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Otters

Game ID: GID0445811
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Players
3-5
Age
8+
Playtime
30 min
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Video mQuHoH4oNo4 Rolling Dice & Taking Names Discussion at 1:26 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
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  • it's been a wonderful day so far we started around one o'clock we're going to like six o'clock and i think the last count was we had like 60 plus people going on yeah easily 60 plus marty and it's been a day of nothing but classic games
  • if you know coo that's the kind of game you got going on there
  • it's been a great experience so far
  • international tabletop day is awesome
  • play more games and keep rolling dice
  • and taking names
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Video qLTO6DhViDg Watch It Played Discussion at 7:37
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Pros
  • Can be stored in Ziploc bags for ease of travel, saving space.
Cons
  • Pieces and manuals can get roughed up when stored in Ziploc bags without the original box.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • Plano containers are something you need to consider
  • it's really useful as I don't need to separate anything they're all right there
  • these have a very low profile you see they're not very high but they have lots of separate storage area areas and you can actually pick up little plastic separators and move them around in the container so if you want to make a section wider or shorter you can sort of organize it based on the games
  • this does like yabo says make it very easy to get the game out and have everything already separated and put on the table very very quickly
  • I think these are a great solution too it's really something I need to do more of honestly
  • this is this is a real problem in some games you have those large tiles
  • maybe the rubber band might be the way to go
  • now we've shown battle foam on the show before
  • I think you'll see as war game becomes more and more popular you're going to find more of these kinds of products being made for people like us who are a little bit OCD about how we store our games
  • you really see this a lot actually in these card games especially the collectible ones or the living card games where the cards that you can have and play with just continue to grow and grow and grow
  • Go on Board Game Geek if you're curious you'll find lots of people who are creating these foam core inserts and they look really nice and they're very functional
  • So this would be uh again you go on Board Game Geek I've seen them there
  • so it really looks like it almost belongs with the game
  • Very unique creative and you're definitely gonna get some stairs when you bring that out to the table
  • that's a clever idea I hadn't thought of that
  • go to your grocery store all kinds of Ziploc bags of different sizes and sometimes the perfect size is there that you need for a game
  • that's something I hadn't thought of maybe a reason to have another child probably not
  • now I don't really like the fact it says Saturday Friday Thursday Wednesday on here and all this written on the top but until terms of functionality it's fantastic
  • So I'm glad you mentioned that gold is in sight video
  • this may be sacrilegious to some but I have often stored whole games in Ziploc bags for ease of travel and thrown out the box all together
  • well I gotta tip my hat to you Tonda because I'm not as relaxed and comfortable but my game's getting banged up like that but sometimes I wished I was
  • there's something about well-used game cards and components that we all really like
  • not everyone is as concerned as maybe I am and some of you with protecting their game pieces and they actually enjoy that
  • listen to how far this obsession with protecting game components can go though
  • these are not sleeves for cards these are sleeves for your sleeves for your cards
  • so sometimes you get card sleeves and they have special Graphics or pictures on them and maybe you can't find those anymore and you want to protect the sleeves get sleeve protector protectors right there
  • I never liked card sleeves so I don't use them I just make sure my Gamers have clean hands and respect the cards before playing
  • what do you do when other players don't respect your game pieces maybe they got greasy fingers they're just being rough with them do you have examples of it how do you manage that how do you address it with them
  • I want to thank all of you for your comments I read all of them obviously I can't respond to all of them or even feature them here but I want to try to feature more and more of you as time goes on
  • we also have 13 video responses which I thoroughly enjoyed watching these seeing different people's different solutions for how they store their game pieces
  • so that's what box insults are for agree game creators put a lot of thought in the Box inserts to help you organize your games and we should appreciate it
  • and the more components the better the Box insert will be
  • for extreme cases like this I like to build my own box inserts that's all just cardboard it took a lot of measuring but it saved me so much time during setup of a dungeon then
  • I use these storage books if I go and do it yourself store as you can see they have a different inlay and they have that's the most important thing they have a customizable uh how you call them build hats
  • um the cash money cash money the paper money that comes with it is horrible and I think everybody can agree on that so I've just put poker chips in here like most people do and I put it in this again like three to four dollar Plano box from Walmart everybody at Walmart thinks that I'm some crazy fisherman because I'm constantly buying tackle boxes and stuff but I've never fished in my life and I'd be horrible at it
  • I forgot about my first ever obsessive board gaming storage solution which was to hold all of dominion up to before dark ages
  • who wouldn't love a Ramekin of tiny little horses
  • so it's pretty intense and I don't think many other people would have that type of storage box but it works for me I absolutely love it
  • it came out of an errant comment of me saying man I really wish I had like a card catalog to keep track of all these things and next thing you know my wife goes crazy and Mrs talks gets me a card catalog
  • Baggies of various sizes are a simple and accessible storage solution.
