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Players
2-6
Age
12+
Playtime
30 min
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Heavy Cardboard Review at 4:16 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- It's a good trick-taking game.
- Players craft their hands.
- It's social.
- It's clever.
- It's fun and chaotic.
Cons
- The problem with trick-taking games is not liking getting stuck with a hand.
Thematic elements
- Kids making things up on the playground
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- hand management — Players craft their hands by writing 21 points worth onto cards, distributing numbers zero to 21 across their cards.
- set collection — Players aim to collect tokens by winning tricks.
- Trick-taking — Players play tricks and aim for the leading suit. If players have a card of the leading suit, they must play it. If two players play the same number, they knock each other out.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- Actually designed this game out of spite of trick taking games.
- if two players play the same number, they knock each other out, which is so fun and chaotic and I love it so much.
- Bidcoin. One of my favorite trick-taking games of recent.
- The goal of the game, it's one hand is to survive.
- It is the weirdest. It's a standard trick taking game in a sense that for the f until people start recycling their hands because then you can't track what cards have left the game coupled with who has won what cards.
- The overwhelming majority of tricktaking games are mid or bad.
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Ryan and Bethany Board Game Reviews Review at 0:06 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Clever and unique take on trick-taking
- Great player control over card values
- Combines chaos and strategy effectively
- Event deck adds variability without breaking core rules
- Strong card-game craftsmanship from Pandasaurus
Cons
- Marketing and audience mismatch may deter families expecting a kids game
- Theme/name misalignment can cause confusion about target demographic
- Could be too advanced for younger children despite branding
Thematic elements
- control of scoring through value manipulation within a traditional trick-taking frame
- Abstract, dry-erase card-based trick-taking with customizable values
- analytical, instructional, enthusiastic
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Customizable card values — Dry-erase cards allow players to assign values (including zero) to their seven cards, with the total hand value required to be 21.
- End-of-round 21 validation — After each round, players’ scores depend on whether their total equaled 21; over or under can yield zero for that round.
- Event deck alters rules each round — An event deck introduces rule variations each turn, such as mixed suits or altered 21 requirements.
- Events — An event deck introduces rule variations each turn, such as mixed suits or altered 21 requirements.
- Three rounds, seven hands per round — Gameplay is structured into three rounds, each containing seven hands.
- Three suits with trick-based scoring — There are three suits/tricks and corresponding scoring tokens that grant points when you win those tricks.
- Trick-taking — There are three suits/tricks and corresponding scoring tokens that grant points when you win those tricks.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is not a kids game despite its name
- it's a trick-taking game as the name suggests
- you can write on those cards whatever values you want
- you have the control to try to take over the most lucrative tricks
- I thought this game was super clever, very unique
- I love the variety. I love the control that you have over your values
- the marketing of this made a lot of sense
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Grant's GameRex Top 10 List at 3:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique twist on trick-taking
- Promotes lively discussion and group interaction
Cons
- Can be chaotic or hard to track scoring for some groups
Thematic elements
- Pattern recognition and numeric scoring via adjustable numbers
- Abstract/party card game
- Playful, debate-driven, energetic
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Compound Scoring — A scoring tile changes the value of tricks depending on color/value, altering strategy.
- hand management — Seven cards in hand each round; players decide which to play to win tricks.
- hand-management — Seven cards in hand each round; players decide which to play to win tricks.
- Trick-taking — A trick-taking card game where rounds are shaped by numbers players set on the cards.
- variable_scoring — A scoring tile changes the value of tricks depending on color/value, altering strategy.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- these are essentially all the smallbox games I really enjoyed this year that are not card games.
- these are, you know, they might be dice games. They might be uh dexterity games.
- Tricky Kids is a unique and interesting trick taking card game where you set the number on the cards you are playing.
- we are together trying to pick up this drone and moving it and then oh everything topples and everybody laughs
- There is no right or wrong answer.
- This is probably the most divisive game on this list.
- the components are coasters
- the end of the game when the deck runs out creates tension
- Neco Syndicate is a really thinky smallbox game.
- My Favorite Things is a great party game, smallbox game.
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