Between Two Castles Playthru

[Music] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] [Music] Hello and welcome to the Tantrum House playthrough show. I'm Katie. I'm Anna. I'm Melissa. I'm Ryan. Today we are playing Between Two Castles of My King Ludwick from Stonemer Games. This is a sponsored playthrough. Now they now have an Essentials edition which is the base game and the expansion.

So we have an older copy. We are playing basically what you would have in the essential version because we have the Secrets and Suarez expansion added into our game. So, even though we don't have the essentials box, we are basically playing what you would get in the essentials edition. I love suarees.

Yes. With swans. Suarez with swans. Just can't get enough swans at my suarees. Swans and the occasional secret. Yeah. Swans. Swans. So, uh Katie and I have both played this game many times. We really enjoy Castles of Mad King Ludwig and Between Two Castles, but this is Ryan and Anna's first time, which is why they're conveniently sitted between us.

We would not have had a chance. They would have demolished us. So, this is a semi-ooperative game because you are building with your two neighbors. So each of us at the end of the game will have two castles that we have contributed to. One on the left and one on the right. So I'm building with Ryan and Anna.

But after we score the castles, my personal score is going to be the lower of the two castles that I built. So, I can't be like, "Oh, I really want to make this castle beautiful and I don't care about that castle because that's going to tank my score." So, you have to try to do your best on both sides, right?

That's the tricky part. And any other tips or things you want to give before we jump in? Um, not really. So, what's going to what's going to happen? Okay. Is we each have She said everything. four, six, eight. I was just double counting my We each have a stack of nine tiles. What's going to happen is it's kind of like drafting.

We're going to look at our tiles and choose two of them, one for each castle. We're going to do this simultaneously and we're going to put them face down. Um, and our throne rooms that we each have actually have some colors and placement that they want for scoring. So, that's sometimes a good place to start is trying to fulfill what your castle wants.

Okay. So, I'm going to go here and here. And hopefully what I have done is exactly what needs to happen. And then to make it easier, why don't you put your stack under Katie's castle because she's going to draw that stack next. Katie, do you take that stack? All right. Oh, that's right. We pass to the left.

Mhm. And then there's a second round. And in the second round, we pass to the right. Yes. Yes. So, [Music] I have not played Between Two Castles and I have also not played Castle of Mad King Wig. How does that happen? How can you be friends with any of us and not have played any of those? Who says that we're friends?

Melissa, that's it. Y'all are coming over later. We're playing. We're okay. We're g we're gaming acquaintances until I have played these games. Yes, as it turns out, that is what that is the only thing we are currently. Okay. All right. The line has been drawn. All right. So, everyone has chosen two tiles.

They've passed their sack. Now, we can flip them over. And technically, you're not locked in to a specific tile to a specific castle. So, if your partner um can try to talk you into changing your mind and switching and those sort of things or Oh, so both of mine go this way. Okay. Yes. And we can make the decision like, "Oh, she got that kind.

I can actually swap and it works out better this way." Or maybe one person say what they're doing, right? All right. So, it looks like Anna over here we have a purple room, which is what our um castle wants for scoring our throne room. And I did a blue room, which is the other color that it wants in position.

So, I think those were good choices, the purple and the blue. What do you got over there? Some things on the side. Orange. We've got Yeah. Uh we've got a pantry and a laundry room. So, we're getting ready to, you know, to for service in this castle here. All right. I did not choose one that matches our castle.

I see how it is. Uhhuh. I went with a basement acquaintance. I'm just going to throw the uh Okay. Get getting Look at those magician fingers just moving an entire castle. Oh. Uh, so I'm just going to throw mine anywhere underneath. Okay. We do want a corridor up above in one of these two spots. Okay.

So, does it matter where? Um, I think that's probably a good spot. It's going to want the square um symbols and we don't have any of the squares yet. So, okay. I think that's a decent spot for it. All right. All right. Next. Yep. We pick up Look the next stack. I can see how this will get very difficult later on.

Mhm. Certain things want certain areas and your choices start. These all look exactly the same. There's not much of a choice. I mean, that's why I chose the two that I did. Yeah. I was say these are not these are not these are not it. Um, yeah, there's there isn't there isn't a lot of choice there, but I will go with this.

Oh, I'm we're definitely doing that. Great. Okay. So, the sleeping room wants different colors around it. Just in the castle. In the castle. Oh, in the castle. As long as we get one of each type of room. And now that includes activity and corridor or activity and secret room. So you need six basically becomes amusing.

Hey Melissa, show your hand again. You just need six. You need six of the Okay. So no one else. I I'm not really liking the options that we have here. These are I'm a little uh I'm a little underwhelmed with mine, too. And purple. Okay. I think is based on this. So, it wants more purple around. That purple wants more purple.

And then I'm thinking potentially. Well, sorry to give you a bunch of junk. Wow. I know. Sorry. Yeah, Anna, same. Yeah, it's not. You're You're getting some real junk in that one. Oh dear. I'm hoping mine is not junk. That's all I'm going to say. didn't pass you great stuff either. Yeah. No, you did not.

