Quacks

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• Mechanisms are the heart of every board game.
• Whatever you do, you play new cards, it's epic.
• Engine building is starting with almost nothing and then building a system that keeps on giving you things.

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• bag-building / push-your-luck — draws from a bag of components, pulling out components with risk of exploding outcomes

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• The perfect filler game
• This is the best version yet and gorgeous
• it's a simple party game where we all play together as a team
• it's the perfect intro to deck-building

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• bag-building — Draw and place dice (tokens) into a bag to simulate potion brewing with push-your-luck pacing.
• engine building — As you improve your engine across rounds, you unlock more efficient brewing runs.
• Tile/coin/icon-based scoring — Tiles define mixed benefits; scoring is driven by brewed outcomes and engine state.

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• "Planet Unknown is my number one favorite game of all time as of right now."
• "I am in awe of this design. It is a truly inspirational card design."
• "This is Planet Unknown... a great spatial puzzle and a great simultaneous puzzle."
• "Duel for Middle-earth is a delight. The tension is high throughout the game."
• "The Gang is my number two favorite game of all time. I love its cooperative poker aspect."
• "I love the pacing of Skull King—ramping up the number of cards each hand creates escalation."
• "Ark Nova is the heaviest game on this list, and I love every minute of it when it's on the table."

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• Push Your Luck — Players draw ingredients from their sack, hoping to avoid drawing too many explosive ingredients that would cause their cauldron to explode
• Simultaneous Play — All players reveal tokens at the same time

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• the reason I wanted to talk about this topic was one was because I've just picked up the quacks of qward Lindbergh expansion the herb witches which is a really good expansion just to add some more of the same really more variety to that game which was my favorite game of last year
• so push your luck or press your luck games as they tend to be called in America
• it's looking at the odds and trying to make a mathematical decision is it worth me taking this risk or is it not and of course the presence of other people around the table changes that because it's not just about the maths it's also about knowing the psychology of those other people
• I love all the messin about you doing captain carcass you turn over one card it allows you to do something else and then you can use this special power to do something else
• the pushier luck stuff is strong in throne that's where the fun in the game is it's recognizing how many does to throw
• I love this honour of games I wish there were more of them
• thank you very much for watching I hope this was interesting for you if you enjoyed it please watch some of my other videos on BoardGameGeek I'm Adam 78 on YouTube I'm Adams Borg in wales on twitter i'm at board game wales

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