Jungle Speed

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Hand/eye coordination and speed — Rapid card reveals require players to act fast to gain or avoid penalties.
• Pattern-matching reflexes — Players grab the totem when matching drawings come up, racing others.

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Quotes (from this video)

• it's a Cooperative game so if you're really good that helps everybody
• real time we're chucking dice we're trying to communicate we're moving monsters all within two minute period
• it's very easy to teach you can play with kids you can play with grown-ups
• we all know what number one is, thank you for watching
• it's the first flicking game on this list

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Speed matching — Racing to match patterns

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Quotes (from this video)

• It wasn't just the hundred sort of best designed games this was the hundred games that I feel that I'm particularly sort of connected to
• The games that have a place in my heart really games that I've got a lot of nostalgia for
• It felt a bit like doing a roll and write game but without all of the sort of convenience
• I wish I still had castles of burgundy and notre dame
• The main thing that got in the way for me was all the iconography
• I do use board games as an escape from screens and technology
• I really like the production of cockroach poker
• I found it was a game where I could see the ending coming and then someone would just go and there we go we've got another 20 minutes now
• It feels like something other than a board game
• The decisions you make in the game are very very slight
• Right up my alley
• I do really like push your luck
• That's my favorite game
• Abyss is my second favorite game
• I love pekka pig
• I just think it's ugly

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• dexterity — Physical speed and precision to grab the central totem when a pattern match occurs.
• pattern_matching — Players flip cards and try to spot matching patterns; the first to notice a match grabs the totem.

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Quotes (from this video)

• it's meant to be you make a mistake and you drink, the game gets easier to make as you get more drunk
• the social lubricant—the game is happening and people can drop in and out
• this is the perfect opportunity to drink
• it's almost a definition of the tent—it's fun and chaotic in a good way
• Anomia is a lot like Jungle Speed in spirit
• the rules can be learned quickly, which is ideal for a festival tent

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• it's our time of year again it is time for our top 100 games of all time
• we're going to give you our top 100 games of all time
• this game still holds up today but we still like playing with my kids
• it's a frantic crazy game
• Power Grid has a wonderful auction system

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• speed reflexes — players flip cards and race to grab the totem when matching symbols

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Quotes (from this video)

• Hive is a two-player abstract game where players are trying to surround the other players queen bee.
• these components are cardboard they're basically coasters you can put your drink on it
• Jungle Speed does not fit in your pocket
• it's cobb coop cube coop actually another name for it is viking chess
• you can leave your box at home but it absolutely fits your pocket

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