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0:01 Welcome and welcome back everybody. Tabletop Toki here and we have some fun unboxings with some extras goodies from uh Makumo and Dr. Steve Finn as well as our sponsor Noble Knight today. So, it should be a pretty quick um stream. Um just a couple items and hey, welcome. Glad you can make it. Um, so yeah, just a just a quick Sunday morning stream. Um, using the new mic setup. So, if anything is weird with any of the levels or anything, feel free to let me know and we can adjust as needed. But that being said, let's just jump right into it. Um, I think we'll start with our top box here, which is from our friends Mokumo. Um, if y'all have been around, uh, I had previously looked at, um, or they had previously sent Kerry Perry Summoners.

0:58 Um, they're really well known for their like matching of wood carvings, artistry in their pieces, sculptures, as well as board games. So, I'm really excited when they offered to send in uh, their newest up andcoming title, which will be coming to Kickstarter the beginning of next month in June. Um, and this is a pre-production copy, so we're just going to check it out here together to start things off. All right, so this is called Spy Tales. Oo, very cute. So, very cute character design. Kind of like graphic novellesque with the art style here. Let's see. It's two to four players, best with four, ages 10 and up, 45 to 90 minutes.

1:48 Tactics in the shadows. So, let's take a look at the back of the box. We have a trick- game re-imagined. Trick taking deck building spy game. Hidden agendas and tactical foresight. Forecast your success. Disrupt your rivals and win the most influence emerge as the top agent. Um, these are the handcrafted wood carved meatballs, which is Mokumo's signature. and um you craft a deck to make a secretive persona. All right, so very excited to delve into this and see what we have inside the box. Looks like we have um a round tracker. We have our rule book, which is pretty hefty. Oh, so we have some backgrounds of the different characters and different things like that. So, I love trick taking games, as you all know. Um I also love deck building. It's one of those mechanics where I've noticed that I feel like I really enjoy deck building, but I don't have a lot of deck building games in my collection. So, um, very interested to check this one out. We have our four different characters. We have Mimic, Mirage, Echko, and Ala. So, it looks like they all have a unique player power as well, which can change the game state.

3:02 We have some tokens here, some coin tokens. Then we have our um other tokens. These are really cute. I'm not sure exactly what they do, but uh we also have our custom decks. This is the other thing that Mokumo's production is always really stellar, even though this is like a pre-production copy. So, we have our custom deck boxes with our cards in here. Um so, let's see. All right. So, it looks like there are specific cards, suits, etc. Oh my gosh, the illustrations are so adorable. Love to see it. Look at this little guy. He's got a bird. Where'd he go? Very cute. Um,

3:53 yeah. I mean, you know, it's a it's like an oil slick. Uh, I don't know what the actual uh name is, but Um, so we have all of our different cards. So we have one deck of cards and then we have our second deck as well. Um, and it looks like it's best with four players. So I'd be interested to see how it plays with three or four. We can actually check the rules and see if there's um if it's variance or if it's the same cuz that's pretty tricky um or challenging with trick taking games um as far as how things are set up cuz there are a lot of trick taking games that are intended to be played with four or three and then they have like alternate rules for three. I'm going to move the table a little bit. Alternate rules for three or for two players um to make it like viable to play. So let's see. So yeah, there's a forecast. So you're um trying to determine how many tricks you think you'll win. You lock it in. Okay. So that's this is like your betting board, it looks like. Then you can place tokens to um modify your bets. And then we have our resolution. So interesting. We have the intimidation, a debriefing phase where we resolve things. So, there are specific missions that you're trying to resolve as well with the tricks, which is interesting sounding. And then some demonstrations.

5:20 Okay. And then we have our powers. So, let me see if it has anything about um different Okay. So, these are just the special cards. So, a lot of this is looking at um different missions, different specific cards. So the actual rules are just about just less than half of this rule book. And then we have some more detailed um things. And then we have oh team operation. So this is four players 2v2. I kind of like that a lot. That sounds really fun. Um, so it looks like you can play the regular base game with two to four players and then there's the team's variant at the end. Um, we have our other deck assuming this one is very similar.

6:14 So this has some of the other cards that would be required. Okay. Yeah. So it looks like similar cards as what we had in the first one. And then we have the wooden figures, which again, this is the signature of Mokumos. And I think it's really fun and interesting that they include these and find a way to include these in every game. Um because they also do like wood carving um as well as board game design. Uh so let's put these back in here. Let's take a look at these little guys. So this is Mimic little mouse. Oh, so cute. Can y'all see that? Okay, let me let me adjust my camera. See? So, this is Mimic. Again, totally handcarved wooden figure.

