Game Info
Year
2025
Players
2-6
Age
8+
Playtime
27 min
Collection
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Description
Cozy Christmas-themed dice game where players roll festive dice and play gift cards for bonus points in a push-your-luck race for the highest score
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Discussion at 32:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Delightful gameplay
- Fun with two players
- Fits many players
- Small box game
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- holiday
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice rolling — Features seven custom dice that are passed around the table.
- Party Game — Plays up to six players and is suitable for a wider audience.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is episode 41, and this is our last recording of 2025.
- It's not electronic. Okay.
- So, my buddies Jack and Eric came over and, you know, we finished our Descent Legends of the Dark and I had the expansion ready to go.
- This was not that.
- this was the most epic first mission.
- The app does, you know, it does a lot of the heavy lifting by tracking numbers for you that you might not want to do.
- meaningful creations, play, elevation, and connections.
- I'm going to Iceland later in 2026 and I with Megan and some friends and I also invited my mom on this trip.
- I am going to be making my way to Gen Con this year for the first time because we've been doing PAX Unplugged for a long time and I wanted to experience something new.
- I realized that um I I think maybe because of my role as a publisher and a designer, I felt not an obligation, but I I saw it a little bit as an opportunity to try to play with as many people as possible.
- I want to give myself permission to just enjoy playing a game, playing multiple games with someone who I just enjoy connecting with and that I enjoy playing games with.
- I think a lot of it the reaction that it gets to the table really depends on what the on what's causing it.
- I'm not a patient person I like I like optimization I like efficiency I like people to be very aware of other people around them.
- I tend to look at gaming as a much more social experience than uh self, you know, as a as a source of self-sat satis
- I want to start experiencing smaller more smaller box games and smaller player counts, too.
- It's like there's so much fun to be had in smaller box games, big experiences that have nothing to do with the size of the content.
- New Year's Eve is rookie night.
- It's been a fantastic year with you doing this show.
- I really do look forward to hearing what people say about the meaningful and you're right that we had a good overlap today about meaningful play creations, connections, and elevation tied to your gaming resolutions for 2026.
- Happy New Year.
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Video mmtXz7fap4o
Cardboard Top 20 List at 6:33 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- great holiday family appeal
- surprisingly deep given the theme
Cons
- depends on luck of dice
- rule illustration could be clearer
Thematic elements
- dice-driven holiday puzzle with bells
- Christmas-themed family game
- festive, approachable
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Compound Scoring — scores vary by bell patterns and Christmas-tree-themed goals
- Dice rolling — players roll dice to achieve bell-based patterns and scoring criteria
- pattern/goal-based scoring — scores vary by bell patterns and Christmas-tree-themed goals
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I love ladder climbing games.
- The depth is incredibly high.
- Roast me in the comments right this second about how much you hate Flamecraft.
- Everything I've played I've really enjoyed.
- Get the family involved, get them a reason to pull them in.
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