Live from LA, it's GOOD MORNING SOCIETY with Becca and Ruel!

0:15 Good morning society. Hi friends. Hi. Hi. Hi Becca. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi.

0:24 Hi. Hello. Hello. I waved at Ray but he didn't respond.

0:28 Did I take it personally?

0:29 Uh maybe you should.

0:31 Okay, I will. Finally my messages are getting through. Oh.

0:36 Passive aggression is always the way. Uh welcome friends to another episode of Good Morning Society episode 97 Becca.

0:46 Wow, that's three away from a a new digit.

0:49 Well from a 100, yeah. Right around the corner friends. This is your weekly dose of board games,

0:55 beverages, and

0:57 shenanigans. I did it. You did it. I finally did it. Yeah. We got another great show today. Lots of new games that we got to talk about and also we're going to be playing a game that I'm really looking forward to because it's cozy and we're all about the cozy vibes today Becca. I need some cozy.

1:15 Yeah.

1:16 Happy tax day America.

1:18 Yes. Hopefully everyone's done their homework and stuff and Ray have you filed your taxes? Yeah, I filed my I I had the distinct pleasure of filing my taxes twice. Oh. Why did you do that twice? Well, you see before you use the results of your federal tax return to generate your state tax return, you should make sure that your federal tax return has been accepted. Oh.

1:45 And you didn't just put two numbers backwards. Oh no. And then the state return will make you mail in your amended return cuz they won't let you do it digitally a second time.

1:57 no. Oh. So anyway It was zero not zero eight. Okay, I hope things worked out in your favor though after it was all said and done. Yeah, it's great. I owe a little bit of money. Hey, public service announcement. That is the best outcome for your taxes. Owing zero you do not want a tax refund. Why?

2:17 Why? Because that means the government has been earning interest or investment income on your money all year and you have not.

2:26 Oh.

2:26 The ideal tax result is zero dollars or maybe owing a little bit of money. I'm just So but then you have to pay penalty on it.

2:35 Yeah, right?

2:35 You have to owe a lot of money before you have to pay any sort of significant penalty. Okay.

2:40 Okay.

2:41 [snorts]

2:42 All right. Good morning tax society. Again, we are not a professional financial advice show. Please please consult your tax professional for advice. On how we can dodge in such a way that we don't have to pay for the Iran war.

2:58 Exactly.

2:59 How do we do that? That's what I want to know. Anyway Yeah. America, it's going great over here.

3:08 Let's see how we Everything's fine. Everything's fine. Oh yeah, we're just little dogs in a burning breakfast nook. I love that Jelly Roll song.

3:20 Um before we get going with things folks, we want to turn it over to a word from our sponsor today. Yeah, on this happy

3:29 This is how you wanted us to lead it. Hey.

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4:24 All right. I thank you Amek, Starla, and Grant and all the folks behind the Omaha Gaming Convention. I'm excited about this Becca because I love Our Family Plays Games. They've done so much

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4:55 any Midwesterners you know. I mean Omaha, it's a pretty flat drive. All all those states coming coming from one. Am I allowed to say that? And we got one. We got Ann Board Games. You should go. Not far from you. There you go. And any reason to get together with people who also share this passion for gaming is always a good experience. I've never been to a con I didn't like and I've surprised myself by going to small cons thinking this is going to be weird and awkward and having the best time meeting people that love what I love. Yeah. So if you want to hang out and play games, that's place to go in Omaha folks. You can check out the website also at omahagaming.com for more info. They'd love to have you as not only as a gamer but you know, if you want to be an exhibitor or a sponsor, there's opportunities as well. So thanks to Omaha Gaming Convention for sponsoring today. Appreciate y'all.

5:51 We've got some new stuff happening on the channel Becca.

5:53 Do we? Yeah, we got lots of new stuff including Oh, I'M SO EXCITED. THIS IS MY favorite thing ever. This is my favorite thing ever. Yeah. You want to talk about this? Well, you see we tend Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles they are pizzas. But not just any kind of pizza. Like I remember in the cartoon a lot of talk about anchovies. Disgusting

6:17 one might think. Or maybe you think I've never tried one and today's going to be the day. Anyway, Matt and Emmy took the 10 pizzas specifically featured on Pizza Lands and pizza artifact food cards and made those 10 pizzas as biblically accurate as possible to the card and We've been talking this is the Bible's full of this is Old Testament. This is Old Testament stuff right here. I'm very proud of this video. It's a little slice of life documentary. Ray's behind the camera on this one and

6:58 again and it's just something different from what we usually make but Matt was like, "Hey, we want to make all the pizzas. Is this a good use of a work day?" And I said, "Hell yeah."

7:12 I love this video folks. You got to check this out. It is hilarious and um They did a great job. I'm I'm blown away. And I'm very happy with the We did a little survey that Kiri put together of how you feel about the pizza and said that's included but yeah, let's not give away too much here but uh You can check it out. Spicy meal not that bad. I didn't want to turn it off. No, I know. Yeah, it's so good.

7:35 I watched it last night. Yeah, I watched it double speed to give notes on it yesterday. [gasps]

7:42 Right on. We've got a couple of other videos new on the channel including a how to game Rumors and Ribbons. Rumors and Ribbons.

7:51 I've never heard of this game. It's really cute. I love the genre. Look, we shot this in January. So do I remember the specific deets? No, I'll have to rewatch our own how to play whenever I play it which is a thing I often do. Same. Um but I I love all these like Victorian romance style games. The genre is just so fun to play in and Rumors and Ribbons did not disappoint. It's beautifully designed, very kitschy and uh Timely new season of Bridgerton. Who was watching last night? Were you Bridgerton-ing? I was Bridgerton-ing a little bit last night.

8:25 Oh my.

8:25 I've Bridgerton-ed before. I'm not caught up. I've begun season one multiple times.

8:33 Yeah, that does qualify as not caught up. I agree. That's like me and the pit. I have I've only gotten through the first couple episodes a few times. Michelle's watched the entire run and it's a pretty pretty cool show.

8:44 What's your guilty I didn't do this pop culture thing everybody's doing? Yeah, let us know in the comments or if you're watching the bottom, let us know in the comments below. One more new thing on the channel which just dropped. Um Dungeon Crawler

8:58 Quick, get the restroom signs in there cuz now these are hanging up around our studio. Great restroom signs. Now you know. Dungeon Crawler Carl. Dungeon Crawler Carl. I bet there's some people in chat who've read this book. Well, guess what? Renegade's making an RPG. So we go over the rules. It's similar D20 core system to, you know, Dungeons and Dragons with some changes and Jake, you're here but you're on mic. So let's have you yell about oh

9:30 What would you say are like two core changes? Oh yeah, well they definitely have a similar system. You're right to some of the familiar like rolling D20 things that you see in classic RPGs but they've included a lot of things that are customizable towards Dungeon Crawler Carl like the health bars are up there.

9:45 health bars are really cool. I really like this because you kind of if you don't uh how do I explain this simply

9:54 simply and succinctly as Jake did in our tutorial? By the way, Ray, how's Jake's breath? Really leaned into your mic there. Delicious.

10:02 Better than the memories of pizza smells I was having before. Ooh, scent memory. Um, so you let's you have like three sections of health always or five sections? 10

10:16 10 sections.

10:17 the true number.

10:17 10 sections. But you could have a different value of health. Like let's say you have 10 health and I have 30 health. It's split up into 10 sections. And then um if you if I were to lose like five life, I wouldn't have rolled over into a second section. And so uh I actually only have to lose like three life basically.

10:38 Okay, cool.

