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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• card shedding — Players shed cards from their hand, aiming to get closest to a target value without exceeding it.
• Push Your Luck — Players decide when to stop shedding cards, risking going over the target or being stuck with unwanted cards.
• Set Collection — Players collect cards with red or blue marks, aiming for a specific color combination for scoring.

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• it cost me two things actions and resources
• the print is that small cuz it does not need to be
• the thing that I thought was cute with one piece is the same thing here is at the beginning of the game you take seven cards off the top of your deck and that's your life and when you take damage you take one of the life cards and discard it but there may be a trigger on it which does something like maybe puts it to your hand I thought that was kind of unique
• Evolution 2.0 that's right Evolution one of my favorite games
• this game is for those of you that enjoy Evolution but want to play with people who have never played
• I'm loving the concept I'm loving the idea of the um individual modules and the various biomes that they're picking
• you can make the deck so the the game so that okay there's not a lot of player interaction not of a lot of attacking or could be there could be a lot of attacking
• we were completely mesmerized by these things cuz they are very cool
• they are actually very helpful for even people of advanced age because it's 4 through 99
• the fact that it's a magnetic setting where you put an overlay in the box and you are sticking these pieces to it just blew us away
• teaching people how to use chopsticks
• this is the miniature game for board gamers
• 45 minutes okay now I'm paying a lot more attention
• this is a skirmish game
• an army is only like 15 Miniatures I could put those together real quick and paint those real quick
• we did another draft event tonight oh my gosh 64 people sign up for the event
• my leaders were all of the villain the dark side that I had
• don't judge a book by its cover
• she made it look easy and I played that leader the night before and I felt like I was an idiot
• you know what am I dealing with here and she just I was like wow

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• card flipping — Get a deck of like 30 cards in your hand and you just flip them over one at a time.
• Closest to Target Number — You have to be the closest to the target number that's up face up in the middle of the table.
• Stop Mechanism — You have to stop and then everybody reveals and the person that's closest to gets the card.

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• it was a little too long 12 hands was too many I would have preferred playing the 500 instead of a thousand
• this system was had its cool things it had some cool things but it also had just some garbage ideas
• it's just like who came about these rules it's just like these aren't streamlined these are garbage they are horrible
• the Marvel superheroes game was like the Marvel Universe
• spacehulk spacehulk spacehulk space Hulk I knew it was Warhammer I just didn't know
• it's the one where you uh you're playing as a disease trying to kill everybody take over the world it's like an AA control game
• I think it's in my top 25 or 50 games of all time
• the game just chef's kiss
• Shadows of Brimstone game and it's just like yeah doing nothing
• Brimstone is our money maker they they'll milk the dead
• it's sort of a Rog likee and I think it doesn't get enough credit
• like you're doing the same thing just longer and more tedious and more like that's that's bad
• the deluxe version of it um had a basically kind of a foil cover like as the person's casting a spell and so there's this kind of rainbow effect foil cover of like the magic that's coming up
• it was it was insane yes crazy what people go foil covers bring to the end
• the Cliffhanger game with a more compact box size streamline rule book and over a decade's worth of Polish and AATA worked in this is the ultimate edition of the classic Cliffhanger Adventure game
• the cards were tiny
• Shadows of Brimstone game and it's just like
• we couldn't get any traction we couldn't get anybody to notice the game even existed anywhere
• it was like it sold it we sold out day and a half just because it had a foil had a foil rainbow cover
• I hate those things yeah I pick every box sleeve off of every game I've ever got
• we would rather be cheated out of money than refuse a customer service request from somebody who honestly needed it
• the owner said why isn't that guy allowed in the store and they told him why and he's like it's a free country he can say whatever he wants
• I was like Rich if like quite literally Rich you should just tell people that I will be there and that will get more people to come in and and sell stuff and I and give me the table for free
• I don't make anything so what's the point of
• I don't have to pay $5 just so sit at a [ __ ] table now
• we're not coming here anymore you come to my house for board game night that's it
• well how about you buy it and when you're done with it bring it back to me and I'll give you the money back minus five bucks

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