7:02 There's so much character in these little these little carvings. Um, and then we have Mirage, who is I don't know, a sto. Is that a type of animal? Kind of looks like it. Um, we have I think this is Is this Ela? Oh my gosh, I love that the little scarf is off to the side, asymmetric. And the little expression on their face is so cute. And then we have who's our last friend here? Echo. All right. Wonderful. So, yeah, very excited. Really, these are to mark your forecast, I believe. Um, but love that they're included and they definitely say, you know, these can just be displayed as well as used as components for the game.

7:51 So, very excited to check this one out. I'll be giving more info on it um over on the channel for our monthly plays as well as posting about it over on Instagram. So, make sure you keep an eye out for that one. Um, and let's continue on. So, we also got a um another make sure I don't just show my address here. Um also got another game from um Dr. Steve Fin games. I did a review of some of the solo. Ala does look like a criminal. They're definitely my favorite. Um, I did a review of some of their solo um, word and puzzle games and um, they were nice enough to send their two-player strategy and word games. So, I'll be doing some more reviews of this as well on the channel, but we're just going to pop in and look and see what we have here. So, very similar to the solo games. Um, this book has quite a few.

8:50 Oh, it even has tips for laminating, which I definitely did with my solo games. So it looks like we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight different games. So we have detectorristists, stareyed, spell track, fishongers, coolseeker, tic-tac-toe, eloquacious, and speculators. Um, so all of them come with rules as well as the actual sheets so that you can play the game. So we'll just look really quickly. So detect dete detectorrists, that's how we say it. Um, it looks like this one is about um metal detecting. I see like buckets and metal items. So, this is filling in your grid. Very cool. Let's see what the next one is.

9:35 We have this one looks like a word game. Um, stareyed. Check chart the night sky by finding patterns of celestial objects. Oh, okay. So, it's just a rolling rate with some different um patterns that we're filling in. Very cool. And then let's see, we have a word game, spell track. Raise to 12 points by collecting letters and spelling words. I love that they all come with a how to play video. So, um, that is helpful for those of us who are not really interested in reading through all the rules necessarily. Uh, so we have some different words that we're putting in. You sit side by side, odd player, even player, and then you're making various different words here. It looks like there are some wilds that you can take into consideration as well based on your little um board. We have fishmongers, which is outbid your opponent at the fish market to fulfill your contracts and make money. So, some bidding, some um resource management, it looks like.

10:38 Oh, these are really cute little shelves of fishies. All right. And then we have Quillseker. Capture lines of letters to make words. Collect objects and score points. So, it looks like it's a little bit of area control kind of um word searchesque and then you're capturing and placing them down here. So, some um set collection as well with the different items that you can get. All right, so we have tic tac dough move around collecting baked goods and selling them to customers. So, here we have Oh, interesting. So, it's like um a 3x3 grid of 3x3 grids. Um which is pretty cool sounding. And it looks like you can move around the board from different areas to collect things. That kind of reminds me of um like 3D chess um or 3D checkers. I don't know if y'all ever played that.

11:32 Um, it was something I enjoyed growing up, although I don't think I knew all the rules where you had like the different platforms and levels that you could move up or down or side to side and loop around. Um, it's kind of what this reminds me of off of a first glance. We also have Eloquacious. Oh, so each board starts with Eloquacious and then you're filling in give clues to your partner to fill in the grid with words and complete your tasks. Oh, is this cooperative? Yes. Oh, I love that. I am dying to try this one out. Honestly, this looks really interesting. Um, yeah. Okay. Cooperative game. Both players win or lose together. Try to complete tasks before getting three strikes. You have a clue giver and a responder. Oh, this might be my new favorite quick two-player game to play. Um, that sounds really interesting. All right.

12:29 And then we have I think there's one more. Let's see what we have here. Oh, or is that the last one? And these are just kind of Okay. Speculators. So, this is invest in currencies and manipulate the market to maximize your gains. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. So, a lot of different variety in here even though there are two word games. One's cooperative and one's not. So, I'm very excited to check these all out. I'll be giving, like I said, mini reviews of all of these um during our monthly plays. might be posting about it on Instagram, etc. Um sharing it over on Discord. So, make sure y'all stay in tuned for that. This one is I put a link down in the description for um Spy Tales um and I'll be posting about the campaign when it goes live as well. And then for the Dr. Finn's book, Two Player Strategy, the um Kickstarter campaign is over, but you can actually orders order it. I think the most direct link is over on Amazon, so I put that down in the description in case anybody wants to check it out. Okay. And then we're going to move on to our Noble Knight order.

