nana, which was later reprinted as Trio, is a card game in which players are looking for three of a kind.
The deck consists of 36 cards, numbered 1-12 three times. Players receive some cards in hand, which they are required to sort from low to high, and the remaining cards are placed face down on the table.
On your turn, choose any single card to reveal, either the low or high card from a player's hand (including your own) or any face-down card from the table. Then, do this again. If the two cards show the same number, continue your turn; if they do not, return the cards to where they came from and end your turn.
If you reveal three cards showing the same number, take these cards as a set in front of you. If you are the first player to collect three sets, you win — except that a player wins immediately if they collect the set of 7s or two sets that add or subtract to 7, e.g., 4s and 11s.
Note that nana and Trio contain identical components, but nana is labeled for 2-5 players, while Trio is labeled for 3-6 players. Trio has slight changes to the rules, with players using all cards no matter the player count. Additionally, you play in normal mode — winning with three sets or the 7s — or "spicy" mode, winning with two linked sets or the 7s. Finally, Trio includes rules for playing in teams with four or six players.
Nana or Trio 4 Player Live Play
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- Super relaxing (after initial hump)
- Wonderful way to pass time
- Light but fun
- Plays well repeatedly
- Unintuitive at first
- Can forget which game is being played if playing multiple memory games
- Django
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hand Management — Players have a hand of cards and can only play their highest or lowest value card.
- Memory — Players need to remember card values and locations.
- Set Collection — Players collect sets of three cards (trios) or three sevens to win.
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- potato chip games. And what I mean by that is games that I can play again and again and again across multiple game nights and even multiple times in one sitting.
- I'm very glad that Ricky Royal introduced me to this game because he and I play it on BGA and it's been a really good time.
- It was my original potato chip game, and I have really enjoyed playing it with students, um with just anybody over the years, because it's still a classic.
- And so, for me, I think what a potato chip game is is a game that you've gotten so comfortable with, so familiar with, that you can cruise through it, and so it feels meditative and good in that particular way, as opposed to new and, you know, bitey and challenging the way that a fresher game or a more intense game might feel.
- So, those are my potato chip games. The games that I find myself coming back to repeatedly on game nights, online, uh or when I want to solo something, but I don't want to learn something new. I just want to be comfortable.
- So, now I'm curious about y'all. Uh what are your potato chip games that you'll just play again and again and um I think maybe an extension question is do you consider those your favorite games?
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- Approach provides variety and challenge
- Clear, satisfying puzzle flow
- Lacks narrative or thematic depth
- Array
- Abstract puzzle
- Non-narrative, purely puzzle-centric
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Random sequence of pieces — A random sequence of all seven blocks is generated and delivered in order before a new sequence is created.
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- randomness is a tool to be used in design just like anything else you would put into a game it can make or break it
- the better players shouldn't always win I'm not saying that
- paralysis analysis
- there's nothing quite as hype as when an enemy attacks you and they flat-out miss doing no damage
- randomness can balance a multiplayer game basically lucky rolls and unlucky draws can limit the importance of pure skill and give newer players a chance
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- Well-executed
- Nostalgic feel
- Unique d4 dice
- Limited rotation compared to original Tetris
- Frustrating when pieces don't fit as expected
- Difficult to achieve multi-line combos
- Tetris
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- D4 dice — The game uses a four-sided die (d4), which is noted as being unique.
- Line completion scoring — Extra points are awarded for completing multiple lines at the same time.
- Rotations — Players can rotate pieces as they fall, but it's noted that you can't rotate as much as in the original Tetris, which can be frustrating.
- Shape fitting — Players must fit shapes down columns, similar to Tetris.
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- This is probably one of the most unique roll and writes I think I've ever played.
- It's got a lot of challenging things in it and it's not a simple roll and write.
- You're taking tiles out of this central area, you're drafting tiles, and then you're placing those tiles into your grid on your paper.
- And then the scoring is based on sets of symbols.
- It uses very minimal components, just a pencil and paper.
- We're doing a giveaway.
- We'll be talking about the two games that we're being we'll be giving away actually today so if you're looking to win a copy of silver and gold or sonara then make sure you comment down below and check out our other videos to get even more.
References (from this video)
- Unique mechanics for a roll and write
- Engaging strategic decisions
- Minimal components
- Can be very challenging
- space exploration
- space
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Roll and Write — Mentioned as the core mechanic of the game, though distinguished from 'simple' ones.
- Set Collection — The host refers to collecting 'sets of symbols' and how those sets are scored.
- tile drafting — The host describes taking tiles from a central area and placing them into a grid.
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- This is probably one of the most unique roll and writes I think I've ever played.
- It's got a lot of challenging things in it and it's not a simple roll and write.
- You're taking tiles out of this central area, you're drafting tiles, and then you're placing those tiles into your grid on your paper.
- And then the scoring is based on sets of symbols.
- It uses very minimal components, just a pencil and paper.
- We're doing a giveaway.
- We'll be talking about the two games that we're being we'll be giving away actually today so if you're looking to win a copy of silver and gold or sonara then make sure you comment down below and check out our other videos to get even more.
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- Innovative balance between low-cost cards with powerful effects
- Varied end-game scoring through districts
- Can be complex to teach to new players
- Requires careful planning to optimize events
- district development with majorities and events
- City-building in a drafting tableau universe
- strategy-focused, abstract
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- Drafting — Players secretly choose cards to reveal and draft for board presence and abilities.
- majority scoring with events — Events can modify the tableau and scoring, with negative-point events possible.
- Tableau Building — Cards laid out form a tableau that grants abilities and point pathways.
