Game Info
Year
2026
Players
2-5
Age
8+
Playtime
20 min
Collection
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Description
A fast card game with reversible cards that show different values on each side where players race to empty their hand
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Might I Suggest A Game Top List at 8:29 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Super clever card game
- Really fast playing
- Takes out murky waters of set beating rules
- Gives flexibility of moving cards around
- So compact and easy to take with you
- Really easy to teach
- Super easy to play
- Simple yet so strategic
- One of the best new ones tried
Cons
- Don't really like the name
- Can get stuck with a card you can't play, forcing a desperation flip.
Thematic elements
- Card game
Comparison games
- Scout
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players draft cards and add them to their hand, with the potential to rearrange them.
- Hand Management — Players manage their hand of cards, deciding when to play sets, add to existing sets, take sets back, or flip their entire hand.
- Set Collection — Players play sets of cards (singles, doubles, triples, etc.) to the middle.
- Take That — Players can take other players' sets, which then flip to the other side when returned to a player's hand.
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Quotes (from this video)
- And while I do love getting outside and enjoying the sunshine, you know what I love even better than that? Playing board games, obviously.
- if you want to know what new board games to pick up before we enter into cozy game night season, then might I suggest
- And one of my favorite things about this list is because I played so many different types of games at all these different events this summer, this list has something for everyone.
- And I can't wait to share them all with you. But before we get started, I want to know what your favorite game was this summer.
- And to me, that is a mark of a wonderful game.
- This game scratches that efficiency planning portion of my brain where I just want to find the perfect combo of cards in the perfect order in order to knock out as many minions as I can on a single turn.
- Making this list just made me so excited to play these games again, and that's how you know they're good.
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Beyond Solitaire Analysis at 4:34 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- I personally like down up a little better than Scout
- this was a hit
- something I'd play at any game night
Cons
- If you're forced to pick your cards up, you might have played like a set of three fours or something that you thought was pretty great. But if somebody makes you pick it back up, you have to pick them up, flip them and then they're totally different values that you now have to work with.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Scout
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hand Management — you might be flipping your cards and having different values in your hand depending on how you acquired them.
- Set Collection — So, you are playing sets and you can also add cards to other people's sets and therefore, you know, get rid of them completely and make them somebody else's problem.
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Quotes (from this video)
- So, in general, if you're going to play games with your non-hobby game family, uh, what I'm always looking for is is the game really easy to teach?
- On a cruise, there's one more layer, which is is the game small? Because I don't like to check bags and so these are also games that fit in carry-on luggage.
- Um, so, that as a hobby is clearly alive and well.
- And the fact that my mom remembered the name, incredible.
- And so, that kind of, you know, topsy-turvy aspect of the game, I think it's really fun.
- Every single member of my family thought this was hilarious, had a great time, really enjoyed that like hey so-and-so's about to win, we all have to stop them like aspect of the game.
- We were we were clearly the cool gamer family on the cruise.
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Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Top List at 7:54 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Hovers at the top of the most played list for several months
- Quick card shedding game
- Pleasing kind of small card game weirdness
Cons
- Cannot rotate cards within your hand whenever you like because that is simply rude.
Thematic elements
- quick card shedding
Comparison games
- Flip Seven
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card shedding — Down Up is a quick card shedding game for two to five players.
- Flipping — take cards back from the table, or now flip your hand around.
- Hand Management — each card has different values on the top and bottom of the card and the orientation of that card in your hand matters.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Finally, I I have been waiting a really long time to play a complete game of this from start to finish.
- this is a big sprawling game of exploration, expansion, and conflict among the major powers of Star Trek
- it is definitely worth the evening that it can easily consume.
- Wingspan Pocket is designed to be a shorter card-driven Wingspan experience.
- it is streamlined into something easier to carry, easier to teach, and easier to fit that window of time until dinner is ready.
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BoardGameGeek Discussion at 17:54 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Interesting card flipping mechanic.
- Clever twist on card shedding games.
- Borrowing mechanics from Scout but creating a new direction.
- Appeals to love for card shedding and ladder climbing games.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Scout
- Panda Spin
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Players can spend a turn to flip over their whole hand.
- card shedding — The goal is to get rid of your hand of cards.
- Hand Flipping — When cards are taken back (e.g., when a player plays a stronger set), they are flipped over and returned to the hand.
- Ladder Climbing — Players play sets of cards of the same value, with subsequent plays needing to be stronger or lower depending on the rule variation.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- World Order is the uh spiritual successor to hegemony.
- Lead your country to victory.
- It seems really really interesting.
- This is rebirth.
- Very simple rule set.
- Very beautiful board and stuff.
- Never not amazed by Kenitzia's ability to create games like that that are just really simple, but they're deeper than you think.
