Game Info
Year
2020
Players
1-6
Age
14+
Playtime
20 min
Complexity
2.1/5
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Description
A word-building card game themed on Gutenberg-era printing where players craft impressive words to win first pick of letters.
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Video O1BtIN6NcDk
Rolling Dice & Taking Names Interview at 11:23 sentiment: mixed
video_pk 93474 · mention_pk 252944
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Fun drafting mechanic
- Interesting way to spell words
- Small box game, good for quick play
Cons
- Potentially frustrating for bad spellers
- Requires memory and adaptability
Thematic elements
- Spelling words
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- achievement tracking — Players can earn extra points by achieving specific goals, such as using letters of a certain value.
- Drafting — Players draft letter cards, then draft letters from a common pool. The player who finishes first gets to draft two letters from any on the table.
- Set Collection — Players accumulate letters over four rounds to create a high-scoring word in the fifth round.
- Word formation — Players form words using drafted letters.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The person with the least amount of Devils is the winner at the end.
- This is a light game right Tony
- It's just a little light engine building game that's it playing simple its quick
- Recreating that wow moment if you will
- We wanted to make the tower be the true villain
- The tower is the one putting these obstacles in your way
- It's like the quest item that you'd have in the neighborhood you would go play it
- It's a lot of memory
- The fifth round there's no drafting or anything you just take the letters that you've accumulated of the course of the game and try to create the best word you can
- We will support it as long as we possibly can
- It is a complicated piece of machinery though it's not a die so if you drop it on the floor won't just roll under the couch it might well break
- It's just amazing what will pop up first on Google just click and go
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Getting Games Discussion at 16:50 sentiment: neutral
video_pk 91253 · mention_pk 244669
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
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none
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- there were 1.2 million views on this channel last year
- the next goal is at fifteen hundred dollars a month
- it's a really neat very simple game
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Video TBvHesTyAA4
watch it played Rules Teach at 0:00
video_pk 68280 · mention_pk 164659
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Pros
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Quotes (from this video)
- "you gather letters and build clever words as you work to collect enough cards for the big finale"
- "in the final round players will use the letters they collected over the previous rounds to create one final word"
- "the game is played over five rounds broken into four steps"
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Video n8TUM_sz3Z4
watch it played Rules Teach at 0:00
video_pk 68281 · mention_pk 164660
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Pros
none
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Quotes (from this video)
- If you found this video helpful please consider giving it a like subscribing and clicking that little bell icon see get notification anytime we post a new video
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watch it played Rules Teach at 0:10 sentiment: positive
video_pk 68281 · mention_pk 192234
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- The final word created in the last round determines the winner.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- be the best wordsmith
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players pick one card at a time from a hand passed to them, continuing until they have five cards.
- Challenge cards — Players can claim challenge cards if they meet certain conditions, earning rewards like adding cards to their collection.
- scoring — Points are awarded based on the letter values in a spelled word, with tie-breaking rules involving letter values, word length, and random draws.
- Set Collection — Players collect letter cards over several rounds which are used in a final scoring word.
- Word Building — Players use letters from their hand and a shared pool to form words, following specific rules about letter usage and word types.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- If you found this video helpful please consider giving it a like subscribing and clicking that little bell icon see get notification anytime we post a new video
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Video TBvHesTyAA4
watch it played Rules Teach at 0:12 sentiment: neutral
video_pk 68280 · mention_pk 185740
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- forming words to score points
- word-building with letters and vowels, central deck
- abstract word-drafting with rounds and a final word
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Each round you draft five cards through a sequence of selecting one and passing the rest to the left, then to the right in subsequent passes
- Challenge cards — Some letters may come with challenges that must be included in the final word if used; if so, all letters of the challenge must be used in order
- collection and storage — Used letters move to a personal collection under a reference, and can be looked at during the game; you draw top cards when ranking for letters
- drafting and passing cards — Each round you draft five cards through a sequence of selecting one and passing the rest to the left, then to the right in subsequent passes
- public letter pool — All players can use letters from the face-up shared pool on the table in forming their word
- round five variations — In round 5, the process changes: you form your hand from your collection and attempt a final word with those cards and potential challenges
- score per round and per-word — Each round, players sum the top-right values on the letters used to form their word; rounds reset scores to zero
- Solo rules — There is a solo variant where you play to beat a rotary printer
- stack and deck management — After a round, used and unused cards are returned, and decks are shuffled as needed for the next round
- Word Building — All players can use letters from the face-up shared pool on the table in forming their word
- word formation with letter constraints — Players form a single word from their hand and shared letters, with rules about letter repetition and special cards like qu
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- "you gather letters and build clever words as you work to collect enough cards for the big finale"
- "in the final round players will use the letters they collected over the previous rounds to create one final word"
- "the game is played over five rounds broken into four steps"
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