  • Really Useful Boxes are a product line designed for game storage.
  • GMT counter trays are specifically designed for organizing game counters and tokens.
  • Hugo's Amazing Tape is useful for keeping cards together and preventing them from getting beat up.
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Video pkI25DaHAWo BoardGameBollocks Top List at 3:54 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
  • One of the best Euro games released this year
  • Theme integrates well with mechanics
Cons
  • Needs a few more aliens in the box
Thematic elements
  • search for extraterrestrial intelligence
  • solar system
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Discovery — You'll be able to discover traces of alien existence that will reveal said extraterrestrial aliens that will radically change the final third of the game.
  • orbiting planets — You'll be attempting to orbit planets and then land them on planets to get points.
  • Probe deployment — You will be sending probes out into the solar system.
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  • if your top 100 ball games aren't on this list that's because a we haven't played them B we think they complete dog [ __ ]
  • You could accuse Eric M Lang of copying a lot of ideas from his other games and just reimplementing them in Rising Sun but it's different enough from another couple of games that he's done for us to pick it up and keep playing it
  • ordinarily I hate roll and move you must know that by now but like a lot of these games I can make exceptions for formula D
  • it does tell one of the most hilarious and memorable stories that you likely to get in a board game
  • This is one of those rare occasions where the theme isn't pasted on and it actually attaches itself to the mechanics of the game in a kind of sort of expert manner
  • You win if at the end of the game you got more white swords on the board that and black s
  • It's like a two- tiered mechanical system going on here
  • It can be a little bit hairy bit like my knck sack if I run out of Lady Shavers
  • The fact that you're going to be getting stuff on other people's turns and the game moves really really quickly means that there is basically zero downtime in this game here
  • Eldj horror ended up with more [ __ ] babies than alucino at 86
  • it's another one of those Amor trash storytelling games where sometimes you just want to sit back put your feet up and let the dice do the talking and have a good old rump around the world and not give a flying [ __ ] about what is going on around you
  • If you're not really that good at fondling people's sacks then Eclipse may not be for you
  • have you decided to jump off a Motorway Bridge without a trampoline I hope not
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Video gX9jLCb3MNk Stonemaier Games Top 10 List
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  • Don't worry, there's nothing to really remember here. Just reveal the card and then take an action.
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Video yvRt0BmW7Zg The Cardboard Herald Interview at 2:11
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Quotes (from this video)
  • But I could have won better.
  • Um, I I think it's crafted magnificently.
  • Endeavor competitive is like, you know what, I'll figure out if I win or not, but I'm just going to lean into the systems that I'm good at.
  • Whereas cooperative, every single action matters.
  • Um, and so, um, yeah, when when we settled on kind of what we found the game to be and we're like, "No, I think like this is this is worth pitching to some places."
  • The jaded critic in Ratatouille sits down and eats the food that takes him back to being a kid and understanding why he loves this in the first place.
  • big systems, big thematic resonance, and uh elegantly put together with interesting challenge.
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Video sut2KCCKAbA Stonemaier Games Discussion sentiment: positive
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positive
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  • Viticulture is one that always comes back to me.
  • it's easy to teach, easy to play.
  • My beloved Moon Colony Bloodbath is going away along with Viticulture and Speakeasy.
  • It's not Edge. It's Andromeda's Eedee.
  • I love Dwellings of Eldervale because you get to put a little roof on your character and make it into an actual building.
  • Red Rising is such a good game.
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