10:39 a really bad job explaining

10:41 No, I get it. Yeah, you just have to meet a threshold to lose a bar and you got 10 bars.

10:45 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Meet a threshold, lose a bar. Anyway, I thought that that was a cool way to deal with a health system that was a little different from what I'd seen before. Right on. Um we should really quickly go glance at their Kickstarter if we have a second because

10:58 Yes, they are crushing it. They're going gangbusters. [clears throat]

11:00 Yes. Yeah, I'm not surprised because

11:03 them over there.

11:04 something I Look at this, friends. Uh almost $5 million. $5 million? Oh my god.

11:10 love their Dungeon Crawler Carl, friends. Uh so not only the RPG, but they also redid uh John Declaire's game Unstoppable. It is the Unstoppable Dungeon Crawler Carl version, uh which you can find on my channel real soon. I'll be live streaming it um next week.

11:24 Oh, I didn't even know about that. That's very cool.

11:27 amazing and people say it is better than the original Unstoppable. I may be one of those people. Woah.

11:33 Yeah, so tune in next week on my channel, folks, uh to see more. They are absolutely crushing it. They did have John Declaire at our last game night. He showed me some play test stuff, but I didn't know he worked on Dungeon [clears throat] Crawler Carl, too. That's awesome.

11:45 Super excited. Uh so if you are at all a fan of the property, you got to pick up that game. You got to get on there. Be a part of the bandwagon of this giant backer kit.

11:54 Yeah. I feel like that's got to be in the top percentage of all time backer kits.

11:57 It's huge. Yeah.

11:58 You know, like as it grows in popularity, it needs like get those big ones. Yep. Like uh the last people was Yeah, that that was huge. Was that backer kit or was that That was Kickstarter, yeah. I worked on Frosthaven a couple years ago on backer kit. That was like I think a $10 million campaign. It was huge.

12:16 Ooh. You You worked on it? Yeah, I was doing I produced uh live streams for them and it was a month of just absolute insanity. It was great though. Just a super you know, uh the real quick the funniest story I had was I did a a video shoot where I was producing a video. Um we had the host in Australia, one of the designers in New York, and another designer in Paris. So some and then Isaac um up north. So he's we're on the same time zone, but it was crazy. Basically I was up at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning

12:46 Oh, no. Yeah, but hey, it was great. It was great campaign and uh that's a great game. We got more great great great or great games to talk about like La la la. I love great games. Let's uh reach into the grab bag of games.

12:59 Okay. Grab bag of games.

13:05 I don't know about that. You don't know about that. We'll workshop that one. What we do What we What are What's a good sound?

13:11 the notes.

13:11 We're doing it We're doing it live? Yeah.

13:14 Yeah.

13:15 You know, no, no, I want notes. I think I think it's ready. Oh, I've got the cue ready to go again. Okay.

13:21 Okay, so you go, "Why don't we reach into our grab bag?" Grab Grab bag No. Oh. Ready? Ready? Here, I'll just do it. "Why don't we reach into our grab bag of games?"

13:35 I don't see how that's different.

13:37 I like You know, I I hear your feedback. I think we should re-include the woo. Okay. Oh, it was the woo you have a problem with.

13:46 Okay. We We cut the We're going to cut the woo.

13:49 Grab bag of ghosts. Oh.

13:54 Great to jerk on that one. He's un-miked un-miked again. Was this good content? This is great content. Uh we've got great games to talk about um including winner winner chicken dinner. We've got the American Tabletop Award winners, folks. We just announced these yesterday. And did you vote on this?

14:12 I did and

14:13 the I'm on the committee.

14:15 I never vote because I feel like I've never played enough. Wow, the the first two The first two So for early gamers, we've got Magical Athlete and casual games, we've got Hot Streak.

14:29 Hot Streak I was an insta-buy for me. I've shown it to so many people now. Magical Athlete I've seen in our game night every single week. I still haven't gotten a chance to play it.

14:38 it? It's fantastic. So funny. Do that to me, RAY. OH, WE JUST TALKED ABOUT IT. YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THE GODFATHER?

14:44 I HAVEN'T PLAYED IT. YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THE GODFATHER?

14:51 Before the show started, we literally talked about how that's one of Becca's favorite pet peeves. I thought that we had done it on air so that it was a callback, but no, I It just looked like I'm just abusing my colleagues. No, that one is That was fun. Uh well, we have four main awards that we give out. The early gamers for Magical Athlete, casual games went to Hot Streak. Our strategy game went to The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship.

15:17 Woah.

15:18 And you did a video on that, Jake.

15:19 Yeah. I want to. Oh. Oh, it was a different Lord of the Rings game. Whoops. Whoops. But we definitely did a video on complex games won by Molly House.

15:33 Molly House. Which I know we've done a video here before.

15:36 incredible video with which we cosplayed for. Yes. Uh and was absolutely delightful. Uh quick look at the nominees and recommended games as well under each category. We've got uh for the early gamers um not only the winner was Magical Athlete.

15:50 Chicken dinner. And uh recommended Cascadia Junior and Duck and Cover. Duck and Cover I can highly recommend. I played both of these. I like them both, but Duck and Cover is a very fun like bingo style game. Ooh, okay, cool. And then nominated were Splendor Kids and Saint Castle of Burgundy.

16:06 Castles of Burgundy. Isn't that great? The Saint Castle of Burgundy.

16:08 That's Now that's a good title That's a great title. Yeah, don't just slap junior on there. That's why you're a runner-up.

16:13 Make it cute, folks. Sorry, I guess Saint Castle of Burgundy didn't

16:19 Uh moving right along. Uh casual gamers was won by Hot Streak. Recommended were Flip Tunes.

16:24 Love Flip Tunes. Yes, uh Places for All My Books, super cozy game. We need to play it sometime.

16:28 Adorable. That sounds lovely. Uh book organization has never steered me wrong in games in the past.

16:33 Yep. And hey, we were just talking about The Lord of the Rings. This is another one that was nominated, the trick-taking game. We did play that.

16:39 Yeah, we loved that one. Do we play that? Yeah. And Seven Wonders: Dice, which I've not played yet. Oh. One of the games that got me into the hobby though, Seven Wonders.

16:47 Same. Uh moving right along real quick. Uh strategy games, we have our recommended nominated. Uh the winner of course is The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship. Nominated or recommended Moon Colony: Blood Bath.

16:58 OH, MY SHOULD HAVE VOTED. I SHOULD HAVE VOTED. Moon Colony: Blood Bath. Yeah, loved that game. Nidavellir

17:04 that game, but I want to play it more.

17:09 Did you die, Becca, in Moon Colony: Blood Bath?

17:11 against you here on this set. That's right. Such a great game.

17:15 But let's do it again.

17:16 Yes. Uh Nidavellir, another great cozy game from Emily Vincent. And nominated were Critter Kitchen and Kinfire Council. Now I would say Critter Kitchen's a little more complicated than you think. Maybe that's just set up.

17:28 Yeah. It could have easily been in the complex games. The winner of course was Molly House. And we had recommendations above and below Haunted. Ooh. Galactic Cruise and nominated as well Title Blades 2: Wrath of the Elders, which I absolutely loved. Shout out to James Hudson who will be in our studio hanging out later today. You won't see him. Not for this show. Just Just bragging. Stay tuned. And finally Covenant, which I have in shrink on my shelf and one of these days we're going to crack it open and see if it's worth the hype. You know, the higher you get on the complexity, the longer it takes to get it out of the shrink wrap. That's just science.