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- BGA is my favorite online gaming platform and it's one that I use on a weekly basis if not multiple times a week to play with friends online
- this video is not in any way shape or form sponsored by BGA
- there you have it those are my top 10 filler games from board game arena
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- Fascinating card game
- Heard so much good stuff about it
- Potentially the next Love Letter
- Finding sets of three cards (three of a kind).
- Love Letter
- Nana
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card selection — Players select either the lowest or highest single card from a hand or the table.
- Push Your Luck — Turns continue if two revealed cards show the same number, otherwise progress is lost.
- Set collection (three of a kind) — The goal is to find three cards of the same number.
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- Horror on the Orient Express the board game which is in development and lures players into the luxurious yet dangerous interiors of the most famous train of the 1920s from hideous monsters crawling out of breeches to cultists hiding among the decadent passengers everything is against you including time race against the clock as you investigate the dark secrets of the Orient Express
- Oh man nothing is more truly on my radar right now than this game I literally gasped when I saw it announced Call of Cthulhu is my favorite tabletop RPG system and now there's going to be a board game version of it
- Everything ever is the party game that you've already been preparing for your entire life
- bunny kingdom in which resourceful rabbits spread their presence across a grid of 100 locations building new cities to increase their influence providing resources to their colonies and secretly rallying rabbit Lords and recruiting skillful Masters as they plan their strategy to score big at the end of the game
- I just recently tried this game for the first time on board game arena and I think I love it
- dog's fine rule the skies in 20 minutes
- what we both picked this tactical World War One war game in which two Fearless Flyboys duel each other across the sky the one where to gain the upper hand a pilot must maneuver themselves behind their Airborne adversary and shoot at exactly the right moment
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- Heavier game.
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- I think Baldur's Gate three is okay and it's just okay
- There's just too much stuff to do and it's like and it's all over the place
- If you're not eating your your Reese's peanut butter got frozen you're insane
- The sun is gonna burn my house yes and the fire is gonna heat it
- People are like oh I don't want AI to create art I want AI to do things like my taxes I'm like well then so accountant's gonna be out of work but artists can'
- I think I got my uh Bazaar of ubar today
- you should play that it's a good game
- highly enjoyable
- the people wanted me to teach them uh troyos
- it's a heavier game
- go back uh world of midgard and back it again and again
- buying miniatures that you don't and then buy a bunches it's a plastic in a drawer
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- Left a better impression than Azul
- Mean little game
- Azul
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- I remember playing the the original one and I remember standing at the table playing with Don and JB no Jamie wasn't there it was uh Chris and a couple other guys and I remember the cover of the game but I do not remember playing the game you know it's like it left no impression on me whatsoever
- I mean it hit the table a couple times for me and then like then it did hit the table forever so it was one of those things where you know just give it up you know let somebody else you know
- but but highrise was one of those games that everybody said no it's just too expensive to publish now I have no idea what happened with his high-rise campaign or or how he did it but when he only raised like 52 grand for it and then like and then he did his high-rise Ultra plastic Edition and he raised like a little over 100 Grand like for the life of me I I think like basically he didn't my me personally with with covet and everything else it was like one of those things where I think it was just way too expensive I mean you can't make a big old plastic fancy thing for 100 grand
- It's like it's like the the the the the the best answer in most situations if you are stopped by a police officer um and asked hey uh where are you going your best answer is I don't answer questions that is just yeah and just yeah yeah and that's I mean and yeah they're they're gonna be annoyed with you and they're gonna but you know you're just better off not saying anything and and just go the fifth
- I think it's a good thing for the hobby I think it really is I think it's just gonna some of those people just uh suck it suck it uh go go work at UH Burger Time and and try to uh the same pre-insured me okay go to the work houses
- I just don't understand it neither do I if you if you can't find a game for fifty dollars that's available right now and you will go back some 300 no no backer no backer history no prior history game I just don't get it why would you do that
- I don't think it's a perfect solution would you want to get bigger anymore I don't think so I mean I really like it the way it is I feel like it's it's unwieldy
- I think it's a lot of potential here too people really seem to enjoy I don't think the coffee ones are that funny if I mean me personally
- Yeah the problem is those those rooms go into the block or don't go back into the block price so they go in for stupid price so you don't get a good deal
- I mean it's just it's crazy hard like what yeah you know we we ship out we don't really let stuff sit in orders for more than a day maybe a day at most and it still like takes a couple days takes two three days three or four days yeah
- it is rules dense but it is nowhere near as rules and sense as uh as as magic Rome was
- I'm going to hate doing the video I'm going to absolutely hate doing the video because it is going to be it is going to be uh uh it's going to be annoying to try to get all the rules correct
- magic realm was one of his all-time favorite games when he was a kid
- bo Jackson bo knows baby
- I just don't understand how you make money on honestly selling games it's really tough
- people don't want to buy games that exist already they want to buy games that don't exist for some reason I don't get it
- I mean it is like it is like there are pages and pages and pages of games that are just like who is this who is publishing this what is this you know
- the flea market spoken Lobster steak
- it's like the the ideal game library was a database of mine oh sorry a database of more than 700 short board game reviews in French and broken English
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- Super fun and one of the best games played recently.
- Good for memory and reading tells.
- Never had a bad game of it.
- The two-player experience is uncertain.
- The game might be too wordy for some players.
- memory
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bluffing — Players can bluff and read tells to their advantage.
- Memory — Players need to remember card values and make sets.
- Set Collection — Players make sets of three cards to score points.
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- I feel like Cthulhu could still be milked
- the cases are really solid
- the writing's really good it's a little wordy but I can edit that down
- Origins is garbage it was just absolute garbage
- he made it because I had 2,000 copies of him and I I threw in a dumpster eventually
- I hate the theme
- I'm agreeing to this is if it's overpowered
- that damn Joshy balancing lame who needs that in the game
- it's a super broken busted card
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- Too difficult for new players.
