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Year
2024
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Description
Trick Shot Second Edition is a tense, tactical, fast-paced game of ice hockey with cool plastic miniatures and a streamlined rule-set. The game strikes a fine balance between luck and strategy, while still being easy to explain and get to the table. Use smart positioning, special abilities of your skaters, and press your luck to outplay your opponent and score the most goals.
This edition offers new abilities for all the Arena cards, introduces new "player cards", introduces multiple improvements to game-play and more.
Trick Shot Family
(2 games)
Part of the Trick Shot family — see Trick Shot for the combined view.
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BoardGameBollocks Review at 0:52 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Gorgeous appearance with beautifully painted miniatures.
- Decent push-your-luck element that keeps players engaged.
- Significant variety in locations and player attributes leads to replayability.
Cons
- Reactions can be frustratingly limited, allowing opponents to score easily.
- The board is a 'table hog' and feels larger than necessary.
- The scoreboard does not have a stand, lying flat on the table.
Thematic elements
- Ice hockey sports game
- Ice hockey rink
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Players choose a player to activate and then an action to perform on their turn.
- Dice Rolling — Used for actions like moving, passing, shooting, poking, and hitting. Success often depends on not rolling 'X's.
- Line Change — Allows players to refresh stamina tokens, enabling more rolls in the future.
- passing — Players can pass the puck to other players. Difficult passes have specific rules and consequences for failure.
- penalties — Can occur if certain difficult actions, like a hit, are failed.
- Player Attributes/Traits — Player cards give unique temperaments or attributes, influencing actions and providing variety.
- Player movement — Players move based on their speed attribute, moving diagonally or forwards.
- Push Your Luck — Taking more actions increases difficulty, tied thematically to stamina. Chances of success are not game-breakingly awful.
- Reactions — Opponents may get a reaction to an action, though these are limited.
- shooting — Players can shoot to score goals, with restrictions on where and when it can be performed.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is one of the best looking sports games that we have ever come across
- the game's got a decent push your luck element
- Aside from this minor foible Trick Shot Second Edition is probably the best sports game that we have played for a very very very long time
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Rolls in the Family Top 10 List at 5:45 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Brilliant translation of ice hockey to a board game
- Strong balance between realism and playability
- Versatile with arena and home-field variations
Cons
- Can slow down due to tactical depth
- Not a light, casual hockey experience
Thematic elements
- sports simulation translated to board game
- ice hockey on a tabletop
Comparison games
- Grand Austria Hotel
- Lorenzo Magnificico
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Asymmetric Teams — different team roles with distinct powers create varied strategic options
- dice-driven action resolution — dice pools determine success of actions with line-change elements and pacing akin to real-time sports
- line-change tokens — tokens refresh dice and allow risky play at the cost of potential turn penalties
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Quotes (from this video)
- the moments where the whole table erupts
- this is definitively the best sports game I've ever played
- the cards are the secret sauce of the game
- it's a brilliant translation of ice hockey to the tabletop
- there's no better example of how variable gear locks can be
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