13:29 Um, let me just double check and see if we're doing okay here. Sounds good. All right. So, our Noble Knight order, I just got a couple games for this month. Um, because I had a couple months of getting like a lot of stuff and I also went to a board game convention at the beginning of the month where I spent some money at the silent auction. So, I was like, we don't need that many new games. We already have a lot of games I need to learn this month. So, um, thank you to our sponsor Nights. Uh, as you all know, there is a link down in the description. So, if you're ever looking for, you know, some new games, some used games, um, looking for some good deals, if you use that link, it does support the channel directly. So, thanks in advance for considering them. Um, and thank you to Noble Knight for sending the games. So, let's go ahead and jump in and see what we have here as far as these different games go. Okay, so one of the ones that I am looking forward to trying. Y'all have said a lot of good things about it is A Gentle Rain. Believe it or not, I have not played this yet. It is a solo game. Um, puzzly in nature, tiling, cozy game for one or more minds. One or more.

14:38 Interesting. In need of a soothing rest, warm rainfall, soft music in the lake, where liies dance. So, I've been told it's a very calming solo puzzle activity. Um, I do wonder whether or not it is more of a puzzle than a game. Um, and which is why I've held off on ordering a copy for the longest time. Um, but I like puzzles and again um, Noble Knight was kind enough to send a copy, so why not? Um, trinkle retreat into a quiet lake that will center your mind. Journeying alone or with a fellow wanderer, thoughtfully placing each exquisite each exquisite tile down, coaxing the eight blossoms to bloom one by one. Win, lose, take what you need from this fleeting meditative experience that unfolds within 15 minutes and conveniently tucks away. All right, cool. And I am glad that they had some um like used copies of this small box cuz I think there's a Target version of this game as well that comes in like a bigger box um which I am not really a fan of. Hey, glad you could make it.

15:55 Are you out at sea right now or are you on land? Um, all right. So, we have our little Oh, I did not realize that this is the same publisher as the Kinfire Del series. Interesting. Always changing yet always itself. Oh, this is really cute. I do love me some good poetry. So, this is really nice. Um, I'm thinking I'm going to really enjoy this. Uh, even though it may not be as gy as a lot of solo games that I enjoy. Um, but yeah, seems like it'll be a very cute experience. So, we have our different flower tokens, which I believe are going to be placed inside of the various different piles as we place them out.

16:43 Very pretty. Love that. Oops. I'm also realizing I forgot forgot to bring baggies up, but I think we'll be fine. Um, so we have those and then we have our tiles, which are pretty chunky. I did not expect them to be quite so large. So, I think this will take up a lot more table space than I had anticipated. For some reason, I thought the tiles would be like I don't know. Um 2/3 of the size. Yeah. New Orleans. Oh, okay. Okay. Multiplayer. Gentle rain is co-op. Oh, hey Adam. Glad you could join. meant to be zen. No pressure.

17:30 Yeah. Yeah. I saw the plastic the like 3D flowers of the Target version and I was not about it. So, I definitely prefer these like screen printed wooden tokens. I don't know. I'm pretty minimalist when it comes to board game components. Um, not just because of like saving money on pricing, but just I think they kind of look and feel better. I don't know. The colors on the tokens. Yeah, they are a little um dark slashmuted, but I don't mind that. Um I always think back to like um what is it? Carson City. Uh where they had all the like plasticky bits and I'm like I kind of just prefer those screen printed wooden tokens for that game versus anything else. Um so yeah. So there's A Gentle Rain. I also got some sleeves because as y'all probably have seen, I got a bunch of games. um or a bunch of like Japanese published games um a month or so, two months back. Oh gosh, is it May already? 3 months back um for my like board game birthday order. And so I definitely was running out of um this size sleeve.

