Hot Pot

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Hand Management — Players use scoop and stop cards to manage their actions and influence others.
• Push Your Luck — Players decide when to scoop ingredients from the communal pot, risking taking unwanted items.
• Set Collection — Players aim to collect specific ingredients for scoring while avoiding disliked ones.
• Take That — Players can give disliked ingredients to others, potentially causing negative effects.

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Quotes (from this video)

• And so my plan for the Saturday that I went uh was obviously to start with the Think Athema and Emily from Shut Up and Sit Down uh Love Languages panel and then kind of I guess just discover what else would lie ahead after that uh panel finished.
• It was really good to look at modern board game mechanics and themes through the lens of the five love languages, but also through the perspective of Emily, Maggie, and Amy, which I loved.
• There was so many different games being laid out on the table that people were playing. And along the perimeter, there were different uh Aussie and New Zealand publishers.
• So, basically a lot of uh Quacer's games are basically centered around a uh Asian culture, Asian practices, but with a very like Australian infused theme around it.
• It wasn't really about winning or losing. It was more about the philosophy behind helping other people, offering, you know, your services and your um love for gaming and helping other people to become better and more confident in themselves.
• I really, really love this game. This is one of those games which I would say is a breadand butter gateway game. If you love Azul, this is definitely next level up.
• It just has such an interesting playtoplay dynamic.
• And so it's basically drafting marbles at different stages. And so when you release the gate, some of the marbles will come down.
• And I think at the end of PlayCon, I think that's what I felt. Just this immense sense of joy and happiness, the amount of laughter
• And I think I was more looking for Majesty of the Realm. But then when I saw this box in real life, I was like, it's gold embossed. It's got this stained glass effect. I was like, I think I must get this game.
• And the last game that I got is one where everyone says the board looks not very impressive. In fact, the table presence of this game is like not really desirable because it's basically looked like someone just got like an Excel spreadsheet or a word document or PowerPoint, clicked on the shapes and just made it into a game board.
• But it's a Freedman Priest game called FAM. And basically this Egyptian themed game has an interesting card usage mechanic.
• This is one I haven't played, but I'm definitely really super keen to try.
• Mainly because if they just based on athetics alone, they will probably no one will ever play this with me.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Player Order Selection — Player order for the next round is determined by the rank of cards played in the trick.
• Set Collection — Collecting cards ('belly') based on different scoring conditions.
• Trick-Taking — A one-round trick-taking game.

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Quotes (from this video)

• hello everyone this is sonan and this is Johannes and you're watching board gaming rambling and welcome back to keep or C the show where we play all the games and decide if we want to keep them in the collection or call them from the collection
• a cold game doesn't mean a bad game because we don't have space for all the games and we don't have space for good games
• it's Iron Forest the new game from the people who did Ice cool
• it's awesome it's so fun it's a lot of fun we played it and it was fun we played it more it was fun I it is a super good game
• it is not often you see like a two story board game
• it was just a blast fing around these things and it felt you felt really cool when you made things happen and it's not a very easy thing to flick things around you're also going to miss a lot and car a lot
• stamp swap from stal marst
• a fun game but not one that we are going to keep
• I think for me I think I'm going to have to go with iron Forest as the best because it was just like so much fun of a game
• I'm going to be boring and say the same thing but I like all of these games are poison games yes we are lucky to be able to play mostly fun games

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