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Puppies dream of joining the prestigious "VIVO Puppy Choir". You are a music school teacher who raises such puppies. Today is the day of the long-awaited entrance exam. In this year's entrance exam, puppies with "energetic, loud singing voices" and "small, cute singing voices" will be evaluated.
VIVO is a trick-taking game where the follow format changes every trick! Find out which song the puppies will be tested on and send them out on stage so they can bring out their unique talents.
Year Published
2024
Transcript Analysis
Browse transcript mentions, sentiments, pros/cons, mechanics, topics, quotes, and references.
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Tantrum House general_discussion at 16:39 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fresh take on trick-taking
- Good for 3 players
- Compact rules
Cons
- Rule clarity can be tricky at first
Thematic elements
- Lighthearted party card game with multiple suits
- Trick-taking with harmony across suits
- Competitive but cooperative harmony across players
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- harmony — Some rounds require harmony with two colors
- trick_taking — Tricks with multiple suits; following color rules
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The show starts now.
- The tiles are nice. They look like acrylic; the scoring is modular.
- From the couch to the table and back again.
- Beasts is a new game from Panosaurus. The tiles are nice. The gameplay is different enough each time.
- Two to five players. We are putting groups of penguins together and trying to make the biggest waddle.
- This is a trick taking game; there can be two colors of suit in this trick.
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Dice Tower game_review at 0:48 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Wonderful trick-taking game
- Nice central gimmick with changing rules
- Mitigates having lower or middling hands
- Available in smaller box format
- Accessible version of original
Cons
- New artwork slightly inferior to original cover
Thematic elements
- Trick-taking
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- High-low scoring — Both highest and lowest cards win tricks; lowest card worth points equal to its value, highest only 2 points
- Trick-taking — Players play cards trying to win tricks with changing rules each round
- Variable card play requirements — Each round changes whether players must play same color, different colors, or all four colors
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is an excellent, excellent trick taking game that you should have in your collection
- One of the most brilliant trick-taking games I've ever seen
- The game has the word kids in the title, but it's better than you might think, but it's simpler than you might think
- Really pleasant. Really surprising how good this is
- There are games that are fine and then there's games that have a lot of tension and those like those games that are really tense, that's when I love it
- It's awful. It's really awful
- I think that it's wonderful. It's an eight for me. Oh, I lost that bout, but my popcorn's popping. Love it
- This is a cool trick taking game
- I would 10 out of 10 times recommend you play distilled instead of this
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