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1985
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Description
Classic bidding and bluffing game. The deck consists of sets of farm animals, 4 cards per animal. Players auction off the top animal of the deck, or try to complete their set by trading with another player. Highest bid wins, but auctioneer always has the choice to buy the animal for the same price as the highest bid.
Trading is a blind bidding system: both players place their bid face down on the table and reveal them simultaneously to each other. High bidder gets the other player's animal. Both players swap their bid. It's best to bid just a little bit more than your opponent, but just how much did he bid?
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Kuhhandel Master (2009)
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Chairman of the Board Top List at 9:24 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Went down really well with the game group
- Layers to the bluffing
- Real double think going into the game
- Dynamic as cards constantly swap and change
- Hoard money if you want
- Very enjoyable experience
- Aged very well
- A lot of fun
- One of the best bluffing games played
Cons
- Can go a little long
- Felt like the game was played out by the end
- Can fall into the trap of players dragging their heels at higher player counts
Thematic elements
- Bluffing and bidding for animal cards
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- auction/bidding — Now they actually have no choice but to either accept your offer or to offer a counter offer for your animal of the same type and if they accept your offer then all is good you just take the money and um of course you'll get the animal in return but you don't know what that money is so it could be loads it could be these zero bluffing CS that are worth nothing and so on but if you make a counter offer is quite interesting because you both look at those um money cards individually and whoever has bid the most will get those cards but you'll swap the amount of money
- bluffing — if you and an opponent have the same type of animal in your scoring Tableau then you can actually try to get or try to almost bribe your opponent to give you that card by playing um these money cards face down in front of them.
- No change given — this game does not offer you any change when it comes to money um because a lot like a lot like the um the cars you're collecting the animal cards the money comes in very strict denominations as well ranging from 10 up to 50 up to 100 up to 200 up to 500 and you can never get change from those cars so some times U you are forced to overspend because you simply do not have the smaller card denominations
- Set Collection — you've got these like little chickens that are only worth say 10 points per set per set of four that you've got but you've got these horses that are worth like a thousand points for each set of four that you have
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is where I take a look at the last five new to me board games that I've played and I rank them in order of preference
- this is probably one of the most predictable pushy Lu games that I've ever played but I don't actually mean that in a negative way because I tend to like those styles of games
- all very kind of Mass Appeal Mass Market feeling mechanisms here but it works
- it really is a turn your brain off and kind of roll with the punches style of game
- this might have some of the most interesting scoring categories that I've seen
- for each score and category that you put down in your Tableau you will actually score -10 points for so that you want to be that means that you want to be squeezing at least 10 points out of the scoring categories so that you actually venturing into positive points
- so that's there's layers to the bluffing here where you might think is he trying to rip me off or if he is trying to rip me off I'll just make a counter offer give him a little bit of money and I'll probably win his card off him but of course he knows that and so on so there's that real double think going into the gaml here
- this is a tremendous design that definitely definitely over impressed me in what I thought this game was going to deliver on
- straddles that line per perfectly of being accessible but clever
- this is a game that's going to hit the table very regularly for me I just know it hits that perfect sweet spot of the games that I enjoy in my gaming group enjoy
- I was expecting to like it but I was not expecting to like it this much
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Chairman of the Board Discussion at 11:32 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Mixed
Pros
- Really like the gameplay
- Recommend variant of bidding for two animals
Cons
- Too long, even with variants
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bidding — We played a four-player game of the classic bluffing and bidding style game.
- bluffing — We played a four-player game of the classic bluffing and bidding style game.
- Set Collection — by hoarding a lot of the high points valued um animals.
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Quotes (from this video)
- RA, uh, 33 minutes and 28 seconds, and this was one of the biggest car crash games of RA that I've played.
- I have to admit, I did bounce off this one quite hard. I wasn't really a fan of it.
- And this one, I really like the gameplay, but it is too long.
- I think for an introductory Euro style game, this game does such a fantastic job of giving you the giving you the seven wonders experience in the most streamlined way possible.
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Review at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Engaging bluffing mechanism
- Enjoyable experience
- Closed economy
- Dynamic card swapping
- Quirky art style
- Fun
Cons
- Can go a little long
- Potential for dragging at higher player counts
Thematic elements
- Bluffing, animal cards, auctions
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction — Players reveal animal cards of varying point values and engage in an auction-style bidding process.
- bluffing — Players can attempt to bribe opponents with face-down money cards to acquire cards of the same animal type, leading to counter-offers and strategic deception.
- Money management — The game uses strict money denominations with no change, which can force players to overspend.
- Set Collection — Players collect sets of animal cards, with different animals scoring vastly different amounts of points (e.g., chickens for 10 points per set of four vs. horses for 1000 points per set of four).
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Quotes (from this video)
- at number two I have your bluffing
- one of the best bluffing games that I've played
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Chairman of the Board Discussion at 7:41 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- easy to table
- light party game
- fun social interaction
Cons
- randomness can frustrate some players
Thematic elements
- set collection and bluffing
- Animals and trading sets
- silly and accessible
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Push Your Luck — predict higher/lower with cards to advance on track
- push your luck / guessing — predict higher/lower with cards to advance on track
- Set Collection — collect animal sets
- trading / negotiation — forced trades with other players
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is the newest board and dice game at least one of the newest
- a very straightforward Euro definitely on the lighter end of the medium
- I'm glad I did
- these are the kind of Euros I tend to really get along with
- the old ones are normally the best ones
- this is a stripped back Euro
- no bloat to the rules or anything like that
- it's so easy to table
- two to four players 40 minutes just sounds like it's taking all those boxes for me
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