Game Info
Year
2014
Players
2-3
Age
8+
Playtime
45 min
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Description
Players guide beams of lantern light into trolls eyes by placing and turning mirrors on a modular board to petrify the most trolls
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Chairman of the Board Unboxing at 2:04 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
- Could be awesome
- Very cheap
Cons
- Host doesn't know anything about it
Thematic elements
- Killing trolls by shining mirrors
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Mirror mechanics — The host describes the gameplay involves shining mirrors.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I just got back from the UK Games Expo. I had a great time as always and I just wanted to make a quick video talking about all of the games that I acquired during the expo.
- The brig and buy was was great, but it was very chaotic and long long cues and longer than we've had before.
- So, definitely um was at capacity. Yeah, the brig and buy was was great, but it was very chaotic and long long cues and longer than we've had before.
- So, I definitely recommend going at least once if you have the faintest bit of interest.
- But for everybody else, I'll see you next time on Chairman of the Board. Bye-bye.
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Chairman of the Board Top List at 0:31 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Excellent deal for £1
- Interesting concept and puzzle
- Satisfying when light beams connect
Cons
- Clunky mechanisms
- Rough around the edges troll spawning
- Spawning can render torches useless
- Can be spiteful by blocking opponents
- Bland artwork
- Limited replayability
Thematic elements
- abstract
Comparison games
- Thanomus
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Light reflection — Players use mirrors to reflect beams from torches into the eyes of trolls.
- Mirror flipping — Mirrors can be flipped to widen or narrow the beam arc.
- Mirror placement and movement — Players can place or move mirrors on the hex grid.
- Race aspect — Players race to petrify or claim a certain number of trolls to win.
- Troll spawning — Trolls spawn on the board based on dice rolls and cards, sometimes in problematic locations.
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Quotes (from this video)
- So, for £1 it was an excellent deal.
- The gameplay was a little bit flat, maybe a little bit repetitive.
- It can be frustrating, especially if your opponents have caughten onto those clues really quickly and you can't quite figure it out.
- So, the combat doesn't actually trigger automatically... No, the actual players have to either trigger a battle or it'll happen as soon as the entire map is populated and you kind of just sit back and watch the battle uh play out.
- It's such a wellexecuted game.
- I think the only slight nitpick I have with it is that I think it can not go too long in terms of the game length, but it feels maybe a little bit loose at times that you can get too much done.
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