18:42 So I want to keep them nice. So bunch of sleeves. I'll just put those off to the side. Um some more sleeves. also got copies of another copy of Fuji Flush for gifting because y'all this game is great. If you haven't played it and you play with like semi-large player counts, it's definitely one that you want to um pick up. So, I think Noble Knight might still have copies. Let me double check. And again, if you use the link, uh it does support the channel. Um let me see if they do have it. I don't know. I have to check. Also, I need to add these to my BG. Hold on. Geek and then we have Dr. Finn's two-player strategy games. Let's go ahead and add that to owned. Do y'all regularly update your collections? Is that a thing that people do? Do you do it right when you get the games? Do you like do it all at once later?

19:47 Rain. Ooh, is that really loud? Sorry in advance. Um, let's see. Okay. Hope the two-day party is really fun. Um, I got another game that I'm interested in trying again. So, this is one that I've actually owned previously and then gifted, but it is Tiny Epic Tactics. So, y'all are probably familiar with the Tiny Epic series from Games. Um, I think all of them are designed by Scott Alms, right? Um, but this is a tactics based one. Um, recently my sister was talking about how obsessed she is with Fire Emblem, and I was like, "Boy, do I have a game for you." Um, and I remember liking this one quite a bit because um, not that I played a lot of like tactic style video games, but um, yeah, I do remember really enjoying this one. It just wasn't getting played super often. I remember the solo being pretty fun, very puzzly. Um, yeah.

21:00 Yep. Yeah, I'm the same way. As soon as I get the game, I have to put it in my collection, otherwise I will forget. So, there's that. Okay. So, we have Tiny Epic Tactics. Um, this is an older one in the Tiny Epic series. Not one of the first, but there have been many since for sure. Gift of a game already had. Ooh, yeah, that gets challenging as well. Um, with gifting, I it's always difficult like buying games for people in the hobby just because I feel like a lot of people I know are inclined to buy things for themselves if they really want it. Um, like I was hanging on to um, what was the Red Raven game? The iron something or other, I forgot. Oh, it's going to drive me crazy.

21:55 City of Iron was out of print for a really long time and I found a really nice copy of the second edition which I was getting for my friend who like collects all the red um Raven games and I had it for months and then finally right before his birthday he was like yeah I just splurged and got a copy and I was like shoot. Um yeah, so we have um Tiny Epic Tactics. We have our mat which is a cloth mat. really cool that the um actual box components uh as you can kind of see here, they flip over to make different terrain setups, which is pretty fun. Um so we have our map, we have our six map boxes. We have 1 2 3 4 5 and then the actual box, I believe. Yeah. Can I turn this over without everything spilling out?

22:47 Probably not. So, the actual box itself um to make like leveled terrain, which I think is very inventive and cute and also provides a really good storage solution for all the components. You love to see it. We have our little tracker tokens, ammo tokens, etc. I'll probably just count these off stream cuz there's a lot of little bits. We have each um player has their four different heroes that they can operate. Um, we have our reaction dice. Super cute. Um, engraved printed custom dice. Love to see it. We have our cards down here. These are our solo game components.

23:35 So, different um yeah, and crystals. So, there are different modes that you can play. I believe, if I'm remembering correctly, there are different modes that you can play with this game. Um, as far as like the tactics kinds of things. And then, um, like I don't know if it's like capture the flag or what have you, but there are some different things you can do with that there. And then we have our little characters. So, basically, you have um Oh, these are solo enemies. different characters that you can then assign to your different meles that have specific stats and things and um abilities that you can utilize. So, it's pretty fun. Um those are just represented by the different meeples.

24:24 There's quite a variety of different characters that you can play as, which is nice. Um so, it makes every game a little bit different. Cool. All righty. So, yeah. Yeah. And then we have our rule book, right? We have game setup, how movement works, how attacking works, spells, etc. Game end. We have like control for different game modes. Um more game modes. So there's um let's see, there's the competitive mode with team play. There's the battle mode free-for-all. There's realm builder rules. Um so I think that's just looking at creating different maps. Um, there's team play, there's a solo adventure mode. Um, solo is pretty in-depth, as you can see. We're still going with solo.

25:14 Um, and a cooperative adventure mode, which I think is really fun. I think I played I gave I don't I think we did the I tried the team mode. I don't know that we did free-for-all. I definitely played it solo and we might have done a cooperative um run. It was a long long time ago before I was tracking very avidly. Um, but yeah, this is a pretty pretty fun one. I have some fond memories. I'm really excited to try it again. Um, especially now having a having a buddy who also really likes tactics games. Um, I think it'll be a really good time. So, there's that. And, you know, I'll keep an eye out for the uh I think it's the maps mini expansion. It's usually the um Tiny Epic games have those mini expansions available as well.

