Game Info
Year
2026
Players
2-4
Age
8+
Playtime
30 min
Complexity
1.5/5
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Description
A light family sorting game where players race to arrange magical ingredients correctly on their shelves in a wizards shop
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Video J5Kw8JDxCPk
The Dice Tower Discussion at 6:36 sentiment: negative
video_pk 92850 · mention_pk 249691
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
- Not a fan
- Nominated for Spiel des Jahres, hope it doesn't win
- Not very good
- Every recommended game was better
- Boring
- Played completely safe
- By the numbers
- Shaved off every rough edge
- Almost no personality
- Feels like games designed 12-15 years ago
- Not even ones that should have been up for the Spiel
Thematic elements
- Magic Shop
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- And then Wild Blooms, a game in which you have these flowers that you're collecting. A nice a nice game. Uh you collect a flower, and it activates everybody else. Interesting ideas in it, seven out of 10.
- Uh Morty Morty, which is nominated for the Spiel des Jahres. And at this point, you know if it's won or not. I don't know if it's won or not. But at the we didn't like it at all. I gave it a five out of 10.
- And then King of Tokyo Godzilla, what a great breath of fresh air, great themeing, really cool. I like King of Tokyo anyway. This is the best version since I played, a nine out of 10.
- Hey folks, thanks for watching another one of our videos. If you like our videos, if you like our channel, if you would love to game with us at one of our conventions, check out Dice Tower Cruise, Dice Tower East, and Dice Tower West.
- False Logic Puzzles by Norman D. Willis. I haven't read a good book in a while, and I'm afraid that trend is going to continue here.
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BoardGameGeek Discussion at 8:43 sentiment: positive
video_pk 81200 · mention_pk 200468
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- It's pretty amazing.
- It has some pretty great stuff in that game.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's pretty awesome. Um, but we have been just so so busy.
- I mean, you know, within reason, but what's really cool this year is the nominees really seem to fit their category.
- Man, are we super busy.
- This was supposed to be a regular game night stream but Nikki wasn't prepared.
- I wish I could figure out what's going on with this base. It's gold, which I should have done before.
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Video 9niUWDusDV4
Our Family Plays Games Interview at 2:00 sentiment: positive
video_pk 80935 · mention_pk 198713
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Not brain entangling
- Very basic and nice
- Very thrilling
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Logic puzzle — It is a logic puzzle.
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Quotes (from this video)
- So, you could say trickery sorcery. So, it's like a um um catch me if you can mechanism.
- I mean, it's a French game so of course the design is beautiful. Awesome.
- It's a fabulous fabulous communication game. So fun.
- It's very basic and nice but it's very thrilling.
- Because sticker, hence the name, you can only play it like 20 times because you glue the stickers to the board.
- So, it's like a choose your own adventure book and legacy family style game.
- He's well known. The evil bow tie man.
- This is Moon Colony Blood Bath. It's satirical. It's bloody. It's It's weird.
- It It's really hard to let go.
- Nothing will get better. Everything will get worse and get worse and worse and worse.
- We are Germans so we have we are organized yeah order order
- The game with the least amount of votes u someone said, 'Okay, this is why I want the game to to be in the run.'
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Video 3m58_gKfmmY
Our Family Plays Games Discussion at 1:09:41 sentiment: mixed
video_pk 80641 · mention_pk 196947
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Good gateway game
- Charming artwork and components
- Puzzle-like gameplay
- Light and easy to learn
- Would play again to introduce new players
Cons
- Too light for some players
- Not challenging enough for repeated plays
- One reviewer did not think it would win awards
Thematic elements
- Organizing ingredient shelves as a magical apprentice by placing jars and matching colors and numbers.
- Magic shop
- Charming and puzzle-like.
Comparison games
- Welcome To
- Road Tripping
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Multi-use Tiles — The jars might have multiple uses or scoring conditions.
- Set Collection — Points are scored for matching lid colors to shelves and completing shelves.
- Tile Placement — Players place jars (tiles) onto shelves.
- Worker Placement — Implied through choosing jars and using assistance.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Rebirth is going to be an evergreen game. So easy to teach, quick to play, great table presence. Just love the game.
- We doing Vegas, baby. This Vegas.
- It was okay. I I would play it again. It was okay, but I I don't like it enough to endorse it.