18:04 It's total science, yes. So there's your American Tabletop Award uh winners, friends. You can check that out at the website for more info. And congrats to all the winners, recommendations, and nominees. Let's go. Let's go.

18:16 Let's go. Well, um we're not at the end of the line yet. Uh we still got a couple more games to go.

18:22 I got more time.

18:23 Yeah, but What is Mortal MORTAL COIL? WELL, WE'RE GOING to talk about a game coming soon uh to Kickstarter, End of the Line. Uh okay, cool. Ray did move on to the next scene. Thank you, Ray.

18:36 Yeah, he appreciated it.

18:37 is You know, there is a nuke in the background, so I think Becca, you weren't as far off base as I originally thought. Great. Yeah.

18:44 I always assume I'm way more off base.

18:48 Uh this is the Inevitable Machine Revolt. Uh Seppy Yoon, he's done several games that I've enjoyed including the most recent called Puppies or Poop. Um he is also the one that came up with Barcaine, the dog uh solo RPG that you actually take your dog for a walk and journal about it. You know, we've been trying to break Bella of the habit of making her go-to joke, "You're a poo poo."

19:15 And we'll say, "Bella, that's not funny." And we had a house guest last weekend and uh he told us after he was holding his tongue and then Bella left the room and he said, "I really wanted to tell her, Bella, objectively, your parents are wrong.

19:31 You're a poo poo is so funny and always will be."

19:39 I've just been thinking about it

19:42 every time she does it, which is a lot. I love it. She's got you know, that innate comedic timing and sense of humor.

19:50 but I needed to branch out in her joke writing before we can come back to poo poo is funny.

19:55 Okay, cool. This one is not about poo poo. It is a deadly drafting working of avoiding the inevitable. Hey Seppy, you did this to yourself. Yes, with the puppies or poop game which I loved. So this is a I think an expansion re-implementation of end of the line. There's been a couple of expansions and this is the newest one that looks super cute and oh here's a video.

20:19 making

20:20 Yeah. Oh, gasoline. Gasoline with a Molotov. Yes. So I love this. This is like sort of like that driving movie like intro. Let's go to the Let's go to the movies. I'm getting Pip-Boy from Fallout.

20:34 Yeah. The the apocalyptic meets cozy cute

20:39 Yeah. mashup always works.

20:41 Yeah. I love Seppy's designs. He He can do stuff that's like super light like this and super humorous

20:47 but he also has like really heavy crunchy games as well. So

20:51 about penises on a card.

20:52 Uh-oh. I'm in for whatever this game is. I just like the flavor. Seppy, yes. You You did it.

21:01 So you can sign up now. This is coming to Kickstarter soon. The Oh, warning. None of you make it survive.

21:07 I love this. The gas guy is so happy. Let's get ready Let's get ready to play now. See which people will stay.

21:15 They even got the bouncing bouncing ball. Is there a song? We don't know. We're watching on mute so

21:21 Yeah. I feel like with the bouncing ball that implies that there is a song happening there.

21:25 Yeah. Go give it a follow, folks. That's End of the Line: The Inevitable Machine Revolt.

21:29 That's the only way you're going to find out if there is a song. Yeah. And now this one we're moving right along to this. I don't even know how to say this, Becca. That's going to make it tough. mellifera? Apis mellifera.

21:43 Yeah. You can try to remove them humanely but they will come back. Eventually you're just going to get somebody that sprays toxic foam into that hole in the tree. Anyway, it's the bee game.

21:53 The bee game. Apis mellifera. This is a bee themed worker placement game based on actual science. So one of the designers is a full-time beekeeper.

22:02 They're so gross.

22:03 Yeah. Look at this. Is this freaking you out? No. Okay. I can't look away but I'm disgusted by them. Two to four players, 60 to 120 minutes. There's one of the beekeepers. One of the designers, they're a two-person team taking the science and applying it to a worker placement game. You are going to be using your bees trying to pollinate and do the things that bees do in the beehive. You know what bees do. Making honey. Are they making honey? Is that a Yeah, so

22:36 I Yeah, I don't want to go there. You went there. It's done. Yeah. Each mechanic reflects authentic aspects of beekeeping from seasonal challenges to resource management. So I had no idea bees were doing resource management. Apparently they are. Oh, they've been resource managing for a long time.

22:53 Okay. Making that honey. Oh, look at all those bees. Oh my gosh.

22:57 Diva. I didn't mean to upset you. I I'm not throwing shade on bees. They're just like when they're in a swarm they're a little terrifying. They Yeah. I would be scared of these swarms as well. Yeah. So that is now on Kickstarter. They just reached their funding goal of $7,000. So congrats to the team and they've got a couple more weeks to go. Check it out if you got to if you think it's the bee's knees then check it out.

23:19 love a game about real science that you can actually learn things from.

23:23 Agreed. Did I hear a sigh over there, Ray? No. Okay, thank you.

23:26 Don't worry about it.

23:27 Okay. Bee's knees. Sounds like we should worry about it.

23:30 Science. Science.

23:33 Yeah, look how cool that is. Yeah, let's Oh, we have [snorts] bees. We can talk about another animal that you can find on a farm, a pig. And a pig What's a pig say? Oink. Oink. Mhm. And our next game This is terrible.

23:48 is A to A to C.

23:49 Yeah. This is A to C. Hold on. Let it Let it cook. Oink. Oink. The next game is from Oink Games, Becca. Oh my god. I WAS

23:59 I WAS LIKE, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? OINK GAMES FROM OINK GAMES.

24:03 FARMS, RIGHT? You're talking about farms. Okay, I got it. I got it. Yeah, bees are Anyways, The Frozen Passage is the latest and greatest game from Oink Games. I love these games. We all love them. They're small box games, very minimalist art and instructions and so forth. I'm always pleasantly surprised by how much complexity there is in these small little card games. Agreed. This is a one to four player game. It is going to be released at the Tokyo Game Market next month. In North America it will make its official

24:34 Game Market is in North America? No, I just mixed up my locations. Tokyo Game Market next month in Tokyo, Japan. That's where I would put it.

24:43 Yes. And then North America we'll they'll be releasing at Gen Con Gotcha. Heard of it.

24:48 And then for Europe it'll be at Essen Spiel in October.

24:51 All the biggies.

24:52 All the biggies. For the piggies. Yeah, for the piggies at Wink Wink. This is an exciting co-op game where players are part of an expedition team trying to navigate at sea. And as you can see here in the first video it is out. We'll move forward. You are taking these really interesting looking cards. They Woah. Right? You're You're building this tableau. The optical illusion is too much.

25:16 That's what It threw me off. I was like, I kept looking at it like, wait, are these cards? Right? That's cool. Yeah. I like that. And then you you can put them on the little stand there. Yeah.

25:25 me out. Isn't that crazy? It's beautiful.

25:28 just cards numbered one through nine with different colors and you're just trying to reach the end of the expedition following all the different rules and limitations. Oh, wow. This is airline safety related? Is it? I don't know.

25:42 Fasten those seat belts, folks. It's What is it called? Uh

25:45 The Frozen Passage. The Frozen Passage. Coming soon from Oink Games. Shout out from Justin in chat. Droppulter it was an Oink game that is a popular one around here.

25:57 Love Droppulter. Yeah, we love Droppulter. You know also we we You know what else we love here? Um From The Frozen Passage to

26:07 Jewels. Jewels. We love Jewels. Dying in the in the river. Yeah, that'll work.

26:13 Yeah, now Yeah, no he gave it to you but I don't know.

26:18 This is River Valley

26:19 reached the peak in that last one but now it's time for a valley.