- Too complicated.
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- If I bring Cheetos to your game night I hate you
- Cheetos and Doritos and other O's that have on your fingers not Al loud
- don't try to do the Chopsticks and try to pick them up with chopsticks don't do that
- Don't they all say that though don't they all say that
- I'm the only female that she spoke with so the only woman you represent I'm representing for the women women at PC's
- We just don't want to see people sitting over at a table struggling talking to F
- No one's not going to be alone here
- You can learn new games you can try stuff before you buy stuff
- what makes a theme sing for you and what makes a theme kind of really feel like those Nails on the chalkboard for you
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- Accessible / everyone can play
- Simple and fun
- Beast
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- "Foundations of Rome is so cool just because it was such beautiful architecture and like you feel literally yes and you're literally in Italy"
- "Trio... everyone can play so simple so fun"
- "Checkmate obviously because I'm obsessed with games"
- "it definitely plays better at that higher player count"
- "Beast which they ended up loving"
- "I'm Checkmate obviously because I'm obsessed with games"
References (from this video)
- Fun questions
- Educational
- Good for road trips
- Some references may not be understood by all audiences
- Trivial Pursuit
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Clue-based trivia — Players are given three clues and must find the commonality between them.
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- Ryan versus the robots and if it works it'll be pretty cool and when it doesn't just pretend that none of this ever happened
- Chat GPT is simultaneously way more capable and way less capable than you think it it is
- The number of fights I've gotten into with chat gbt let me tell you
- I pay $25 a month to use chat GPT it is also free but it limits you
- I'm sorry I'm sorry you're right you're right you're right it's seven
- The AI chatbot is going to be playing Gigazord
- My house riding on this match I had literally bet the farm
- I don't think it'll work that well I think it'll like I'll pan it across the board and she'll misinterpret things
- I was hoping to draw more valuable cards or ships to maximize the potential options and gain more strategic advantages
- The AI plays like way too aggressively
References (from this video)
- The "Day of the Dead" artwork is still considered pretty nice.
- The artwork was changed from the original version.
- Day of the Dead
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card passing — On certain numbers, players 'pass a card to the left.'
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- The printer said that we never even came close to doing any sizable print run of anything
- nothing's left it's all gone it's never coming out
- I hate it's it's goofy fun
- On certain numbers you pass a card to the left
- It's a T-Rex on a surfboard
- The artwork was changed from the original version
- They did not get done fast enough
- They did not get on a boat fast enough
- Foundations of Rome in a city instead of in
- big fun
- It has a lot of rules
- you got to really pay attention
- Orlons the plague
- The plague
- I haven't played or so long nearby I was thinking about that the other remember I enjoyed it
- The original artwork is described as 'very cute.'
- It's a Texas hold 'em variant.
- Players 'do rock paper scissors with your powers.'
- The game is described as 'goofy fun.'
- The redesigned artwork is not preferred by some.
- The creator walked away and hasn't communicated them for too long.
- The effectiveness and morality of capital punishment compared to life imprisonment.
- Concerns about executing innocent individuals.
- The role of race in the application of the death penalty.
- Concerns about driving under the influence of cannabis.
References (from this video)
- Cute artwork (Christmas version)
- Slightly altered mechanics in Christmas version
- Does not like the 'Trio' artwork
- Card game with simple mechanics
- Day of the Dead
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card passing — On certain numbers, players pass a card to the left.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The printer said that we never even came close to doing any sizable print run of anything
- nothing's left it's all gone it's never coming out
- I hate it's it's goofy fun
- On certain numbers you pass a card to the left
- It's a T-Rex on a surfboard
- The artwork was changed from the original version
- They did not get done fast enough
- They did not get on a boat fast enough
- Foundations of Rome in a city instead of in
- big fun
- It has a lot of rules
- you got to really pay attention
- Orlons the plague
- The plague
- I haven't played or so long nearby I was thinking about that the other remember I enjoyed it
- The original artwork is described as 'very cute.'
- It's a Texas hold 'em variant.
- Players 'do rock paper scissors with your powers.'
- The game is described as 'goofy fun.'
- The redesigned artwork is not preferred by some.
- The creator walked away and hasn't communicated them for too long.
- The effectiveness and morality of capital punishment compared to life imprisonment.
- Concerns about executing innocent individuals.
- The role of race in the application of the death penalty.
- Concerns about driving under the influence of cannabis.
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- we will link the BGG preview list down below so you can also explore and read about all the different games
- you have to come in with an open mind
- we're excited and do a lot give us that pra to a lot of games
References (from this video)
- clever drafting with multiple scoring paths
- card drafting
- Unknown
- row-based scoring
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Three rows with different scoring; draft and place between two cards.
- card drafting in rows — Three rows with different scoring; draft and place between two cards.
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- it's a beautiful mess of a game
- criminally underrated
- it's a long game
- I adore Guild Master
- this is a very clever game
- it's a fun crazy wacky game
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- deck management — This one specifically deals with deck management so you have eight you have eight decks of cards and you're trying to decide how you're going to utilize the resources and equipment and gear you have in order to be able to provide what you need to progress through the game.
