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Stew is a push-your-luck, partial knowledge game. You and your fellow players take on the role of a farmer collecting items from the garden to make a stew. There are six vermin that want to eat your stew before you do. Draw a card and add it to your stew or feed some of the vermin to protect your pot. Make sure you do not wait too long, or your fellow farmers might eat your stew.
Released in the April 2018 Board Game of the Month Club $20+ package.
Year Published
2018
Transcript Analysis
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Foster the Meeple top_10_list at 12:41 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's fall it is Halloween season
- Leaves come to the ground
- Applejack ... fall season
- Seven Wonders because fall is one of the seven wonders of the seasons
- stew is a button shy game
- you gotta clear them to make more room coffins
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Foster the meele a Channel top_10_list at 15:21 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- strong two-player experience
- pocketable and thematically flavorful
Cons
- niche appeal; not for large groups
Thematic elements
- culinary intrigue
- two-player hidden movement with a stew theme
- compact, deliciously thematic
Comparison games
- Stew (Button Shy) before
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hidden movement — One player attempts to deduce or hide their movements.
- set collection / scoring based on hidden information — Tallying points based on objective patterns revealed during play.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's so many amazing small box games we love them
- you can travel with it, you can camp with it
- tiny boxes pack a ton of game into a tiny footprint
- you have to be into it, you gotta yell in Fuji Flush
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Josías top_10_list at 1:31 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
- Simple mechanics
- Nice idea
Cons
- Very luck dependent
- Weaker button shy game
Thematic elements
- Soup/Stew cooking
- Animal-themed
- Secret information game
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Push Your Luck — Players call stew hoping to reach 12 points
- Secret information — Players place cards face down
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I rank like games pretty much like how I feel right now about them right it's possible that next month I will rank the games way differently
- Stonespine Architects definitely an a rank game for me um really amazing
- I just absolutely love this one of my most favorite puzzly polyomino games
- Château Burgundy is still in my top three games has been for a few years
- I do not like auction games but I absolutely love Modern Art this is amazing
- My City is like an amazing entry level deck builder but you can also play with people who like to play games a lot
- Slay the Spire could be one of my games of the year wow this game is amazing
- Fallout is really messed up by its winning condition
- Pop-Up Pirate it's funny but is it a good game no it's not really a game right
- I like vegetable themed games it sounds very specific but that's the way it is
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Foster the Meeple playthrough at 44:27 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Favorite Button Shy game for many
- Fun theme integration
- Good hidden information element
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Making stew while feeding pests
- Stew cooking and vermin management
- Quirky and thematic
Comparison games
- Sea Salt and Pepper
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Secret ingredient management — Players secretly add ingredients to pot, feed vermin, or call stew
- Special cards — Vagabond scores -3 if chicken in stew or +3 if not
- Threshold scoring — Score 12+ points when calling stew for 2 victory points, else all others score 1
- Vermin feeding — Unfed vermin eat ingredients, affecting final score calculation
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's button shy day people there's no messing around
- I try to just choose ones mainly that I haven't played yet
- this game's incredible
- easy peasy lemon squeezy
- my brain
- pterodactyl eating a man
- we're brilliant geniuses
- we are moving along a time continuum
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