26:23 It's time for a valley from Allplay River Valley Jewelcraft. This is the next in the River Valley world. They had River Valley Glassworks a couple of years ago which was a big hit and I believe River Valley Glassworks were their was their biggest seller Allplay? Yeah. And now they have with the same design team the next one in the series River Valley Jewelcraft. Allplay a famously a Kansas City based company and they should probably go to the Omaha Game Game convention. Yeah. I was I was really pleasantly surprised because not only is it River Valley Jewelcraft coming soon to Kickstarter. You can sign up now to be reminded when it launches. But they also have a couple of other games they snuck in here. Things on Strings, the sequel to Things on Rings, a very fun party game. And you keep scrolling down here. There's another game called Some Assembly Required, a flat pack furniture building experience that will actually make you feel smart.

27:17 I like games that make me feel smart, Becca.

27:19 interested Look. Putting together furniture is a special skill that I possess and so I'm very interested in Some Assembly Required. That sounds pretty cool to me. I want to know more about flat packing furniture.

27:34 Yeah, I'm all about it. But I am excited about River Valley Jewelcraft because the design team Matt Riddle, Ben Pinchback have done a a lot of killer games including Fleet: The Dice Game, Stellar Three Sisters and also the original River Valley Glassworks. Yeah, we'll have to check back when they have more about the game mechanics.

27:51 Yeah. Coming soon, folks. Check that out on Kickstarter and those are your grab bag games for this week. No, stay down. THAT'S IT.

27:59 STAY DOWN, BECCA. STAY IN THERE. STAY DOWN THERE, GHOST.

28:03 GOT IT.

28:06 ALL RIGHT. YES. WELL, we've talked about games, Becca. Do you want to play one? I love playing games.

28:11 Folks, it's time for our JACKED UP MATCH UP. OKAY. WOULD YOU LIKE a hand? Oh, wow. Yeah, actually. There you go. I was playing up the bit for the camera that wasn't on us. Oh. Look.

28:27 out of sync today. I'm giant. Y'all I'm giant. I kept I kept cutting away from the video and then Ruelle be like, look at that.

28:36 Got me again.

28:37 Some days we get it. Some days we don't.

28:40 don't. Yeah, it's not important.

28:42 Yeah. Sometimes it gets us. This is a nice table. I always enjoy coming over here.

28:46 This table?

28:47 Yeah. We'd have to thank Board Heroes for that. It's a custom artisan gaming table. You can get yours if you go to etsy.com/shop/boardheroes and it's made by hand in Utah. Got a five star ranking on there. We love ours so much. Will you pass me one of those magnetic cup holders?

29:07 Oh yeah, I'll just bring it over here like so. Look at this. Custom accessories. This is the most beautiful table I've ever set eyes upon. It's gorgeous. I mean, it is just the What Look at that. You just Ta-da. Magnets, folks. Look. Look at Yeah, beautiful. Also, they don't advertise this but magnetic cup holders really good for holding thumb cameras. Oh, yeah. Yep. This is also a cup holder holding a very cool little green screen here so we can show you some close-ups on cards as we play Maple Valley. We talked a lot about how it was maple and not meeple and then I said maple. Maple Valley from KTBG Kids Table Board Gaming. I want to thank Helena there and the team for sending me this copy a while ago. Also want to thank Modern Meeple for providing our trays today.

30:05 See this is where I messed it up. Yeah. Modern Meeple friends. Aren't these cool? These are trays for all your meeple needs. This is actually called a gaming Susan. Yeah, mhm. Perfect name for that product. These are really nice and chunky and has a nice little holder here for all the different trays that you have. This material is very satisfying.

30:28 Yeah, I mean this feels like you could hurt someone pretty bad with this.

30:30 Yeah, I like that object. Was that in the Was that in the notes when they Yeah, make sure you mention how you can hurt somebody with these. They're actually lighter than they look. I don't even know what this material is. It doesn't feel plasticky at all. It feels

30:46 it looks like that that like solid might be recycled like You know you know what I'm talking about? That like recycled plastic aggregate. Yes. What [snorts] is that called? Recycled plastic. Well, we'll find out and we'll tell you next time. But I'm in love with this. I like that the colors are a little pastelly. They're not They're a little more jewel toned and subdued than like your bright primary colors. I will never wear. You'll never get me caught dead in them. I was showing off this one here. This is actually a card holder so you can have that to hold your cards as well. That's awesome. But also they want to we want to talk about their bag. Look at this bag. Look at our show you all our swag. Look at this. Modern Meeple go ahead and open that up. There are games in there. So this is the I want to get the name right. This is the um everyday gaming 7 liter capacity bag. So you can hold 7 liters games in there.

31:48 I measure my games by liter. So as you can see here we've got Radlands. Radlands all over the table.

31:59 And we've got other games as well. I love this because it's like messenger style bag I guess and but like not too big. Yeah and it's got lots of velcro for all your velcro needs. We've got three chapters and symbiosis all in the bag as well. Yeah. Oh look it keeps them all separate. Ooh, isn't that neat? So many compartments. So this This is coming out soon and you can get the trays and everything. You what? You can get free shipping Becca. Heard of it.

32:31 Friends, free shipping is available on the Modern Meeple.com site. Use the code good time society. We have a code? Yeah, we have a code. Okay, well now you got to go use it just because we got a code.

32:44 The bag will be out on backerkit. There will be a link in the show notes. Yeah, backerkit the Modern Meeple bag. Cool. Boom. Boom boom do do. Yeah, all right. Use our code to get the free shipping, right? It's not just free shipping. It's if you use the code good time society.

33:03 Yes. If you go to backerkit and put down a $5 deposit on the bag you will get two of these free trays added. So two free trays folks, free stuff.

33:12 That's pretty awesome. These trays rock. Yeah, they're so nice. Oh yeah, gaming Susan for the win. I'm going to keep knocking those over. Oh, okay. I can just move it up a little bit.

33:22 Cuz I will need to spin this as much as possible. Hey, let's play SOME MAPLE VALLEY. THIS IS A cozy game. We are getting ready for the spring festival and all the adults are doing adult things. Us kids are going to be gathering resources, making friends and making favors, creating favors for the festival. Whoever has generated the most fun will win the game. I Yeah, you're the funnest. You're the winningest.

33:50 All right guys, make sure to follow us. See you guys next week. Yes. All right.

33:57 Okay, I'm still thinking about the EDG7. That was the bag. I love that bag and I may have talked to Josh the owner and he may be taking care of me as far as my own custom Dodger blue bag. I'm really excited. I'm throwing it out there. I'm throwing it out there. Dodger without EDG7. That's right.

34:18 Mostly. That was nice, right? Yeah, minus the seven. I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah. Let's play this game. On our turns we're going to be traveling around Maple Valley to the different locations to gather resources in order to craft our favors. The favors are stuff like snacks, marionettes, baskets, garlands, etc. We both start with our first friend. I am the squirrel. And I am the rabbit.

34:45 Oh yeah, you're the rabbit I'm the squirrel and then we will make friends. Friends are over there on the left side of the board. Yeah, they are. We're going to be meeting friends along the way all the characters here the otters and stuff. Look at this Canada lynx.

35:02 This is like the cutest art ever coziest. It's very cute.

35:06 Yeah. Everdell eat your heart out.

35:08 Exactly. On your turn what you're going to do is four steps. You are going to move using cuteness. Aw, so cute. What is that? Is that an The stoat which I know about because Abria did a whole season of Dimension 20 where the players were stoats and there was a bear carcass involved as the Nice.

