Brick Like This Review: It Looks Like a Bunk Bed Couch
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Transcript
Hello. Welcome to Dice Tower. I'm Wendy Ye.
And I'm Chris Ye.
And today we are playing a Lego game called Brick Like This.
Yeah. This is a speed racer building Lego kind of a game. This is more actually what I expected from like the Lego game of Lego line of games than like a monkey palace. But it was cool to see that that was like a real
scoring kind of a game. Yeah,
this is definitely party game. Two to eight players. Uh highly recommend at least four. Uh but you can play this with a smaller group. They have some variations, but the real game is really four to eight.
All right, so let's go ahead and show you how this game plays, then we'll give you our thoughts.
In a brick like this, players are split up into teams of two, and each team is trying to race to build uh the object on these cards as quickly as possible. Now, each team is going to have an instructor who sees this card and knows what needs to be built. And then the other member of the team is going to be the builder, and they cannot see the card, and they just have to uh figure out how to build it based on what the instructor says. Brick like this takes place across six rounds. And each round, players can earn points based on what level of card they have. So, the lower card is worth five points, the higher one's worth eight. And so at the beginning of the round, teams get to choose which number they want to build. And that also determines how many pieces are going to be in that particular building. And then once everyone says go, the instructor can look at the card. And then the players will start building. Now, this is a race to see who can get finished first. And when the team that is done first has completed their building, they're going to flip over this 30-se secondond timer.
And that will give that much time to all the other teams to be able to finish building their building. And if they do so, uh, they will receive the full points on the card. At the end of the round, you can go ahead and lay your building on top of the card to make sure that it fits perfectly. And so that is just a very easy way to check to make sure you completed it correctly. Now, there is a variant in this game, and that is the challenge cards over here. So, these basically add an extra thing that is required of all of the groups at the table. For example, this says that your building has to have only up to four colors in it. If this is ever, this objective or this requirement is ever messed up or not uh completed properly, then the players have to pull apart their whole building, their whole construction and start over again. Now, the way that these add points is that the player who finishes first and flips over the 30-cond timer is the only team that has access to this these points.
But they also have to have correctly placed their building. If for some reason this didn't match perfectly, uh then no one would get these points. Each round the challenge cards are worth more points, but they also get to be more difficult, uh for example, you may not be able to say anything um as the instructor and instead have to panime things or just be asked a lot of questions by the builder. There you go. That's a gist of how you play brick like this. Let's go back to the studio and talk about our thoughts.
So I think that one of the challenges to this game is just that it is in pairs and so you have to have that even number group. Um
yeah because then every group always has their own like rule for like a floating person or something like that.
Yeah. You trade in and out. Do you whatever. Um we played this at three with our daughter and um you're just supposed to like do a little timer thing if you wanted to play with kids instead of like playing against other people or if you want to play two to three players. see how many cards you can complete in like a time limit kind of a thing.
10 minute thing. Yeah.
Yeah. And that's fine. But I think really the heart of the game is that heart that heart to heart headto head race heartto-heart race
and I just want to be up super upfront like I thoroughly enjoy this game. I think that it is a ton of fun. I really love the challenge cards. Um I think that they give it the lifeblood. I feel like the game itself is a fun game of just building and trying to talk it out, but I think that those challenges add a frustrating element to it. but also um they just really make it feel different every round. So they're not just building and just describing every round.
And it's funny that when you flip over one of those challenge card, you go, "This is going to be impossible." And you start doing it, you realize, oh, okay, that's
it's very impossible. I think the hardest one that I've done so far, and I've played it a couple times, is where the person who is giving the instructions can't see the building at all. And so you just don't know if your person is messing up. Like you can't give that you don't have that visual feedback. Yeah,
I think that's the toughest one. But even that, we've I've had one succeed and one absolutely fail.
