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Players
2-4
Age
5+
Playtime
30 min
Collection
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Rahdo Runs Through Top List at 5:52 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Adorable presentation
- Good for kids
- Scales up with modules for older players
- Charming
- Easy to teach
- Leverages children's memory skills
- Game can grow with kids
- Modules make it more engaging for gamers
Cons
- Host hates memory games
- Mechanic is too reliant on memory for the host
Thematic elements
- Building a town
Comparison games
- The Castles of Burgundy
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — Players roll dice that are used to draft tiles or deploy previously grabbed tiles to their board.
- Memory — Players must remember what is hidden under sand castles, as tiles are revealed and then hidden again if not taken.
- Set Collection — Players collect tiles to build a town and score points, aiming for specific types of tiles.
- tile drafting — Players use dice rolls to draft tiles from under sand castles.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is a very very fast playing sharp game. um worker placement that you use to draft tiles or not tiles, cards uh to basically build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
- This is a very simple, elegant, fast playing game. And um but it is crunchy uh and you are really delused with tough decisions to make.
- I liken this game to kind of a mix between a um a deck building game and a slot machine because I mean deck builders are all kind of slot machines because you know every round you you pull on the handle and your deck spits out some stuff and then you try to make do with it.
- This deck builder has a bigger focus on um deck thinning than any other deck builder I've seen.
- great to have designer Phil Dubberry back. Uh, you know, one of the uh one of the, you know, one of the greats from now, seven or eight years ago, and you know, he we he's been um he's been on the down low for a while. haven't seen much from him, but now he's making a roaring and triumphant return to make one of the best um tableau engine building card games of recent years.
- The variety is really satisfying. Another great thing about it, it's one of those games where you follow that if somebody else does a really cool special power because they've got a lot of a faction and I've got some of that faction as well, even though it's not my turn, I can activate them. So, you're really intertwined.
- This is a uh game where we are running a uh a cinniplex, a movie theater and trying to invest getting more screens so we can show show more movies but also invest in the right movies that will tickle the fancies of the movie going public.
- Flip Town was phenomenal. I'm here to tell you right now, folks, Flip Voyage is even better.
- designer Steven Armen's um masterpiece as far as I'm concerned.
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Ryan and Bethany Board Game Reviews Discussion at 6:20 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Kid-friendly version of Castles of Burgundy
- Uses colors instead of numbers for an easier play
- Designed by Stephan Feld and his wife
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Children's version of Castles of Burgundy
- beach, sandcastles
Comparison games
- Castles of Burgundy
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Tile Placement — Uses colors instead of numbers for actions, making it an easier play.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Heard someone call this the running of the nerds, which I think is very apppropo.
- A Place for All My Books is a very cozy, puzzly little game.
- It's almost like an adult search and find.
- So, if you're a Castles of Burgundy fan, there is a kid version, the Sand Castles of Burgundy
- Gaming Trend just stopped by and awarded uh Synapse Games the best of Gen Con 2025 award for Compile Main 2, the new yellow box releasing in October.
- Ivy Studios would win at Best Bag. Look at this thing. It is amazing.
- I am excited about so many of these games.
- So many good choices.
- I realized in a snippet that I did earlier, I said excited I think seven times. So, if you want to play a fun game, just re-watch this video and count how many times say how many times I say excited. You can even count that one. It's going to be a lot.
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