But I I felt like I passed Anna a pretty good hand. So, at least the hand that she's passing to Melissa is pretty good. What you going to do with it? All right. Everyone is selected. So, we Hya. Oh, I did a a blue room, which the yellow blue room. Okay. That's where I was going for this anyway. So, I was going to put this needs red, though.

So, you're thinking something like red to get the yellow spot. I concur. We wouldn't get any under here cuz that type of This one has the square. So, so that was a good play. Golly, I'm so good at this game. Here, then we're not getting anything there or there. We could put it here, but then we'd have to really build up around it.

So many choices. How shall we build our castle? Purple. Okay. What What do you think you want to do? Um, poop. I'm thinking we put the fungus room underneath that one to get an additional point for the yellow that's above. E, it's like our crawl space. Not anymore. We got it fixed. We We had to get our crawl space encapsulated.

Oh, I didn't even notice that we had a pit of despair in our castle. I like treasures. Princess Bride is so good. um two per below it. Yeah. So, it needs it'll need one more to get full points. I'm putting a Venus Grotto in ours and it gives us points for the special rooms, which the throne room is in this column.

There are other ways to get special rooms through the bonuses. So, potentially we might want to put more in that column. I have a treasure room and a Venus Grotto. They're so cool. way better than a friend. Anybody reach three of a kind yet? So definitely be looking. If you have three of the same type of room, you're going to get a bonus of the same type of room.

So not color type of room. Color is type. So okay. Yeah. So it looks like we're looking I assume for yellow because we've got this one that wants connected yellows and then this one that gets points for yellows above it. Okay. But you do have two oranges. We want yellows on this guy. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Oh wow. Well, it it's one point per connected yellow. So, we could connect it all the way over here to these and then go up from there or we just build a crazy but that's I mean we shouldn't build our whole castle around getting p like points like food runes or whatever. I mean, is it is it good to get three as quickly as possible or is it just depend on how our um getting a bonus early like especially this this gives you a bonus card.

It gives you a a new goal to work through if you get the utility rooms. Okay. So, so it may not be a bad play. Yeah. I mean, getting another orange one now would be a good thing there. Oh my. Okay. This is and I'm passing these things to you. So with this one, we want um the um the square right hand corners around.

So whenever it's around Okay. So there is something later that will score those icons like in addition the bonus for the purple rooms. Yes. So, if you were choosing between two very similar things and you could make a choice for like an icon in the corner matching a lot more of what you already have, that would be a good tie break.

Okay. I did play with my niece one time and she was at the time maybe 10 and just wasn't sure how to play and I I told her, "Oh, that's fine." And we started to note like we were together and we started to note that there were some cats in some of the illustrations and I told her like why don't we just collect cats and put them in our castle like just find cats and so we did and there were a lot of cats and they came through and that castle won.

It was the highest the highest scoring castle in the game was the cat castle. That's how you do it. Yeah. So, it was it was funny. All right. So, uh I have two different activity rooms. Okay. I was thinking this one. Can we put next to this? Um Well, technically you would have to go Oh, cuz we have to build up.

Oh, that's so sad. What do you have? I got one of these, too. I thought you were hinting to me that I should get this one since you passed it to me. Oh, I I went I went double orange, but Ryan's the smartest to to do that for me. Like, I know he's smart enough to hint that. So, I am smart enough to do that.

I totally didn't do that. I was like, I'm going to go against what I would normally do to Well, we got a double war. I mean, you could you could potentially is is that one good for our castle? I can I can do this one and it's fine for that. Don't steal from my castle. But now this might be better for this one's not great.

Oh, this one's fine for this castle. It's just we're not working towards that goal already. Okay. Do you feel like this could help or is this um I mean you could put it here and try to get a few more blues. We could also do this over here. And do you have a I am I'm going to put this over here. Yeah.

Oh, we could put this next to the Sure. I mean, it's not the best, but but there we're still getting our face better. We are. We're We're very excited stories to that castle. It's a ramp castle. It's a rample. Um I'm putting a bowling alley off of the throne room. I want a bowling alley in my house.

We just can't put any purples around it. No around it. Got it. No, those are sleeping. Oh, yeah. The living rooms. And not the rooms. You keep that in mind. Train room. Mhm. Colors are over here. We don't want any more activity rooms around it. Okay. Cuz I guess the trains will drown out the other activities.

Yeah. I mean, it's like really Okay. And we draw three and keep one of these bonus loots around it. No more else. And then we can So they're they're getting a See what it is. We can hold it up here. I don't think that the people on the I mean I don't think it matters for them a whole lot. Okay. Although I may try I'm not going to look um are they all understandable because I do have rule books that explain them more if necessary.

Um this is per tile that has that configuration around them without just like that. It's got other tiles. It exists. Okay. Gotcha. Um I will trust your judgment. This is not great so far for our castle. So, we can go ahead and just get rid of that one. We don't have a whole lot of this going on, but it could.

