision space
- Abstract strategy with tension
- Clean and crisp aesthetics
Cons
- Can be punishing for less strategic players
Thematic elements
- Crossbreeding peppers to create new varieties
- Pepper breeding competition
- Competitive abstract strategy
Comparison games
- Five Tribes
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Players choose actions to plant and harvest peppers
- Pepper breeding — Crossbreeding peppers to create new varieties
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- depth without complication
- creates a lot of tension and it's a lot of fun
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Our Family Plays Games top_10_list at 12:53 sentiment: positive
video_pk 2238 · mention_pk 6520
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- cute colorful pepper components
- translucent ghost pepper
- beautiful colorful cards
- fun pepper growing theme
- recipe fulfillment mechanic
- great middleweight game
- family friendly
- unique theme
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- farming
- peppers
- cooking
- recipes
Comparison games
- Gateway game potential
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- if components are done with love and extra attention, I just love that a lot
- cute can be defined in a lot of ways - it could be the little meeples, the board, or the mechanics
- the artwork is just adorable and I just fell in love with it
- I would have bought it just for the panda
- everyone's dealt these roof cards and you're trying to get rid of those
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Our Family Gaming general_discussion at 23:58 sentiment: positive
video_pk 23 · mention_pk 64
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Great game
- Popular favorite
- Sold out in inventory blowout
Cons
- Out of print as TMG is closing
Thematic elements
- farming
- agriculture
Comparison games
none
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Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- games don't walk up out of this house it's their favorite they don't they don't go nowhere
- i tell everybody get the expansion too
- terra mystica is one of my favorites of my favorite fantasy games
- i love gloom haven even though i like saying gloom haven but i still i love it
- the artwork although it's scary it's it's beautiful absolutely beautiful
- that's the way to play that yeah you can play it at any time
- freedom for the dwarves freedom
- that's fantasy and i agree with that's fantasy
- family i love fantasy games i love fantasy games
- those are our recommendations on our list yeah what fantasy games we like
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