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Blue Penguin

Game ID: GID0452674
Game Info
Year
2024
Players
2-5
Age
8+
Playtime
15 min
Complexity
1/5
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Description

Light trick-taking card game where players play numbered penguin cards and score by color with small penguins worth more

Description

Light trick-taking card game where players play numbered penguin cards and score by color with small penguins worth more

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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Quick playing (15 minutes)
  • Lots of social interaction
  • Strategic card play
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Penguins
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Card Play — Players play cards from their hand.
  • Risk Assessment — Players must decide when to play high numbers to win the trick, considering the potential point values of the cards they might collect.
  • Set Collection — Players collect penguin cards of different colors, which have different point values (positive or negative) based on their numerical range.
  • Trick-Taking — The highest played number in a round wins all the cards played in that round.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • this is a horror comedy game because you are in a world where sheep are mutating at night and turning into horrible things that will attack you.
  • it's pretty silly, but also kind of scary at the same time.
  • you will get these little shape pieces. They're just these little abstract pieces and they'll stick to your magnetic board which is kind of satisfying, right?
  • it is not easy. uh it is it is difficult to indicate what you want to indicate with these little uh with these little wooden pieces.
  • Excalibur is full of trash talkinging. It's full of social, memorable moments.
  • it is chaotic, but it's fun and memorable.
  • now the retail version is much more affordable and it's still the same sort of social gameplay. You just don't have these metal swords that you can clink together and stuff.
  • this is a lighter weight card game but a strategy game. This is not a party game. This is a strategy card game.
  • there can be these sort of cascading triggers like boom boom boom, you know, sort of thing.
  • It's a clever little game of sort of planning and cascading uh your cards.
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