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Book Club

Game ID: GID0453494
Game Info
Year
2024
Players
1-10
Age
7+
Playtime
5 min
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Description

A cooperative trivia game where players work together to find the perfect book by choosing titles that match an ever-growing list of restrictions

Description

A cooperative trivia game where players work together to find the perfect book by choosing titles that match an ever-growing list of restrictions

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Video 2dkzK7c6o8U Grant Lyon Other at 8:46 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Quick playtime
  • Cooperative challenge
  • Gets your brain moving
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Books
Comparison games
  • Apropos of Board Games
  • Apropos of Movies
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Card-Driven Restrictions — You kind of placed a card out, and then it would say, "Oh, you I'm looking for a book that was written in the last 20 years. And if you can say something, then you have succeeded on that card. Then you put another card out and it's like, I'm looking for a book from the last 30 years with a female protagonist. Okay, can you name a book like that? And then you're going to keep revealing cards and it will make the restrictions, it will narrow the focus more and more."
  • Cooperative — it's a cooperative game where you're just trying to get as far as you can
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Quotes (from this video)
  • This is a deck-building game.
  • one of the interesting aspects of this is there's 13 ways to win the game.
  • Essentially, 13 dark pacts in the game and each of those dark pacts is a unique win condition that feels, you know, it feels like crazy to get.
  • You can also play two times and three times multipliers on those cards to double every aspect of the card.
  • that just feels like a very satisfying aspect of the game.
  • the main mechanism of the game is I split, you choose and that's always one of my favorite mechanisms because it's it's not a difficult game to teach, but it's a difficult game to make decisions.
  • So, what do you sacrifice and what do you keep is also an interesting aspect of that one.
  • This is a great family game if you want to.
  • And so, there's a lot of lying and promising of other people where you're like, "Do you want to go there with me? Nobody else go there.
  • I swear to god, don't go there."
  • And so, there's a lot of sort of lying and intrigue and where you're going and promises that you're making and stuff like that.
  • please, you know, check out my new series. It's all funny and games when it drops in May.
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Video _3UTSZZHFw0 Dice Tower Review at 0:49 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • book-focused variation broadens appeal
  • differs enough from Movie Night
  • works well as a filler
Cons
  • depends on book knowledge
  • could be less engaging for non-bookish players
Thematic elements
  • books
  • 5-minute timed card-deduction party game about books and authors
  • card-based matching puzzle with author-centric cards
Comparison games
  • Apropos of Movies
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Action Timer — Similar to Movie Night but with book-centric categories.
  • card-drawing and descriptor matching — Flip cards with criteria and decide which column it belongs to.
  • Cooperative Game — Work together to name items that fit all descriptors.
  • cooperative team play — Work together to name items that fit all descriptors.
  • hard mode option — 7 cards in 7 minutes variant.
  • timer-based challenge — Similar to Movie Night but with book-centric categories.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • it's funny how when we played it out there, we played it in the middle of the office, people just walk by they're like, 'What are you doing?'
  • you don't flip the next card and put it on the other one. You put it on the one that disagrees with the movie you just had. That makes you rethink it.
  • name a movie with punching in it.
  • it's an icebreaker or time filler.
  • This is great for exactly what it is.
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