35:31 On [snorts] your turn you're going to take four steps. You're going to play a card one either your card or one of your friends that you eventually make. And when you play it you're just going to look at the different trails that they may travel and you're going to travel along that trail. So your starter can go on any of the three trails forest, water or valley.

35:49 Our squirrels and rabbits can swim it turns out.

35:52 Yeah, they have a little Our squirrels know how. But if we do start with one map you may use this at the start of your turn and that will take you anywhere along any path that you can move one space. Okay. Okay, so it's like a wild move.

36:07 It is. Yeah, that's fine. And then whatever location you end up in you will activate that location. In this case if Becca I found a butt shaped rock.

36:16 Yeah, THOSE ARE PEBBLES.

36:19 I TOTALLY thought they were butts too but according to the rules it's those are pebbles. I'll leave comments to you all to do Do what you do best. Do what you do best. When you get here you're just going to take these resources Becca. This is berries and herbs and they're here in the Modern Meeple gaming Susan. Very cute.

36:39 Okay and then if you ever cross that is a clay close. Okay. Yeah, clay. If you travel over here anytime you cross over one of these curiosities you will also get that from the curiosities curiosity bowl. We have pebbles So you don't take that one from the board. You take it from the supply and it stays there.

36:58 Correct. Yeah, these were randomly placed for I see. I was like when do they refresh? But they stay there. They will be there throughout the game. Those are curiosity those there. We have the pebbles aka butts. We have the flowers and the bugs. Ooh, the bugs are cool too. They're iridescent beetles. And those curiosities you're going to use those mainly to meet new friends. So step three of the turn is you're going to be able to craft items. Step four will be bringing in friends. Let me make sure I got that right. No. Activate location and then you will craft favors here. So you're going to use resources and or curiosities to make stuff like the basket. This takes two cattails cattails and one flower yes.

37:47 And then this is going to go into your hand. All friend or all favors that you go actually not your hand. You're going to go into your workshop here. You're going to be working on that when you draft it and then once you make it you will go over here. Got it. I see on the corner of our player boards it has a little work in progress and a little You can have three work in progress and an infinity amount of completed.

38:08 Correct. And these will give you bonus points at the end of the game. And now to make new friends you do need to go back to the village our starting location and that's where you're going to make friends. That's where you turn in curiosities to gain a friend. Okay.

38:21 Such as these um Three bugs will get you a stoat. Stoat, yeah. And then you're going to use that later on. So the friends coming on your board they are tired and they will refresh at the next round. That's when you take all your friends and your character in your hand and use them for the next round. Okay. We're going to play five rounds equal to five hours of the day. Starts with the sun there. The sun token that is an additional resource. If you ever go to a spot with that resource such as this acorn you'll get a bonus one. So you get two acorns and a honey. Harvest the power of the sun.

38:53 Yes. Other locations talk about and we'll you know we'll talk about it as we go through the game but there are outposts here that you can do some trading and also special ability. And these here are going to allow you to draw some new favors. This one allows you to get a patch. Patches are either end game points or on ongoing abilities. Awesome. And finally anytime you craft a favor you're going to look at the little category here and then if it matches the category up here in the festivals you're going to place your cube there. When all four cubes I've blocked off the other ones cuz those are for different player counts. When all four of these are locked up we're going to do this little power and then at the end of the game it's a little area majority. Whoever has the most will get points equal to the number cubes they have. First player or the majority will also get an four.

39:41 Second player gets two points. Okay.

39:44 Okay. So, let me just get these categories straight.

39:47 Yes. So, for example, the marionette is a music symbol.

39:50 Uh-huh. Oh, so you'd have to place here on the music symbol.

39:53 Correct. Yeah. And then when it's full, we'll just read the little ability there. Uh like whoever finishes this will get two maps, etc. etc.

40:02 Ooh, pretty good. Yeah. Um other locations, if you go up here, this is the bluffs. Uh the bluffs here, you just take three of the resources that are on the sun right now. They're going to change every round. Right now it's the acorns. And this will allow you to zoom back to the village. Oh, okay. That's cool.

40:19 zoom. Yeah. And then It feels like you want to explore more, but then you have to go back to the village to get more friends.

40:24 more friends, yeah.

40:25 So, yeah. We just take the shortcut.

40:27 That's right. Okay. That's pretty much it, Becca. Let me just cheat real quick. Let's see. You play a card, you travel, activate location, then craft favors. And then those could lead to festivities. And now you may also dawdle. That's the dawdle deck there.

40:44 I dawdle.

40:45 Yeah. So, the dawdle deck after each round, let's say I made two friends, you made none. Okay? So, I would have three characters in hand. You have one. You'll That's the catch-up mechanism. You're going to match my three. You're going to take two dawdles for the next turn.

40:59 Two dawdles. Should we peek at it What a dawdle might Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead and show that. Oh, it's just some resources.

41:04 Just resources, yeah. It's a little catch-up mechanism since you're not making friends. Okay. Cool. Keep You keep bringing up I'm not making friends. Okay, I get it. Um this is the worm. That's the first player. We exchange that. It's been randomly placed in front of me, so I will go first.

41:23 You like that? I randomly love that.

41:24 Yeah. Oh, should we move it back to the base?

41:27 go back here. So, I'm going to use uh the squirrel um to move. Now, I can move on any one of these locations. I may also use my map to move. So, I'm going to use my map first. I turn this in to go here. And then I don't activate the location cuz I'm going to continue to move with my squirrel over here. I've passed over a flower, so I receive a flower, please. One flower.

41:52 Thank you. And we did start with one each of the curiosities in our bank here. Also one map. Okay. And then mine also says gain another curiosity. So, I'm going to gain um let's gain another bug, please. One bug. Thank you. All right.

42:07 So, now I That's the end of my turn. Um I may also I have activated a location. I can craft favors. Um the only favor Do we start with favors? I forgot. I don't think we started with any favors. Um Play Draw three favors from the deck. One, two, three. Becca, and you will keep two, and I will also keep two. Ooh, okay.

42:29 Okay. So, let's take a look at these favors. Because maybe I want to focus on certain ones. So, these are the resources. And I start with them in progress or

42:39 progress. And it is two. Yes. Oh, wow. Okay.

42:47 Discard the third. I'm going to keep fruit punch.

42:51 two. Keep two.

42:52 Yes. Hey, this worked out perfectly. So,

42:54 Show the people. Yeah. So, I'm going to keep fruit punch. Um it's going to take me three berries to make, but then check this out, friends. I'm going to get an additional two points if I also have a storybook. I just happened to draw No. This one here, the tea lights. I get two plus two points if I have fruit punch. So, I need to make tea lights for that. The points up in the right corner, those are also Excuse me, end game points there. Oh, man.

43:17 So, I'm keeping these two to craft, and I'm going to discard the storybook up here. That'll be our discard pile. And that's it. You have tea lights. Okay. Yes. Mine don't work together. No. Um and then don't worry about the ones

43:29 basket, and garlands. Oh, man. This makes it hard to choose.

43:33 Yeah. Now, I should mention this outpost here, Becca. If you go up here to this trading post, you may trade resources, but you may also discard a card uh favor card in order to search for your a favor card of your choice from the deck. So, if you're looking for something, you can totally go up here try to find it. Well, I'm just going to take uh the ones that require less stuff. Okay. Cool.

43:53 Uh and I'll send that back. I've got a storybook and lanterns. Lanterns

43:58 Hey. If you put on a puppet show, if you also have paintings and storybook, you can put on storytime if you also have tea lights. I love the flavor of all that.

