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2010
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Description
Sky Castles is a tile and worker placement game where the players collect gemstones from castles in the clouds. The theme is aimed at children, but the game claims to provide scope for strategic play at all levels.
The tiles depict a cloudscape dotted with gemstones. Each turn the player selects one of four face-up tiles and places it into the cloudscape so that the borders match adjacent tiles, and can optionally place a sprite token to claim a cloud or section of sky. There are three scoring rounds where the players score points for the gemstones that their sprites have claimed.
The gameplay is similar to other tile placement games (e.g. Carcassonne) but Sky Castles has less complexity and claims to be suitable for a younger audience while retaining similar strategic options.
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The Dice Tower Unboxing at 8:24:32
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- Hello everybody. Welcome to the Dice Tower most boring unboxings in the world
- This is a box made by AEG.
- Well, that looks interesting.
- I reviewed Pirate King before. This is a nicer box for it for sure.
- The embargo is as of the moment that I opened it.
- Rocket Ranchers, herding cats in space.
- Sushi Go Party! is a fun little game. It's quick.
- This is a fun little game, it's quick.
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Tantrum House Top List at 19:05 sentiment: positive
video_pk 93044 · mention_pk 300997
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Positive
Pros
- Fun theme
- Enjoyable combination of mechanics
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none
Thematic elements
- Sandcastles
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Drafting — Players draft tiles.
- tile laying — Players make a 5x5 grid with their sandcastle using tiles.
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- All right. Number four, we've got Cano from Mad to Go for two to four players. Takes about 30 minutes to play. I like games about art and this one has that creating Japanese painted scrolls in the game.
- but the art is what sort of really drew me in.
- you're trying to make patterns when you put them on your board to lay tiles. It did look interesting.
- I have Night at the Zoo. This is another tiling game. I love laying tiles.
- really interesting it's designed The designer is the same person who did Sagrada and Aquatica, which are heavy Euro games, but this is a lighter tiling game.
- I thought it was a fun theme.
- So, I'm anticipating Pulitzer from 25th Century Games, and this is an investigative journalist themed game. I was a journalism major in college, so I'm always interested in these themed games.
- With strings that you're I don't know exactly how it all it but it just looks really cool and interesting being able to put your strings from the different pieces of evidence you've found. tactile
- So, if nothing else, the theme and the components have definitely made me interested in this game.
- We've got Lord of the Rings: Circle of Conflict. I should say right off the start, it says this is an Essen release, but I believe they might have a limited copies available at Gen Con, so I'm going to call this a pre-Gen Con pre-release at Gen Con.
- My understanding is you're playing against your two neighbors, the players to your left and right. So, each person has a shadow troops and the free peoples army. And so, your shadow troops are playing against your neighbors free people, and your free people is playing against your other neighbors shadow troops.
- I believe this is a dice allocation game. So, rolling dice and then using them to do actions and powers and things like that.
- Lord of the Rings theme, which is a theme that we really enjoy.
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The Dice Tower Other at 55:34 sentiment: negative
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Negative
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Cons
- No votes on BoardGameGeek
Thematic elements
- Building castles in the sky
- Sky castles
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none
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Mechanics unknown.
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- THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS. YOU'RE GOING TO WIN ON A GAME THAT you didn't know existed.
- Castle Men, but no Castle Me.
- That's what I WAS TALKING ABOUT.
- Yeah, I've heard that somewhere. That's recent, right?
- It's a free and freeze game, I think.
- What is sand in German?
- Flügelschlag.
- I know what game you're talking about.
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The Dice Tower Other at 56:13
video_pk 81479 · mention_pk 287856
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none
Thematic elements
- sand castle
- castle
Comparison games
- Castle Me
- Fast Flowing Sand
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Quotes (from this video)
- THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS. YOU'RE GOING TO WIN ON A GAME THAT you didn't know existed.
- Castle Men, but no Castle Me.
- That's what I WAS TALKING ABOUT.
- Yeah, I've heard that somewhere. That's recent, right?
- It's a free and freeze game, I think.
- What is sand in German?
- Flügelschlag.
- I know what game you're talking about.
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