- Now you talk about a very gateway game. This is a gateway game. But it's fun.
- It is a super fun game. Now, I never thought of like a game about doing needle point and you're doing needle point and but it's fun.
- Threaded is really good.
- Vanity Plates is a creative party game where players design clever custom license plates. It is wild, y'all.
- It makes you think. It does make you think.
- We got more. We going to come with more.
- My my addict addiction friends out here, come on next week.
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BoardGameGeek Discussion at 2:37:17 sentiment: positive
video_pk 80559 · mention_pk 196402
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- really fun
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- We actually really enjoyed the turtle decks.
- Too many tabs. Close some of these things.
- Wow, that is not really helping.
- I I kind of need to hear what's going on.
- Um, I guess I could have him run it. It'd be kind of dull.
- I did work on the uh collar. I kind of feel like I need to do a little bit more dark uh up into the V's of the fur.
- It's pretty cool. I'm really excited for Deborah on that.
- So, we mostly buy the games that we do on the show.
- Well, we did the first level, but at a higher
- This is not fun.
- The way you do it for, um, at least the machine we use now, um, and we've always done that, we we, uh, use a, um, box that converts HDMI to um, dang it, paint is on the wrong side again.
- My goal is to finish wave one for everybody that I have.
- I fractured my heel a year and three months uh you and nine months ago.
- And so, uh, so how many how much characters I have to paint? Oh, I have so many to paint, Chris.
- But you get less brush strokes. And then what I do for the final thing, so I guess essentially it's going to be two stages since I'm doing two thin coats, um, is I also use a speed paint or contrast paint over this.
- So, my goal is to get back around roughly before it's dry.
- And that's 100% valid.
- But you can see here it's rubbed through here. Hold on. It's rubbed through here a bit, but it's smooth and it looks pretty good.
- Yeah, this one's actually pretty good already.
- So, the rim of the base look. It looks really quite good.
- My fingers need to be cleaned.
- Wow, that black paint just coming off from my fingers too.
- Boy, that is not a good intensity for these.
- Well, awesome. Thanks for joining me today.
- Thanks for putting up with the little technical glitches.
- It's a Kenner nomination. I'm not sure. I don't know what will win.
- Let's see here. Uh following. Hooray.
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BoardGameGeek Rules Teach at 0:57 sentiment: positive
video_pk 80302 · mention_pk 195208
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fun to throw bottles
- Satisfying sorting and organizing
- Good for non-gamers and families
- Scalable complexity with basic and advanced rules
- Charming artwork and components
- Flexibility with cat tokens
- High replayability due to variable setup and advanced rules
- Engaging randomness that doesn't detract from strategy
Cons
- Can be 'thinky' with advanced rules
- Randomness can sometimes lead to bad hands
Thematic elements
- sorting ingredients for potions
- a magic shop
Comparison games
- Welcome to...
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Players choose actions like picking bottles, using cats for special abilities, or passing to gain cats.
- Push Your Luck — Players draw bottles randomly and decide whether to keep them or try for better ones, risking not getting any.
- Route Building/Pattern Building — Players place bottles on shelves in ascending numerical order and aim for specific ingredient or lid combinations in columns and rows.
- Set Collection — Players collect sets of ingredients (bottles) to score points, with different objectives for different ingredients.
- Take That — While not overtly aggressive, players' choices in picking bottles can indirectly affect what's available for others.
- Variable Player Powers/Objectives — The side missions (ribbons) and the advanced scoring for each ingredient offer different strategic paths and replayability.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The first person who needs a new job, I'm afraid it's Nikki. Um, she has 78 points.
- The one who can work at Mortis shop is Lincoln with 102 points. Congratulations.
- It has a lot of stuff in there. And people who say it's basic, well, yeah, but they probably haven't played it with people who rarely play games.
- I think this is I think this is great for families, especially when you're playing with adults and kids because it's really easy to play.
- The advanced rules where every ingredients has a different scoring. This really stirs your brain like a potion, you know, like in a corner. Your brain gets a mixed and mix you this gets really thinky, but it's super interesting.
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kovray Analysis at 2:02 sentiment: mixed
video_pk 80284 · mention_pk 195151
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Strategic shelf building
- Resource management
- Set collection opportunities
- Can unlock powerful special jars
Cons
- Fell short for one of the hosts.