But we're not doing that great either. Yeah. So, yeah, let's do it. Why not? All right. Okay. So, this last stack is going to have three tiles. Basically, you're choosing two of them and then the final one gets discarded. Sent into the void. Oh, it does cuz it's there. Okay. Mhm. We're gonna zoom in.

Okay. On the red castle. This one. Yeah. Zoomed in on that one. Zoom. Ready. Well, we're we're not uh Oh, wait. Well, I guess I'm picking these two. Last one gets discarded. Okay, I think this one's good. If it's not, I apologize. I don't really like any of these options. These um none of these are awesome either.

Yeah, this one kind of stinks. Here's a discarded one. What are we doing with the discards, Melissa? Uh the last the last rotation's always kind of a Yeah, you get the drags of uh castle options. Yeah, everybody else has already passed on them. Th This one is the castle that Anna and I are working on.

The red one right here. We have couple basements, the quiet room, the Venus Grotto. Go up a little bit. Perfect. All right, we can flip our tiles. And there may be more discussion this time about who wants what. Okay. I was thinking unless I missed something, this could go here. Except that's the Oh, the exact thing that we don't want, right?

Mhm. All right. So, sorry. I I need to pay attention to this castle right now. Okay. Um, you have a copy the thing to the left of it. So you could copy I was thinking that one maybe um to copy another blue do that and then these two could go next to each other somewhere. This one is not bothered by any of those things.

I was thinking about Let's move this up a little bit more. Um, copying the basement quiet room because we already have a blue there. Yeah. Um, and that would give us our third basement which would give us a bonus. Yep. Does this help or at the very least not hurt us? It does not hurt us. Okay. So, Melissa, I was thinking this still thinking about figuration.

We can't put this one there. doesn't hurt this and it potentially could get us points with that. Is that do this? Am I tracking or not? Yeah, I think that's connected. Decent. The other build out thing we could do is copy this one and then so one point per would also symbols as long as it's not I'll leave it up to your judgement.

sleeping around. So, cuz I did blue one. And so, if we did that and if we do this, then that one is scoring for both of those is an option. Looks good to me. I don't think we have any threes over here yet. Nope. We do have a three over here. The basement, the bonus for the basement is to choose any other bonus.

So, here are our options. We can draw five new tiles and place one. We can get a scoring token that will score for a specific symbol in our thing. Currently, we have one, two, three, four of the torches. We could draw bonus cards like they did. We could get special rooms. There's a fountain or a tower or a ballroom or a grand foyer.

um which all score different bonuses. Uh I don't think we want a tower yet cuz that goes for how tall you are and it caps it. The fountain is just I think a base of like five points or something. Um, so I would say the tile, the getting points for our torches, the bonus card, or the ballroom, which give us points for things in our neighbors castles.

I think any of those would be I like dancing. We should I believe we draw three of the ballrooms. Ballroom. Ballroom. Ballroom. Then we choose one. Oh, you haven't seen it yet. Um, and then we'll get points. Wicked. Nobody. No. I've seen Wicked. I don't recognize that quote. All right. So, we can get points for the yellows in our neighbors.

There's one and one. Uh, the grays. There's none here. Two over here. For the sleeping rooms, we have two there and one there. One there. It'll be what they have at the end of the game. So, um, I'll let you choose. Come on, dancer. What do you want to do? The blue sleeping rooms, yellow kitchens, or the gray hallways?

Kitchen. Kitchens. I suggest that we put it up here because we get a bonus there. Yep. So, those two are bye-bye. Yes. Yes. All right. Yep. Put it like on the bottom of the stack. Yeah. Get out of here. So, we have our new stacks for the next round. Round two. We're going to pass to the right this time.

Oh. So, going the opposite direction. This game always gets me because I think that there's another round. But that but this is it. This is it. It is. This is for all. This is the game that always like leave you wanting more. So, it's basically like eight more. No. Um, yeah. So, what do we want? It's terrifying.

10 more tiles, maybe. Okay. All right. All right. So, we really quick, we we've got double stacked here of things that we want sleeping rooms for, but we need one more different color to make the sleeping rooms worth anything. So, to make sure that I'm reading this correctly, one, it's a point if one of the things around this is purple, and we don't want that.

We don't want that. It's a point for each side. That is we're close on a lot of things. So, right now, it's worth We're going to get something. Now, I understand. Okay, now it's clicking. This part, we're struggling. This castle's struggling at the moment. Okay. And this one, the struggle bus. It is definitely struggling.

We need more colors. Yes, we definitely need some more colors. Uh, orange. This one wants orange. Like some of these names. Um, oh yes, I think some of these are referencing here either. They might be. Some of them are just fun. Like just sometimes I've definitely built castles just based on the names of the rooms.

Yes. Or them having cats. Yes. Or them having cats. In the last round there was a game room. I have to play this one. If anybody ended up using that one. I wanted to. I think I might have passed it along. That one. What is going on over here? Oh, no. It's over here. That is what I'm asking myself. What did I do?

Oh, you used the game room. We ended up in our castle. Yeah, we have the game room. Everybody comes over to our lab. I know. This is the thinking thinking section. All right. And I'm going to pass that there. I'm going to do that. So many things to think about. I I'm trying to think of who I'm passing it to.

