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White Hat pits 1-6 players against each other, as they try to prove their worth as a hacker, picking holes in the World’s toughest security measures, to ensure the protection of sensitive data. At its heart, the game employs a trick-taking mechanic that incorporates many additional elements not found in regular trick-taking games, thus creating numerous twists and turns every round. White Hat comes with separate, dedicated solo and 2-player modes.
As the players attempt to prove their worth, they will attempt to win tricks by playing cards from their hand. If they win a trick they can then move one of their hats on the board through the maze of FBI servers, internet cafes, and digital tracers in order to reach the Critical Asset and end the game. However, players should not always rush to the end as points are scored at the end of each round depending on what spaces their hats are on, and the lowest score is the winner.
Unboxing | White Hat
- The tech-like aesthetic is appreciated.
- Components are nice, especially the wooden ones.
- The theme is integrated nicely into the cards.
- The game is small and has a small box.
- The rulebook text is a little hard to read.
- The game tiles are a little thin.
- Hackers
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hacking action — hacking action which is like the movement
- Ladder Climbing — like more of a ladder climbing game almost.
- Trick-Taking — um a trick-taking game for one to I think six players
Video topics + discussion points
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- um a trick-taking game for one to I think six players, um where you are like hackers pitted against one one another.
- it's like a very small box.
- See like White Hat pits one to six hackers against each other.
- The interesting thing is the way it's like not only trick-taking game, but also a um like more of a ladder climbing game almost.
- I appreciate the uh like the look being like a little bit like this tech kind of vibe, right? But, it is a little bit hard to read everything here.
- So, it's actually like these rules I think are very simple.
- Um, I think you can put these on the board to like modify the board. Um, it's like for re-playability, right?
- These are a little bit thin, but it's fine.
- Uh, yeah, I really like like the color scheme and everything. It's very cool.
- Oh, look at these hats. These are cute.
- These look nice. Nice wooden components. Love that.
- Oh, these are like very thin and they have a nice linen finish, actually. Oh, these feel good.
- It's like very like the theme is integrated quite nicely here.
- Not a whole lot of components, but I think for such a small I don't think it's very well-known game.
- Um I do like the components quite a bit, got to say.
- Um a competitive trick-taking and ladder-climbing game for one to six players. Really looking forward to that.
- This is like a more more unknown game, I think, which is like always something that I enjoy, as you know.