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Canal Houses

Game ID: GID0452700
Game Info
Year
2024
Players
2-4
Age
8+
Playtime
20 min
Complexity
1.3/5
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Description

Light drafting card game where players build Amsterdam canal houses from bases floors and roofs

Description

Light drafting card game where players build Amsterdam canal houses from bases floors and roofs

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Sentiment: pos 2 · mix 0 · neu 0 · neg 0
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Video zmKS1nc1e9k Tantrum House Top List at 26:37 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
  • Plays 2-5 players
  • Thematic connection to Amsterdam
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Canal houses
  • Amsterdam
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Card Drafting — a light card drafting
  • Tableau Building — basically tableau building game
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Quotes (from this video)
  • My number three is the Royal Society of Archaeology from Hutch Games.
  • Mine is Bohemians. This is from Portal Games.
  • Countryside is the one I picked for this one.
  • My number two also involves animals sort of. It is Aquaria.
  • My most anticipated Essen 2025 game is Kingdom Crossing from Sorry We Are French.
  • Well, my number one is Wispwood from CGE.
  • We've enjoyed Castle Combo a lot with our group.
  • Lord of the Rings Duel, which has been very popular, is getting an allies expansion.
  • And then Windmill Valley Oh, yep. Really enjoy Windmill Valley. It's I don't know if you can see it. See it. Windmill Valley, that's getting the Blooming Sails expansion.
  • And then one other honorable mention is called Twisted Trumpets from Play to Z.
  • What is it? We would love for you to tell us in the comment section after you like this video, what your most anticipated Spiel game is going to be.
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Video MC4YsVKSbMo The Dice Tower Discussion at 3:18
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Quotes (from this video)
  • the most boring unboxing on the planet Earth
  • Thank you all as always for joining me on something that you were warned would be boring and yet you watched it anyway.
  • Until next time, I'm Don Bassel and this is the Dice Tower.
  • Hey folks, I'm Tom Vassel.
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Video SuoMEN7dCLA Grant Lyon Other at 30:21 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Building houses along canals
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Card Drafting — You're going to have a hand of cards. You're going to draft something from that hand of cards...
  • Draft and Pass — Uh in the game, you are going to be doing the draft and pass mechanism. You're going to have a hand of cards. You're going to draft something from that hand of cards, pass to the next player.
  • Tableau Building — And so, you are playing cards down to sort of either build up houses or build out houses and scoring points for a bunch of different things.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
  • If you are interested in new board games that are coming to stores, to friendly local game stores, and other places right now, and you don't have to wait like 18 months to get the game, then this is the video for you.
  • I always try to include about 25 different games in this video, and I want there to be something for everybody, right?
  • So, if you are looking for like an introduction to worker placement, uh I think this is a good one for that.
  • So, yeah. And I love penguins. Love penguins.
  • This is intentionally a weird game. Uh it's leaning into It's weird.
  • This is a game that combines dice and deduction in a pirate theme.
  • This is another one I couldn't really find a lot of information on, so I don't know exactly how it plays.
  • So, yeah. And I hope you found something that you like.
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