All the animals want to build their own enterprises and comes here for investment: Koala have already started a construction company that leads the market with innovative building materials and environmentally friendly ideas; the Turtle started a cab company that earned a wide customer with patience and consistent service. To promote all these businesses, Mayor Wolf has provided a favorable investment environment. Invest wisely, and you may become one of the most successful investors and institutional managers.
In Wolf Street, players will play either as a Manager or an Investor. The goal of the game is to have the most money in hand among the peers at the end of the game. Each game will have two winners: the wealthiest Manager and the wealthiest Investor.
—description from the publisher
- Slightly better than Mateo
- Still not interesting
- Too little information at the beginning
- Not enough information to read players
- Not a big fan
- Not going to play it
- Not going to pull it out
- Not great
- Betting on trendy wool colors and owning the most of them.
- Stock market
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bluffing — Players might try to bluff at the beginning, but it's difficult due to limited information.
- Card placement — Players reveal a card and place it in its corresponding color row.
- Market selling — Players choose to sell cards to the market, influenced by initial information and other players' actions.
- Set Collection — When a row receives seven cards of the same color, it receives a point bonus.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Mateo is not a fun game, not interesting at all.
- blue penguin best of the bunch for sure.
- Those are my scores four, five, and six. They get a little better as you know, as we go, but they're not fabulous games. I wouldn't go out and buy them myself, and I wouldn't recommend playing them.
- However, they're super adorable. They're a cool idea of being able to fit these, you know, games in such tiny little boxes. The problem with it, I think, is that they over simplified everything.
- So, really, it's just a little bit too simplified for me.
References (from this video)
- Exciting, fun, and unpredictable
- Opportunity to cash in big
- Strategic elements like lobbying and market intelligence
- Market can be volatile
- Bubble can burst at any time
- The stock exchange and making money
- Wall Street
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Buying low and selling high — This is presented as a basic skill to master for success in the game.
- Hoarding cash — Players are advised to hoard cash, especially for lobbying for influence.
- Lobbying for influence — Cash can be used to gain additional influence in the market.
- Market intelligence — Players can pay for information to get ahead.
- Popping the bubble — This action is suggested as a way to get ahead when in a tough position.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Wall Street is a wonderful place the competition the chaos the cash the stock exchange is my playground and I was born to play this game
- playing the market can be exciting fun and unpredictable
- remember information is king
- the market can be volatile and the bubble can burst at any time
- hold on tight for this wild ride welcome to Wall Street baby let's make some money
References (from this video)
- Awesome
- Improved reimplementation
- Intense real-time negotiation
- Unique experience
- Strategic
- Real-time stock trading and negotiation.
- Financial market
- Simultaneous play with negotiation.
- Panic on Wall Street
- Pit
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — At the end of the negotiation phase, 'the dice roll' determines stock performance.
- Negotiation — Players engage in 'real time negotiation' to buy and sell stocks.
- Real-Time — The core of the game happens in a 'simultaneous yell as loud as you can everyone at the same time' phase.
- Stock market — Players act as investors and managers, buying and selling stocks.
- team play — The game involves two teams: investors and managers.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- This one is the top 10 games that I've already played cuz I'm fortunate enough to get some early copies of things that are releasing at Gen Con.
- Jungo is the reason why I'm never going to play Scout again.
- This is one of the most unique experience games ever.
- Breaking down barriers, growing relationship board games by helping you find the next one you love.
References (from this video)
- It was pretty weird.
- It was described as having timed things and auctions happening all at once.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auctions — Auctions are part of the gameplay.
- Role selection — Some players are managers, some are investors.
- Timed elements — There are timed elements within the game.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- My first stop today was Fa Swamp. And I've been standing in line for 50 minutes and I got it.
- The publisher almost got told to stop selling copies in general but they reorganized the queue a bit and then they got to be able to continue selling.
- And you are watching Board Gaming Ramblings.
- When we last left the princes, they were ugly, disgusting boys. And now they're zombies and you have to kill them. I mean, save them. Save them.
- This is a standard trick ticking game. It's based off of the game of spades.
- We played Wolf Street, which is a pretty weird game.
- This is a new game from Sitdown Games.
- I thought it was pretty cool. I enjoyed a couple things with it, but I know I will like it more when I'm not sleeping while I play it.
- It gets really brain burning trying to figure out like, hey, where do you place the next tile because there's a lot of permutations.
- It's been a good day. Did you have a good day?
- We'll see you tomorrow. Thank you for watching.
References (from this video)
- Panic on Wall Street
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I love the White Castle. I love it so much.
- World Order. Yeah, it's so good.
- Cities, I loved Cities. I think it's just fantastic.
References (from this video)
- Unique and engaging real-time negotiation
- Two distinct gameplay experiences (investor/manager)
- Rebalanced market and dice add more excitement
- Improved components (wooden tokens, dry erase cards)
- No player elimination in the new version
- Drafting adds strategic starting options for managers
- Streamlined auction process speeds up the game
- Set collection bonus adds more strategic depth
- Paper money is similar to the original and not preferred by the reviewer
- Blind bid auction is less exciting than the old system for some
- Components are slightly smaller (though for cost/table space reasons)
- Stock market simulation and negotiation
- Wall Street
- Panic on Wall Street
- Pit
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction — New companies and shares are auctioned off to managers.
- bluffing — Implied through negotiation and deciding when to lock in deals or bid.
- Dice Rolling — Used to determine stock value fluctuations each round.
- Drafting — Managers draft three starting cards at the beginning of the game.
- real-time negotiation — Players engage in simultaneous negotiation for two minutes per round to buy and sell shares.
- Set Collection — A bonus is awarded to managers who collect one share of each of the four different colored companies.
- stock market simulation — Players manage stocks and funds from different companies, with values fluctuating based on dice rolls.
- Variable player powers — Players take on distinct roles of investors or managers, each with different objectives and actions.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- It recently made my number one most stressful game in a video that I came up with the top five most stressful games out there.
- The managers are going to be getting things from different companies like uh the hamster surge or first banch uh branch bank there or electro or you know first avenue there.
- It's so fun. The real time negotiation, this is just awesome.
- I like that you have the sort of the conservative versus the aggressive uh stocks, the ones that move a lot, the ones that don't move a lot.
- The game plays best with higher player counts.
- I like all of the changes they made.