Game Info
Year
2010
Players
1-4
Age
8+
Playtime
20 min
Collection
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Description
A light dice game where players roll to collect points while avoiding penalty symbols
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Watch It Played Discussion at 3:10:57 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Good teamwork
- Cooperative
- Challenging
- Fun when it works
Cons
- Difficult to coordinate
- Can be stressful
- Rules can be complex
- Players can fail easily
Thematic elements
- Performing synchronized swimming routines
- Synchronized swimming
- Players cooperate to complete phases of a routine, with scoring based on matching cards and timed elements.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — Players work together towards a common goal.
- dexterity — Some actions involve physically manipulating game pieces, like passing cards or flipping timers.
- Hand Management — Players manage cards in their hand, deciding when to play them or pass them to teammates.
- Real-Time — The game has timed elements where players have a set amount of time to complete actions.
- Set Collection — Players collect cards of the same color or with specific symbols to complete phases of the routine.
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Watch It Played Top 10 List at 2:42 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Focuses on teamwork, collaboration, and communication
- Routines become more challenging
- Encourages creative tactics and strategies
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Synchronized swimming
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- app integration — At the end of each round the free app judges your Performance Based on your timing and accuracy.
- Pattern Building — Teammates plan for the perfect routine while taking direction from their team captain the clock stars and the players start trading placing and Diving for cars to get their performance just right.
- Teamwork — Sink or Swim focuses on teamwork collaboration and communication.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This episode though has been made possible in part by sink or swim from bezier Games
- The list of games our viewers reported playing this month starts with a game called egg slam egg slam that sounds like a messy game
- Regarding Agricola and its revised Edition viewer Helen W simply says uve
- viewer Darren s says that it's a great introduction to the BattleTech Universe it's also a great excuse to play with mechs again
- viewer Rob R says that Calico is a game about Cozy cats sleeping on quilts and some nice colorful buttons hellish yes brilliant but hellish the same film that's the feeling we have in that bed
- 20w says this game is hard for the humans to win but when they do you feel a real sense of accomplishment also you get to kill a monster with guns playing flows and dynamite it's pretty good
- viewer Stephen waffle says it's all so calm until the fire Spirits start burning down your Forest the push your luck on the card draw is nail biting it's true I like it
- viewer Michael L says r r oh I pronounce that it's yep pirate's life for me
- Preston e says the 3D tile placement aspect of this game is fantastic easy to learn but hard to strategize over the course of the game love it
- Smash says I have two kids who love to ruin each other's plans this game really really lets you do that but in a fun cute buck tooth donut kind of way
- the 3D tile placement aspect of this game is fantastic easy to learn but hard to strategize over the course of the game
- I played Planet I played a Gen Con with the brothers mouth oh those guys I talk about them a lot but we do all of them talk about them a lot it's a good game but I was bad at it it's a thing where you have like a and then you put I've not played it yeah and you go I'm just gonna put this here it's perfect and you go and then later you're like oh why did I put that there it's terrible I've made mistakes
- is it designed to be a fast-paced card game for the whole family with just a sprinkler strategy which is actually doing oh I'm not talking no you will not trick me into doing this with you outsmart your opponents just like I did there and collect Donuts hop out of the oven for points but beware if two players craft the same donut then no one gets it play it all pick the donut they want by placing one of their numbered card space down on the table and collect sets unique and powerful donuts and pairs of donuts to maximize profits surely there is an option more than this isn't actually an official callback but it's either we both want the donut or none of us can have it can't you just cut the donut in half come on people sharing it's a life skill
- says I have two kids who love to ruin each other's plans this game really really lets you do that but in a fun cute buck tooth donut kind of way I want donuts now I just we need some donuts I got hungry there's some those little Donuts at Essen oh yeah there are yeah maybe we get some of those today that's can you hear my stomach to do my story I just did yeah I was my body just went you want donuts except I also want donuts so guess what neither one of us can have no one gets donuts
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