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Busy Beaks

Game ID: GID0448210
Game Info
Players
2-4
Age
8+
Playtime
30 min
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Video tPIjz7HTtMA Meeple University Top List at 6:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Typifies what Phil Walker Harding is good at.
  • Clever light mechanisms.
  • Could replace older simple card draw games.
  • Showcases Australian birds with nice art.
Cons
  • A lot of it is the luck of the card draw.
  • Might be too light for some hobby gamers.
Thematic elements
  • Birds
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Card drawing — Drawing cards from a deck.
  • set collection — Collecting sets of five matching birds.
  • Variable player powers — Each bird has an ability which allows you to pick up cards in a certain way.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • This is a top five designer series where we pick a designer that we favor.
  • He's got a very large catalog and he plays very much in the gateway to Gateway plus space.
  • He has a Gateway version of almost every mechanism on the market with some smarts built into it.
  • For me Cacao is his finest game on the market.
  • One of the greatest if it's not the greatest engine building of all and the time.
  • Please do play if you like engine building and it if you like tactile games this is it.
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