Monza

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Dice rolling — Determining movement
• racing — Racing to finish line

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• a series of videos where I take a bunch of different possible scenarios some of them provided by you the viewers and I shuffle them up into a deck of cards I reveal a scenario and roll a dice to see how many players I've got
• I got in lots of trouble last time for using the word dice as a singular so we'll be sticking with die as long as I remember today
• everything economic uh that I really really love seems to cap out at five players
• I can't imagine how long it would take so I think that would probably ruin ruin game
• frankly I played that with uh two players once and we gave up after about seven hours
• there's some good ones but most games before 1995 would ruin game night if you tried to play them today
• you're not allowed to speak to each other and you're playing against the time so it's very frantic
• the only way you're able to communicate is by tapping this wooden token to say look I need you to do something
• I think Mysterium would fall apart if they didn't speak the language and that's odd isn't it because it does isn't a game that has any text in it
• I think a terrible idea there's not that much interaction and the game gets longer with each player that you add
• I don't understand the people who put down a big you know they stick down Scythe in front of kids or boast about the fact their four-year-old can play sides
• there's no reason to be playing um Snakes and Ladders or or Candyland I would say not that Candyland is a big thing in the UK

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Bingo-style tile drafting / route building — Players place tiles to maximize routes and progress explorers toward temples.
• tile placement — Tiles are placed on a grid to create efficient routes.

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• This video has been sponsored by munchpak so thank you to munchpak.
• Tapestry is a game that has just continued to increase on my list; I've always liked it a lot.
• Rhino Hero Super Battle... this game is so much fun.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• dice pool — Six colored dice rolled and selected in player-chosen order
• Positive Interaction — Optional variant where opponent's car matching last color moved advances one space
• roll and move — Players roll six colored dice and select order to apply results, moving one space at a time along track matching colors

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Quotes (from this video)

• Where once randomness ruled modern games prioritized player agency designers strived to incorporate meaningful decisions into their games and role and move became a dirty word among the modern tabletop community
• I myself put out a video called dicer not the answer back in 2017 one of my most watched lamenting role and move
• In 2022 i feel like maybe just maybe we've tipped too far in the other direction thrown the baby out with the bath water
• This video is a quest for redemption
• When done well roller move is one of the most intuitive exciting mechanisms out there
• In a pure roll and move game the player rolls a die or spins a spinner and moves their playing piece according to the result
• In talisman you roll the die and then you choose to move clockwise or anticlockwise around the board that one deviation from the purest role of move games the decision to go left or right immediately put talisman head and shoulders above most board games on the market at the time
• Hero quest showcases the strength of the roller move mechanism its elegant simplicity and the excitement of a successful role outrunning an ogre
• It can be really frustrating to lose a long game which you were totally invested in purely because you rolled badly
• Spooky stairs is a great example of a game where the roll and move mechanism itself isn't tampered with but the basic race mechanism is turned on its head by incorporating a chaotic memory mechanism
• This game beautifully highlights the intuitive nature of roll and move as a mechanism
• More than any other on this list this game demonstrates how such a simple mechanism can create agonizing decisions and a hugely interactive variable board game experience I can't recommend this one enough
• Roll and move games don't have to be devoid of meaningful choices
• Formula d has a great roll and move mechanism which i haven't seen replicated in any other game
• Push your luck and roll and move complement each other nicely
• Among hobby gamers roll a move is widely considered something of an untouchable mechanism in 2022 and that's a shame
• Roll and move isn't a cursed mechanism
• Like every mechanism roller move has strengths and weaknesses
• It can be used effectively to create an exciting intuitive system or it can be used ineffectively to create a wildly random experience which feels primitive and unfair

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Color Matching — Movement depends on matching the dice colors to track spaces, with strategic ordering potentially extending your move.
• roll-and-move — On your turn you roll colored dice and move your car to a space that matches the color of the die result.

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• It's a very fun introduction to some Modern mechanisms like there's a lot of modern games that use this kind of bag building or deck building as the card equivalent of that mechanism.
• I think Monza is a great pick
• Out Fox is what I would say is like kids first deduction game
• This is the game that I would say is first kids introduction to the Roll-and-Right genre

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