Game Info
Year
2025
Players
2-8
Age
7+
Playtime
20 min
Complexity
1/5
Collection
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Description
A tactile push-your-luck party game where players reach into a bag pulling out wooden eel and snake pieces trying to maximize eels while avoiding snake outbreaks
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kovray Discussion at 12:37 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Engaging tension, thematic humor
Cons
- Potentially tense for casual players
Thematic elements
- Push-your-luck with eels and snakes
- Tokyo Game Market discovery session
- Chaotic, humorous
Comparison games
- Pedicut
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Push Your Luck — Pull from a bag to avoid snakes; exceeding threshold causes a loss.
- push-your-luck — Pull from a bag to avoid snakes; exceeding threshold causes a loss.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- "Lean into that like Elia said is lean into the fun."
- "If this video gets 100 thumbs up, Tyler will wear his tight shirt in the next video."
- "What’s this one? That is Sunset. It is actually really beautiful."
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 1:43:54 sentiment: positive
video_pk 84777 · mention_pk 216000
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Mildly positive
Pros
- Kind of fun
- Push your luck element
Cons
- Never felt like pushing luck that much, players played it safe
- Moderately entertaining
Thematic elements
- Drawing eels and avoiding snakes
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building — Players draw components (eels and snakes) from a bag.
- Push Your Luck — Players can draw up to four components; if the limit of snakes is exceeded, they lose everything.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Wrigle roulette is like a little bag draw game. Kind of fun.
- the better game is Dying Message, which is like a you're the last you're basically it's the last moments before you die and they have this whole thing where you're supposed to like set up a crime scene and play dead on it and then they people are supposed to take a picture of you.
- I'm working on this right now.
- If Matt, if you get it, you win. If Evan gets it, you Matt wins. If Chad gets it, Matt wins.
- Stolen base is correct. Well done.
- It's just it's it's the stupid Minecraft duck all Minecraft chicken thing all over again.
- randomized double blind placebo control study in adults to test the efficacy of mitoquinone mitoquinol mass methylate as postexposure prophylaxis for SARS COVID v V2 co SARS co V2.
- So, um, you know, I mean, like the some of the complaints about it is just so dumb like they're like, "Oh, I can't believe like he had his own children like playing the roles in the in the in in in the movie or whatever."
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Board Gaming Ramblings Unboxing at 17:26 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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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)
- nobody, including us, need this many games.
- This is Divan. Mhm. I don't know anything about this game. I bought it because it looks beautiful.
- This could have easily been a Reiner Knizia game I feel like.
- And I love a reason to play Lost Ruins of Arnak Lost Ruins of Arnak because I think it's a great game.
- We have to empty our unplayed game shelf from everything that's not 2025 releases and then we'll put it in there and the rest go on the floor until we manage to play them.
- And it's based on the problem called what is called again it's based on the seven bridges of somewhere.
- I feel kind of like bad about bringing a hundred games back home.
- I I usually they go in, they go out. And that's also the thing like if I haven't played a game in a month, I will not remember the rules most of the time.
- The longest line I saw was for coffee. In the morning before the whole office.
- What's more important for you for the channel? Playing the popular ones or the less known niche ones?
- My favorite animal beside the monkey which is my favorite animal. The capybara.
- We are basically very lucky because we share a lot of hobbies.
- The building thing Ah, it was too much building. I didn't like that too much.
- It's been super fun. It's so many people. It's been so long since we did a live.
- Thank you so much for watching. Like it. We wouldn't have done this if it wasn't for you.
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Grant Lyon News at 43:42 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Fun group dynamic
- Simple and light
- Engaging tension from reaching into the bag
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building — You are reaching into a bag and there are a lot of these little squiggly pieces that are either eels or snakes.
- Player Elimination — It doesn't bust the entire group. It busts the person that has drawn the most things out of the bag.
- Push Your Luck — This is a pretty pure push your luck game.
- Set Collection — You are reaching into a bag and there are a lot of these little squiggly pieces that are either eels or snakes. and you want eels, but you don't want snakes.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- So, uh, this is my monthly video on the best games coming to retail, the best board games coming to retail.
- I will be at PAX Unplugged, the board game convention PAX unplugged this upcoming weekend in Philadelphia. So, if you are there, please say hello to me.
- So, you know, it's a quick card game for sure, but there's a lot of intrigue about how things are going to switch mid round and how you're going to play out the cards in your hands.
- The interesting twist of the game though is when when the sort of pool of snakes gets too high, it doesn't bust the entire group. It busts the person that has drawn the most things out of the bag.
- So, you know, it requires teamwork and uh precision and stuff.
- I honestly think the worst aspect of the game is the sort of theme and the name Tricky Kids makes you think it's a kids game and it's not a kids game.
- this is another game that feels pretty unique and different in the world of card games.
- And so like I think this is a really good game to play at the holidays, you know, if you're trying to like it really um creates nice moments where like it's like a feelgood game
- So, it is like, you know, for like a 20minute game, it's it's a pretty clever game of how you're playing out fruit and how you're gaining cards to add to your sets.
- And it you are constantly making mistakes, right? You see moo moo and you're like moo and you're like no it's cat like
- So, you know, a thinky game in 30 minutes.
- In December, I'm going to start doing a lot of top 10 videos.
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Grant Lyon Discussion at 2:01 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Five-year-old nephew will love it.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Drawing — you're just reaching into a bag and pulling out snakes and eels.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's always a crazy hard choice of which games I want to bring back. They have to be my favorite games of the year, but also games I think my family will really enjoy.
- My family loves party games and they love cooperative games, so that's what I'm focusing on.
- So, those are all the games I'm bringing back for the holidays.
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Grant Lyon Analysis at 0:34 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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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)
- I brought 22 games and we played 19 of them.
- My 5-year-old nephew, that was probably his favorite game of the trip, and he played that one a lot.
- The only game I brought that was not a hit was The Fate of the Fellowship.
- I love this game. It's just a little too complicated for my family, specifically my dad.
- I just think it was a little bit too much for him and I kind of knew that it would be on the edge of too much but I wanted to try it anyway and and now I know I still think it's a great game.
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