So, I'm trying to do things. Uh, I I can't promise anything for anyone ever. Apologies. Okay. I think we're going. Yep. Other way. Okay. We're going right to the right. To the right. Right. Here we go. Go. This one has bunny slippers. Oh, bunny slippers. I had to play it. This one's a nursery. And that one's the princess chambers.

So, I have these two. I know that we don't want to place this one around, but it's another color. Good for you because you chose the thing that like gets you extra sleeping rooms on the other. This one I was thinking here. No, I think I did the kitchen cuz it's um the yellow the symbol we want and it gets a point for having the blue there.

And then yeah, that would get a point for that one. All right, I did a gray one. We got us a dining room next to our pantry. A dining room. I have this as a possible score for these three. Oh, we also have one of these. Do we need also get us an extra if we do a dungeon here. Um it it will also get us a bonus.

Oh, and we'll get our we'll get the sleeping room bonus as well over there. So, we have five. So, I think this is fine of these six extra colors. So, we're getting as long as that works out for you. Not sure. Does if I put this over here anywhere, does this help or hurt us? Um, I mean, it could go. Very interesting shape.

Y'all got potentially get two points for that. Um, let's look at we get um I think we're going to try to put a yellow. We get a tower. That makes sense. To do that. So, if we get a yellow here and here. Okay. That's unfortunate. All right, Katie. We're green cuz I want we want to put more there. Yeah.

Anything three of yet? I just need to make sure. Katie, we have three dungeons. Does that do something or not? Oh, no. Yes, we're going to get a dungeon bonus. Our castles are going to start colliding. The colliding castles. I think we need to. I don't think Yeah. We can all if we need to, we can always add stuff under there.

And I mean, we're just potentially losing out on a few points here and there, but I don't think that's that big of a deal. All right. So, you all have the dungeon bonus, which is pick any of the other bonuses. What bonus do we want, Ryan? It's a big decision. Um, put it on the spot. So, the choices are we would draw five and we get to place one of the tiles.

An extra tile. Placing an extra tile is not bad. Yeah, I'm thinking either another tile or drawing three and doing another bonus. All right. Yeah, I was kind of considering that. Let's do it. They are loading up on the bonus cards. We do have a fair amount of those. Indeed, we do. That was the other option.

Um, we have none of those. So, let's consider that. We only have two of those. So, that's four. That'd be four points. And but this would be three points. And we're getting more points if we put stuff up here. And we do want another yellow because then we get the yellow room bonus. Do that. Let's go Lolo.

Okay. Magnificent. All right. All right. Picking up the tiles and seeing what we have going on. What? What is this? Katie, listen. I I have I will not listen. I I can't I can't change the tiles that are in the hand. This is true. Okay. Um, I'm thinking this and then Oh, wow. This I think it's that. Is that it?

Ryan doesn't know, but Ryan's going to try. Oh. Oh, that's perfect, actually. Yep, those are good. But I feel like I'm going to be passing you junk yet again on Katie. That's how it works out occasionally, Ryan. Well, hopefully these aren't junk. We'll find out. [Music] So, if you pass me great stuff, you're right.

I didn't. If you were to buy a castle anywhere in the world, where would you want your castle to be? Just location based or specific castle based? Sure. Okay. Um the I've been to we went to Scotland a couple of years ago and um I've been to a few castles. My favorite castle was Donatar Castle. It's located on the ocean.

You got to say it with a Scottish accent. Oh, I can't. Your best your best Scottish accent. All right, here we go. Um, nope. I don't know. Um, this is going to be so embarrassing. Uh, good thing we're not recording this. Yes. Um, how would they even say it? I don't know. Donut donutar. I don't know.

That was so bad. I can't think of how to say it. Middle Eastern. I don't know. I don't know what just happened. Says donutar. Don't get me wrong. I don't know what it is. I mean, donut. Donut. Donutar. I don't know. I don't know if they'd roll their arm or not, but either it's um they wouldn't brave heart.

It's a really broken down old castle, but it was really beautiful. Kevin has brought it up on the feed. That's kind of cool. Oh, yeah. It was really a really neat place. Okay, sweet. All right, I think we're ready to reveal. Okay, I got us a color over here potentially. And I got us another one of these over here potentially.

Nice. I know I'm stacking, but it was junk. Katie, I That's how it works. But I got this. Look at that. I'm doubling the size of our dining room. What? It doesn't want Oh, it doesn't want We do get three of the And if we go here, can we go here with this? I read it. Okay. Cuz if we go here or here, what about an extra up?

Yeah. O. Yep. That doesn't hurt. There you go, Katie. Yeah. There a donut to her castle was so pretty. Donatar castle. I loved it so much. Don I don't know. Was one of my favorite things that we did. Put the orange in. We have all colors now. Um let's see. We have yellow. Yes. Purple. Yes. Orange. Orange.

