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
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The Dice Tower Review at 5:23 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Best of the bunch
- Decent step up from the other two
- Have actual cards in hand
- Making decisions
- Real amount of information
- Has strategy
- Real game there
- Real decisions
- Can teach trick-taking skills
- Something there
Cons
- Basic setup is not very interesting
- Mostly just trying to get the person with the highest card to take all the negative bad stuff
- Mostly just feels bad because if you're winning anything, you're winning all the bad stuff
- Not really enjoyable in that regard
- Not a game I'm going to keep coming back to
- Don't think you have tons of choices in your hand
- Don't think there's a lot of reaction that you can do
- Too simplified
Thematic elements
- Blue penguins
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — Players play one card from their hand and draw back up.
- Trick-Taking — Players place cards, and the player with the highest card takes all the cards in the trick, which are worth points.
- variable scoring — The scoring for penguins can be randomized, making collecting cards different at the end of the game.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Mateo is not a fun game, not interesting at all.
- blue penguin best of the bunch for sure.
- Those are my scores four, five, and six. They get a little better as you know, as we go, but they're not fabulous games. I wouldn't go out and buy them myself, and I wouldn't recommend playing them.
- However, they're super adorable. They're a cool idea of being able to fit these, you know, games in such tiny little boxes. The problem with it, I think, is that they over simplified everything.
- So, really, it's just a little bit too simplified for me.
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Grant Lyon News at 38:02 sentiment: positive
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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
- Medio
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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- 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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