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- if you're looking for one two or a dozen great solo games to play at your local coffee shop your grandmother's house or at a porch in a park while knats fly around your face these are going to be some of the ones that I would recommend
- life has been chaotic and busy for the best of reasons and yet being on a road trip for a photography contract uh on my own is one of the only opportunities I've had recently to actually sit down and play some solo games
- if you really like RPGs you really like Grim dark experiential things where you're tracking stats and doing your best to make a decision between no good options you should be paying attention and potentially getting that to your game group
- If you want to play more games like I do and you have less and less time cuz you're about to have a brand new baby like I am well you got to do what you can meaning you set up next to a rock in a beautiful environment when you have an extra 30 minutes
- Remember to do the important thing find time to play a few games even if it's hot muggy and humid outside and there's black flies flying all around
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- I really want to bring Ready Set Bet
- Trio we've been loving Trio so much
- Harmony was fun
- River Valley Glass Works is a must
- I love seaglass and I love the tactile feel of being able to pick the sea glass
- Mysterium it's like clue but better
- Horrified is a great one
- I also love cat in the Box
- Apples to Apples I still love Apples
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- goish and memory
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- "Mega XP is a board game convention unsurprisingly in Mexico City"
- "it's the biggest convention in Latin America"
- "I demoed so many Mexican games there"
- "pits which is based off the Mesoamerican basketball sacrifice ritual game ... that game was absolutely fantastic"
- "I still love Ticket to Ride"
References (from this video)
- engaging and dynamic
- interesting memory-based decisions
- can be memory-heavy for some players
- set collection through memory
- card memory game
- dynamic, memory-driven play
- Goldfish
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Memory — Players try to collect sets of three by asking about opponent cards and revealing numbers.
- memory / card deduction — Players try to collect sets of three by asking about opponent cards and revealing numbers.
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- "it's the people that make the experience more than the game"
- "Captain Obvious is such a fun party game and I laughed so hard in this game"
- "this is not a sponsor video at all but I was just very pleasantly surprised by how fun this is"
- "the definition of chaos so much fun"
- "Castle burgundy is elegant and seamless"
- "I cannot wait for the final production of that one because critic kitchen is so much fun"
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- 10 out of 10 recommend all of these games for the gamers in your life
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- Easy to learn
- Fun
- Cheap
- Offers a lot of game for the price
- Matching game
- Nana
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deduction — Players try to deduce what numbers other players have in their hands based on their requests.
- Memory — Players put cards out on the table and in their hands, flipping cards over to gain information.
- Set Collection — Players try to collect a set of three of the same number or two sets that mathematically equal seven.
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- The Most Wonderful Time of the Year as some might say it is the holiday season and we are back with a holiday gift guide
- This is for uh the gamer in your life if you're a gamer and want to bring other people into gaming or if you are married to father of son of somebody in your life games and you have no idea what to get them watch this video
- I've got one more if you're a gamer get yourself a gift you deserve it you do deserve it
- Nana probably the most game I've played in the last 18 months multiple times maybe veil of Eternity uh side note get that too
- This is a game and I would say Trio nana I don't usually would say everyone could have these games in your collection these games I I these are borderline everyone could have these in if you like fun if you like games at all they're cheap these are really easy games to have
- This is one of my personal favorite games of the year
- This is definitely a party game in the vein of like if you like Jenga this is a much better and and more fun and unique more exciting version of that same sort of experience
- These are for family but they're also sort of Gateway games that could be games easier to learn games newer Gamers
- It's like go fish but if you get it wrong too many times everyone blows up
- This is for the board gamer The Gamer gamer what many of you have waited for
- It's true the first one I want to bring up is arcs and this is a uh it's the talk of the Year I'll be honest
- This is for the campaign Adventurer board gamer in your life
- Two-player games we wanted to talk about two-player games I know a lot of people are always looking for something to play with their significant other
- King of Tokyo duel is so easy to learn it's yatsi basically so if you can learn yatsi I more complicated of course a little bit but if you can teach yatsi you can teach this and it's a better game it's going to be more engaging than yatsi to any child that you play with because again Giant Monsters
- This is a streamlined campaign game I don't think this is a game that's going to require an hour of setup before every game like so which those games are great too I I just don't have time for that kind of investment
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- It's got like six little mini games they're all different they all come together they all merge Synergy wise together as well.
- Difficulty in planning the later stages of the game.
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- action selection — All actions come from a mancala, moving pieces over where you land is where you get to take an action. You can put things in those places to do extra things.
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- heavy and light does not equal good and bad it's not we found that trap I found that trap the where the g games are only good if they're heavy and I've since come back to where all games are good not all games but you know all weight of games can be good based off of what their circumstances when you're playing them and who you're playing them with
- the heavier games these are the games that we're talking about today these are the games that have bigger Longer rule sets maybe a little bit harder to learn a little bit harder to teach um they have a lot more going on a little bit more involved and the or the decisions that you make during the game are a little bit more involved you have to really think about think a couple lay layers ahead you can't just think about can't react what's happening to you you have to think a plan ahead in two turns I'll have enough resources just to buy that then I'll be able to do that to be able to do that to be able to do that
- we're going to count down to our very heaviest
- all right so the number seven heaviest game on our list is agrica this is weighted at 3.64 this is kind of the great granddaddy of all besides Kus but beyond that agrica uh is would be I would call the great granddaddy of all worker placement games
- you can't score higher until you pay them a gem like look I'm doing stuff give me more money
- I know a lot of people compare this because they are very very similar um to um Fe free for Odin but what's the one before that caverna and caverna I think is is very cool but lacks the cards and the cards is what makes agria so special and so much fun but also makes your decision decision level really high
- I almost wish I had been introduced to this game now cuz when I was introduced to it I was a baby gamer and I was like no thank you no I don't you to feed your people that's a very stressful thing for a new game room yes yes like just that like you get punished you're like I want to have fun why am I being punished
- this is the first game I I want I don't there probably are other games like this it's just the first one that I've played that's like this where you take actions based on your D color but you can mix and match those to create different colors in order to do different actions on the board
- the more lucrative actions of course are going to be a mixed color and the more plain actions are going to be the primary colors but it's really interesting in the beginning of the game you don't feel like you have enough die to do anything and at the end of the game you're like I don't I can't even use all of these like I'm done with all of that
- this is kbon EV and has a weight of 4.3 this is based off of another game that came out called kbon which I really enjoyed but kbon EV is the newer updated version
- there's also just this supervisor named Sandra who's running around the board and every time she goes to a new section of the board she's basically inspected to see who's not doing their training and then she penalizes you based off of whatever the parameter is
- it's a funny little comedic element in this very involved game yeah I really really like this one it's it's a fun one
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- It is so good.