Yes. Green. Uh we don't have green, but we might not need it. So we have one, two, three. We have activity and corridor and blue and downstairs. So, we only need six extra of the seven. So, perfect. How about this right here? Um, so if we Not that we can go on top of it. Connect there, but we never Is that going to hurt us?

So, here. Yeah, I would just put it right over there. Okay. Yet again, another color. So, how many colors? It doesn't matter where these other focus on stacking these later. I think we're good. Just put them over here. We have green. Of course, we're running out of space over there. We might have to move it down.

Yes. always have a cat of tennis courts on top up here. We do have three of the corridors now, which give us the grander. It's going to be one of the ones over there. Okay, so we take three that one. They're all the same. Okay, so grand foyer gets points for having around it. Um, we can either just throw it down here where we have one, two, three.

So, we've got all the things we need to make these count. It doesn't have a symbol. So, we would miss out on these square. But we would have one, two, three, four, five. So, maybe it would be fine. We can't put anything there. But we are It would be good to another one of these if we can't. I mean, that's five points though.

We only have one bonus. And then two more two more shuffles. So, four and then this is per four times. Exactly. Two more, right? Blue all the way. One turn, but it's getting two tiles. Orange. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. You're right. Um, yeah. I think either of those spots. So, orange, blue activity.

I'll let you make the decision. Cool. Go ahead and put it down here. All right. There should be something in there that could potentially help. At the very least, not hurt. All right. So, we get to draw five tiles. Oh, you got them already. Is that what they are? Is that you and me? Yeah. Me. So, we get to draw five tiles and play.

It was bonus proua for youdeed of your castle, man. Yeah, I'd say I'm so good at this game, but I have no idea yet. So, so what do we want? So, we would get a bonus for another blue, another purple, another blue. That would just continue our little any of those bonus. And then if we could get a tower, then it would be amazing.

Blue is a tower for the top one. Purple is This would be one point. I think I think this was potentially the most points if you get a fifth one. If you get five of a one room type, you get a bonus again, right? Yeah. You get one of the special tiles. So, okay. The um a tower or grand foyer, a fountain, or a bar or a bar one.

So, you get to just choose one of those. Mhm. So, do that and potentially go for the tower. Yeah, we get a lot of points for the tower. Okay. I think I know. Well, not like crazy points, but nothing. I think that's got to check mine right now. You think about bunnies again? No. Okay. All right. Second to last turn.

This could be bad. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. These rooms are so cool. I know. I don't know. I don't It's been so long since I passed those. I don't remember when I passed. Anna, oh no. Well, guys, this is not it. Sorry, that hand was junk. I concur. One, two, three. Okay, that one. Hopefully it won't hurt.

Riveting. Riveting. Riveting. It's hard. It's hard figuring it out, guys. I don't know what Anna has. What are we looking for? I'm gonna try that here. All right. All right. I think those could go for either. So, I think I'm going to do that and then swap them if necessary. I'm going to do that. I don't have a specific castle.

I just want one in Japan. And then mainly because I want to go back to Japan. Oh, that would be cool. I didn't even think about the eastern castles. Those would be cool. Yeah, we saw some cool ones. We saw um Well, we saw the palace in Tokyo, Imperial Palace. And then I mean, you walk around it. You can't go in.

Yeah. And then we saw um the castle in Osaka. Mhm. That was pretty cool. It's all rebuilt and touristy, though. I want to see it in its former glory. Oh, yeah. We did get separated at that point and it was a little spooky cuz I couldn't get a hold of you. Yeah. Oh, how did y'all get separated? Different floors.

I went on top, she went on or whatever. I went to the bathroom and then you normally wait for someone for them to come out of the bathroom and Brian was gone. Especially when you don't speak the language. Don't speak the language. The Wi-Fi is not working in this tower. I'm pretty sure I had a thing.

I can't remember. Yeah, I don't know. Well, let's uh let's click these and see what we want to do. I didn't feel unsafe because it's a very safe space. Oh, I got us a dancing hall, too. Oh, I have a boxing room. Let's see. Do either of these benefit? Both work there and there. And we'll get that benefit.

Let's Oh, looks like we had someone. I could swap them. I know. I was just looking at what I might swap. A blue one. I mean that would probably be better. Would that work? I don't know. That would be three. Another blue one. Maybe I think I want I can't remember. Third. Um if we can make this one work, that would be this is fine.

I think it's okay. All right, let's see. And that would be our third purple as well. I got a sauerkraut room in honor of my Ryan. Yeah. Does this benefit us at all over here? Um, it's fine. Um, I would If you do that, I might do this and switch that out. This one wants blue on that because then I could put this over here.

So, you put there, but this isn't great. And for this one at all there cuz this one has the circles for the circle one. But that would get if I did that, we'd get bonuses. So, this castle is getting a bonus for blue and a bonus for purple. Nice. Um, figure out which symbol we have the most. I think it's either going to be the circles or it's going to be the torches.

The torches. Okay, we look over here. Um, so we're going to have three blue, which is a tower, and we're going to have three purple, which is one of the attendants. Does this? Yeah. And that one copies that. Um, could put that there for another tower thing. Cool. Our castles are all up in each other's business.

