Rocking Raft

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• dexterity — Players physically interact with components, tossing gems onto a rocking raft.
• Press Your Luck — Players must be careful not to be too greedy, as making too much fall off helps others.
• Set Collection — Players collect gems onto cards with specific spots.

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Quotes (from this video)

• So, as always, I hope you find something that you're excited about in this video.
• this month we have a lot of party games. Actually, it feels kind of like this is the party before the party that is Gen Con
• So, stay tuned. Uh, I'm going to run through about uh 28 29 games coming to retail this month.
• So, you know, I know some people are like, "Why aren't you coming here?" Well, I am. I'm still I'm planning more shows and I'm I'm bringing it to more places.
• Melted, a messy ice cream game.
• This is another family weight game, sort of, you know, on the edge of a party game for sure.
• Duel of Melo is a confusing product to know where to put it.
• the map is a fairly small map. It is uh there are only 10 locations and two lakes. And so, you know, it's kind of that like knife fight in a phone booth saying
• points for everything. One of the nice selling points of this is you do not have to teach this game at all. Literally there is no explanation needed.
• And so, you know, it's a little bit of a silly take that in the middle of this recipe fulfillment game. And it also has a bacon plushy in it.
• Red or Yellow is it is a 100% written by fans by just game players. This is a a 100% crowdsourced content game.
• the look of this game is incredible. I love the bright vibrant artwork.
• So yeah, it's uh I like card comboy stuff.
• So, there we go. That is uh 29 different games that are coming to retail here in the month of July.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Press Your Luck — Players press a button and gems fall off.
• Set Collection — Players fill their cards with gems.

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Quotes (from this video)

• This is sort of an a grown-up version of a popular kids racing game called Monza.
• It's so convoluted for so little of a game.
• Man, I love the crews.
• This is a party game in which you replace every letter in a word with a consonant.
• I hate this game.
• If it wasn't for the crazy randomness, I think I'd enjoy it more.
• This is not one of them.
• It's just kind of a movement efficiency puzzle that I think a lot of people will enjoy.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Push Your Luck — Players push the raft to try to get specific gems to fall off. Overflow gems are passed to the next person.
• Resource Management — Players try to get certain colors of gems.

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Quotes (from this video)

• The people who run RageCon are just a dang delight.
• The Rage Bucks thing going on, and let me tell you what a great program.
• It's fantastically simple to do. It's really easy to figure out where the game is going to be, how many players you want.
• The space worked great. There was plenty of space. You didn't feel crowded.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Physical dexterity — You rotate and rock the raft trying to slide the gems toward your lifeboats.
• Push Your Luck — Grab the good stuff without accidentally sending the treasure somewhere your opponents can scoop it up.

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Quotes (from this video)

• Looking for a quick family game with a seriously fun physical gimmick?
• You're physically manipulating the game watching those gems tumble around and trying to line up the perfect move.
• Overall, Rocking Raft is a fantastic family filler, tactile, fast, interactive, and just chaotic enough to keep everyone laughing.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Card Drafting — You'll discard them and draw some more lifeboat cards.
• Pressing a mechanism — On my turn, I can spin this to whichever side I want. So, let's say I decide to go on this side. I then pick one of these two yellow things and I'm going to press down. I can hold down as long as I want and then I let go like that, so it bounces back.
• Set Collection — You can put them in your lifeboats. Yellow, yellow, yellow, blue and black can be used in any spot. If you don't use blacks, they go back in the middle. Otherwise, you must take these gems and pass them to the next player, the extra ones.
• variable end-game trigger — When the pirate flag card is drawn, and this is stuck in the deck at a certain spot depending on how long of a game you want, then the game is going to come to an end.
• Variant (Sinking Lifeboat) — You can also play with a little sinking lifeboat, where basically you're just putting a drop on each of your lifeboats each round, and if you get two, it's going to sink, so you only have so much time to finish them.

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Quotes (from this video)

• This is 100% a kids game.
• if you go in looking for anything else, I don't think this is a game meant for adults.
• It just seems like the game is both random and not random at the same time.
• This game is fine. I think kids will like it.
• We live in an era of fantastic, wonderful games.
• Not bad, but I also don't know if that's not a It's not It's not a great selling point for the game Rocking Raft.

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