44:07 Yeah. So, you have one that you have the lanterns. If you build that, you could also maybe get the marionettes cuz you'll get bonus points if you have a lantern.

44:13 Aha. I I read I read what was there. Uh-huh. Yeah. No, I didn't. But now I see. Marionettes are calling my name. Yes. I'm done. And I have to choose. Okay, so now I have more intention because uh I can I can build my What do we call them? Uh favors. Favors. Um so, my lanterns are going to take one uh block of wood and two bugs. So, let's work towards that. Where's some bugs at? Uh right here. Ooh, there's a bug over there, and here's a block of wood. And my other one is all wood all day, baby.

44:50 Oh, okay.

44:54 Um I'm going to take a page from your book and move twice.

45:00 Okay. Um hmm. Oh, by the way, I landed here. I was supposed to grab two maps. Yeah. And then you get a a favor?

45:08 Yeah. I got a favor uh either from the display I think that's from the display. Uh favor from the display. So, uh I'll get Let's get the snacks. I I like snacks. Who doesn't like snacks?

45:22 Right. Uh I'm I want this bug. I'm going to I'm going to use my rabbit's ability Okay. to move to this location, but I'm not going to stop moving.

45:35 Mhm. Uh because I'm going to spend my map because it looked cool when you did it.

45:40 Yep. Uh and then I'm going to move here. I'll get a bug as I traverse the bug. Traverse. Yeah, thank you. And then I'll get a raspberry and an acorn. Nice. Do we have a max of of stuff we can keep in our bag?

45:55 Nope. The bag is limitless. Ooh, bag of holding for cute cuddly animals. And then I also have the gain star, which is these three. Uh yes. Any one of the curiosities.

46:08 Curiosities. Which will be used for favors and or your friends. Hmm. All right. I'm trying to suss out so fast what's good here. The river otter, when you turn in swap this card with a friend in the display. The new card into your pack. If you gain a favor, you may instead search the discard pile.

46:33 Oh, nice.

46:34 Ooh, maybe I need to work for that one. So, I'll get a flower for maybe the Canada lynx is calling my name. Nice. Okay. All right. Cool. Um we're all out of characters, so we're going to the end of the round. Uh that's the end of the first hour. So, let's do some cleanup. We are going to advance the sun track, which is basically turn this over. The new sun is the berries. Berries are so in right now.

46:58 Berries are so in right now. Then we cycle the cards. So, the last card on each is going to be discarded. These go down. Uh you'll do that also for the friends and the patches, please. Gosh, good to know. I thought I was going for ones higher up. Okay. Okay. And our discard is up there. Okay. Uh now all players gather their tired friends. Um those little ones that we used back into their hand. Okay, sleepy. Come with me. There are some patches that we would have placed cubes. We do that take those back now, but we don't have that. Uh we have the same number of friends, one to one, so no one's going to get dawdles. Um and then we pass the worm. Ooh.

47:36 Pass the worm, and we start a new round. That was a wave, not the worm, but you get the idea.

47:41 I'm not about to do the worm in my condition. Okay, Becca. Um this spot here, uh you would get a patch, one of those patches over there. Put a cube on something up top.

47:55 Yep. Yeah, that seems pretty great.

47:58 Yeah. Collect one favor from the deck. And then add one of your cubes to any favor spot on the festivity, and then grab a patch. Oh, that's pretty cool. That seems like a lot of stuff.

48:08 That's really cool now I think about it.

48:11 Now, question. Do How do I acquire a new friend? Can I just anytime I have the goods

48:16 Um you have to go back to the village. Yes. So, I got to keep going up go down. Yeah. Or grab maps or Let me see where else. So, if you go Let me see. Yeah. You were so smart to go here. You have a lot more movement options with all those maps.

48:34 Yeah. The maps are going to help me get get back to the village to get friends. I see. Sneaky, sneaky. Good at games, Ru Well. Okay. Uh I'll just use my rabbit because it's my only friend.

48:48 Okay. Man. Are we going to have time to get many friends before the game is over from the five hours?

48:55 Yeah. It's a quick game.

48:57 Yeah. All right. Well, um this one in the middle has so much good stuff.

49:03 Yeah. It's hard to uh turn it down, right?

49:06 But I'm three turns away from getting back to the top. But then the game will be over. Yeah. One two, three. Yeah. Wait, this is so tight.

49:16 Yeah. This is a tight game. Um Let me see. Where you're at here, right? One, two. How are you going to get back down there? Geez. Well, one cool thing is even though I will be getting friends this round, you'll get those dawdle cards that will give you additional resources. I think You know what? Let's go ahead and look at all the dawdle cards. I believe there's some with maps on them. Right?

49:35 All right. We'll give it a shuffle after this.

49:37 Yeah. Resources? Maybe there are maps. Okay.

49:40 No, just resources. Okay.

49:42 Okay. Wow. Yeah.

49:44 I'm like do I just stay close to home and keep getting the same stuff?

49:50 Get some Yeah, you can go back towards home and try to get more friends. Resources are worth more up here. Okay.

49:59 Oh, wow. You can get there in one move.

50:00 Yeah. You don't even need those maps.

50:03 Yeah, well. Okay. Um there's also if I were to get one of these patches immediately after traveling a water trail, you may spend uh something to travel one forest or rock trail. So Portage can get you some

50:19 That helps.

50:19 additional movement.

50:21 Mhm. Um I think that I just need to retreat because getting friends is the victory point, right?

50:30 Yeah, friends is big.

50:31 Now, when can I build?

50:33 Uh you can always craft um on step three or step four. So play a card and then step two is travel, step three is activate your location and then step four is craft any favors you would like to and you may do many of as many as you can afford. I see. I see. Okay. Mhm. I think that I'm just going to move back the same way I came.

50:56 Yeah. I'll cross this bug Yep. uh to get another bug. Mhm. And then I'll get a raspberry and a leaf.

51:05 Yeah. And the raspberry matches the sun so you get an additional raspberry.

51:09 Okay, so I've got a lot of stuff which seems like um that's what going to be my personal win con.

51:14 Yeah. But you should be able to build um a craft something now, right?

51:19 on wood. Oh, no. Mhm.

51:22 Okay, well you're you're building up. You know what? We're just going to see what happens. This is fine.

51:28 All right, I'll play the squirrel. I'll go straight there and I'm going to make some new friends or a new friend. Um I'm going to do two bugs and what's it after traveling gain? Yeah, I'll do the top one there two bugs and a pebbles or bug.

51:44 You've earned yourself a striped skunk. All right, striped skunk. Now they do come in tired um so and well she says after traveling gain a pebble butt or a sun. Oh, okay. The pebble butt or the sun resource which currently is grapes or I mean berries. You don't think it's any of them that you choose? Well, it's the current one. No, you're right. You're I believe you cuz there is the little I know. We all remember when acorns were

52:13 The current sun good. Past will be um then current or past. Ooh, okay. And this is any resource.

52:21 Any curiosity. Interesting.

52:24 Okay. Interesting.

52:25 Cool, cool, cool. All right.

52:26 End of the round, end of day two.

52:28 These rounds are too fast.

52:30 They're super fast. But now we go to The first step is advance the sun track. Which we next one will be clay. Chocolate. All right, chocolate. Uh cycle the cards so discard and move down for each

52:44 Now, this should have refilled already.

52:47 Oh, yeah, yeah.

52:47 And then we'll move it. Okay, thank you. Mhm. Patches as well. Gosh. I see how it's going to turns rounds will be longer when you have more friends.