Yep, they are. I was say on the screen torches. Yes. We've had a significant yellow deficit. Or Ryan, could you get a the little dude with the torch symbol? That looks like a guy with a cake. Am I Am I wrong? That's the wrong one. Is it just one of them? Yeah. Seven. Mhm. So, he's going to give us an extra point for each one.

Is this Was I right? Does this dude have a cake? I think he's like some sort of server. It's not a cake. Oh, this is a jester. They're all different. All right. So, and then we also get a tower for the blue. A snap. Which I'm so do we We're running out of So, basically, both of my castles did blue and purple this turn.

Oh, both of my class my castles are gonna get activity room bonuses this round. All right, that's gonna go. Active ballroom. Um, do you want to count and see? I'm assuming we have the most of the square ones, but we also get one of those little dudes that gives us extra points. Do you want to count and see which symbol we have the most of?

Oh, we got Let's see. On our neighbors, three, four, five, six, seven, that one. Okay. We don't have seven of anything else. Okay. Yeah. So, if you wanted the the square one. So, I find one of these. Yeah. They may be each in the round stack, but maybe not. So, I need to find one of these. So, that yellow.

Okay. And I put him in here. Yep. What's up, dog? Oh, and then it fits on the thing. He's hanging out with the king. What's up, king? Yeah, there. It's a good idea. Oh, one turn left. Okay, so we already did our two things, right? We need to draw three and do our activity room. Okay. Here's our So, you're going to be looking at the two castles next to you for scoring those living rooms one, two.

That first round went so quick. I was like, "Oh, this will be a short game." And then the second round, do what? Oh, can they not see? So much better. Okay, so that's four points. Hallways, there are none in this castle. Are there hallways over there? One, two, three. We have three. Three. Not great.

Sleeping rooms. One, two, three, four, five. This is way better. All right. Sleeping room. Sleeping rooms. CPC room. All right. We should put it around here. Okay. To cover up these. I concur. All right. Are you ready? All right. Drum roll. You need a yellow. A yellow. I think you guys took all the yellows for the other castle.

Okay. Who has a yellow? Who has a yellow? Wow. So, none of these are good for that at all. All right. So, this one is just trash. All right. My options were rather limited. This one. These are Yeah. The final round is like, well, it's the final. You're You're lucky if you can get anything that like's going to contribute somehow.

This one wasn't not in the way. This would have been perfect. Oh, man. Ah, I was like, can I get a third or fifth of anything for other benefits? I mean, that that does something. Probably that I guess. And then, oh, come down to like what does the decor look like in these rooms? That's how helpful these tiles are for us.

Yes. Would I want this in my house? Yeah. I think I take some of these things. I'm going to do this. Like the bunny slippers. Yeah, the bunny slippers. Bunny slippers. Yep. Mhm. All right. All right. I'm ready when you guys are. All right. We should pick in order of who's going to discuss their castles first so that the audience isn't overwhelmed.

All right. Y'all go first. Y'all two over here. Okay. So, I wasn't too scared. I passed it to you. Yeah. So, that was that was well played. You're keeping the yellow for you instead of giving it to us. Oh, that's Well, you know what? That's a legitimate point. We could we could place an entirely different This is a shaft for this castle though because this castle doesn't have what it needs to score that room at all.

We We're not even close. No, there's no way like we don't have any points on this one. We do get points on that one. That one would be no points for that castle. Yeah, I think I think Katie has a convincing argument. It's a compelling argument. Castle points to the castle you're talking about. All right.

So, I wanted yellow for our castle to go right here to give us some points. It would only give us one point. If we take the yellow, they have to take the blue and their castle there doesn't have the six other colors necessary. So, which means it would get no points over here. Plus, if Katie and I have a fifth yellow, we get a bonus and we can throw slap a tower on top of that bad boy.

Yes. We just want more blue in your castle. Ah, look at that tower. All right. My god. So, we're definitely getting a blue. We have the Do we have the tallest tower, Katie? With my It definitely looks tall. Yes. Um, a blue here would score a point for that. And it's just extra points by one. You have it by one.

Doesn't matter if it's by an inch or a mile. Winning is winning. Vin Diesel taught me that. All right, we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Nine tiles. Um, over here I can either do another Um, okay. Isn't going to get I think this is going to be better for my castle over here.

Except this would be a third activity room for us which would give us another ballroom. Yeah, I think that's a good thing cuz we have the two there. I was so happy in my last two. Yes. Anna got bunny slippers. She's good. The two that I got were just kind of like meh. They're like onepoint rooms. They're not going to give there wasn't much for what I had.

I think it go here. But we had that yellow. Yes. We got a nonpoint tower. Okay. Um my one thought was it could go here and it's giving us a point here and a point there. Okay. Because it can go downstairs. I concur. And then you guys are getting a ballroom. Yes. There you go. So, we're looking at the other castles next to us.

We have two green and one green. So, that's a total of three points. Um, purples. We have three purple over here. No purples. You have one. One. One. No, you have two. No, you have three. Oh, wait. That's red. Never mind. So, purple's worth five points. And then we have the loots. the activity rooms.