- Moon Colony Blood Bath.
- I love the campiness of the theme.
- It's a silly theme.
- This deck throughout the game is just getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
- It's really fun because you get to play with it and it's just so silly the concept of the game.
- My best of the month is actually going to be uh something that I've wanted to play for a long time and playing a bit uh at home. This is Arkham Horror, the card game.
- My favorite is going to be a game called Frosted Blooms.
- It's really, really tough. But I really liked it. It's just one of those simple polyomo tile laying games. I just am so charmed by these kinds of games.
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Board Stupid Analysis at 26:46 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Felt different enough from Scout
- Had a great time playing
- Really fun
- Really interactive in a different way
- Clever mechanic where higher pairs cause lower pairs to flip
- Ability to play cards to other people's hands
- Super fun
Cons
- Fear of being a second-rate Scout or knockoff
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Scout
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card flipping — Cards can be flipped from one side to the other and stay that way.
- Hand Management — Players can move their cards around in their hand.
- Set Collection — Players aim to play numbers, pairs, three of a kind, or four of a kind.
- Take That — Ability to play cards to other people's hands.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This I was mega excited about.
- We sneak the copy away.
- So, the idea behind this one, of course, card drafting, tableau building, similar to those games that we really enjoy where you're creating your grid of cards and having those have various effects, like for example in Annual X or for example in Car Combo, but with slightly more behind it as well.
- And again, sitting into that lovely sort of 45 minutes to an hour exciting interactive game, which I'm super excited about.
- The artwork is absolutely stunning.
- We can't do a 7-hour video. So, we going to in the upcoming weeks, we're going to in the in the other different episode that we do of the hype factor, the playlist or uh review, stuff like that. We're going to talk about all the other games as well.
- We have the best community of people and we love every single one of you.
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Board Gaymes James Rules Teach at 5:30 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fun to have the physical component
- Plays up to five players
- Easier to learn and play than Scout
- Successful for the player in the final round
Cons
- Hard to play out single cards
- Player experienced confusion on the final turn
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Scout
- Bananagrams
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — While not explicitly called drafting, the rotation of cards and the way they come back to hands implies a dynamic manipulation of available cards.
- Card Drafting (implied) — While not explicitly called drafting, the rotation of cards and the way they come back to hands implies a dynamic manipulation of available cards.
- Hand Management — Players manage the cards in their hand, deciding when to play them, pick them up, or rotate their entire hand.
- Press Your Luck (implied) — Deciding whether to play low cards that can be easily beaten or rotate your hand involves a risk-reward element.
- Push Your Luck — Deciding whether to play low cards that can be easily beaten or rotate your hand involves a risk-reward element.
- Set Collection — Players play sets of cards of a single number, and these sets must either be unique or beat existing sets on the table.
- Take That — Playing sets can force other players to pick up cards, directly impacting their hands and progress.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I've heard really good things about this one.
- So, the point is to get rid of your hand.
- So, you effectively got rid of a card, but made me pick up three.
- You don't honestly pick up another person's set very often, but you would do it largely because like you're stuck with a lot of low numbers in your hand.
- It's up to you.
- I don't have a preference.
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Banter and Boards Top List at 0:08 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Simple enough to teach
- Enough crunch to bite into
- Allows for trying different strategies
- Can feel clever
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card shedding — a ladder climbing card shedding game
- Ladder Climbing — a ladder climbing card shedding game
- Set Collection — you will be playing sets of cards. But the interesting thing about this game is that you're only playing against sets of the same amount of cards that you're playing.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Moon Colony Bloodbath is a engine building, engine losing, deck building game.
- you must protect your colonist because, well, bad things are going to happen. They are inevitable where you will be slowly losing your colonists.
- It's so quick and simple, but I think there's just a lot of replayability within just that engine as the engine building aspect, trying to find ways to squeeze out more colonists so that you can survive one more round.
- Moon Colony Bloodbath just really does so well in capturing the feeling of just one more round, just one more game.
- it just feels more quick, a lot more streamlined where you're not waiting for everyone for a long period of time.
- In Neponatu, you will be creating factories producing goods all across Japan.
- And the goods that you produce across the lands of Japan will create influence in that area.
- In Nepon Zipatu is a game that has completely surprised me.
- But when I sat down played it with my wife, I was completely blown away.
- you have to pay attention to the different amount of colored workers that you have on your player board. Because when you consolidate and these workers leave, you have to pay them now. And you have to pay every worker $3 for every different colored worker.
- I love how streamlined the actual actions are, as you're just grabbing a worker and doing said action that's available to you where the worker was.
- the game offers these two different aspects of just gaming in general and it puts it all in one experience.
- Nepon Zipatu is just a game I can't stop playing. So, so good.
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