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Year
2025
Players
1-4
Age
12+
Playtime
45 min
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Description
A strategic roll-and-write game about backyard farming where players plant three crops based on an Indigenous agricultural companion planting technique with solo and multiplayer campaign modes
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BoardGameGeek Discussion at 1:12:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Obsessed with this game.
- Adds new modules and changes the game.
- New sheets for garden and tool shed.
- Lesson plans (goals) added.
- Gophers, clovers, and peppers introduced.
- Can be played solo.
- Adds freshness and fun.
- Modules can be mixed and matched.
- Adds to the base mechanics.
- Lovely theme.
- Second edition with modules.
Cons
- Promos/expansions from the base game are not included.
- Wishes for tokens to track extra actions.
- Can be hard to keep track of actions.
Thematic elements
- Farming concept of the three sisters (corn, beans, pumpkins) supporting each other.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Players choose actions from garden, tool shed, or apiaries.
- Campaign play — A campaign structure with 10 chapters, starting with the base game and adding modules.
- Drafting — Players draft cards or actions.
- Roll and Write — Players write on sheets to track progress and actions.
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Quotes (from this video)
- It's Whisper Wood, one word for one to four players.
- It's much heavier than Flamecraft.
- This is definitely a strategy game. Mid midweight mid to heavy strategy game.
- it's a big game on the table. A lot of moving parts. Gorgeous, gorgeous game because we have Sandor Tang again and Sergio Chavez.
- So, it's a bag builder. You're pulling out these tokens. What you pull out will determine what actions you take.
- And y'all, it is good. It is good. But it's definitely much heavier than previous Cardboard Alchemy games. It's still gorgeous though. It's still gorgeous. Still a sprawling game. And I think for the the Euro strategy lovers, this is going to be a good one.
- Whisperwood. All one word.
- it's perennial uh by Emily Vincent uh published by Fatout Games and art by Beth Sobo who does one of the most beautiful nature art in board games period concerning my opinion.
- we make a beautiful prairie garden
- And yeah, this one looks gorgeous. I was like, "Okay, I need this."
- I'm very excited for Perennial for sure.
- But this is Electrify for one to four players from John Declair and Ian Hutchinson.
- Uh, it is a engine builder.
- It's a simultaneous action selection, slice selection.
- So it's really interesting little engine builder. It goes from like coal all the way to nuclear and solar power and all these other electricity generating things.
- And it's just such a nice combo. Everything's connected but quick because it's simultaneously simultaneous turns to it.
- multi-use cards and I love that.
- So some of the cards have arrows, so it will like allow you to activate other cards that it's connected to. So you get this long chain of actions, which is really fun.
- It's very good. And I've played it and play tested it solo which is also good and it's one that I think is kind of my favorite of what they're coming out this year.
- It's going to be on Kickstarter and I am very excited for this.
- It's very interesting combo of mechanisms and it really is that engine builder goodness that I absolutely love.
- And it really is that engine builder goodness that I absolutely love.
- So, that's Electrify from AG.
- I love seeing that and everybody getting along. No big incidents. I think that's just amazing that so many cultures come together in spread over three different countries because not only in the United States, United States is the most in games but yeah and everybody gets along people joining in on on marches, fan marches and I think that's just awesome to see.
- But it was funny because it was a whole circle thing for me.
- The minions sung the Beach Boys. The banana song is the Beach Boys.
- Yeah. That was totally Beach Boys.
- So, my moment of positivity is it was the 4th of July and so my mom and her friends took and I went with them we went to the July 4th firework spectacular at the Hollywood Bowl.
- It was with the Beach Boys and John Stamos and we usually try to go to the Hollywood Bowl at least once or twice every year and it was a lot of fun.
- It's almost 11 p.m.
- Well, the most common things are Twitch, where you can find twitch.tv/joda.
- Uh I stream on Tuesday. I have my coffee and crowdfunding where I drink coffee and I look at all the crowdfunding campaigns from the past week that have been launched criticizing the page the game and sometimes being positive and also always pick one game but I think well that was the best one for this week.
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The Dice Tower Review at 0:11 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fabulous variety and options to mix and match modules.
- Modules are not a huge overhaul, making them easier to learn and integrate.
- New edition is the one to get for new players.
- The base game is a tremendous roll and write.
- Harvest Edition is a clearly better version with improved usability.
- Great for people who enjoy campaign games and want to pull the game out more.
- Three modules are easy to introduce to new players.
- Lessons (chapters 2-3) provide good direction for beginners.
- The Great Pumpkin module is easy to teach from its own paper.
- The Pepper Festival module works well.
- Barn Raising module (alternate tiles for shed/barn) is easy to implement.
- Groundhogs module adds a little bit of fun despite being a nuisance.
- Harvest Edition includes everything from the first edition plus new modular ways to play.
- Ability to mix and match scenarios creates a feeling of a different game without extensive rule learning.
- Combos can lead to many bonus actions, creating excitement.
Cons
- Combos can lead to a lot of information to track, potentially causing players to miss actions or cheat.
- Groundhogs module has the most upkeep and is a nuisance.
- Conversions between fruit/peppers in the Pepper Festival module can be confusing.
- Lack of player auditability for other players' sheets in roll and write games.
- Can get lost in your own little thing during gameplay.
Thematic elements
- Farming and harvesting crops
- Farming
Comparison games
- Fleet the Dice Game
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Drafting — Players will then take turns drafting dice and when they draft a die they can choose to plant or water based on the die number and then based on the action space where they took the die they can take different types of actions. Outside of that dice drafting, which I think is a nice little moment of coming together interaction, and then you're just kind of playing on your own sheet for quite a while.
- Modular — This is a very involved roll and write. In fact, an even more involved edition that just comes with the basic game but like I think it's nine extra modules basically. 12 chapters, yeah. Each chapter is going to have some different scenarios, new setups, new abilities, uh new boards, and items that you're going to actually place out. I like all the modules. None of the modules shake up the game so drastically that it's like that it excels this, you know, even higher for me, but I think that it's just it's a great package because of how much modularity you get.
- Roll and Write — This is a very involved roll and write. It's a tremendously tremendously cool roll and write game.
- Set Collection — And as you gain those, you're going to be filling in your goods from left to right, top to bottom. Whenever you go to fill in a star, that means that you're going to get a bonus action and you can use those to take a bunch of these different actions throughout the board.
- Worker placement (implied) — Anything that matches is going to go in the same action space and starting with Farmer John moving from lowest to highest you're going to fill up the action spaces with dice then Farmer John's going to move to the end.
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Quotes (from this video)
- It's not like, 'Wow, chapter two is a whole new thing. I've to learn all these new rules.' But instead, it changes something that's relatively small.
- For people who are brand new to the game, this is the edition you should get. There's no doubt about it.
- I think it's a tremendous, tremendously cool roll and write game.
- This is really good uh and I think it's one of the best of this ilk.
- I'm coming in at a nine. I think this was absolutely fabulous.
- So, it's just fascinating.
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The Board Game Garden Top 26 List at 33:01 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- solo campaign mode
- new content
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- campaign and solo campaign expanded
- sisters, harvest season, and inn in a rural setting
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Campaign — inclusion of solo and group campaign with new content
- Deck/hand management — managing cards to maximize objectives
- Hand Management — managing cards to maximize objectives
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Quotes (from this video)
- Stem and Branch is in a different language here on the box.
- Three Sisters the Harvest Edition includes a solo campaign, which I am so excited about.
- Compania is a very cool game where you are placing out your workers and revealing behind a screen.
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