Trias

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• Point tracking — The whole thing is about points. You have to have like a ledger, a log book, a point to see who scored what for what so we can go back and audit it.

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• So these are the biggest shiniest examples of board games that we absolutely adore.
• It's fun in the Box.
• For me it's a theme all the way.
• It's just so smart and so cool.
• It's neat. It's unique. It's really cool. It's mechanic and services of theme which I think is really interesting.
• It's our backyard game so whenever I think of that game I think about being out in the sun I think about playing on the patio table.
• You will rather adulter than play this game with me.
• It's a sandbox game.
• It's the game that made me want to paint my minute.
• I absolutely despised I didn't like it all but I like to set these two up as as counter examples.

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• Pick-Up and Deliver — Mentioned as a core mechanic.

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• it's a puzzle puzzle game
• the mountain thing is very very fiddly
• I played sides s-i-d-e-s which is not released yet that was a really that's a really good party game
• I really enjoyed it it was a lot of fun
• it is a roll and write you will have to use your pen to like you know draw little markings or whatever to mark stuff off
• it's one of my absolute favorite games that we've made in a long time
• The Game Crafter template sizes are a real treat to format stuff for
• It's one of those things where it's like it's weird to me that like obviously court public opinion will always decide whether or not we believe a situation regardless
• you're not wrong and you know my friend got super upset and went in the bathroom and cried and considered you know giving up the game design and it's like you know that's that's not an inclusive atmosphere you know and everybody not everybody but a lot of people were like toughen up buttercup
• The Regency hotel is the best hotel to stay at when you go to Gen Con
• The Big Lebowski has zero fat on that movie, every single scene is purposeful, meaningful and every single line is like your stuff
• Yeah that's my answer that's my high school buddy
• I love that guy he's one of my favorite actors
• The only way you can get into it is if you know your Google password to basically get into it
• I think the best thing about the Regency is it's right across the street from Gen Con
• Texas, what?
• Third in Texas, pick up and deliver.
• I also played Darwin's Journey collector's edition.
• Played Fantasy Realms together 800, 71 times. You love that.
• The Big Lebowski got the wrong guy, dude man.
• Yeah, every single scene is purposeful, meaningful, and every single line is like your stuff.
• You pissed off Han Solo.
• He denied it and then they closed it without filing any charges or whatever it wasn't but so if you do something like that...
• So, like, but he didn't but so then he had, was it in 2020?
• It's one of those things where it's like, he's he's actually been in a couple of movies and like little tiny roles since all that stuff happened.
• Speaking of the Cosby Show and this is the strangest thing and I have no idea why it happens whenever I'm scooping kitty litter I think of one of two episodes of 80s sitcoms.
• You're fascinated with Brittany.
• I'll say that's where me and uh Joel lady stayed the first times when we were sharing a room.
• Hey, let's let's just don't worry, just change the sides of all your cards and it'll be fine.
• But you always learn something, yeah.
• Speaking of people, I made some enemies today on Facebook. Delightful.
• What is a good number of drink tickets to give somebody? Two for that. Two.
• The people at BGG are awesome.
• It is right, it is like right across the street from Gen Con.
• It is the best.
• So, like, as far as like it's something I can get what I want, either my daughter can get what she likes to eat there.
• It was like two floors, multiple balconies and they they would just have a ton of food and a ton of alcohol.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• card_driven — cards drive your actions and progress.
• grid_and_hexes — board with hexes for placement and scoring.
• set_collection — collect and deploy assets to score.

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• 24 games that I'm going to be talking about I'm going to go through them in alphabetical order
• my heart skipped a beat when I saw this on the list
• time will have to tell on that one

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Moving pieces — Moving your dinosaurs from terrain type to terrain type, trying to keep them alive.

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• So, we have a game here called Sequoia. This is from 2022.
• It's It's fine. I'm giving it a six. Uh Beasty Bars is is is a fun style game where you're playing these different type of animals, and I think each additional expansion made it more complex and less fun.
• Trias is an old dinosaur game that originally came with cubes, and eventually they had little dinosaurs in it instead. And it's kind of grow out to different things. This is a very I have this ranked as a seven. Probably now, the next time I go through my rankings, I'll probably rank it as a six because it's fine, but it's showing its age.
• All righty, of all the games we talked about today, my favorite here is clearly David Goliath, although Hooky is a very close second.
• Either way, it's always good to talk to you all.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Asymmetric victory conditions — Each faction has its own win condition: infamy for thieves, captures for city watch, money plus infamy modifiers for merchant.
• cooperative tension within competition — Players may cooperate temporarily to curb a leader while still pursuing personal goals.
• deck-building per role — Each player has a unique deck tied to their role (thief, city watch, merchant) with different abilities and victory paths.
• hand management and resource drafting — Players draw money and action cards each round and decide how to deploy them to influence outcomes.
• taxation and monetary manipulation — Taxes, political cards, and merchant incentives affect money generation and strategic pressure.

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• this is a really interesting game
• definitely add these in because they do add a nice sort of extra layer
• you need to kind of get to know all three decks
• three players only
• it's a really really really good game
• you've got to give it several plays to really click

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