We We have a lot over here. We have one over here. We have four over here. Melissa and I don't have a fun castle. So, the purples or the activity rooms would both be five points. Well, my last thing I got us an escape room to go with our game room. Yep. It's a I we have a fun and I have a fun castle here.

Well, actually, Melissa and I do have an escape room and we have a bowling alley. So, I have a tennis court. That's what I said. Well, we have two ballrooms on top of each other. We also have a treasure room. We also have the hall of creaking floors. Oh, wow. So, boom. Which we have doubled. So, we have two.

Oh, we have two halls of creaking floors as Look at us go. Thank you, sir. So, we're each going to take one of the score pads. Oh, no. I believe on iOS there's an app that you can take a picture, but we don't have so fancy. Okay. Pen. Pen. I have an Apple product. All right. I'll score this one. I'll score this one.

I'll score this one as best as So, basically, the easiest thing to do is count how like starting on the food. How many food ones do you have in your castle? And then write the score in each thing on that line for each individual room. Go down. And even if it's a zero, still put it down because that way you can look really and check that you've counted correctly.

Yes. Okay. So, first off, however many we have. So, we have two yellow, right? One yellow. Oh, sorry. We have one yellow. And then I'll put two points because we have one room connected. Actually, yeah, it has to be up or up. Okay. So, someone said #team Katie. Yeah. If you're talking about Well, at least my husband's supporting me.

If you're talking about Katie and Ryan's castle, then I'm okay with that. Walk through your card so we can see yours. Oh, you can see mine. All right. I had one food room. It is connected on one side to a orange. So, that's two points. My living rooms. This one here has one living room around it, so it's one point.

This living room has no orange around it, so it's zero. This living room has two special rooms, so it's two points. I'm lost. We'll come help. All right. I have one utility room, but it is worth zero because it needed more orange around it. Our castle does not have any outdoor rooms, so it's none. Nothing goes in there.

Activity rooms. Look how many zeros I just wrote down. Zero zero. Our utility rooms are so bad. Wow. Uh, this activity room is has two around it and it doesn't have the bad color, so it's going to be worth two points. This one has two sides and neither of them are and none of the bad color around it.

So it is two points. This one has two sides and none of them are the bad color. So it's worth two points. We have one corridor. It's looking for the circle symbol. So it has one, two, three. This one's copying it. So, four. One, two, three, four. Downstairs. So, I'm going to have four of these. This one is two points for the specialty buildings.

Two, four, six. This one is one point per purple. One, two. This one is a point per blue. One, two. And this one copies it. So, it's one, two. Getting more zeros there. There's a lot of zeros on this page. It's embarrassing. Uh, we have one, one, two, three, four, five, six. You can see how many different colors you have.

We have six colors, so we can score our sleeping rooms at four. We have three sleeping rooms, so they're each four points. Not bad, huh, Katie? There's a lot of zeros. All right. So, we this ballroom we needed to be next to that castle, which we're not. So, we're counting yellows. I see one in this one.

And how many do you all have? Two. Two. So, we get a total of three points for this ballroom. This one wants the loot, the activity rooms, which I think we decided there were four on your side and one over here for five. Our tower is gonna count the things beneath it. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

We do not have any fountains. We do not have any ground grand foyers. We do not have any bonus cards. We do have a royal attendant. So, we're going to count how many torches we have. Uh, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. seven. So our royal tenant is seven. And then our throne room, we have the colors it wanted.

So that is four points. And we will total all of those. Two, four, six. Is it? There were there's some big certain. I was going to say we have some gaps, but are we doing okay? Like I don't know. What's the name of our castle? I don't know. Okay. I hadn't thought of castle name. This is It's like a single tower.

This got to be Rapunzel's castle. Okay. This one one big tower to it or needed yellow. It needed yellow. Okay. So, nothing. Yep. But this one has two four. Yes. So, yeah, that's a zero and a four. I'm going to call it Rapunzel's tower. This one's tower over there. Or did you have questions? I I just wanted to make sure I did some of these things right, but I think I'm pretty good.

Come. So, you want me to total that up? Okay. So, we have two. Yes. Mhm. [Music] Watching you helped one. Yep. Mhm. Okay. Here. I think this is all correct. Yeah, because we have enough of the room. So, each of the sleepings with four tower one, five, six. Uh, the tower doesn't count itself. So, that's one less.

Okay. Should have taken note of that when we when I placed that outdoor. That was my fault. One, two, three. Yep. Four, seven for the royal attendant. Uh, three. It's a four for the throne room. Okay. So, it's two each. Yep. Two each. All right. Cool. Sound good? Mhm. Hey, Rapunzel's tower didn't end up too bad.

Three. Mhm. Okay. Okay. Three. We We doubled down on the things that we knew we could get points for. Exactly. Um, and you stole all the yellows from my castle, right? So, one here for that one for this one. One, two, three. Three. Yeah, it's for having the different sides. And then this one is one, two, three.

