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Honeycomb Hustle

Game ID: GID0457993
Game Info
Year
2026
Players
2-8
Age
10+
Playtime
30 min
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Description

Players draw tokens from their bags to build honeycomb patterns earning flower points to purchase honey and more powerful tokens

Description

Players draw tokens from their bags to build honeycomb patterns earning flower points to purchase honey and more powerful tokens

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Video 9Tmx-X67774 Bower's Game Corner Review at 0:24 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
  • Not a fun process
  • No exciting choices
  • Randomness limits choice
  • Choices are not fun
  • Weak progression mechanics
  • Tedious gameplay
  • Base game sucks
Thematic elements
  • honeycomb building
Comparison games
  • Dominion
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Bag Building — Players draw hexagons from a bag to create honeycombs.
  • Push Your Luck — Players can choose to redo a part of their turn if they think they can do better, using a limited cube.
  • Set Collection — Players try to connect different colored hexagons for scoring bonuses.
  • tile drafting — After scoring, players draft new tiles from a central pool.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • We're live at Origin 2026.
  • It's not a fun process.
  • None of these are exciting.
  • The most excited I got was when at the very end of the game we drew another zero out of the bag.
  • This is this is a choice but it's a choice of what of these 13 different pieces that I have in the bag now is going to come up next.
  • Tedious, boring, never an exciting choice.
  • The base game I thought it sucked. I never want to play it again. I at no point had fun.
  • If you could have a lifetime supply of honey, how would you use it to take over a third world country?
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Video xv9xk9syWMw Grant Lyon News at 20:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • combines bag building and tile laying
  • solid family-friendly fun
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Honeycomb
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Bag Building — This is a bag building game. You will be pulling out tiles and then building a honeycomb with those tiles.
  • Resource Management — Different colors might do different things. Like if you buy a honey and add honey to your bag, well, honey is good for points, but it only has one connector, so you can't build a big honeycomb if you have a bunch of honey in there. And then there's also these other tiles that get you more points to buy stuff with.
  • tile laying — You will be pulling out tiles and then building a honeycomb with those tiles. Various tiles will have different connectors.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
  • Sorry this video is coming a little bit late this month.
  • I have been on tour with my board game comedy show.
  • Almost every single show has sold out so far which is better than I could have hoped for.
  • So I hope to see you at those shows as well.
  • This is a cooperative party game.
  • The grid is smaller.
  • This is a trick-taking game at its core.
  • The twist of the game, the thing that makes it interesting and different from other games, is you will have sort of a background card and a transparency colored card. And when you combine those two things, they will create a different color.
  • There is worker placement. There is hand management. There's a betting and bluffing aspect to the game.
  • So yeah, that is 23 games coming to retail here in the month of June.
  • I have been releasing episodes of It's All Funny and Games.
  • Thank you so much. I'm Grant with Grant's Game Rex.
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