26:05 All right, so we have Tiny Epic Tactics and I think I just have one or two more games um from this order. Like I said, not a big order this month. So this is a brand new one that I've never played called Tether um from How to See Broccley. Um 15 minutes, two or four players. Oh, I should say for Tiny Epic Tactics. Gentle Rain is one plus players, eight and up, 15 minutes. Tiny epic tactics is one to four players, 30 to 60 minutes, ages 14 and up. I always forget to do that. Um, so this one says, "Bringing astronauts together. Which way is up when you're drifting in space with Tether's unique mirror deck, your up is not the same as your opponents. 97 is your 79 or 97 to you is 79 to them, giving completely different options for where to play. Can you see the world from both their perspective and your own? Can you wrap your mind around it?" And Heather the most astronauts to win. So, this is like an orientationbased cooperative game, I think. We'll double check and see, but this one looked interesting. Um, I've gotten quite a few different like cooperative card games recently. Um, two players or two teams. Oh, never mind.

27:21 Just kidding. There's a team mode. That's why I was thinking it was cooperative. Um, we have a mirror deck. We have our two planosphere score trackers. Whoa, these are cute. Um, don't drift through the galaxy alone. Your cosmic guide, just connect the dots. Okay. And then we have our 53 card mirror deck. So, the mirror deck being 45 54, etc. So, 77. They're all um whatchamacallit just in inversed. Is that the right I don't think that's the right way to the right um nomenclature. Is that the right I don't know that that's right. Basically the digits are reversed for the other player. Um so yeah you sit across from your opponent draw five cards. So it is a headto head but there is a team mode where it's 2v2 I believe. Um, and then you're building out your grid based on the various different numbers. So, we have our rule book here, and then you're scoring different groups of astronauts based on the size of the groups and the number of cards.

28:34 Interesting. Yeah. Two teams of two players sit beside your teammate. One is horizontal, one is vertical. All right. Interesting. So, yeah, I'm very excited to check this one out. Let's see if we have 53 cards. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. So, that's 30. 1 2 3 4. This art is really cool. Five uh six 7 It's 21. Uh 22 23. Yep, we're good.

29:20 Cool. And then we have our rules refresher card right on top. That'll be good. Another space themed game. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of, you know, space themed games, but this one, I mean, just look at the art. It's so well done. Eric Hibler is the artist. Mark McGee is the designer. This dude's playing his saxophone. I don't know if you caught it, but there were like two toddlers in a trench coat as one of the astronauts. Um, yeah, it seems really interesting. So, yeah, I'm excited to play this one. I might actually get to play it today, hopefully, if everything goes well. Um, we have one more game that um, and this is a game that I own, but there's a new edition from Renegade Games, and that is Sentient.

30:10 I don't know if y'all have ever played this. I am so excited that it got reprinted. Um, it is, yeah, one of my favorite like midweight puzzly games. So, this is one to four players, 30 to 60 minutes, ages 14 and up. And the reason why I wanted to get the new edition, um I want to support the fact that it got reprinted, but also um it comes with an official solo mode, which I don't necessarily think that, you know, you couldn't play the original game without, um the new components for the solo mode. I think there are Oh, there are 60 bot cards. Okay. So, yeah, maybe it would be difficult to play the original version um without uh the solo mode um things, but again, I want to support Oh, there's some Is that Ooh, I don't know if y'all can see that, but there's a little bit of Yeah, the the the the um UV and even on the little chippy here. Um so, yeah, this is one of my favorites. Oh, and it comes with a board, too, for placing the cards out nicely. Oh, wow. Okay. They really upped the production on um Okay.

31:25 Yeah. Or we'll just have to open it up and see what all is different. I thought this was going to be pretty one to one just adding some solo stuff, but they definitely added some more things in here. Um which look pretty interesting. Let me just make a little little more room here. Put this up here. Put this up here. Over here. Okay. Um, so for sentient, we have our rule book. Um, pretty light on rules. Um, it there's some area control, there's some patterning. Um there's Yeah, it's it's interesting too because this game plays so differently at two players than it does at four players, even though the rules are exactly the same. Um I'll kind of get into why as we get into the various different components, but I'm curious to see.