And then this one is one, two, and this one is just one. This was dumb. I don't know why I put this here. What was my point in doing that? Oh, I think it was cuz I put it there thinking I was going to get something there. We don't have any corridors downstairs per blue above it. So one, two, and then same for that one.

So two two sleeping rooms. So these are four. So one, two, three. The creaking floors three. So six. I mean, wow. Four times three. Yeah. So they're worth four each. So write four down three times. Four. Four ballrooms. All right. Ballrooms is Oh, per neighbor. One, two, three, four, five, five. Where?

Corridor. This one is five. That's a good score for that tower. So, 1 2 3 4 5 Five. Okay. So, that's two. This one is one, two, three, four, five. So, I got bonus card throne room. So, five. So, two, four. This one is one, two. Yep. Four. I think you didn't uh count that one as a as a square for each of them.

Okay. So So this one's two. So this one's two. So that's three points. Yeah. Every point. All right. Are there any other that I got that I did incorrectly? This is This is Rapunzel's tower here. How many points? 67 for Rapunzel's Tower. Um the our castle, no name, our Venus Grotto Castle um is 65. Okay.

And we're seeing if we can find any more points. I might have scored something wrong cuz House of Creaking Floors 2 is not looking so well. All right. So, this is for every one of these in our castle. So, that's 1, two, three, four. So, that's three more points. Oh, yeah. So, we're It is the first time scoring.

Yes. I'm going to Hey, I'm going to give myself a pass. So, that's We're at this many. What's your other castle? It's still being tabulated. Oh, what's the name of it? There has We haven't I'm for it. Castle Flofendor. That's a call back to a an escape room here in Greenville. Oh, we actually didn't do that, did we?

Oops. No, we didn't. Um, yep. Four for the sleepings. We didn't get a ballroom. Six for the tower. Grand foyer. One, two, three, four, five, cuz this also counts. All right, two. We're finding some more points. Okay, I'm just trying to make it exciting. cheating. I'm going to double check our points.

Yes, go for it. I think we're I watched you do it. I felt like you did fine. It's all good. I will not have any hurt feelings. I I think we went from 55 to 62. So, we found Wow. Seven more points. Yes. Gosh, numbers are hard, guys. So, So, your low score was 62. Yes. All right. So, my low score is 62.

I'm assuming your low score is 62. Low score is also 62. Okay. Our low scores I think are 57 together. Sorry. Ryan win. So what happens? We both have 62. Then we look at the other one and whoever has the highest other castle. 67 versus 65 would be the winner. What? I was just trying to make it crazy, you know.

Just trying to A nailbiter. Yep. All right. What's the favorite room in each of the castles? Oh my god. What's the theme of your castle? We do have the king's chambers. I I had to I brought that one in. I wanted to make sure we had a king chamber. So, was it that last yellow piece that you gave to the that Brian gave 67?

Yep. We Yep. It It bumped us up to 67. It gave you the win. It was a strategic move on my part. I would say that's the most castly shaped one. Yeah, it was a strategic move on my part. I knew what was going to happen. Yeah. Well, in this castle right here, Castle Fluofendor, I think I my favorite part is that we have a very comfortable sitting room right next to the turtle pond, so we could watch some turtles in comfort.

Yep. We We do have a pit of despair, which is probably Yeah, we have a pit of despair. We have creaking floors. We have puzzled floors. We have an escape room. We have a room that's basically another room. So, yeah. I mean, this is the haunted castle. Yeah, that's what it sounds like to me. We have lots of ballrooms.

We're very regal over here. And Katie, I mean, we have this is a food themed h castle for sure with pantry, a double dining room, kitchen, and then siege food storage. And we got basements for days. Yes. We go down. There's the fungus room, which I'm sure we're pulling from in a pinch. Yeah. Love mushrooms.

This is a This is a good entertaining castle right here. Exactly. Come on over. We'll make you talking party storage though. It does have party storage. It's That's also got the game room and the escape room. Escape climbing. No, that's We have an escape room in our haunted house. That's even scarier.

That is even scary. There's something to be said. The creaking floor. If you don't go out for that, if you don't get out, you die. It is. You know, we we your life is on the line. We have a hall of creaking floors and a hall of puzzled floors. So yeah, you have no idea what's going on when you walk through ours like Mc Cher coming.

Yes. Would have that feel. Yeah. All right. So that was between two castles of M King from Stonemire Games. Uh we are playing the base game plus the expansion which is basically the same thing as the essentials edition which is now for sale. Um, yeah, cooperative game, working with your neighbors, trying to uh convince them to put all the best stuff in the castle that they share with you instead of their other neighbor, which doesn't always work.

Katie was a little more convincing. I We were going to get points and then and y'all would also get points with that configuration. I just didn't know this castle was so low. I I just assumed y'all were doing a good job to begin with. I'm just glad that Katie went to bat for me. I I am happy with how this turned out.

I just want everyone to know. Of course you are. You won. Yes. Thanks for watching and thanks for to Stonemire Games for sponsoring this video. Absolutely. Bye bye. [Music]