Mega Jackpot

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Card Drafting — Players draw cards from piles.
• Press Your Luck — Players decide whether to stop or continue drawing cards for a chance at higher scores.
• Set Collection — Players aim to collect three matching items.

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• Stick around at the end of the show because you know there's a music video that might have somebody in it that you might want to watch at the end.
• Technical difficulties. It's on. How about you guys start? Check. Check. Can you hear us over here at the table?
• So, in Sleeping Gods Distant Skies, you are adventurers. This is a one to four player game. You are adventurers who have been sucked through a portal or in a completely different land.
• The cool thing about this game is they give you an introduction booklet. So, there's a lot of moving parts. It has a little comic that gives you the story and everything.
• The combat in this game is kind of cool in uh where you'll have the your monsters and everything. But the way that you attack them is you uh you have these boxes and different boxes do different things.
• The way to defeat a monster is by getting rid of all of their heart squares.
• So, as you're doing quests and events and things like that, you're going to be opening this book to different sections. And it's very storyheavy. There's multiple endings.
• It reminds me of Elder Tour to a degree where you're a bunch of adventurers on a board and you're going around if you want to play this kind of game. You've got to be committed to like just spending a lot of time understanding what's going on, but also time just taking you to accomplish.
• This is a slot machine game, which is a obviously press your luck.
• So, your goal is to try and get three matching items and you'll get to keep those cards if they match.
• This game is for three to four players. We're playing three players right now. And is a trick taking game from all play.
• The interesting thing about Prey is the um numbers on the either side, they're different.
• The way you play this game, it's I think it's a 10 or 15 minutee game. Uh it is pretty quick.
• So, as soon as you stack a second of the same color on a spot, you immediately get a tree.
• Any area that you have started and is not complete by the end of the game is negative two points. That's bad. Any area that has m mismatched flowers is also negative two points.
• The way you play this game, uh, if you've ever played Furry Foodies or watched our video on it, it reminds me of that a lot.
• And whoever has the lowest sum wins. However, every number that is adjacent to an identical number gets removed.
• This is a sort of adventure type game, but it's cooperative. So, all about adventure. So, not quite like an exit or unlock. It's a little bit more story based.
• It was not I would not put it on the It was like light on a light level of but there are but there are choices that you need to make and there are clues in the story that will help you make better choices.
• So we will take turns giving clues and it's two random items and so you'll have a clue for the first item and a clue for the second item and they rhyme.
• All right. So first one is um rescue rangers and where you might die of dysentery.
• Crockpot beef meal and a breakfast food that might be from Paris made with bread.
• Swamps in Florida and inline skates.
• Canada dry or verers and legendary golden cup.
• Crass superhero setting for a musical.
• Mickey Mouse and Full House.
• North versus South. Maryland.
• Friends with Tiger sequel. Great army.
• Frankenstein dance. Uh, PMS woman.
• Beginning calendar. Hoohaha.
• Wholesome grocery store. Uh, the thing you hold when watering your garden.
• Join us Thursday night at 700 p.m. Eastern time for I think we're going to do Between Two Castles or Hutan. We're not sure which one we're doing.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• card deck randomness — turn over cards to align symbols

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Flipping cards — The game involves flipping cards over and trying to get a jackpot.

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• Hey everybody, I'm Tom Bassel. Welcome to look back. Here on the Dice Tower, I go back in time and I tell you what I think about games that I reviewed a year, five, 10, and 20 years ago. And I tell you what I think about them now, if I think about them at all.
• So, there you go, folks. Those are the games I reviewed one, five, 10, and 20 years ago. Thanks for watching. I'm Tom Vassel. We'll see you next time.
• Hey, uh, thanks for watching another video here on the Dice Tower. Uh, we really appreciate you stopping by and checking our things out. Thanks so much for joining us today.
• Tell your friends about the Dice Tower. Until next time though, I'm Tom Vassel, and I hope you enjoyed this video.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Press Your Luck — You're able to flip one or two cards and by doing this you're trying to match up certain things. Every time you do that, you spend a little bit more and more and more trying to like push your luck to get it.
• Push Your Luck — You can also spend cards that you've won before to try to flip again. And every time you do that, you spend a little bit more and more and more trying to like push your luck to get it.
• Set Collection — You're trying to match up certain things like diamonds or genies or different things and they're worth different points.

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• This list, in my opinion, uh, is the better of the two lists, although it always gets less views than the other list. I don't know why.
• This is my five best games that are releasing at Origins.
• And releasing at Orange means either it just got released recently or it's the first main convention that it's going to be at.
• Now, these are games I've actually already played.
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