52:59 Correct. But uh it's so hard to get that first new friend.

53:03 Yeah. Um and then uh we also gather our tired friends back in their hands. I have two friends, you have one so you will draw a doddle card. Did I gain my random extra curiosity? I did not.

53:17 No, I don't think you did. Go ahead and do that.

53:19 Mhm, okay. But what I really want is just a straight up resource. Mhm. Uh good because then with wood I could do so much. Okay. Uh let's see. If you end your travel at the lookout clubhouse or lodge, draw some kind of card. Oh, a doddle card into your hands.

53:39 Oh, cool. Um if you for forage for any of those, get what the sun's all about. If you gain a favor instead search for the discard. If you forage any uh clay, also gain a wild and a clay. Mhm. I feel like the points is the way to go here.

54:00 Mhm. We'll go clear um a bug. All right.

54:07 a pebble. A pebble. Okay, gain it back. All right.

54:10 I doddle? Yep, doddle. One doddle. Yep. I will immediately take this?

54:16 Uh no, so on your next turn you will play the doddle at some point instead of playing a a friend. I see. I

54:23 Yeah. Uh thing with doddle you just unfortunately don't travel but you will get resources.

54:26 Okay. Okay. Uh go ahead and I'll take the worm.

54:30 Enjoy the worm.

54:30 Thank you. And I'll start the next round by going with Have you ever been able to do the worm? Um the dance or

54:40 Yeah.

54:41 the bottle of the Moscow? Either. Uh both. Okay. Many moons ago, friends.

54:49 Um This morning.

54:52 Not at the same time.

54:54 Uh I'm going to travel.

54:55 Actually I feel like a lot of people probably done that the same night. Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to travel here. Let me see what do I need? I need I want to make snacks. Where's all my resource? I have no resources.

55:08 Now, your skunk can only traverse on ground.

55:11 Yes, so I will be going this way. I'm going to stop here and I will get a herb and berries. Oh, I don't have any resources. And I have so many.

55:22 Yeah, and then after traveling I gain a butt or or pebbles or the current resource.

55:28 Which is clay.

55:29 Clay, which I will uh Let me see. I'll take clay. Yeah, clay. And that's my turn. Oh, wait. I can craft but I don't have enough to craft. All right, yeah. I don't have. And you have to go all the way up to the trading post to trade goods for other goods?

55:50 Yeah. Dang.

55:52 Dang. I need fast travel. This game is tight.

55:55 Yeah, it is. It's all I think we should

55:57 tight resource system. Yeah, should we get out grabbing maps? Yeah. All maps all the time.

56:04 Yeah. So in the hot air balloon you can spend a map to zoom to any location except for the bluffs and activate it.

56:12 That's awesome but you have to get up there to do it. Okay. Um my turn?

56:21 Mhm. I'm just going to gain these resources from dodling cuz why not? I'll take a flower and an acorn. And that's it. Okay. Um I am going to one two, three. I need I've got two maps. Okay. Got it. I'm going to spend a map to move here. I gain a bug. Enjoy. Thank you. I'm going to spend another map to go here. I'm not going to activate yet because now I'm going to play my friend which lets me go on anyone to the hot air balloon. Amazing.

57:03 I'm going to do a trade. I can trade the current resource which is a clay for the for a map. Nice. And then I'm going to do this where you spend a map to zoom to any location except for the bluffs and activate that location.

57:17 This is how you play this game. So I'm going to go. Oh, I can Oh, I should have used

57:24 not for the kids table.

57:25 definitely not. I love it. Difficult game.

57:29 Yeah, so do I jump over here? Discard No, no, no, no. I need to go. I will turn in the map to zoom somewhere. I'm going to zoom, zoom, zoom down to uh here. And grab an acorn and a raspberry. Okay. Acorn, raspberry. And then I am going to craft this favor snacks. I'm making these snacks here. It costs a berry, an acorn and an herb. Yeah, I need that. So that is now there. That's my turn.

58:03 You have four points end game as well as your skunk friend which is another three points. You have seven points. I'm yet to get any.

58:13 Slowly but surely getting there. This is great.

58:16 Um I think I have to get a new friend

58:19 Mhm. towards the end game points. Um Yeah, the friend gets you more movement or like another turn basically. Oh, you will have the doddle as well. You'll be able to doddle. Yeah, but dodling doesn't get me movement. Oh, that's right. Yeah, just gets you wood. Really stuck because I took four wood logs. So I have everything you could imagine in my supply except for wood.

58:42 So I'm looking for any other way to get wood. If you get up to this location hot air balloon that's where you can trade stuff for that. And the trades are unlimited. The ability is one time, trades are unlimited.

58:58 Yeah, I think what I would rather do is get over here first.

59:03 Mhm. Um so I can go make a friend and then travel up Mhm.

59:08 next round. We'll see if that does anything. Yeah. So we're just going back to home base so I can acquire a friend. Uh so let's see. This Canada links if you gain a favor, you can search the discard for a favor of your choice. That seems pretty good for me.

59:30 Okay.

59:31 The other ones are three points. Instead of two, if you forage for any of this stuff, you get what the sun's all about. Extra resource. I think that I need to be finding favor core cards that I can actually buy with my mini resources.

59:48 Mhm. So. Now, is this only when I play the Canada lynx's ability or when I when she's the active Excuse me. Yes.

59:57 one in motion?

59:58 Correct. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. So, next turn I could go up here with my rabbit. Mhm. But then she or up here with my lynx, get that card and be searching when I do. Okay. Okay. And then the then the rabbit can go over this way. Yeah, we'll try that. Okay.

1:00:21 to pay two flowers and a a pebble butt. All right. Oh my gosh, I have a friend.

1:00:27 Nice friend. Okay. Okay. Um I guess they just refills instead of moving down.

1:00:33 Yeah. So, this is what going to be I was I was moved down?

1:00:37 moved down. Always moved down.

1:00:38 Thank you. Mhm. So, I'm all out of friends, so

1:00:41 I forgot to tell. Yeah. Do I get to play her? No, she comes in tired.

1:00:45 Tongue comes in tired.

1:00:46 I'm just sleepy. And you did dawdle, correct? You got your resources for dawdling?

1:00:50 I did. And do I keep them or discard?

1:00:52 Uh discard down to the bottom of the dawdle deck. Bottom dawdle. Bottom dawdle. Okay. All right. Cool. This is a tight game. Oh, one thing I forgot to do when I crafted this, it was a snack, so it has a um little symbol there, the cupcake, so I get to place it on one of these. I'll place it right here on the bake bake sale. Okay.

1:01:13 Seems good. Yeah. Cool cool cool. Cool cool cool cool cool.

1:01:16 End of round three.

1:01:18 Oh my gosh, two more rounds and then this game is over?

1:01:20 Wow. Uh honey is the the new resource and

1:01:25 need honey. I need wood. Let's res- or cycle through the cards. Okay. For each deck, please. Goodbye, Eastern newt.

1:01:32 there goes the marionettes. We've got a bug jar. Also, um if anytime there's two of the same, we just discard and make them all unique. Oh, okay. All right. Gather your friends.

1:01:42 Oh my gosh, what is Look at this cute little star nose mole.

1:01:46 Adorbs. Cutie. Um Yes, they have managed to make that terrifying creature quite adorable.

1:01:55 I've got two friends.

1:01:56 to Google. I have two friends.

1:01:58 so no one gets any dawdles. And I'll pass this over to you.

