On The Road

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• marble drafting — draft marbles to complete drink combinations
• spill cards / interaction — cards that disrupt other players' plans

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• it's so simple it's so slick our four-year-old can play it
• this is crazy chaotic fun
• this is a hilarious dexterity game
• it's the most advanced but at the same time the rules themselves are easy
• you can level it to your child
• it's engaging for literally all ages
• it's a game that can be played for players age like 4 to 99
• love it it is a great one

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Marble rolling — Making mixed drinks with marbles and the marbles are almost a misdirect.

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• Hey everybody, I'm Tom Vassal. Welcome to Look Back. This is a series that I do where I take a look at reviews that I did 1 year ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago, and even 20 years ago during this time frame.
• It's It's doing okay. I think it's in the 4000s at BoardGameGeek. I just didn't like it at all. Boring, boring airplane travel game.
• What a fantastic game, a real-time shoot-'em-up strategy style game. Very entertaining. 10 out of 10. Just a great game. Still love this game 10 years later.
• honestly for a game that's themed on Taco Bell is like a 10 out of 10 in a sense cuz you're expecting it to be bad.
• This is the follow-up to the very popular Dominant Species.
• This is a fun party game in which someone's dying and they write a message on the board, but the other person he erases I think half of it.
• So, this is like the lowest seven I can give a game in a sense.
• The artwork is a little uh uh It's all mixed over. It's muddled and they made it for people who love Overpower and they threw in the kitchen sink.
• We're trying to get more people to play these games and they made it super complex.
• Point chips from a bag. That battle system is my favorite part and a lot of interesting decisions.
• The theme of the world is a little mundane for me. I wish there was more. It wasn't as interesting as it could be.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Dice Rolling — A die is rolled to determine certain actions or outcomes, such as the number of ingredients to draft.
• Drafting — Players draft marbles from community bowls to fulfill their drink orders.
• Press Your Luck — Players might decide to take bowls with spill marbles for potential benefits, risking negative consequences.
• Set Collection — Players collect sets of colored marbles (ingredients) to complete specific drink recipes on their order cards.

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• It's like this is a disaster. This is a garbage dump of dumpster fire marbles.
• Your marbles will not be around. They're square marbles. It's a new... it's a new thing.
• I'm cursed on stream.
• We need this game. Make it happen. It's true. Please make this one happen.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Drafting — you're trying to draft all these marbles in order to make these drinks
• Push Your Luck — there's also some that are not like what you want they will do bad things to you but some of those selections might have just a ton of marbles in them so you're willing to risk it risk this negative thing happening to you in order to gain all of these
• Set Collection — you have drinks and they require different colored marbles in order to make them

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• this is kind of a placeholder for all of the ticket to rides we own like five maps to this I think we own like nine if you factor in the sand alone Germany and Europe and London we have a ton of these Maps we really like these games they are extremely streamlined to what a game is
• this is the game I would recommend every library to purchase if they have a circulating board game collection because it will get played and it will get circulated
• also a great game by the way it's going to be higher up on my list spoiler alert but this game is also great
• I just really really like that you don't have to be good at games be good at this game cuz you're just rolling dice like that's it that's all the game is you're just rolling Dice
• because of that corers is in my heart
• you are either playing a card you're getting a card or you're picking up your cards and that's it that's all you're doing
• it's really challenging to know when to do that and when it's going to be beneficial
• people feel really smart and clever while they're playing it but also not like overwhelmed with all these different things
• this is a game that you have an action you get to play an action but then everyone to do that exact same action you just have to do a stronger version of it
• the actions that don't get drafted actually get a little bit of money added to them
• it's a classic
• you're trying to draft all these marbles in order to make these drinks
• there's also some that are not like what you want they will do bad things to you but some of those selections might have just a ton of marbles in them so you're willing to risk it risk this negative thing happening to you in order to gain all of these so you can complete your orders
• it's really cool with this recessed board as you're putting all of these marbles in all of these places and you're drafting this these cards it just it's a really fun one to play
• worker placement game but usually worker placement what that means is when you place a worker no one else can go there it's the exact opposite in fact you want to go where you already have people placed
• my favorite mechanism in this game is you can go and you can arrest other people's groups of people and basically sell them to the jail for money
• there's kind of this morality track as well as you're um as you're going up kind of building this church this Cathedral as well

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Dice Rolling — Roll two ice-cube dice to determine the number of ingredients to draw from the bag.
• dice_roll_and_draw — Roll two ice-cube dice to determine the number of ingredients to draw from the bag.
• end_game_trigger_three_orders — The game ends when a player completes the third order, triggering end-game conditions.
• gold_marble_bonus — Gold marbles grant two ingredients of your choice from the bag.
• Mancala — Distribute drawn ingredients around bowls in a Mangala-style layout.
• mancala_like_distribution — Distribute drawn ingredients around bowls in a Mangala-style layout.
• order_change_discard_and_replace — Players can change or discard recipe cards in their order.
• premium_tip_and_tips — Tip cards provide money or a bonus effect; some tips allow selecting an ingredient of choice.
• Recipe — Choose a bowl, add ingredients to your recipes, and attempt to complete them as shown on your recipe cards.
• select_and_complete_recipe — Choose a bowl, add ingredients to your recipes, and attempt to complete them as shown on your recipe cards.
• spill_deck_and_spills — Spill cards disrupt ingredients; players can also play cards to hamper others.
• store_ingredients_between_rounds — Players may store up to three ingredients in shot glasses between rounds.

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• extremely thematic components really nice components
• gateway game indeed
• mangala sort of style
• racing to finish three orders
• production kudos to the designer indeed

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