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Your village has been overrun by savage werewolves, which are represented by the number on each of the cards that make up your village. To get rid of these fanged fiends faster than the neighboring villages, use your residents' special abilities and your powerful secret weapon: a silver coin.
Call for a vote when you think you have the fewest werewolves, but be careful as everyone else gets one more turn to save their own village first...
Silver Coin is a fast and engaging traditional card game with a werewolf twist! Everyone starts the game with five face-down cards, with each player being able to choose and see two of their cards. Cards are numbered 0-13, with the number showing how many werewolves the character on that card attracts, and each character (number) has a different special power.
On a turn, you draw the top card of the deck or discard pile, then either discard it to use the power of the card (but only if it came from the deck), discard it without using the power (ditto), or replace one or more of your face-down cards with this card; you can replace multiple cards only if they bear the same number, and you must reveal the cards to prove this, being penalized if you're wrong.
Silver Coin can be played as a standalone game or combined with other games in the Silver series by Bézier Games. Each version of the game has different card abilities and a different silver token ability.
—description from the publisher
Part of the Silver family — see Silver for the combined view.
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- varied card combinations
- pacing feels tight and accessible
- repetition risk over long sessions
- not a keeper for their collection
- coin values and card-driven interaction
- abstract economic/puzzle landscape
- abstract strategy with card play
- Silver Dagger
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — players draft cards and combine them to generate scoring opportunities
- card-drafting — players draft cards and combine them to generate scoring opportunities
- Compound Scoring — scoring shifts based on cards held and combinations achieved
- Set Collection — players aim to assemble certain card combinations to maximize points
- variable scoring — scoring shifts based on cards held and combinations achieved
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- we've done this for quite about an hour and why stop when there's still games to go
- boom one two three boom
- it's basically somebody took Dominion and they took Race for the Galaxy and put it into a blender
- I really like the cleverness of having one worker that you put down and removing the other
- the harvesting bit is really cool
- not my kind of game but it's still fun
References (from this video)
- Great expansion of strategic options with 14 new roles
- Dynamic shifts in information and scoring keep play fresh
- Adds complexity that may slow down new players
- More to track during rounds and endgame scoring
- coin-flipping mechanics to reveal and influence information
- Continuation of the village with new twists
- adds depth with 14 new roles and abilities
- Silver
- Silver Bullet
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- flip silver coin — During a turn, a player may flip the silver coin to affect one or more cards in play.
- Information manipulation — Any card in any village—face up or face down—can be targeted by the coin flip.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I absolutely love this game I'm trying to get a physical copy of most of these to review here on the channel
- if you're interested in what silver does and what the play is like you can play it before you buy it check out the free app where you can play the game
- stick around and check out some other board game reviews to see what you might want to get to the table
References (from this video)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- stats don't lie
- we love this game
- it's the perfect game to introduce people to worker placement
- the stats don't lie
References (from this video)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card_management
- Hand Management
- hand_management
- Memory
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I feel real sassy today
- I now have to accept that I was wildly inaccurate on both of those statements
- My favorite games right now are both co-ops and rolling rights
- I don't even care if I don't like it, I love it
- Everything about this game screams like I want to play you
- Where's Waldo adult board game
- This was both of our favorites
- Might be my favorite game I've played yet this year
- Vast is like an undercurrent game that no one really talks about but is super good
- The art is stunning, it reminds me of Coco
- We need to be better at playing our shelf of shame