IQ Waves

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• action selection — if they can't not follow, will be able to choose an action or an ability.
• Card drafting (for abilities) — you play a character card face down that's going to go into your trick pile in your scoring pile.
• Must not follow trick-taking — This is a must not follow trick taking game.
• Scoring Track — And every time somebody wins a trick, they are going to move that scoring marker forward.

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Quotes (from this video)

• Keep or Cull, the series where we play all of the games and tell you if we keeping them or culling them.
• We are at the limit of our games.
• I was a bit unsure because this was a weird game and I do like some weird oink games.
• But in a world where there's so many trick taking and shedding games, this was just one of them.
• For me the biggest flaw of the game, it's a short game, which is a good thing, but there is very easily in the setup.
• It's kind of on the edge of keeping it or not but there's so many trick taking games and we can't keep them all.
• It felt a bit like it was a bit lagging like because it's like, oh, we
• I really enjoyed my time with this. Me, too. I uh for me it's a bit light but I'm very happy we got to play it because it's light but it is to the point where I feel like my decisions are meaningful.
• the tension, which is my favorite thing about this game is that you're thinking, "Oh, I really need that color, but I don't want to pay three cards to go all the way to the top."
• this is one of the one of the better light games I played this year.
• I really enjoyed my time with it, but I'm not going to keep it.
• Luther is a first off I have to say a really beautiful game.
• it has a nice theme and I like the worker placement planning in this game because you're um placing workers but they're face down so you don't see what the other players
• it's too long with four. I will never play it with four again.
• it's a big box. I don't know where it will fit. I don't know which other big game we are culling to get space for this.
• I really enjoy a lot of the things in this game.
• So, basically, this was the the keeper. So, I'm I'm I'm okay with keeping it for now.
• So, those are 13 more games and we called 10 and we kept three two tricking games and and actually there was only one game we agreed on which was a C. We agreed on a lot of the capes.
• My my least favorite I would say big wave. I wasn't too keen on that. And yeah, Luther was my favorite.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Compound Scoring — point values change with each trick won, influencing strategies.
• Dynamic scoring — point values change with each trick won, influencing strategies.
• must-follow / flexible strategies — allows some clever plays around follow rules and timing.
• player powers — power cards or effects granted to players; specifics not fully detailed in transcript.
• Trick-Taking — standard trick-taking with a focus on market-value fluctuating points.

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Quotes (from this video)

• "Absolutely phenomenal"
• "I will always play the ladder, keeping a nice game with a lot of variables super fresh each round."
• "Tzuma Trick is absolutely sublime."
• "Worst in Show is a really interesting trick-T game that is far, far from the worst."
• "This one for me again really felt like some clever brainmelty stuff that fans of tricktaking would like."
• "Big Wave over here."
• "Big Wave is getting an 8.5 for me."
• "Crisps is vying for my all-time favorite. Yes, it is simple, but it's clever and it feels nostalgic... addictive and you will want to play it again and again and again."
• "I'm giving crisps a 10."

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