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Take it Easy!

Game ID: GID0313430
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1983
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Description

It's really difficult to succinctly describe this game, so take a look at the pictures! Take It Easy is a true multi-player solitaire in which each player individually completes a hexagon-shaped board with spots for 19 hexagon tiles. There's no limit to number of players if you've got enough sets on hand. One person (the caller) draws a tile randomly and tells the others which of the 27 tiles featuring colored/numbered lines crossing in three directions, with numbers from 1 to 9, it is. "The 9-8-7," for example. Each player then chooses which empty spot on his own board he'll play the 9-8-7. This is repeated until the boards are filled.

The idea is to complete same-numbered lines across your board. Scoring is calculated by multiplying the number on the tile with the number of tiles in the completed line. A complete column of three 9s is worth 27, for example...but a lot of players will hope for five 9s to fill the big column down the middle.

Take It Easy is often compared to Bingo because of the familiar pattern of a number being called and then everybody looking at their cards to play it, and then scoring if a line is completed. But that's as far as the comparison goes. Bingo is sheer luck; Take It Easy is a game of skill.

Description

It's really difficult to succinctly describe this game, so take a look at the pictures! Take It Easy is a true multi-player solitaire in which each player individually completes a hexagon-shaped board with spots for 19 hexagon tiles. There's no limit to number of players if you've got enough sets on hand. One person (the caller) draws a tile randomly and tells the others which of the 27 tiles featuring colored/numbered lines crossing in three directions, with numbers from 1 to 9, it is. "The 9-8-7," for example. Each player then chooses which empty spot on his own board he'll play the 9-8-7. This is repeated until the boards are filled.

The idea is to complete same-numbered lines across your board. Scoring is calculated by multiplying the number on the tile with the number of tiles in the completed line. A complete column of three 9s is worth 27, for example...but a lot of players will hope for five 9s to fill the big column down the middle.

Take It Easy is often compared to Bingo because of the familiar pattern of a number being called and then everybody looking at their cards to play it, and then scoring if a line is completed. But that's as far as the comparison goes. Bingo is sheer luck; Take It Easy is a game of skill.

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Video G2_QS8nRNTk Top List at 39:34 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • great game
  • a lot of fun
  • should be more popular than it is
  • so good
Cons
  • painful because you want to do perfection and you just cannot do perfection
  • you have to pick a couple things to go for, and then even if you do that, you still hope for the best.
Thematic elements
  • tile-laying
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Bingo — A bingo style game as well. Another bingo star game. Takes a random tile and announces it to everyone who then looks for that same tile to place it on their board.
  • Pattern Building — Your goal is to create a continuous line from the top to the bottom or from side to side, of one color.
  • Set Collection — You would have in the middle, from top to bottom, all the nines.
  • Tile Placement — Takes a random tile and announces it to everyone who then looks for that same tile to place it on their board.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • This game is everything that you think a civilization game is probably is.
  • This is such a fun, whimsical game.
  • Blood rage, brutal game. Amazing. This game is unfair. It's awesome. It's so unfair that it's awesome.
  • This is the one social deduction game that Nick likes.
  • It's overproduced, but it's so lovely to play with.
  • It's the best game on every every every list ever, everything, every time, always.
  • The publisher is, is the one who's actually making me dislike the game.
  • For me, that's silly, fun, chaotic nonsense, which I feel like Galaxy Chucker, that's what this is, but it's not just nonsense for sake of being nonsense
  • At the end of this video, there's going to be an amazing tip for an amazing app that you want to make sure that you're downloading. So stick around.
  • Galaxy Trucker. Never played it.
  • I like silly, fun, chaotic nonsense, which I feel like Galaxy Trucker, that's what this is, but it's not just nonsense for sake of being nonsense. There's a game here.
  • This is such a painful game. It's so painful because you want to do perfection, and you just cannot do perfection.
  • This is probably one of the most underrated games you've put on your list.
  • It really is a great game, and the digital version on your phone works very easy. So, um, go check it out.
  • Dave Luzapalooza Top 100 games of all time.
  • Some are great, some just fine.
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Video o-SMz66PoD0 Where There's A Wilz, There's a Play Top 10 List at 53:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • clear scoring through line completion
  • great for school or family play
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • line-building and connectivity
  • hex-based tile laying
  • educational, school-friendly
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • tile-laying with line constraints — each tile carries a value; connect lines from one side to the opposite.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • This is a flip and write game where you are creating a castle.
  • I really like this game. I think this is a really good followup because cover your assets.
  • Patchwork Doodle is kind of like a followup to the original Patchwork.
  • The creatures are adorable.
  • I like the colors. They're pretty. They're really nice.
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Video 7jwz3SBgdMw UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 2:55:38 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • still fun
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Maybe, just maybe, no one wants your $200 dice, or knockoff stickers.
  • Quit trying to tear down conventions when the problem isn't them.
  • You're controlling titans and there's like this whole Titan thing where you're training them. They're like God of War, the board game.
  • I mean, it's just uh it's crazy stuff out there, man.
  • The whole world's on fire. Nobody cares, you know.
  • It's walking money.
  • The attendance is like around, isn't it like 20,000 or 30,000?
  • I feel like the work is worth it, you know?
  • But people saw the front cover of After the Empire and they were like, "What is this?"
  • And then they want to buy it.
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