Game Info
Year
2025
Players
2-4
Age
12+
Playtime
60 min
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Description
An area-majority game of tile and dice placement where booking agencies compete for the best ratings and seats at a jazz festival
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Review at 56:55 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Mixed
Pros
- Simple to learn and play
- Nice production and dice
- Good variability with double-sided maps
- Dice mitigation through rolling
- Limitation on claiming seats prevents hoarding
Cons
- Scoring can be confusing initially
- Player found it not engaging
- Can lead to runaway leaders
Thematic elements
- Watching bands play at a park
- Park
Comparison games
- Catan
- Ticket to Ride
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Majority — The goal of trying to get the area majority of the same sort of fans of your fans around a stage in order to score points. [3486.64]
- Dice Placement — Place a die then draft a new one to take its place. [3553.44]
- Dice Rolling — When you place a seat that you are able to roll a die to hopefully better what symbol you're going to try to match. [3572.00]
- Drafting — There's a market in the middle for six dice that you can draft or you can just randomly pull one from the bag. [3991.92]
- Set Collection — The scoring is actually getting enough people around the stage that gives you the ability then to look at it and say, 'Oh, we're all here to listen to the piano player around this one particular stage and hey, all these pianos are here and if I place my piano dice here, then we will score that stage based on I guess it was the majority.' [3639.12]
- Tile Placement — Place a hex tile on the board, which is called claiming a seat. [3525.04]
- Variable player powers — There are some special seats that can do things like bump somebody else's seat out of the way or allow you place two seats at once or allow you to place a seat and immediately put a die in it. Those are just special seats that each one each person has one of that does give a little twist as you're playing the game. [4014.64]
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Quotes (from this video)
- I'm telling you, Johnny Matthysse is retiring from touring after almost 70 years of cruning.
- So, you'll know how to take the quality of your sleep from okay to very high.
- My elbow's hurting a little bit. I got a little pickle ball elbow going on even after we're playing.
- That's a lie. Or we suck at playing. There ain't no way. How many times do we have to play to prove you ain't going to get four players done in 60 minutes?
- There's no way y'all labor.
- I'm going to take pity on this dude. You know, he goes 0 and 3 every week.
- The only problem I see with that is there may be a lot more AP or argument during the end.
- People say, 'Oh, miniatures are too expensive.' I totally get that. But you got to understand the people who are playing miniatures games are playing these same miniatures for years.
- I wish there was some way. Well, as a side note, there are some personalities and a couple cards that say buy a card from anywhere in the table.
- I was looking for, you know, the game ends after I fill up all my seats. Well, how quickly can I do that?
- For me, uh, this game is a must buy to keep in the collection for two players.
- Architects of Amitus. I also too think it's a must buy. Small box, two-player game, 30 minutes. Tile draft tile placement. It's a good one.
- This was not my fave.
- So, you've got to say, 'Oh man, I really need to strategically place this.' And there's the piece I need. And then you go out and put your put your architect on. You're like, 'When is he going to pull those backs?' because I know the one underneath it is the exact one I'm going to need.
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Board Of It Review at 0:06 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- rules are very simple: on a turn you place a seat or a die
- tight, tense, and deeply strategic despite simple actions
- high interactivity and dynamic play across player counts
- strong production quality and tactile components
- map variety and optional expansion board extend replayability
- rulebook even suggests a jazz album to accompany each map
Cons
- endgame scoring can be tricky to track across colors and tokens
- some players may dislike the randomness in die draws and token availability
- higher complexity than typical light-weight games; not for everyone
Thematic elements
- area control around stages using instrument-symbol dice
- Jazz festival concert setting with stages and audience seating
- tense, interactive, and tightly strategic
Comparison games
- Cascadia
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — score points by having the most of a given instrument around a stage to win a token.
- area control around stages — score points by having the most of a given instrument around a stage to win a token.
- color family scoring — points are earned for aligning instruments of the same color family, creating chains that touch multiple stages.
- Dice Drafting — on your turn you either place a seating position or place a die next to a stage to contribute instrument symbols.
- Dice drafting and placement — on your turn you either place a seating position or place a die next to a stage to contribute instrument symbols.
- End Game Bonuses — at game end, tally the largest family of each color to determine end-game bonuses.
- end-game token scoring — at game end, tally the largest family of each color to determine end-game bonuses.
- map variety and modular layout — the board has multiple maps, altering the tactical landscape and available routes.
- special seating actions — seats can grant special abilities (e.g., kick out, place an extra seat), adding strategic depth.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- I think BBOP is brilliant.
- I love that the rules are so simple.
- it's a very tense battle for space
- the production quality is excellent
- the back of the rule book gives you a recommended jazz album for each map
- it's obviously one of my favorite games I've played this year
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