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Wool Street

Game ID: GID0452675
Game Info
Year
2025
Players
2-5
Age
8+
Playtime
15 min
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Description

Card game where players buy and sell woolen garments collecting high-scoring piles while avoiding unsold inventory losses

Description

Card game where players buy and sell woolen garments collecting high-scoring piles while avoiding unsold inventory losses

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Sentiment: pos 5 · mix 1 · neu 0 · neg 0
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Video Georc50soRo Board to Death TV - Board Game Reviews Analysis at 0:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Exciting, fun, and unpredictable
  • Opportunity to cash in big
  • Strategic elements like lobbying and market intelligence
Cons
  • Market can be volatile
  • Bubble can burst at any time
Thematic elements
  • The stock exchange and making money
  • Wall Street
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Buying low and selling high — This is presented as a basic skill to master for success in the game.
  • Hoarding cash — Players are advised to hoard cash, especially for lobbying for influence.
  • Lobbying for influence — Cash can be used to gain additional influence in the market.
  • Market intelligence — Players can pay for information to get ahead.
  • Popping the bubble — This action is suggested as a way to get ahead when in a tough position.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Wall Street is a wonderful place the competition the chaos the cash the stock exchange is my playground and I was born to play this game
  • playing the market can be exciting fun and unpredictable
  • remember information is king
  • the market can be volatile and the bubble can burst at any time
  • hold on tight for this wild ride welcome to Wall Street baby let's make some money
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Video 9S--g74QQoc TheGameBoyGeek - Hi Quality Hi Energy Board Game Reviews Top List at 12:14 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Awesome
  • Improved reimplementation
  • Intense real-time negotiation
  • Unique experience
  • Strategic
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Real-time stock trading and negotiation.
  • Financial market
  • Simultaneous play with negotiation.
Comparison games
  • Panic on Wall Street
  • Pit
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Dice Rolling — At the end of the negotiation phase, 'the dice roll' determines stock performance.
  • Negotiation — Players engage in 'real time negotiation' to buy and sell stocks.
  • Real-Time — The core of the game happens in a 'simultaneous yell as loud as you can everyone at the same time' phase.
  • Stock market — Players act as investors and managers, buying and selling stocks.
  • team play — The game involves two teams: investors and managers.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • This one is the top 10 games that I've already played cuz I'm fortunate enough to get some early copies of things that are releasing at Gen Con.
  • Jungo is the reason why I'm never going to play Scout again.
  • This is one of the most unique experience games ever.
  • Breaking down barriers, growing relationship board games by helping you find the next one you love.
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Video Vzs05OvbNRE Board Gaming Ramblings Analysis at 4:58 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
none
Cons
  • It was pretty weird.
  • It was described as having timed things and auctions happening all at once.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Auctions — Auctions are part of the gameplay.
  • Role selection — Some players are managers, some are investors.
  • Timed elements — There are timed elements within the game.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • My first stop today was Fa Swamp. And I've been standing in line for 50 minutes and I got it.
  • The publisher almost got told to stop selling copies in general but they reorganized the queue a bit and then they got to be able to continue selling.
  • And you are watching Board Gaming Ramblings.
  • When we last left the princes, they were ugly, disgusting boys. And now they're zombies and you have to kill them. I mean, save them. Save them.
  • This is a standard trick ticking game. It's based off of the game of spades.
  • We played Wolf Street, which is a pretty weird game.
  • This is a new game from Sitdown Games.
  • I thought it was pretty cool. I enjoyed a couple things with it, but I know I will like it more when I'm not sleeping while I play it.
  • It gets really brain burning trying to figure out like, hey, where do you place the next tile because there's a lot of permutations.
  • It's been a good day. Did you have a good day?
  • We'll see you tomorrow. Thank you for watching.
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Video 08KfrW_cdTw Watch It Played Discussion at 4:47 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
  • Panic on Wall Street
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
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  • Cities, I loved Cities. I think it's just fantastic.
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Video 6DH8VECS7xg Grant Lyon News at 34:47 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Captures market manipulation feel in a small box
  • Quick playtime (15 minutes)
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Market manipulation, stock market, fashion
  • New York
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • area influence — New York cards placed on the table define the market, influencing the value and demand for goods.
  • Market manipulation — Players buy, sell, and trade goods to influence their value and maximize points.
  • Set Collection — Players aim to collect the trendiest items by strategically buying and selling goods based on market conditions.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
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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Video kXvj2OdjyUw Review at 0:50 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Unique and engaging real-time negotiation
  • Two distinct gameplay experiences (investor/manager)
  • Rebalanced market and dice add more excitement
  • Improved components (wooden tokens, dry erase cards)
  • No player elimination in the new version
  • Drafting adds strategic starting options for managers
  • Streamlined auction process speeds up the game
  • Set collection bonus adds more strategic depth
Cons
  • Paper money is similar to the original and not preferred by the reviewer
  • Blind bid auction is less exciting than the old system for some
  • Components are slightly smaller (though for cost/table space reasons)
Thematic elements
  • Stock market simulation and negotiation
  • Wall Street
Comparison games
  • Panic on Wall Street
  • Pit
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Auction — New companies and shares are auctioned off to managers.
  • bluffing — Implied through negotiation and deciding when to lock in deals or bid.
  • Dice Rolling — Used to determine stock value fluctuations each round.
  • Drafting — Managers draft three starting cards at the beginning of the game.
  • real-time negotiation — Players engage in simultaneous negotiation for two minutes per round to buy and sell shares.
  • Set Collection — A bonus is awarded to managers who collect one share of each of the four different colored companies.
  • stock market simulation — Players manage stocks and funds from different companies, with values fluctuating based on dice rolls.
  • Variable player powers — Players take on distinct roles of investors or managers, each with different objectives and actions.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • It recently made my number one most stressful game in a video that I came up with the top five most stressful games out there.
  • The managers are going to be getting things from different companies like uh the hamster surge or first banch uh branch bank there or electro or you know first avenue there.
  • It's so fun. The real time negotiation, this is just awesome.
  • I like that you have the sort of the conservative versus the aggressive uh stocks, the ones that move a lot, the ones that don't move a lot.
  • The game plays best with higher player counts.
  • I like all of the changes they made.
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