Game Info
Year
2024
Players
1
Age
10+
Playtime
45 min
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Description
Solo Mancala-style game where the Warden of the Grove performs awakening rituals on slumbering Ancients by spreading seeds around a grove
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Tabletop Tokki Rules Teach at 0:07 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fun learning curve
- Streamlined feel
- Easy to learn rules
- Easy setup and tear down
- Compact box
- Includes multiple mini expansions
Cons
- Retail chips can be unwieldy to pick up; cubes are preferred.
- Potential for seeds to be consumed, leading to a loss condition.
Thematic elements
- Awakening ancient beings
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Point Allowance — On a turn, players move seeds, check for consumed seeds, and perform rituals, implying a turn structure.
- Resource Management — Players manage seeds, moving them around and deciding where to place them to achieve goals without losing them.
- Seed placement — The core gameplay involves planting seeds around different ancients to flip them to their awakened side.
- Set Collection — Players need to collect specific combinations of seeds on ancients to awaken them.
- Variable player powers — The keepers have opposite sides, and flipping them allows for counterclockwise seed placement, suggesting a unique player ability or action.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I'm personally a big fan of Mancala style games, picking up, creating pools, reasoning out where things can be placed.
- And I love that it has a very streamlined feel to it. Very easy to learn rules, very easy to set up and tear down, very compact.
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Tabletop Tokki Print And Play Stream at 17:11 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Greg Jewell's design pedigree
- potential for a rich solo experience via in-progress files
Cons
- work-in-progress status may mean frequent changes
- not a widely released title yet
Thematic elements
- Ancients and rites with an adventurous card-based system
- Card-driven, mythic adventure theme
- Solo-friendly, design-forward implementation
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card_based_actions — Cards determine actions and progression in a solo framework.
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Quotes (from this video)
- transcribe is a programmable engine builder
- this engine is what I'm building
- I love Euro games and I love Rolland right
- Awaken the Ancients um which I will be printing
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Tabletop Tokki Top 10 List at 18:16 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- snappy and quick to the point
- innovative use of energy tokens and awakenings
Cons
- abstract feel may not appeal to everyone
Thematic elements
- mythic energies, awakening beings
- ancients awakening energies on a grid-based board
- snappy, energetic, modular awakenings
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Energy tokens — stones absorb energy as ancients awaken
- Mola-like pieces — placing energies to awaken ancients
- Once-Per-Game Abilities — Sears on the sides provide temporary powers
- one-time side abilities — Sears on the sides provide temporary powers
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Quotes (from this video)
- one of my favorite pieces of content that I get to share with y'all all year which is of course my top 10 solo board games from this year
- it plays in just about an hour so it's really easy to get to the table
- this is just such an immersive fun experience
- The Last Lighthouse is definitely one that has held my attention in terms of its overall presentation
- Sweet Lands is my number one solo game of 2024
- I love the multi-use cards, being able to destroy nightmares and turn them into traps
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One Stop Co-op Shop Top List at 5:12 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- awesome design
- likes Mancala games
- variety of modules is interesting
- can make it a quick play or a deep thinky puzzle
- really really solid one
- one of the better ones from Best with One
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Eureka
- Rolling Deep
- Mech Bunny
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Mancala — host likes Mancala games.
- modules — variety of modules to make the game challenging is really interesting.
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Quotes (from this video)
- And speaking of a great expansion for a great game, number seven is the Spirits and Spells expansion for Small Time Heroes.
- These are a reinvention of 20 Strong to a large extent.
- And they basically made me care about 20 Strong again when I was sort of falling off of it.
- This is just a lot of fun.
- Onward was one of my favorite competitive games last year.
- The bot is very intelligent with that.
- Next is a huge one. Y'all knew this had to be on here. My number three is Dungeon Crawler Carl Unstoppable.
- And this one is better. I'll say it. I said it in the video and I'll say it again here.
- This is another Mike's wife played the entire thing with him game and I loved it.
- Just like one of the most amazing kind of narrative legacy experience games I've ever played.
- Which leaves us my number one and that is a competitive game. What are you doing, Mike?
- But it's a competitive game that both my kids adore, which is really why this is my number one, but it's also a great game and that is Layers.
- So far my favorite game of 2026 Layers.
- Overall, I don't know, so far I would say this year is weaker than 2025, 2024, or 2023.
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Sir Thecos Playthrough at 0:15 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Clever small solo design
- Essential mancala-style mechanism
- Quick to play
- Easy to get back to the table
- Interesting decisions
- Variety and player agency through modules
- Compact and elegant
- Much more clever than it first appears
- High replay value
Cons
- Can be tricky if keepers are awakened too close together early on
- Can lose seeds if not careful
Thematic elements
- Awakening ancient beings to defend the realm
- Beyond the grove
- Implied through setup and card text
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Mancala — Tokens (seeds) are moved from one location to another, with specific requirements for awakening ancient beings.
- Modular Board — Different ancient beings (cards) are set up in a grid, and their requirements and effects can change based on setup and awakenings.
- Set Collection — Players collect specific combinations of seeds to meet the awakening requirements of ancient beings.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is exactly the kind of small solo game I love discovering and highlighting on this channel. It's compact. It's really elegant and much more clever than it first appears.
- For me, this is exactly the kind of small solo game I love discovering and highlighting on this channel. It's compact. It's really elegant and much more clever than it first appears. So, a worthy recipient of the Golden Sut as of Games Award.
- It doesn't always work that well. Sometimes you have like a combination of keepers where it's like harder to do it.
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