Game Info
Year
2024
Players
2-4
Age
8+
Playtime
25 min
Complexity
1.3/5
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Description
Stack slide and steal the most valuable sets of fruit in a dynamic marketplace with toppling mechanic
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Grant Lyon News at 53:26 sentiment: positive
video_pk 83859 · mention_pk 212213
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Clever gameplay
- Strategic card play
- Interactive with opponents' moves
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Desperate Oasis
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — you have to pay into market stalls to snatch to snatch neighboring stacks
- Set Collection — It's a set collection game, but you're going to be playing cards into columns, and you need to sort of create higher values in a column next to another column to then take the cards in that column.
- Tableau Building — you're going to be playing cards into columns
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Quotes (from this video)
- So, uh, this is my monthly video on the best games coming to retail, the best board games coming to retail.
- I will be at PAX Unplugged, the board game convention PAX unplugged this upcoming weekend in Philadelphia. So, if you are there, please say hello to me.
- So, you know, it's a quick card game for sure, but there's a lot of intrigue about how things are going to switch mid round and how you're going to play out the cards in your hands.
- The interesting twist of the game though is when when the sort of pool of snakes gets too high, it doesn't bust the entire group. It busts the person that has drawn the most things out of the bag.
- So, you know, it requires teamwork and uh precision and stuff.
- I honestly think the worst aspect of the game is the sort of theme and the name Tricky Kids makes you think it's a kids game and it's not a kids game.
- this is another game that feels pretty unique and different in the world of card games.
- And so like I think this is a really good game to play at the holidays, you know, if you're trying to like it really um creates nice moments where like it's like a feelgood game
- So, it is like, you know, for like a 20minute game, it's it's a pretty clever game of how you're playing out fruit and how you're gaining cards to add to your sets.
- And it you are constantly making mistakes, right? You see moo moo and you're like moo and you're like no it's cat like
- So, you know, a thinky game in 30 minutes.
- In December, I'm going to start doing a lot of top 10 videos.
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Tabletop Tokki Discussion at 3:20 sentiment: positive
video_pk 81011 · mention_pk 199072
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Fruit
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — This game really features some of the tight decision space I love in card games and drafting games where it's not an immediate pick up the card, you get the benefit.
- Marketplace — There's a delayed gratification here with having to funnel cards into the main marketplace for all players and having to trigger them just so in order to get them into your actual personal supply.
- Set Collection — This is a two to four player set collection game that has some interesting mechanics. You're laying out a market of collected fruit cards, looking at the values, proximities of certain cards to the other. Once you have certain sizes of stacks or values of stacks placed in such a way, either cards will collapse or they will be collected and and put into your basket for end game scoring.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Hopefully these first impressions will introduce you to a few new games as well as give you some interesting insights into whether or not these games may or may not be for you.
- So, this one did not make the cut since it was just a very simple play within a certain range, play higher, play lower.
- Let me know in the comments down below, what's your favorite new game you've tried recently and what's your least favorite game you've tried recently?
- So, if you're looking for those specific games or just some great prices on new and used games, please feel free to check them out.
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Unknown Review at 0:02 sentiment: positive
video_pk 66198 · mention_pk 160902
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Easy to explain and teach
- Deep strategic choices and juicy decisions
- Excellent artwork and production
- Solid 2- to 4-player scalability
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Market manipulation and set collection with scoring based on top piles
- Competitive fruit market setting in a card drafting/collection game
- Abstract, strategic
Comparison games
- Desert Oasis
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cat and wild cards — Cat removes a fruit from a market; wild can be placed anywhere to count flexibly.
- draw and endgame flow — Deck runs out but play continues with final turns before scoring.
- End Game Bonuses — Deck runs out but play continues with final turns before scoring.
- Hand Management — Players start with five cards and draw up to five cards each turn, managing what they play.
- market stacks — Five market piles of fruit are laid out; players add to and manipulate these stacks to create value.
- Movement actions — Actions include adding cards to a pile, combining stacks of the same type, and sliding a stack to fill spaces.
- set scoring with top three piles — At scoring, only the top three piles are scored; other fruit types can impose negative points.
- Stacking and Balancing — If a stack reaches a certain value (five), it topples and can cause adjacent topples.
- topple mechanic — If a stack reaches a certain value (five), it topples and can cause adjacent topples.
- Two-action turns — On a turn, a player may perform up to two actions (e.g., add, combine, slide, or cat-eat).
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Fruit Boss is an excellent game.
- Fruit Boss, fantastic game that you can explain easily, but gives you huge depth of strategy.
- Loving what West Coast Games is putting out.
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Cardboard Herald Top 10 List at 7:20 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This wacky deck builder is just so much pure fun.
- one of the greatest ratios of fun to rules complexity ratio I have ever seen
- I could play this for hours and hours and hours on end and never get bored.
- space age rocket launching good old time.
- The secrecy of playing cards face down and never knowing if you're winning a lane.
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