Game Info
Year
2024
Players
1-4
Age
12+
Playtime
50 min
Complexity
2.5/5
Collection
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Description
Players compete as 17th century printers assembling and printing the first folio of Shakespeare plays using worker placement and set collection
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Board Gaymes James Top 10 List at 5:06 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unusual combination of trick-taking with worker placement
- Thematic tie-in to Shakespeare's works
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- literary collection and performance
- Shakespearean plays
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Trick-Taking — trick-taking combined with worker placement and set collection
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Quotes (from this video)
- I love I love their stuff I love getting learning about all the games from Asia
- I’m excited for that
- these are top 10 Euro games to watch out for this year
- there's a lot of really cool Unique Mechanics in here and that's what I'm really excited for
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Going Analog Interview at 10:23 sentiment: other
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Overall sentiment (raw)
enthusiastic
Pros
- educational alignment with primary sources
- collaboration with Foldier Shakespeare Library to ensure accuracy
Cons
- historical scope requires careful simplification for playability
Thematic elements
- Shakespearean literature and printing history
- rival printers vying to print Shakespeare's first folio
- ludic with trick-taking and worker placement
Comparison games
- Votes for Women
- The Shores of Tripoli
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Trick-Taking — combines trick-taking with worker placement in about a 45-minute game
- trick-taking and worker placement — combines trick-taking with worker placement in about a 45-minute game
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Votes for Women was accepted by the American Library Association's Hall of Fame
- History is amazing; truth is sometimes stranger than fiction
- For every game that we publish, we always include an educational booklet that a noted scholar on the topic writes
- we wanted to make games that have a little bit more of an evergreen nature by tying that something in history
- Earth Express is a condensed quick version of Earth
- the big brain puzzle to solve in Behind the Lens
- Swing Spelling is something we joke about as a reach for popularity
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