32:23 Okay, solo mode is just the two pages plus the scoring. So, it seems like it's pretty straightforward. This is a game that like I was felt like was begging for a solo mode. um just because it's so puzzly in nature. Um I'm very excited to see how that all plays out. So we have our board here. Oh wow. So pretty. Um essentially there are going to be Oh, are the cards Oh, interesting. Okay. I don't know how I feel about that. I should feel good about this. The original edition cards are more tarot sized, which they don't need to be. Um, the art is pretty repetitive as well, so they definitely don't need to be because it's not like it's unique card art, but I was just not expecting regular kind of American standard sized cards, but that's fine.

33:16 It's It's better for play space because it does take up quite a bit of area. But essentially, um, each turn each turn, you're selecting one of these four cards to place into your tableau, um, onto your like personal board. Um, and these cards will have different qualifiers, not only for set collection, for scoring, but different qualifiers for how they modify your dice on your board. And then, um, a goal or objective for what those dice look like and a number of points. So, industry always has like even and odds. Um, information is a specific number that you want or value of die that you want on either side. Military is always the two dice compared to each other. What does that look like? Um, we have service, which is some set value, and then comparing one of the two dice, higher or lower. And then we have transport, where you want the dice to be equal, greater than, or less than, uh, relative to each other. Then it looks like these are some of the different solo mode cards um, based on the iconography there. So, these cards go out, right? And then you would place your little uh, agents to select one.

34:29 You put it in your dead below, you modify your dice, and then you kind of go from there. Um, that's how the cards work. Let's see what else we have in here. We have the dice. These are very familiar. Very cool. Like some of my favorite dice from any board game ever. Um, and the cool thing is like a lot of games with dice, you know, you roll the dice, it's variable, but um, this game you you just use them for the values to track. Um, it's your basically your puzzle from round to round. Yeah. And I love the colors too, like these like berry-ish colors. Um, and the nice thing is, you know, like with these dice, it's just per player, so color blind friendly, what have you.

35:14 It's just again to build out your puzzle. And then we have our player colors um and player pieces um for selecting. Oh, these pillars are new. Wait a minute. Oh, is this for Wait a minute. Hold on. Hold on one second. I need to investigate further. Um, and maybe sort these out. So, okay. These are for turn order. These are your agents that you place out. Oh, interesting. They made them all different shapes for the different or not all different shapes, but some different shapes. Like yellow. Why is yellow different than red, gray, and white? Huh? Oh, white is slightly different. Is red different?

36:02 Okay, they all are slightly different silhouettes, which is interesting. In the original, they're all the same. Um, so we have those. We have our um player order tokens. we have. So these you would place at least uh one out and then you can alternative or in addition to that you can place out assistance to gain more uh majority of these different areas. Um but you can also use assistance to cover up some of the modifiers on cards. So if like this is a value five die and I want it to be odd, if I subtract it would become a four and then I don't want it and then it wouldn't fulfill the objective. So, what I can do instead is place an assistant on here so that that die does not get modified by the card. So, it's this really interesting back and forth push and pull with that. Um, I don't know what these columns are for.

36:55 I guess I'll find out. That's something brand new. Um, but what I was saying about the two-player versus the four-player game is that a four-player game, typically you're really focusing on getting points from your cards and your dice modifications because you have that on your own separate board and you have complete control over it. Whereas in a um is it 60 cards for solo or just the six? I guess it's just the six cards. Did I misread that? Hold on. Yeah, it's just six cards. 60 bot cards. Oh, those are just the card cards. So, yeah, I guess you could play the regular edition with mock-ups or, you know, printed those six cards. Um, have I played Daily Weather by Buttonshy? Yes, I have. I think I posted about it over on Instagram with some of my more in-depth thoughts on it. Um, yeah, and thanks for joining, Brent. Um, yeah, it's really cute.

37:55 Um, so but the thing is, oh, and this is where I was like, where is where are half the components, the punch boards. So the other thing is that you get set collection from your cards, but in order to score those, you have multipliers from these different tags. So these tags actually go out on the board. Um, and each round you have one of each. So when you place your agents down, you're not only um I'm just going to sort these as we go. You're not only trying to Oh my gosh, this is going to be a mess. You're not only claiming cards, but you're also putting dibs on these various different like badges or tags that will act as multipliers for the cards that you obtain throughout the game. Um, so that's where the area control piece comes in. And in a two-player game, it's a lot more viable to gain a lot of badges because you're only competing with one other player, right? Um you could get up to all five badges or, you know, if it's even between players, um where are all the military ones? Oh, there they are. Um since there are five each round, you know, one person might get two, one person might get three. Whereas in a four-player game, you might only get one badge or zero in a round. So, it really kind of forces you to stay on your toes as far as different strategies at different player counts, which really keeps it exciting and interesting um for

