Game Info
Year
2023
Players
2-6
Age
8+
Playtime
20 min
Complexity
1.2/5
Collection
Ratings
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Description
A family party game where players build colorful wooden block structures for others to guess within time limits
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Getting Games Discussion at 2:08 sentiment: positive
video_pk 88905 · mention_pk 235271
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- word-based party game with potential appeal beyond typical party games
Cons
- author notes not a natural fit for party games; curiosity rather than certainty
Thematic elements
- word-based party game
Comparison games
- Codenames
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- word-guessing with wooden blocks — teams guess a word by arranging wooden blocks; opponents select which blocks will be used
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I'm incredibly biased and I'm not going to sit here and tell you to back the Kickstarter campaign for this one
- I wrote the rulebooks for all these four games
- distilled two-hour 18nxx experience
- I judge games by their cover; Katamino Tower looks cool
- Clover really surprised me with how much I've enjoyed it
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 27:26 sentiment: mixed
video_pk 88258 · mention_pk 232284
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Kids liked it
- Functional for its purpose
Cons
- Not Big Potato Games' top 10
- Likely to be lost to time quickly
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Judging — One player acts as a judge to guess what others are building.
- Racing game — One player acts as a judge while others build things with tiny cubes against a timer.
- timed building — Players build objects with tiny cubes within a time limit.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- the early 1990s saw a temporary craze with the release of the Super Soaker
- I went racing out the garage door the garage door had one of those doors that like you know the the The Swinging like door with the spring and everything like that and I was so excited and I was I was leaving the door sland and broke the barrel off one and I was so mad
- Sour grapes is a comedy about things that aren't funny
- Sour grapes however is tone deaf
- I lost a bet and had to go to that movie it was horrible
- Shot glass is correct
- Spice Girls is correct
- Sugar Hill G
- Suicide Girls nice
- I like it better I think than Clash Royale it's it's good worth a try
- The Escapist team put their heart into every piece of work we put out and the talent brought in was UNM the kind of talent isn't cheap and my mission with The Escapist was to not be driven primarily by views but by direct funding through premium memberships and live streams
- he went on some show and went did an interview that basically probably added like 20 years to his sence
- Elizabeth Holmes finally went to jail right did
- you know all of them are going to be it's with AI art now like none of these people that are like you know just they're not going to pay for they're just going to AI art all of their
- if you plead guilty you going to jail for 40 to 50 years you might as well try to have the trial you might get off right
- Seven years of college down the drain I might as well go join the peace score
- the bench isn't wasn't actually there though they moved it
- he was a comedian from Houston
- they basically just have it listen to every single thing that he sung or said and you just take the sounds that's all it is
- The Smoking Gun that was a website
- It's got $225,000 Canadian though
- he said he was let go for not achieving goals that were never properly set for us
- we were given unattainable goals in a very short amount of time
- I won't be taking Zero Punctuation name with me but fans would hear my voice again soon in a new place
- my mission with The Escapist was to not be driven primarily by views but by direct funding through premium memberships and live streams
- I'm pretty hyped for the next yatsi drop not gonna lie
- it's always good like you know you fall down internet rabbit hole and like watch his videos
- it's like it's like him I really like Norm Mitch Hedberg always made me laugh
- it's like they said um we have that audio to play here they say the audio you're listening for you have to listen carefully it's after the third shot and you hear this cow and then no no no it's like kapow then it's like and it's like now here it's right for the third shot and you hear this kapow
- yippe Jerry Ruben died oh I'm sorry that should be yippi Jerry Ruben died
- The curse of the doors
- it's like a slice a life thing you know
- Seven years of college down the drain I might as well go join the peace corps
- the fingers are mostly they're not completely fixed but they're they're a lot better
- he didn't listen to anybody he didn't listen to his lawyers
- turns out turns out it was he
- she's in prison for serving an 11 year three month sentence for the wire fraud
- the victims of the fraud were like giant companies
- when she's making license plates you know that's a lot of license plates
- The actor strike oh yeah
- you guys are going to do for parking
- it's a 30 foot tall realistically rendered fiberglass sculpture of a human eyeball
- I don't think there's anything about I mean it's part of the the lore
- I must told you yeah basically we sat in a room for two three hours and then left done nothing
- The judge that came in and swore us all in threaten to throw somebody in jail
- you basically lied I was I was unknowingly
- so when the cop pulled you over um there were open beers in your car he said yeah he's like but I was he's like and you were outside a bar he's like yeah he's like and you're 19 I was like yeah he's like were you in the bar he's like no I got a call my friends had been drinking and they said they needed to ride home so I went to go pick him up and I should have checked him
- the thing that John balushi does in that scene was not in the script
- Everything is within walking distance if you have enough time
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Stonemaier Games Discussion at 10:21 sentiment: positive
video_pk 40787 · mention_pk 123696
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- excellent for large groups
- elicits laughter and shared memories
Cons
- humor dependent on players' tastes
Thematic elements
- collective memory in a light format
- party/game night; lots of players
- humorous, social storytelling
Comparison games
- Blood on the Clock Tower
- Spirit Island
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- blobbing (shared decision) — players share a single averaged outcome in some rounds
- multi-person memory cue — players recall and reference others’ thoughts for cohesion
- shared answer / blob tying — players write down answers and ‘blob’ together if answers coincide
- Written Answer — players write down answers and ‘blob’ together if answers coincide
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I find the experience really thematic and immersive and the art, components, world, and effects really make the game feel stuck in my head like a catchy song.
- this is my favorite way to interact with board games is talking about it after and sharing it.
- you can remember a distinct moment from it, does that fall into this category for you?
- the game that sticks with you the most after play is the one you want to replay again and again
- it's the type of game you think about long after the table is cleared
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Stonemaier Games Discussion at 11:16 sentiment: positive
video_pk 40787 · mention_pk 123712
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- continuous laughs and get-togethers after play
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- see Blob Party above
- see Blob Party above
- see Blob Party above
Comparison games
- Blood on the Clock Tower
- Spirit Island
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- shared answer / blob linking — players’ answers merge into a blob outcome
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I find the experience really thematic and immersive and the art, components, world, and effects really make the game feel stuck in my head like a catchy song.
- this is my favorite way to interact with board games is talking about it after and sharing it.
- you can remember a distinct moment from it, does that fall into this category for you?
- the game that sticks with you the most after play is the one you want to replay again and again
- it's the type of game you think about long after the table is cleared
References (from this video)
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