Game Info
Year
2005
Players
3-5
Age
12+
Playtime
75 min
Collection
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Description
Players compete to build the most famous hotel/casino. Room tiles representing slot machines, lounges, restaurants, and other casino-related places appear on a central board and the players hold auctions to win the rights to have those rooms in their building, garnering them income, population, or fame. Bidding wars escalate, values fluctuate, and designers renovate until finally the hotel/casinos are put to the test to determine whose garners the most fame.
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Watch It Played Discussion at 11:11 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction / Bidding — described as a bidding game
- bidding — described as a bidding game
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- i wish i knew castles of burgundy had a newer release
- it's an absolute cutthroat game
- it's devious but it's light
- oh yeah have a massive stack of battlestar galactica
- i know i haven't got tamsk but it's not technically part of the gift series but i still obviously still want it
- Vegas Showdown's a really good bidding game
- i did want to buy a copy of hero quest which i thought was really good for 20 quid when it was completely out of print and was never getting reprinted again
- i wish i could guarantee i liked that game before i bought it
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Watch It Played Discussion at 6:09
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Pros
none
Cons
- absolutely cannot find a copy of it anywhere
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Trick-Taking — a trick-taking texum Texas Holden Style game
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Amazon is the local shop to a lot of people
- you never really know who you're buying from
- I'm probably going to try an online local game store anyway first
- I don't see it as that much of a problem
- the thrill of the hunt I think probably more than anything else
- more people making more games is a good thing for Innovation and for progression in the board game design and product sphere
- as a consumer wow do I feel overwhelmed a lot of the time
- the entryway into board games more daunting for people
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 3:26:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Highly Positive
Pros
- Highly enjoyable gameplay.
- Excellent value when found on discount.
Cons
- Discontinued and difficult to find.
Thematic elements
- Casino management / Gambling
- Las Vegas
Comparison games
- Nexus Ops
- Heroscape
- Monopoly
- Yahtzee
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Majority — Players compete to have the most influence in different casino areas.
- Card Drafting — Players select cards that represent casino elements or actions.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- we're gonna play access and Al for the first time together
- 1942 um and that's where I'm drawing a line you know after that it's going to get it's a big time sync that I don't think anybody will really put into it
- so I picked it up and it became like a staple diet every weekend with me and my mates
- it had some like event things that would happen and you would read a paragraph and then you would populate the rim with monsters
- everything else is basically if you can see on their outline in the thing if it's not gray you can hit it
- the heroscape big thing is you can learn like the synergies of like oh okay if I use this units and this units together then this enhances this and then this enhances that
- Nexus out was a good one Nexus Ops was good
- Vegas Showdown we played Nexus Ops a lot we played Vegas Showdown a lot I loved Vegas Showdown but that was like that game should still be around
- man I I bought three copies of Queens Gambit at Toys R Us
- risk Shadow forces in 2002
- the lady who was checking me out was Hispanic and she said to the other tyer in Spanish and I knew what she said it's like oh my God this big game is only $1.99 I'm gonna get one
- the Red Dot you would you could hit it yeah you just had to put your eye line behind the characters and if you could see to the other any part of them yeah
- you can change the rules of the terrain pieces and it just makes the game interesting
- hot lava death
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Chairman of the Board Discussion at 7:57 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Bidding system is liked
- Mix with spatial puzzle is liked
Cons
- Question if it has aged well
Thematic elements
- building a casino
- Casino
Comparison games
- Arman Ray
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bidding — A bidding style game as you're buying these different features all these different rooms for your Casino.
- Tech Tree — You can upgrade them as you go through these Tech trees.
- Tile Placement — Spatial puzzle of building your own Casino.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Joy Ride which is kind of a a stolen version of power boats
- Ramy uh tiny little card game where you're drafting these cards Ramy style trying to complete these objectives and that will also tailor your point scoring at the end
- take a Seat this is a you know a polyomino Style game as you're trying to fill up seats uh in a cinema with variable objectives looks like this quite a bit going on here but you know generally speaking I like polyomino style games especially when they tackle that idea from a different perspective
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 2:05:25 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Surprisingly fun
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Trick-Taking — Described as a trick-taker card game.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I liked Heat Pedal to the Metal more than I have previously.
- Texas Showdown was surprisingly fun.
- Cockroach Poker was of course still awesome.
- And Hacker Lackin is great.
- the one that I have played in the past but played again that just reiterated to me like how slick I like just how much I enjoy the design was Crusaders. Thy will be done.
- It's a super solid game, too.
- I don't envy publishers right now trying to figure out what the heck to do.
- My favorite part about 51st state was you you you'd hire you'd hire a leader and your leader would give you bonuses or whatever and do your things. That's not in the new version.
- I like the original much more than the new one.
- The guy just felt the need to come back in every three or four minutes and talk about quite literally [ __ ] nothing.
- Small talk is just my kryptonite.
- I don't know how to make small talk. I only make big talk.
- My wife hates bugs. Which is why I'm trying to make the camper nicer.
- It's just like, Oh, you got your camper nice and like you could charge 50 bucks a night. It's lakefront.
- I will be the president of the Sparta Conservation Society bookmark one day.
- My dad might get to prison.
- I just hope I can make money off of it.
- Don't knock until you try it, man.
- It's a good chunk of voting power.
- My son is 13 and he wears size 13 wide shoes.
- He's just like, 'Oh, can I do it too, Dad?'
- I'm going to name it. I'm naming that chunk of road.
- It's just exciting when your parents be like, 'Oh, which way are you going to go?'
- It's just like, 'Oh, yeah, we got the robot. The robot broke down.'
- My daughter still enjoys going out there and summer's starting soon.
- Yeah, but you could just have the Airbnb and be like, 'All right, I'm going to be here what four weekends out of the summer?'
- It's just like, 'Oh, yeah, dad might get to prison.'
- I was like, 'Okay.' Just went back to playing Marvel Rivals.
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Foster the Meeple Event Coverage at 14:17 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
very_positive
Pros
- excellent game despite ugly components
- high on wish list
- rare and sought after
Cons
- criminal how ugly the game is visually
Thematic elements
- Las Vegas
- casino
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- chef's kiss if you're wondering how many times I said and that's dallas
- you want to know what dice town is it's the freaking best game ever
- the fabulousness that is Dice Town
- if you like camel up uh but want like a more quick condensed version uh check out Full Throttle it's so so good
- and surfacea orus Max MH have immediately skyrocketed up my trick-taking list
- man any convention where you can sit and play Kuba twice
- any convention where you can sit down and play dominant species and Kuba Libre and you can just like get after it
- it is Criminal how ugly that game is but my God it good it's good
- I love little weird card games man
- the Ubers were kind of expensive uh but the hotel does have everything that you need
- 10 out of 10 10 out of 10 10 out of 10 trip
- we're obsessive over BGG cons now
- coming back from that convention just so reenergized re-energized
- amazing amazing amazing people in this hobby
- there's like a million different places to play games there were like all over the hotel
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