- Deluxe pieces are awesome.
- Good for bag drawing mechanics.
- Haven't played it in a while.
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- It's the longest running weekly live stream uh on YouTube.
- I felt like garbage, I still got this stupid cough that just will not go away.
- After the Empire, it's a game where you really feel like you're in charge.
- The complexity is part of the appeal.
- It's like a cute woodland creature war.
- Every game feels like a different experience because of the factions.
- Everdell, it's just so pretty to look at on the table.
- I love the feeling of building up my little city.
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- Don't judge this this is what we do before we go to conventions
- when we get back we're going to be doing a recap video where we'll talk about our experience there
- type in what game you want to play
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- Playing games at two players is my favorite way to play games, frankly.
- I'm here to win.
- I would buy all of them instantly.
- Two-player versions hit and they miss.
- What dual versions of games have you really enjoyed?
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- Quick to learn and play
- Highly replayable due to memory element
- Good for practicing memory
- Can be frustrating if memory fails often
- Collecting sets of numbers
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- Card Drafting — Players select cards from various locations (hand, face-down on table, opponent's hand) to complete sets. "On your turn, choose any single card to reveal. Either the low or the high card from the player's hand, including your own, or any face down card from the table."
- Memory — Players need to remember the location of cards and their values to form sets of three. "This is straight memory."
- Set Collection — The goal is to collect three cards of the same number. "The goal is to get three sets of three different numbers or find the golden sevens."
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- It is the is the is the filler game of 2024. It really it is the filler game of 2024.
- Players give gifts to each other while trying to remember who gave what and which gift they have in front of them.
- You got to say it with confidence, you got to say it's a bat.
- Straight memory.
- It's like Black Mirror, y'all.
- Buttonshot probably has one of the most tariff resistant business models.
- It's all about memory and and bluffing.
- The more people are sitting at the table, the more things you got to remember.
- You got to bluff with a straight face.
- This is straight memory. It's straight memory.
- trio is straight memory game with a little bit of go fish in there.
- It's quick to learn, quick to play. You know, before you know it, you've played like three, four, five rounds in just a few minutes.
- I would like to hear about uh Aldi from BGG.
- I say Star Wars so we can have DC Star Wars.
- We are going to BGG Spring.
- The $6 million man. If they do a re ru reboot. A reboot. It would be the $6 billion man today due to inflation.
- The weather is horrible.
- We love the weird of Portland. We love the weird.
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- memory-based challenge with triple-card matching
- compact and travel-friendly
- requires memory across three cards; some may find it repetitive
- memory / triple match
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- A Gentle Rain is just like my happy place.
- Kenya Coladis... feels like a vacation in a box to me.
- It's so fun and relaxing and we can play it anywhere.
- That's Not a Hat is a memory game where you're trying to either make up an answer because you forgot what the answer is.
- The Crew is a strategy based game of trying to get to Mars, I think.
- Ido is a rank game where you tell people in a category what the category is and then they come up with the best or the worst answer.
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- striking, accessible abstract strategy
- family-friendly and engaging for all ages
- portable variants like GO Trio mentioned
- three ways to win using different size pieces
- abstract strategy arena
- tic-tac-toe
- GO Trio
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- multi-variant placement — placing pieces of different sizes to achieve winning patterns
- three ways to win — three simultaneous win conditions: row, size variety, and concentric overlaps
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- Ah, it's fantastic.
- It's Showstopping on the table.
- I'd recommend Medina second edition to everyone.
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- cute travel version of a well-liked abstract game
- abstract strategy on the go
- travel version of Otrio
- Otrio
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- same core mechanic as Otrio — contains the same three-win abstract mechanics in a travel form
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- Ah, it's fantastic.
- It's Showstopping on the table.
- I'd recommend Medina second edition to everyone.
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- It's a wonderful little two-player only game.
- The components are gorgeous.
- The intertwinedness of the draft and money is really interesting.
- It's an incredibly simple elegant system.
- Cards stop generating money once covered up.
- Burning all your cash can leave you 'roped' with less access to cards.
- We are explorers and we are basically spending our knowledge of the area to buy cards and build a pyramid.
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- Card Drafting — two-player only car drafting pyramid building name.
- Engine Building — these cards also can generate money on their own. But the trick is only while they are the at the top of a pyramid. Once they get covered up, they don't generate money for you anymore.
- pyramid building — and build a pyramid. You'll start on a base more and more higher and higher.
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- This is such a wonderful little two-player only car drafting pyramid building name.
- Everything in this game is just drop dead gorgeous.
- It's an incredibly simple elegant system and both Jen and I liked it quite a bit.
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- Generates a lot of laughter and social interaction
- Brilliant deduction and memory elements
- Accessible and a must-have
- Engaging for middleweight gamers
- Nana
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- Deduction — Players deduce the location of the third card in a trio based on revealed information.
- Memory — Players try to remember card locations and who revealed what numbers to find sets of three.
- Set Collection — The goal is to collect three sets of trios of numbers.
- Take That — Players can ask others to reveal specific cards, potentially hindering their progress.
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- Hi, my name's Danny. I'm an avid modern board gamer from Australia who love sharing my passion for this hobby with you, my friends, and my family.
- It's a push your luck mechanism for opening up the options of cards that you might want to draw throughout your turn.
