Katamino

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• Anacrony is a cooperative game for one to four players. So it's a cooperative game where you're working together to stop that end game timer.
• You're constantly making choices about how you're gonna spend your next X turns, and you've got to have enough resources.
• You've got to plan for months ahead. You've got to plan how you're gonna spend your next X turns.
• This is a really good cooperative game. I've played it a couple of times.
• It's a very thinky game. So you've got all these different tracks and your different workers and your different ways to score points.

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• Attrition — Players can "win games or kind of Wars of attrition to try chip off your player pieces or your opponent's player pieces".
• chess variant — A variant on chess with eight pieces of the same type.
• Objective-based win condition — The goal is to get "at least two of your pawns over and past your opponent's side of the board".
• Variable movement — The color of the square a pawn is on dictates its possible moves.

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• This is where I talk about the last five new to me board games that I've played and I rank them from my least favorite up to my most favorite
• it feels like I played a lot of games like this and I suppose my only nitpick would be that it's a little bit too loose for me
• there's so much about it that I like yet there's so many things that L it down in my opinion
• I'm a bit concerned that it's a bit of a gimmick rather than being as unique as maybe it tries to make out
• Again I tend to like games that have systems within systems and this is a nice clean example of that
• for me this has a real addictive quality to it
• I think it's fantastic one of the best games I've played this year actually and it's going to be a candidate to being one of my favorite two-player games of the year for sure

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• Strange World Above the Clouds because who doesn't love a cuddle monster?
• Temple Code because I was terrible at it and I decided I need to do something about it because I was really embarrassed to play it with other people.
• hydrate, bring a bottle of water, refill it.
• don't put a lot of pressure on yourself to try and play all of the games. It is impossible.
• It's the people, right, that make the show somehow
• this whole hobby is about the people we play the games with rather than just the games.

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• area-filling tiling — create a rectangle using polyomino shapes with notches
• Cooperative Game — play by oneself or with others to compare times
• notch-based placement — pieces have notches that must align with the grid
• Polyomino — create a rectangle using polyomino shapes with notches
• Portability — compact/pocket versions for travel
• solo puzzle with optional co-op — play by oneself or with others to compare times

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• I really like this game
• there's a solo mode so you can actually just go through all these puzzles
• the puzzles are tricky
• you can race to see who finishes it the fastest
• there's a lot of utility… portable and travel friendly
• it's a perfect game for the dentist's office when you're in the waiting room

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• tetromino-like tiling/puzzle construction — players fit shapes to fill spaces with optimal solutions

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• disguised learning.
• The game is a medium to achieve a result.
• Powerful, feeling powerful.
• You're here to work.
• The kids see this big box of games, they go, 'Oh my days, what's all that?'
• We never talk down to them. We talk to all the kids like the young adults.
• The game is a medium to achieve a result. It’s not about the rules, it’s about engagement and learning.

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