Teens in Space

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• card shedding — You are trying to shed cards from your hand as quickly as possible.
• Hand Management — It's just about strategically using the cards in your hand to place on discard piles to get rid of them.
• Rule Modification — There will be rules that change. There are sort of discard piles and you have to play a card that it is either one or two numbers higher or one or two numbers lower than the previously played card. And then there's a a card that sort of covers one of the discard piles that takes it off limits so that there are only three available instead of four. And that card can move around and also can shift whether you have to play higher or whether you have to play lower and where you can play.

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Quotes (from this video)

• Sorry this video is coming a little bit late this month.
• I have been on tour with my board game comedy show.
• Almost every single show has sold out so far which is better than I could have hoped for.
• So I hope to see you at those shows as well.
• This is a cooperative party game.
• The grid is smaller.
• This is a trick-taking game at its core.
• The twist of the game, the thing that makes it interesting and different from other games, is you will have sort of a background card and a transparency colored card. And when you combine those two things, they will create a different color.
• There is worker placement. There is hand management. There's a betting and bluffing aspect to the game.
• So yeah, that is 23 games coming to retail here in the month of June.
• I have been releasing episodes of It's All Funny and Games.
• Thank you so much. I'm Grant with Grant's Game Rex.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Card Drafting — Players hold a hand of number cards and play them on central stacks with lower/higher rules and wraparound from 9 to 0.
• card drafting / hand management — Players hold a hand of number cards and play them on central stacks with lower/higher rules and wraparound from 9 to 0.
• Set Collection — Gaining points by playing cards to create sequences and by successfully completing rounds that deplete hand.
• set collection / scoring — Gaining points by playing cards to create sequences and by successfully completing rounds that deplete hand.
• set down / central display sequencing — Place played cards onto the central display with opposing Adopt/Rescue sides that flip when bell symbols appear.
• special action / wild card — Adopt a kitten coupon allows playing a card that may not strictly follow one-step rules.

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Quotes (from this video)

• Hey everybody, Kimberly here and I'm super excited to teach you Kittens in Space.
• Kittens in Space. Super cute, streamlined card game for just 15 minutes
• the first player to get to three points will win the game
• Zeros and nines do wrap, but they only wrap in one-step increments

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• adoption action — If you have three or more cards, you can perform a one-time free adoption action to place a card onto a stack.
• bell-driven rule flip — A bell card flips which side must go up or down, changing the active direction of play for that side.
• circular numbers 0-9 — Numbers loop 0-9; 0 is treated as one higher than 9 and 9 as one lower than 0.
• draw or play choice — On your turn you may draw a card or play one or more cards to stacks, depending on what you can legally play.
• Hand Management — Players track changing rules and stack states across turns, engaging working memory and basic arithmetic.
• hand management and memory — Players track changing rules and stack states across turns, engaging working memory and basic arithmetic.
• ladder-style card shedding — Players discard cards by playing on stacks with numbers that move up or down by one or two.
• Melding and Splaying — On a turn, a player may play on up to three of the four available stacks.
• multi-stack play — On a turn, a player may play on up to three of the four available stacks.
• round-based win condition — Game is played over multiple rounds; first to three won rounds wins the game.

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Quotes (from this video)

• Kittens in Space is a super light game.
• It's very quick to teach and very quick to learn.
• The artwork is cute.
• There's not a lot of replayability, at least for the grown-ups.
• It's a game about playing some cute kitten cards.
• It's simple to teach. It's simple to learn. It's quick to play.
• So, thanks so much to the folks over at Dead Alive for sending kittens in space my way.

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