Yeah. And I think the game has a nice little cadence where both team or like all teams can score. If you finish first, you get the bonus card and and you know, just like a little extra bonus point. So, you're encouraged to go quickly, but you're not encouraged to go quickly at the cost of doing the you mean uh of doing well. And it's not only the first scene to finish,
right? So like all the scoring is like neatly in place. I think it's done well.
It's a very kind scoring I think is the way it is.
Yeah.
Yeah. Having that extra 30 seconds. And there have been times where we are nowhere close, right? Um I think the biggest like variation in the cards is some of these like eight cards here that I don't even know if I can find any that are like that. But when you have like big chunks of blue space and you have to really figure out what all the pieces are beforehand. um whereas there's other ones where you look at it and you're like very clearly I know what all these pieces are just from the outline. So I think there is a little bit of um variation even within the numbers of how difficult those cards are. Um but I think that it it's well laid out and especially for teams that are struggling with that particular visualization like you have the five point cards or whatever like the easy cards that show you exactly what pieces that you need.
So if that is not your skill set, like you can still play and you can still use those cards.
So to clarify something I said earlier about like the the first of the Lego game line of games that came from Asmo day from this umbrella. Uh the monkey jungle monkey palace.
Monkey palace.
Monkey palace. It was interesting to see that that was a Lego based game, but it was like a whole like point scoring engine building kind of a game. This is this is much more what I expected. This is Play with Legos.
This is Play with Legos. And I think that that's neat, right? Because this might be more approachable for people right off the Target or the Walmart shelf to see something that's like, "Oh, it's Legos. Oh, but it's a game." And I think that that kind of hits this uh hits that target
pretty nicely, right? It's it's the right level of complicated, the right level of kind of grows maybe a little bit beyond what people were expecting from like, "Oh, let's build a things with Legos." is like, "Oh, there's some real thoughtfulness that comes with those higher level challenge and higher level uh p instruction cards."
Yeah, this is a very welcoming game. Like, this is one of those games you can bring to any non-gamer and be like, "Hey, let's play this. Let's try this out."
Um, I do think that is going to be very divisive. I think there are going to be those people that absolutely hate this game because their brain doesn't work this way or they get frustrated with the timer. Um, but even people that have been bad at this game have still enjoyed it. I've played this with multiple groups and people that have really struggled and they don't have a chance of winning basically every round still at Dan have been like that was fun, you know, like it's still a fun challenge. You're still creating something. You're still playing with Legos. Um, so I think most people have enjoyed this so far. Nice.
Do you have a number in mind?
Yeah. Yeah. Let's go ahead to final thoughts and scoring. Uh, I'm giving this one a seven. I think that this game is I'm recommending it. I think it's exactly kind of what it ought to be. simple premise, but also a little bit of kudos for going and having a little bit more challenge uh that you can optionally go into, or you can stick with some of the simpler ones if that's just what you want to play with. Uh, and I like these types of activities or games where you have to try to describe with precision. I've always found myself
pretty decent at them. Yeah.
Uh, so yeah, I I like this one. I could see what you're saying. Some people might not do as well, but it's cool to see that people tend to have fun.
Yeah. And I think as long as you have patience with your group, you're good. Um, so I'm going to give this an 8.5. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I've played this with people that are great at it, played it with people and partners that are terrible at it, and I've had fun across the board. I love the challenge cards. I think they keep that it they keep this game fresh, and they make every round feel a little bit different. And I like that growing buildup of we start with some simple challenges and then we get harder and harder throughout the game. That also gives you a chance to catch up on points a little bit. if maybe you were slow to get it at the beginning, but then you're like, "Nah, I got this." Now we can be fast and we can be zippy. So, I think that this one is ton of fun. It's one I'm going to continue playing. Uh, so 8.5 for me.
Well, there you go. Score of an 8.5, giving a brick like this a seal of excellence from us here at the Dice Tower.
All right, thanks for joining us today. I'm Wendy Ye.
And I'm Chris Y.
Go play with some Legos cuz they fun.
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