- And so that adds a huge amount of tension to every single round in the game cuz it's like, 'oh, if I say that I'm going to win three tricks and then you're short by one, you're really going to incur a minus one penalty.'
- This game alone, Farmhan, really led me down the path to trying a few more trick- taking games.
- It is an absolutely brilliant game. It is a must-have for your card game collection.
- The only downside of this game is that you do need a minimum of three players to play it.
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- Stupidly expensive
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- What a load off my mind. Holy cow.
- So tasty.
- Don't hit me with a good time.
- Get a ticket for the flea market.
- You got a golden ticket.
- That's the one hour I ask.
- You know what? It might be have to be Friday night then because Friday the only thing I've got going
- I know, but who do I kick out?
- It is a good movie. It is a good movie.
- My favorite John Cusack movie is um Eight Men Out.
- Say anything. Hold hold hold the hold the the Ben's iconic man.
- Are you going to be able to play Station Fall next week?
- That'll be fine for me.
- I got to go.
- You could do a 900 p.m. Saturday night.
- I have to be on this crazy secure line. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Whatever.
- Not looking forward to it. But maybe I don't know get cancelceled, but it might. But I'm just I'm just I'm leaving it open in case they do need me.
- The thing is Wednesday night is usually there's no momentum to play anything big, you know, because you're kind of like, you know, I mean, the momentum is not there yet.
- If you don't get knocked out, it's an evening. It takes a long time.
- My head
- Oh, my god.
- That's a seven out of 10.
- You need to get some sunglasses for that one. That's a CSI Miami joke.
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- Vampire Survivors live on Kickstarter right now. $361,000.
- Back Vampire Survivors the board game.
- It's great. It's my game of the year.
- Hero Forge, if you're watching, I'd love to make another video for you. Send me some more credits.
- That [__] is addictive. Oh my god.
- Gnome Hollow is a delightful game. Whether you're an avid board game player or new to board games, this game is very suitable for both. The gameplay is smooth. You have many action to choose from, but but it still remains clear. We really like the theme. Gnomes always do well. The ring markers are magnetic, which is super handy. That makes them easy to keep on your player board.
- Hughes and Q's is quite good.
- I felt like it's one of those games unfortunately after I play it once I was just like well and I never need to play this again.
- A+ for style points. Super cute theme and artwork. I give this a low rating based on the fact that I myself just can't really play it. The spatial aspect of the rings with all their twists makes it hard for me to plan my turns and you can't get around the spatial aspect and to aim for a win through other methods.
- People love to be harsh.
- Tile laying that's been done before. The tile laying is really dull. Even though there are seven tiles to choose from, there are ever only one or two viable choices because you want to close the path as soon as possible. There is nothing new to see here. Move along.
- I love people and I hate them at the same time.
- Well, that's harsh.
- We're in the happiest timeline right now.
- There's no like RPG stuff there really.
- I think that Morborg is just a garbage thing. It's just like it's it's it is it is it was a flash in the pan.
- Yeah. And it's just like we got we're going to just have all these Borg things and I just like what are we doing?
- I just need this remote control and this chair and that's all I need.
- The Color from Outer Space. It showed up.
- Well, what you need to go see or stream is um Renfield with Nick Cage.
- That's just over the top ridiculous. It's It's amazing.
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- Cooperative
- Challenging
- Compelling loss condition
- Impressed the host
- Lacks initial table appeal
- Moving an elephant herd across a board while avoiding lions
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- Card Drafting — Cards from different piles give abilities or allow movement.
- cooperative play — Players work together to achieve a common goal.
- Movement programming — Maneuvering elephants and a matriarch elephant.
- Race against time — Trying to get the elephant group from one side of the board to the other before time runs out.
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- Mustache is a game where you are every round playing on a different team trying to earn the most tricks.
- The game ends at exactly the right amount of time
- It was a true delight.
- So, I am pre-ordering. I am on the tempo train. and I really really was impressed.
- I was like, how did this little Martin Wallace gem slip by?
- Um, but it's a really good challenging game.
- Puzzle hunt is um just the the best. It's a treat.
- Puzzle Hunt, 10 out of 10.
- Puzzle Hunt is by far the best part of BGG for me, the most memorable part, and the most fun.
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- Variety in a small package
- Limited depth in a single game
- tiny puzzle collection
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- set-collection / pattern building — multiple small games in trio
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- I love Dice Throne. I love having all of them, and I love having just to have all the options.
- One box is plenty.
- Return to Dark Tower, a fantastic game. Never going anywhere.
- Duel for Cardia is so good. I'm like obsessed with this game.
- Radlands, I love this game. It's not going anywhere.
- Orbit was my favorite out of the three. I think I am going to pull Ego and Silos.
- 31 games. So we hit the mark.
- Blink, not going anywhere.
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- High interaction and tension in a quick, social package
- Strong for larger groups at slower paces
- Names and exact rules can be confusing on first play
- Not a long game; may wear out with repeated plays
- Array
- Multiplayer card memory / go fish style
- light, social, guess-based deduction
- Scout
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- Memory / pattern recognition — players try to assemble trios by remembering seen cards
- Pattern Recognition — players try to assemble trios by remembering seen cards
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- Panda Spin is so great.
- This is Ego by Bitewing Games.
- I want to play it again.
- The aha moments were fast and furious.
- Ready, Set, Bet is one of the best spectator board games that I've come across.
- Gazebo is a clever domino experience; the two-player version is fantastic.
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- Timeless puzzle design
- Hard to master at high speed
- Spatial reasoning
- Abstract puzzle game
- Minimal
- Cuphead
- Dark Souls
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- Tiling puzzle — Falling blocks, line clears
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- This is for Rum and Bones first edition.