39:27 different playthroughs. Um again, you can go like really heavy into one faction. You can try to spread it out. Um you can do a lot of different things with that um which I find really fun. And so, I'm like dying to try this one solo. I would not be surprised if there is immediately like a solo party video of this one. I mean, in an ideal world, it would be going up today because I get to play it like 30 times back to back. Um, that's how much I love this one. And I'm hoping that the solo mode does not disappoint. Um, yeah. I would be curious if anybody watching live or, you know, watching after the fact, if you have played this one, what your thoughts are and if you've tried the solo mode, um, how that that how that has worked out. Um, cuz I don't I typically do quite a bit of research when I purchase a game. Um, but I did not do research on this one because I already love it and own it.

40:24 And um I figure, you know, again, even if the solo mode is not that great, I would like to support them republishing the game so that more folks can get their hands on it. Um and I can't imagine that the solo mode won't be fantastic because again, the game just seems like it lends itself really well to having a solo um solo auction. So yeah, you have Oh, okay. It's to track your points. That's what the hexagons are for. Interesting. Yeah, this bar up here was not part of the original game. Um, and this is where your dice go and then you place your cards underneath and then modify them as you go. So, yeah. Um, like it more at two or four players.

41:10 I honestly really like both. Um, the puzzly part of it is the part that makes my brain the happiest. So, I don't mind playing at four players where I may not be getting as many points from cards and badges, but even though I'm not a big fan of area control, I think that it's so tight and well designed that at two players, I love thinking about that aspect of it as well. Um, so really anything goes and three players is a nice mix between the two, right? you have the option of going for one or the other or trying to block your opponents from getting badges or what have you. Like it's just I don't know. I think overall it's just super solid at any player count. Um it's just a slight mind shift from one player count to the next which is I don't know. It's It's definitely for some reason when people ask about like my favorite games, it doesn't usually come to mind, but now that I'm thinking about it, I'm like, this is definitely a game that I'm always down to play. So, I think it needs to like be pushed up to the top of the list. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Have fun with your two days. Thanks for stopping in.

42:23 Hey, that's awesome. Yeah. Hope you have a great time. I've heard that um UK Games Expo is really fun. I always see people post about it on social media. I'm like, that looks like a good time. Any games you're in specific um that you're excited to check out there? All right, we'll do a quick So, that's all we have for unboxing today. We'll do a quick rundown of all the different games and then we'll head out. But, um yeah, we have from Nokumo Spy Tales featuring wonderful handcarved meeples. I'll be posting about that on Instagram here shortly. The Kickstarter will be up. Um I believe June 2nd is the anticipated launch date. So keep an eye out for that if you're interested in a bidding trick taking game um with uh some different modes. Also have the eight games we looked at Dr. Finn's book of two-player strategy and word games.

43:15 Um, Detectorrist, Stareyed, Spell Track, Fishmongers, Quillseeker, Tic Tacto, Eloquacious, which is a cooperative word game. I'm really excited to try and speculators. So, I'm going to be laminating this right after stream and hopefully um getting to play it and post about it. We also have A Gentle Rain, which is a mostly solo, but you can play with more people. Little puzzle cozy type game. Um, Tiny Epic Tactics, uh, which is a an oldie but a goodie from Scott Alms and Games. um tactics based board game with a lot of different modes that you can play for one to four players. We have Tether, which is a two-player game or a 2v2 um where you're going head-to-head competing in placing out astronauts based on numbers and building out a grid um and groupings of uh astronauts for scoring points. And then we have one of my favorite games with a new addition and solo mode, which is Bention. So, a lot of puzzly nature, a little bit of airy control set collection here. Um, and I believe that that is it. And our sleeves and also special shout out to gift copy of Fuji Flush, which is a really awesome party game if y'all uh like card shedding games and like having fun. Anybody like fun?

44:33 So, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Thanks everybody who was able to join live. If you're watching in the future, thanks as well. Don't forget a thumbs up really helps out the channel and helps get um the word out about some of these really fun, unique games that I'm excited to delve more into and share more about um in future videos and over on Discord and Instagram. So, I think that's all the time we have for today. Hopefully y'all have a great rest of your weekend, however much of that is left based on where you're at time zone wise. Um it was a pleasure as always and uh we'll see you next time. Bye.