Game Info
Year
2003
Players
3-5
Age
11+
Playtime
90 min
Collection
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Description
A logistics game where each player uses a boat a plane and a truck to match supply and demand across five islands.
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The Dice Tower Top List at 11:48 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Hangs on in my top 100
- Quintessential basic straightforward pick up and deliver game
- Adorable components
- Adore playing this
- It's awesome
Cons
- Cards aren't the best quality
- Had to laminate cards
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — You have three vehicles. You have a plane, you've got a truck, and you've got a boat. And you are trying to get colored cubes and deliver them to the like colored discs elsewhere on the board.
- economic — The more efficiently you can do that, the more money you will make. Uh there's costs for hanging on to cubes from turn to turn. But as the game continues, the payout gets bigger.
- Pick up and deliver — quintessential basic straightforward pick up and deliver games.
- Route Building — uses a very basic map uh with roads and divisions for different territories.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Ghost Lift debuts at number 72 on the list.
- This one's a little tricky to find right now.
- Um and the ghosts are adorable.
- Um I think uh this is a blast.
- Ghost lift is a fun one to check out.
- Wandering Galaxy debuts at number 71.
- It is a crossroads of the Jerry Hawthorne design philosophy.
- But I also like in Wandering Galaxy the uh the deck building um that that you get personally for your character to achieve uh tasks.
- Um, Wandering Galaxy is a blast as you take different roles on the ship uh and explore around, make decisions as a crew, and just have a darn good adventure with that Jerry Hawthorne aesthetic mixed in there as well.
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