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Bucket King 3D

Game ID: GID0452738
Game Info
Year
2014
Players
2-6
Age
8+
Playtime
30 min
Complexity
1.2/5
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Description

Dexterity card game where players protect 3D bucket pyramids by playing animal cards to topple opponents buckets

Description

Dexterity card game where players protect 3D bucket pyramids by playing animal cards to topple opponents buckets

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Sentiment: pos 1 · mix 0 · neu 1 · neg 0
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Video yyh3AEk4Jvg Adam in Wales - Board Game Design Top List at 0:17 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • amazing jolly thinkers graphic style
  • silly and chaotic
  • fun with animals
  • right up reviewer's street
Cons
  • not a great game
  • chaotic and chance-driven
Thematic elements
  • trick taking
  • animals
  • chaos
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Destruction
  • pyramid stacking
  • Trick taking
  • Trick-Taking
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Quotes (from this video)
  • these games have amazing table presence by which i mean people are going to glance across the room and go what is that person playing and i want to play all these games
  • stacking games have table presence like nothing else
  • looks beautiful it looks like a load of sweets on the board
  • one of my favorite games of all time
  • i don't like that sort of game i find that one of the most frustrating game mechanisms
  • the central marble dispenser is your main draw in this game
  • absolutely brilliant strategic game quite complex game
  • it's actually my favorite of the mask trilogy
  • i'm almost scared to say this but i don't really like azul very much
  • biggest most overlooked game on this list
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Video sTFDuSSXxf8 Adam in Wales - Board Game Design Analysis at 9:45 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
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none
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Quotes (from this video)
  • customers don't purchase products they purchase a better version of themselves
  • the outward presentation of our product sets expectations in the user
  • it's central to the design
  • it's an observation i can relate to
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