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FlipToons

Game ID: GID0402278
Collection Status
Year Published
2025
Transcript Analysis
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Sentiment: pos 2 · mix 0 · neu 0 · neg 0
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • easy to teach
  • easy to set up
  • great variety of tunes
  • plays well solo and with 2-4 players
Cons
  • can be cutthroat at higher player counts
  • reliant on unseen cards for some variance
Thematic elements
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Compound Scoring — Tunes score fame in different ways and can interact with other tunes on the board.
  • Deck building — Players assemble a deck from a market of tunes and use a six-card grid to reveal actions each round.
  • deck-building — Players assemble a deck from a market of tunes and use a six-card grid to reveal actions each round.
  • grid-based reveal — A 3x2 grid is laid out from a six-card window and revealed to determine actions.
  • hand management — Players manage a small-draw deck and only ever flip six cards per round.
  • market-based acquisition — New tunes are hired from a market and added to the player’s deck.
  • round-based reshuffle — At the end of each round, the entire deck is shuffled, including unseen cards.
  • set/variable scoring — Tunes score fame in different ways and can interact with other tunes on the board.
  • Simultaneous reveal — A 3x2 grid is laid out from a six-card window and revealed to determine actions.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • It's flip tunes.
  • easy to set up, easy to play.
  • it's just such an easy game to teach
  • It plays great solo, two player, three player, four player.
  • There's just such a great variety of tunes available.
  • And on the next round, you're shuffling them all back together, even the ones you didn't see.
  • it's novel in the way that it unfolds.
  • the most played smallbox game this year
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Video ZHHvJamXnZw All You Can Board top_15_list at 1:55
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Cons
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Quotes (from this video)
  • Small box games can sometimes get a bad rap because there's so many board games that release every year.
  • Flip Tunes is a really small box clearly.
  • it's such an easy game to teach
  • Scout is one of the best card games I've played in the last little bit.
  • Cascadia Rolling Rivers is a really satisfying game to manage the habitat cards.
  • Take Time is a cooperative game that boils down to two sets of cards, 1 to 12.
  • The Crew Mission Deep Sea is a cooperative trick-taking game for three to five players.
  • Stellar is a really great smallbox game that left my collection.
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Video Adhzswsvd5U top_10_list at 2:14 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • entry-level friendly
  • focus on deck-building concepts
Cons
  • card draw randomness can feel luck-driven
Thematic elements
  • deck-building with chance outcomes
  • deck-building classroom vibe
Comparison games
  • Flip Seven
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Deck building — Players buy new cards to create synergies and flip them out; card flips are largely uncontrollable and random.
  • deck-building — Players buy new cards to create synergies and flip them out; card flips are largely uncontrollable and random.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Shallow Sea is my king.
  • The production is insane. It's very expensive and I don't think the bang for the buck is there.
  • Bomb Busters is a deduction game where you and your fellow bomb busting experts are trying to snip wires on a bomb so you and your friends don't blow up.
  • Ready Set Bet is another crazy racing game.
  • Shackleton base is a space-based euro that has a ton of depth and replayability.
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