Game Info
Year
2026
Players
3-6
Age
9+
Playtime
20 min
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Description
Real-time meme stock trading game by Reiner Knizia where majorities score and bubbles burst
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The Dice Tower Review at 0:23 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Super silly and not to be taken seriously.
- Loud, raucous, simultaneous shouting gameplay.
- Clever rules, especially the negative point mechanic.
- Attractive look and portable size.
Cons
- Can go over like a lead balloon if the group isn't into it.
- Can have dud rounds where not much happens.
- Group dependent; requires everyone to be into the spirit of silliness.
Thematic elements
- stock market
Comparison games
- Weidling
- Pit
- Zuv Otis
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hand Management — Players will shuffle up the cards, deal an even amount to each player. ... Once a player has nothing but majorities in their hand, they will yell out stonks.
- Push Your Luck — They're also going to score negative points for each card of the leftover face-up card in the middle of the table. So, this player over here already has a deficit of three points.
- Real-time trading — Players will begin to trade with each other or with the center of the deck free form. There's no turns, it is real time, it is loud.
- Set Collection — The goal is that you want to have the majority of a suits of a suit. If you have a majority, you'll score one point per share or per stonk that you have, and you'll score bonus points if you're able to collect all of a single card value.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Games named after memes.
- This is Reiner Knizia's take on Pit.
- If that sounds horrendous to you, uh like cool, thanks for coming out to this video.
- It's very silly, very raucous, and it's very group dependent.
- I have had this game go over like a lead balloon.
- seven is too low for the amount of great games I've had of this. Eight is too high for the amount of games that were a little bit less than I wanted them to be.
- You really want everyone to be kind of into the spirit of the silliness of the game.
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TheGameBoyGeek - Hi Quality Hi Energy Board Game Reviews Top List at 4:38 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Realtime trading stock game
- Redesigned by Reiner Knizia with sharper scoring and more strategy
- Reimplementation of a beloved game by game designers
- Engaging for fans of stock market and real-time games
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Realtime trading of company stocks, watching for market shifts and negative points
- A fast-paced stock exchange
Comparison games
- Pit
- Panic on Wall Street
- Wolf on Wall Street
- Weedle
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Realtime Trading — Players buy and sell company stocks in real-time.
- stock market simulation — The game simulates an evershifting stock exchange where certain stocks can be worth negative points.
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Quotes (from this video)
- "A lot of these come in airlifted and they're very limited releases. So, it might be hard to get some of these, but they are theoretically for sale, so you should be able to get some of these."
- "The card no one drafts... is the dinosaur that moves up an additional space. So, it's one of those things where it's like, 'Oh, I want this one, but if we leave this one, this will move up.'"
- "I usually don't like legacy games, but this one is on there because of that. You can reset it, you can replay it, you can play them separately. So, in theory, I guess it's not really technically I don't know what the definition of legacy game is."
- "Forbidden Island came out, I believe, in 2010, and it's the game that sort of got me back into the board gaming hobby."
- "I was nicknamed the Game Boy, which is why my channel is called Game Boy Geek, actually."
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BoardGameCo Review at 6:14 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Distills chaos into a 20-minute experience
- Good for groups and as a potential one-more-game option
Cons
- Feels a little gimmicky
- More of a party game experience than a game to revisit often
- Real-time games rarely stay in collection long-term
Thematic elements
- Memeified stocks and trading
Comparison games
- Chinatown
- Project Elite
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hand Management — As you go ahead and divvy up the hands of cards to all the players.
- majority scoring — You score for majorities. So, I already am scoring the black sevens because I have more than the majority. Well, I just need the majority. I need four. I need four or more and each card is worth one point. If I can get the entire set, then each of those cards is going to be worth three points.
- Real-Time — This is a game of stonks. Stocks, basically. It's just It's just all memefied. In the game, you are playing a real-time game of chaos.
- Set Collection — Getting full sets is incredibly important uh because you get large chunks of points, but also getting a lot of everything is important.
- Trading — You are doing real-time trading.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- All Play reviews are not sponsored videos and I'm allowed to say whatever I want and I do, you of course have to decide whether you can whether whether you trust me to go past that bias, but I want to make sure you have all the information possible before diving into it.
- They're not bad, but they're not like I wasn't super impressed.
- I hate mats like this. Even when they have games that I love.
- I don't think I was overly crazily impressed by this. The problem is generally when I'm ranking games, I don't take into account that oh, look at how much they did with a small box. I go by how much do I want to play that game? How much in thrall How enthralled was I by that? Not how cool or impressive was it?
- This is real-time frenetic trading and it's kind of like if you like Chinatown or games like Chinatown and you wanted Chinatown in a travel-friendly game that is chaotic madness that distills the chaos into a 20-minute experience.
- Very few real-time games have stayed in my collection long-term. Most of the time a real-time game is a fun gimmick that I enjoy and then move on from.
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The Dice Tower Unboxing at 5:45
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Pros
none
Cons
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Quotes (from this video)
- Hey everybody, I'm Tom Bassel.
- Thanks for watching the most boring unboxings on the planet Earth.
- I'm Tom Bassel. Thanks for watching another video on the Dice Tower.
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