That's Pretty Clever!

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Choose your dice cleverly in Ganz schön clever (German for "That's Pretty Clever") to enter them into the matching colored areas on your score sheet, putting together tricky chain-scoring opportunities, and racking up the points! The dice you don't use are as important as those you do, because every die with a lower value than the chosen one can be used by the other players, keeping everyone in the game at all times.

Year Published

2018

Transcript Analysis

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Video mZ7rDuDWKFw analysis at 11:40 sentiment: positive

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Overall sentiment (raw)

positive

Pros

tight, well-scoped design with high strategic depth
great entry point to modern roll-and-write for new players
engaging payoff with cascading bonuses and clever pacing

Cons

theme is more mechanical than narrative; some players may miss a strong story
can feel math-heavy to new players depending on group

Thematic elements

cleverness and strategic optimization; playful animal motif
abstract yet presented with a whimsical 'clever' motif and foxes as bonus symbols
puzzle-forward with witty narration and visual cues

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

bonus chain system — Cells provide bonuses that trigger further bonuses, creating a cascading scoring network and encouraging flexible planning.
Compound Scoring — Foxes are a scoring/bonus mechanic that modulate final scores and incentivize distributing risk across the board.
dice drafting — You draft up to three dice, with each choice influencing future options and increasing strategic depth.
fox tokens and scoring — Foxes are a scoring/bonus mechanic that modulate final scores and incentivize distributing risk across the board.
multi-die rolling and tiered placement — On your turn you roll six dice, pick one result, and place it into a color-coded row corresponding to the die color; you must draft in sequence and navigate penalties for overreach.
three-draft per turn — You draft up to three dice, with each choice influencing future options and increasing strategic depth.

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Quotes (from this video)

kwinto is devious if you keep rolling all three dice which people are inclined to do when they start playing it you'll run out of space for high numbers and will start to take penalties it's kind of like hitting your face into a brick wall getting annoyed and then doing it all over again
it's the perfect illustration of the difference between complex and complicated
this sheet is a minefield of bonuses no matter which strategy you pick
it's the oldest Pavlovian trick in the book in fact I believe there's a passage in Deuteronomy that says bestow them with a free bonus Oh thou designer and they shall play your game or something like that
I ruin rolling rights for myself with this game because I played it first
it's the deepest sense of strategy but somehow it still melds it with a thematic experience
it's the most solitary the most contemplative and undeniably the most quiet
Rollin' Right games have excellent titles that make perfect sense and are pretty clever

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Video 9wIyluE6tEE Unknown Channel top_10_list at 3:55 sentiment: positive

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