- Initial gut reaction was not there.
Thematic elements
- Drafting magical ingredient jars and organizing them on a personal shelf.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Drafting — Drafting magical ingredient jars.
- Hand Management — Managing collected jars and deciding when to use kittens to bend rules.
- Set Collection — Collecting jars with specific ingredient combinations and achieving objectives.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It is the most prominent award a board game can possibly receive.
- Who should win is fact cuz our opinions are facts.
- I had more fun playing Jinxo than I did Morty sorty.
- The masses have spoken.
- It's in the name. Why can't you be cozy?
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Board Stupid Analysis at 2:21 sentiment: other
video_pk 80244 · mention_pk 194956
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Overall sentiment (raw)
null
Pros
none
Cons
- Feels like a random pick or a pick for the German market.
Thematic elements
- Magic jars
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Drafting — Drafting tiles.
- Set Collection — Getting points according to how well you can put the jars in order in the right places.
- Tile Placement — Drafting tiles and putting them on one of three lines depending on the tile drafted.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- What are you doing?
- What is going on?
- What are you up to?
- What are they smoking?
- The Spielaris is one of the most prestigious board game awards in the industry.
- It is awarded by a group of independent judges who consider lots of games.
- It is insanely what it does. It's very prestigious.
- So, the short list for the Shieldish Yarus 2026 consists of Morty Sorty Magic Shop, Jinxo, otherwise known as Ditto in different markets. Same game, different markets. Uh, and Cozy Sticker Fill.
- This is an interesting list.
- That is the cozy game that everybody's been talking about.
- It's a legacy game.
- It's very cozy because it's nice and easy. There is no stress about it.
- They tend to like throwing in some sort of game that has an educational or communication or word-based element or something like that.
- Micro Macro Crime City won it. So you see where the trend is is going.
- Sky Team was surprising at the time cuz it was in the same year as Captain Flip.
- My prediction for the spiel dish Iris would probably be Cozy Stickerville.
- This award is where Matt and I really sit in terms of the games that we enjoy, the games we tend to cover.
- It's the hobby games.
- Rebirth is a competitive tile laying game designed by Brian Ekitia.
- It was our game of the year in 2024.
- I felt that the game game was playing itself and I was basically spectator of the game.
- This is the interesting one in some respects.
- It's a game that you need to play with a tablet or a phone or or whatever.
- It's a very cool introduction for getting them away from a phone or a tablet and actually start playing with cards.
- In terms of like the game, there's not much of there's not much there more than that.
- Rebirth is the best game on all of six of these games in in every single way that you can think of.
- I've got a feeling that boss fighter QR might win it.
- I want to win Rebirth.
- I think that Rebirth should not be in this category.
- My big things is with with boss fighter because I don't think that belongs in this bucket.
- Why not look at the other team game, which was tag team?
- It feels like a roll the dice each year about what's going to happen.
- It's totally random.
- The Spiritish Irish one especially which seems to be completely almost roll the dice each year about what's going to happen.
- All right. We'll see you in the next one.
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Video DMpojaV74c4
The Dice Tower Review at 0:18 sentiment: negative
video_pk 79967 · mention_pk 193723
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Satisfying to put things in order.
Cons
- Feels old and looks dated.
- Clunky mechanics.
- Lacks personality.
- Base game is boring.
- Too many guardrails.
- Few meaningful decisions.
- Production is pale.
- Doesn't feel like it's of its time.
Thematic elements
- Sorting potions
Comparison games
- Quacks of Quedlinburg
- Rummikub
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building — Potions are drawn from a bag.
- Player boards — Each player has their own board to place potions.
- Set Collection — Players collect sets of potions based on color and number to score points.
- tile drafting — Players draft potion tiles from a common pool.
- variable scoring — The game offers basic and advanced scoring options, including points for specific spot completions, rows, and leftover components.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- To me, this is Spiel bait.
- They've taken the safe route every possible way they can. They went right down the middle, and they shaved off every possible rough edge. And in so doing, they've shaved off any personality this game might have had.
- I'm just bored. It's a five out of 10 for me. I just really can't recommend this.
- I'm going to come in at a four because I didn't like it the first time I played it. I didn't like it the second time I played it. I don't want to continue playing it.
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