- Dark Souls has 122 votes. NUMBER ONE. YOU HAVE DIED.
- I'm going to go with Elden Ring.
- Cuphead, number four.
- The Oregon Trail is not ON THE LIST.
- Pong also rounding out the bottom with nine votes.
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- I'm not an image guy.
- Oh, my God, me and I look so freaking young.
- We're innovators.
- I don't know how to like talk about the game without like It's It's incredibly complicated.
- I don't know how to win that game.
- The raw and write is really good. Which is and it's really simple.
- It's a trading card game where the sizzle is more than the steak there.
- Harvest now, decrypt later.
- I feel like I've talked about it for a long time.
- You got to watch The Blues Brothers.
- He's the second coolest guy of all time.
- We're only on two We've only done two slides.
- This is a super super deep cut.
- I don't know what the name of this thing.
- This is a movie that was on HBO or Cinemax all the time when we were kids.
- My favorite movie of all time.
- You don't know what you're talking about, man.
- There's not that many laughs.
- This is a deep deep deep deep cut.
- We're trying to throw our goblins cuz like tossing goblins is the only thing I could think of.
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References (from this video)
- Gloom Haven
- Starcraft
- Root
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- Thou shalt not intentionally cheat.
- House rules are the creation of new custom original set of rules that everyone agrees to follow for whatever reason to make the game faster or more balanced or whatever.
- Be engaged in the teach.
- Let players fail. Let them select the builder and have them go into turmoil turn two as they start to realize how the game's choices connect to the game's consequences.
- Playing to win is really just an extension of saying it's important to recognize endogenous value.
- Thou shalt be graceful in defeat.
- Thou shalt not damage the pieces.
- You can't sacrifice the game at the altar of the rule book.
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- This is the grooviest board gaming weekend in all of Knoxville is the promise here.
- The dice are shaped like heads.
- This is the best game of Medici I've ever played.
- You're the biggest loser.
- We wanted to do something that had some ways to get people connected really quick right from the jump.
- Well, Funky Town Games, it's been real, it's been fun, but it hasn't been funky.
- I haven't seen one in the wild, probably decade.
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- still not open
- Just One
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- The community is everything. It's all our feedback comes from the community and not necessarily to publish a game but also once it's published things like finding spelling mistakes or this card's overpowered or this does this or or I thought it'd be cool if you ever did an expansion you did like sharks
- If you want to rescue the emperor penguins, buy buy Time Troopers at UKGE. And you can release them into the wild.
- It's it's potentially maybe the most overproduced game I've ever did see in my life ever. Um but it's it's stunning.
- Thank you, Becky. #thankyoubecky is the hashtag for the episode.
- I feel like Michael Aspel and This Is Your Life.
- I'm sorry, but some independent board game companies that will remain nameless, um have a game they worked so hard to come up with a name and end up calling it Peacock in other countries.
- Well, I didn't do very well on the British Empire quiz, but I don't know now I was doing a BTEC in uh 80s. Chris Barrie TV, I would have prepared a bit better.
- It is offset by Craig's RSPCA comments about our penguin games, but it's always a lot of fun listening.
- I don't want to do the accent. That's rude. I'll do my David Attenborough.
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- Spreading influence to get different powers
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- Card game — Described as an "okay card game".
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- Secrets. This is a Bruno Faidutti Eric Lang game. It's kind of like a social deduction game where each It has some of these nice poker chips. You're on different things, taking things. It works well. It's not great, but I think it was a solid little game.
- Tapple's one of these games that I'm always I'm It's just It still sold very well. It's mass market, but it works incredibly well.
- I just really didn't like it at all. And I like Isle of Cats. I think it's fun. I didn't I this was a great follow up.
- Wow, I love the look of this game. So many neat things you're going through and as the the the character here and just rolling dice up, it's just very lucky. It's a big choose your own adventure game that's very lucky. I wish I liked it more.
- FunkoVerse Strategy Game. Eight out of 10 for me. I really like the FunkoVerse Strategy Game.
- This is basically just giant sandworms coming and you're jumping cars and shooting them. It has all the silliness of the series of movies and I think it's it's one of those movies that could have been an IP, but but isn't.
- Manhattan Project 2. No, I thought the newest one was okay. But this one I actively disliked.
- Curse Court's a great game. I've played Curse Court I think two or three times this year already, which is a lot considering I have to I play lots of new games.
- Well, it's kind of weird. I I mean, on one hand, my favorite is Curse Court, the one I just mentioned. But, also Kids Chronicles: Quest for the Moonstones is a pretty fantastic kids game. So, I have a lot of respect for that.
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- really unique feeling
- love the theme
- love the look
- guiding a herd of elephants while avoiding lions
- savannah
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- Cooperative — A cooperative game where players guide a herd of elephants.
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- I feel like that was the case here. Uh it just kind of distracted I felt from what I like in the core experience of Azure.
- But man, I wish a few tweaks uh could be made to it to make it a truly excellent, excellent game.
- It it just doesn't feel like any other uh cooperative game that I can think of and I love the theme and the look of it.
- This is one where I really feel like it gives me more of what I already like about Moour.
- There just something about it that missed the mark for me. It wasn't necessarily bad, but it was okay.
- The pirates has almost nothing to do with the theme at all, but a fun little game.
- It's a nice looking game from Panosaurus. It just at the end it just felt it felt fine.
- but the the game itself is a really nice game.
- It's like an adult version of the Haba game Monza.
- Beautiful cards, but not a great game.
- Really enjoyed this one.
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- Quick drafting game
- Cool little game
- Players can acquire power cards with various effects
- Low rating on BGG
- Only available on BGA for free play without a Pro account
- Dwarven battle game
- Same world as Navalier, a fantasy setting where dwarves play this game before battle.
