Hot Pot

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• drafting — Players draft sets of cards from stacks prepared by other players.
• I stack you choose — Players stack cards and then choose sets of cards from the stack, with the intention of giving undesirable cards to other players.
• set collection — Players collect different types of cards, with various categories scoring differently at the end of the game.
• Swipe token — A token that allows a player to take the remaining cards in a folder and continue the drafting turn.

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Quotes (from this video)

• It's a wonderfully different game in that it's an I stack you choose.
• It feels a little push your luck.
• It was like a pleasant reminder about how fun a roll and write can be.
• The gifts are kind of fulfillment, contract fulfillment.
• It changes what you'd typically find on a sheet in a roll and write into this very modular dynamic experience

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Dossier building — You'll be building a dossier of cards and then giving it to your opponents.
• hand management — Your opponent can check the cards two at a time and either decide to keep them or burn them to look at other cards. You are trying to stick them with bad cards.

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• These are my top five board games of February.
• Elevation is a trick-taking card game that has some fun twists on the genre that I haven't seen before.
• Glimmer Deep is a really thinky engine-building game. You'll be getting resources and using those resources to buy cards, but you then you're going to use those cards to convert other resources to both more resources and other points. By the end of the game you're like, "Ooh, I got to do this and this and this and this and this and I'm about to score so many points and it's really satisfying."
• Hummingbirds is a 10-minute game that tests your internal clock.
• Honeypot is a really social card game. You'll be building a dossier of cards and then giving it to your opponents. Your opponent can check the cards two at a time and either decide to keep them or burn them to look at other cards. You are trying to stick them with bad cards, so it's all about the mind games of how you stack things.
• Bull's Eye is a party game that's both clever and funny. You want one player to guess a secret word and you're giving them a clue one letter at a time, but you're not just writing out the letters. You're also passing your clue boards. So, I have to think about what clue I'm giving, but also what clue are you trying to give?

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