Game Info
Year
2015
Players
3-5
Age
14+
Playtime
30 min
Complexity
1.2/5
Collection
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Description
A bluffing and deception card game for 3-5 players where pirate captains plunder the seas, steal from rivals, and bury treasure to collect the most loot.
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Grant Lyon Top List at 6:46 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Push-your-luck is a favorite mechanism
- Easy to get into
- Like the aspect of buying better cards and still pushing your luck
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Pirates
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- deck-building — There's a light deck-building aspect where players buy cards to add to their deck to make it stronger for future rounds.
- Push Your Luck — Players flip cards from their deck, trying to get money and swords to buy new cards or fight monsters, but risk busting if they get too many curses.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Gen Con is upon us. The largest tabletop game convention in all of North America is here.
- This video is about the 10 games I am most excited about at Gen Con.
- These are all games that you can get for the first time at Gen Con, which is why I'm excited about them and why I think you should check them out.
- One of the most underrated mechanisms in board games, I think, is the mechanism I split, you choose.
- The Game Makers is a love letter to the board game hobby.
- If you like deck building If you like card games, if you like fun, check out Flip Tunes season 2.
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The Dice Tower Unboxing at 4:30:44
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Pros
- nicer box
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Hello everybody. Welcome to the Dice Tower most boring unboxings in the world
- This is a box made by AEG.
- Well, that looks interesting.
- I reviewed Pirate King before. This is a nicer box for it for sure.
- The embargo is as of the moment that I opened it.
- Rocket Ranchers, herding cats in space.
- Sushi Go Party! is a fun little game. It's quick.
- This is a fun little game, it's quick.
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The Dice Tower News at 5:03 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Fighting legendary monsters and claiming ancient treasures
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- push-your-luck — Players take risks for greater rewards.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- man, this theme and everything about this from One More Turn Games, I'm very pumped about this one. I love the I cannot wait.
- It's a cool cover actually. It's just not very legible, but it's a life.
- If you like gardens, that's great. You like dragons, that's great. You like them both, buy three copies.
- This is teetering on the edge. This is almost more of a tainted grail type of a look to me.
- I think of all the ones that we've mentioned, this is the one I'm least interested in
- Never mind. This might be the one I'm least interested in.
- Cuz Clank! Catacombs exists.
- that's a really good-looking prototype.
- This would have been my most anticipated game of the year or one of them had I known about it
- This is one of my most anticipated games of the year now.
- This is basically um a Star Trek version of Captain Sonar.
- We know about this for a while. We've been very excited. We've already played it actually.
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watch it played Rules Teach at 0:00
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Merchant fleets cross the Seas stuffed full of treasures for your pirate crew to plunder
- you'll need to s into battle steal from the other Pirates and bury your loot
- you can certainly feel free to share with the other players what you've chosen or lie about it. You are a pirate after all
- this is where some of the table talk and bluffing and trying to out guess your opponents will benefit you
- The player with the most points wins
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watch it played Rules Teach at 0:21 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Players can bluff and lie about their chosen actions, fitting the pirate theme.
- The 'Bury' action allows players to retrieve discarded cards and secure treasure.
- Scoring is based on buried treasure tokens and remaining loot gems.
Cons
- Playing actions later in initiative order means gems might already be taken.
- If multiple players tie for the most gems of a color when someone attempts to steal, the steal action fails.
Thematic elements
- piracy, plundering, and treasure
- seas
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hand Management — Players have a hand of cards representing actions, which are discarded after use unless they don't gain gems, or the 'Bury' action is used to retrieve them.
- hidden action selection — Players secretly choose a card from their hand to play face down, which dictates their action for the round.
- initiative order — Actions are resolved in order based on an initiative number on the card, from 0 to 4.
- Push Your Luck — The risk of playing a card with an initiative that acts later means gems might already be gone.
- Set Collection — Players collect gems of certain colors, and can trade in sets of five of the same color for buried treasure tokens.
- Simultaneous action selection — All players choose their action cards at the same time.
- Take That — The 'Steel' action allows players to take gems of a specific color from another player who has the most of that color.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Merchant fleets cross the Seas stuffed full of treasures for your pirate crew to plunder
- you'll need to s into battle steal from the other Pirates and bury your loot
- you can certainly feel free to share with the other players what you've chosen or lie about it. You are a pirate after all
- this is where some of the table talk and bluffing and trying to out guess your opponents will benefit you
- The player with the most points wins
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