- Navalier
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- Card Drafting — Players draft cards from hands and a central market.
- Hand Management — Players manage cards in their hand for drafting and scoring.
- market — A market of cards is available for trade.
- Set Collection — Collecting sets of the same number for points.
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- It is probably everything you would hate in a game.
- It's an area control game where you're trying to accomplish the various goals.
- The app the app's I think's really good.
- It's just really really clever.
- My favorite push your luck game.
- And inevitably, your guys will starve to death on the way or freeze to death.
- Man, I just love this game.
- It's a worker placement game, but you build out all these rooms in this castle or whatever and each one has different abilities that can happen there.
- Ponzi scheme. I'll I'll be really quick on this one.
- It's a bluffing bidding game in that sense.
- There's lots of those what I call laugh out loud moments where you just where you you call your dear friend some horrible name for the insulting offer that you accept because you have to
- It's a system um for basically doing it's almost like uh DMless Dungeons and Dragons, you know, in a in a board game.
- The entirety of the rule set for this game is one page long.
- It adds official cooperative rules.
- this is my favorite expansion.
- It is a true 100% sandbox in that regard.
- The win condition is voting because you're trying to become the new headmaster of the school or whatever.
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- Simple idea that becomes difficult for older brains
- Offers chances to feel clever
- Go Fish
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- Memory — uh but you have to use memory. So, everyone's going to have a hand of cards that will be ordered from low to high. Uh, and on your turn, you can ask yourself or another player to essentially reveal their lowest card, so their leftmost card or their highest card, their rightmost card. uh they can put it down on the table. And what you're trying to do is you're trying to reveal three of the same number uh without having another number show up.
- Push Your Luck — There's also going to be a number of cards that are in the center of the table that you can just decide to flip up and that's you like making an ask of the table.
- Set Collection — And if you get all three, then you get to collect that set and you're one step closer to victory.
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- 2021 is somehow 5 years ago.
- So, we're going to look back five years in the past and see which games really hold up.
- We like doing these kinds of like five years, 10 years list.
- 2021 was a really good year. There's some real big bangers that came out this year, some of our favorite games.
- So, we're going to go ahead and talk about our top 10 games from 2021.
- Really for us, the entire Imperium line, there's Imperium Classics and Imperium Legends, which came out uh around this time, and then Imperium Horizons. And all these games are are cross-co compatible.
- I think that's what keeps this game really fun for us is like with between all three versions of the game, I don't know, there's probably like 40 civilizations now and they all have their own kind of vibe.
- Arc Nova is a masterpiece. It's just what it is.
- this game took the world by storm and just has not let up.
- it's basically this big engine builder.
- This is kind of a game that's got like a whole bunch of different mechanics.
- not every game needs to do something new. Like not every game needs to think of a new mechanic or a new this or a new that. You can take things that exist already in board games or in other board games or in the general board game industry and just put them into a really really good game.
- Arnova is nothing new. Absolutely nothing new. But it does it in such a good way that it's become this number two game of all time. I think eventually probably going to be number one.
- Arnova is one of my favorite games of all time. It's incredible. I love it so much and it had to be number one on this list.
- what games stand the test of time? Uh Arknova obviously definitely does that. That's a clear number one for us.
- But, let us know what are your favorite games from 2021. Which things did you buy back then or discovered after the fact that you are still playing just as much today?
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- Small box and cute components.
- Fast paced gameplay.
- Can feel like it goes too fast.
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- Set Collection — Implied through comparison to Nana which has set collection.
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- I want AI to die in a fire.
- My entire job is AI right now.
- It's like Go Fish with memory.
- It is fun when you win with two sets. Or with when you win the sevens because it's really hard to actually do.
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- Brings order to chaos with new game trays.
- Reduces table clutter significantly by organizing components.
- Trays designed for easy component retrieval.
- The collector's edition includes commissioned game trays.
- Some components, like magician power cards, don't fit well in the designated trays.
- Uncertainty about the intended storage for certain components.
- The symbol for market row was initially misunderstood, leading to confusion about pouch usage.
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- Worker Placement — The host mentions organizing 'worker placement cards' into stacks for each player.
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- that brings a lot of order to chaos
- therapeutic I felt like one of those an advanced version of one of those toddler sorting puzzles
- that was a poser well the photos on the official Kickstarter page still have feather cards here
- I don't see a great place to stick any of that stuff
- that is how the trick Aryan collector's edition without guards Academy packs up
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- Addictive
- Fun
- Can win immediately by finding three sevens
- Finding the three sevens is tricky
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- Deduction — Players try to deduce card locations by asking for specific card values (highest/lowest) or interacting with central cards.
- Set Collection — The goal is to 'collect trios, sets of three' cards.
- Set collection variant — Finding the 'three sevens' immediately wins the game, acting as a special condition within the set collection goal.
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- These games will also fit inside your handbag or your backpack, so you can just whip it out at any time.
- And that is Excalibur from Roxley Games.
- Trio is a lot of fun and is super super addictive.
- This is such a fast, fun, silly little game that I recommend that everyone tries out because so much fun.
- Forks is probably maybe my favorite smallbox card game of all time.
- This is an oink game that is essentially one card poker as such.
- This is a great game. Everyone should play it. The more the merrier with this game.
- And that is five great filler games that you should be filling your heart and your board game collection with.
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- we're not making any kind of commitments to anything at this point
- I think I just need a nice long break away from KH so that I can reinvigorate my interest and love for going to them
- it's just a lot of money even just flights for us in general flights are expensive
- it's just a lot of people and quite honestly like they're expensive and we go to a lot of them
- it's not a level up problem it's just a me thing and I'm very much feeling right now