1:02:01 Okay. You will lead for this turn. Okay, let's go with my plan. I'm going to start with the Canada lynx. I'm going to move straight up because she moves through the forest. I'll get two maps

1:02:11 Mhm. and I will get a favor, but instead of drawing um a face up one, I'll go through the discard because of her ability. Discard. Let's see what I can buy from my bookoo stuff. All right, don't have that. Don't have that. Ooh, I could maybe make garlands for four points. It requires a leaf and I would need one more flower. And then these other ones are contain my nemesis, which is wood. So, I think we'll go with garlands because it seems achievable.

1:02:46 Mhm. I see that there's also these like um cattails over here, but I'd only get one, not two. And where are the flowers at? In striking distance. Okay. Okay. Yeah, we'll take garlands. Okay. All right, now I have to start building stuff cuz I can't take any more things into my workshop.

1:03:14 Okay. Can you put those discards back?

1:03:16 Yeah. All right, I'm going to play uh this one here, my striped squirrel. Um I'm going to travel. Uh he goes on this one here. And then I'm going to get these two resources, berries and herb. And then after he travels or they travel, either get butt or the current Ooh, I can get a honey. Uh you know what? Can you hand me a pebble butt, please?

1:03:43 I'm been doing it all wrong. And my goods my goods are mixed in with my curiosities. Thank you. And I've got this, I got that. Yeah, I'm I'm done. Okay. I need to make a friend. I I feel you. I feel you. Okay, I'm going to play my rabbit.

1:04:00 Mhm. And my plan is uh if I go back home I really want to craft a lantern and I'm so close. If I just get this wood. Um So, let's see. How does it work with if I cross this road? Uh-huh. And then I use a map, do I need to do it in a particular order to get this pebble?

1:04:27 Yeah, so you either use the map before or after or after your character movement. But only the character can get the pebble? Uh yeah, once you um but once you cross it, uh you will get that um resource.

1:04:39 So, if I if I take a map for my second movement, like if I go here cuz I want this pebble, do I have to get these resources? Uh no, you only get the resources if you activate a location. Basically, if you end your movement there, you will get that.

1:04:52 great. So, Miss rabbit is going to cross this pebble and take that and then I will get when I use her ability, get a random curiosity. I'll take a flower and then I'll use my map one of them to come up here, finally get a piece of freaking wood

1:05:13 and clay. Nice. And now now

1:05:19 Ooh, you're not even ready because I'm about to build this favor, the lanterns at long last. Now, if I can build two? You may. I may. You have a ton of resources. That's awesome.

1:05:37 Yeah, I think I can build lanterns and garlands right now.

1:05:40 All right. Because I need a wood Mhm. and two bugs. Okay. And I need a leaf and two flowers. Wow. Nice. Yeah?

1:05:54 Very nice, Becca. Okay. Any special abilities trigger? Oh, no, that's all end game points.

1:05:59 No, it's just points, which maybe I should save these flowers to get a friend, but I'm so far from the place where you can claim friends, so

1:06:09 True.

1:06:09 Just not going to worry about that and I'll just take points. So, there's a nine-point turn.

1:06:15 And also, the category for each of those favors, uh I believe they're paint brushes.

1:06:19 Paint brushes.

1:06:21 Oh, there's a

1:06:22 Select Um

1:06:22 there. I'll put Oh, nice. Yeah. Uh I could go on the bake sale. Let's see. You've got more bake and paint.

1:06:30 Yeah. Mhm.

1:06:32 You can lock up that paint. I want to be sharing with you

1:06:36 it.

1:06:37 to make you want to finish in them, too.

1:06:39 Well done. I like it. Oh my goodness.

1:06:43 of work in Maple Valley, huh?

1:06:44 So much work. I'm out of friends.

1:06:47 Okay, my final friend is back to my squirrel. So, I'm going to move I'm going to gain one of those resource a curiosities. So, the curiosity I'm going to select is a um uh let's go with a uh butt, please. One pebble butt.

1:07:08 Pebble butt. And then I'm going to make a friend. I'll go with a butt. Oh, wait. Wait a second. What's What do I want? I want

1:07:19 red bat and a American beaver. This is more points. Mhm. Oh, but I only have one. Okay, I'll do one of each. Looks like you're going for the Eastern red bat.

1:07:31 Yep. All right, Eastern red bat is now my friend. Instead of its normal rock travel, you may spend whatever the sun is to zoom to any unoccupied location except the bluffs. Nice. That's freaking sweet.

1:07:42 That was cool. Wow, movement is so much tighter than I thought it would be.

1:07:47 It's so hard. Right? Okay, we're done. Oh, these go back in the supply over there in our modern Maple tray. Uh all right. Cycle through. Oh, yeah.

1:08:00 Great. And let's uh cycle through the cards since it's the end of the round.

1:08:03 Goodbye. Okay. Um advance the sun track.

1:08:13 I got a muskrat and shovel digging. Nice. Got a jug, a vase, a cake, and a doll. Um grab your tired friends and do a count. I've got three. I've got two. Okay, go ahead and dawdle.

1:08:29 I dawdle. Dawdle. I'll get one of those and one of those. Okay. Interesting. Hey. Where are the points?

1:08:40 And then am I first player this round? Yeah, have a worm.

1:08:44 Thank you. Wow. I don't have a plan. So, how am I going to get up there? You know what? I've got to get maps. I want to make Okay, I'll go up here using Ooh.

1:09:05 This is Okay. What's the Okay, the current is cattail. Wow. Yeah, I'll go here to get two maps. One, two, and then I get a favor from display. Um Let's see. Maybe that one I know. Okay, I've got I can get these. Am I going to get this one? No, I'll go with a doll. Okay, so I've got these three to craft. Um oh, I played this one, so I gain one of those. So, I will gain a bug, please. Enjoy. Thank you. And that's that's my turn. What's that? I named it Peter. Oh, hi Peter. Mhm. All right.

1:09:54 Oh, wow, you got a doll, huh? Yeah. Craft in a doll. Hopefully

1:10:00 Interesting. Okay, here's my plan. For I'm going to hot air balloon. Oh, nice. Yeah, so I'm going to take my rabbit. And uh we're going to move up here. And the hot air balloon says I can get a bunch of wood. I've got this storybook that I'm trying to complete that requires three wood. Uh so, we're going to make sure we get those three wood. And then something uh in the curiosity compartment. Okay. Um like a bug.

1:10:42 Mhm. Okay. Uh p- Okay. So, I I just gained my my curiosity, but I still have the hot air balloon. So, what good are acorns? Who even needs them? Nobody likes them. Uh I don't need no acorns. Do we need a new one of these out?

1:10:59 Oh, yeah. Oh, um let me see. Did I No, I took the doll. Yeah.

1:11:04 Oh, yeah, you're right. Okay. We have a cake. Oh, there's two cakes, so we discard this cake. And we have another doll.

1:11:11 I always want cake, so that seems like a crazy thing. All right. Uh so, I've already built garlands and lanterns. Any paintings or peppermints? No. T lights. All right. So, let's go two raspberries and one acorn.

1:11:32 Mhm. Just like where that honey at, though. All right. Uh and I'm going to turn all of them into wood. Nice. Thanks. Um and once I have all this wood, I just need to I'll be able to craft at the end of my turn. Mhm. Um and this also says spend a map, which I have, to zoom to any location except for the bluffs and activate that location. So, I'm going to go to the trading post. Cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Aha. Um So, the trading post, you may uh trade the current um sun good, which is cattail, for any resource. You may trade any curiosity for a past sun good. Or you can trade a dollop for a dollop. And then you may discard one of your favorite uh favorite cards to search for the other or favorite card of your choice from the deck.

1:12:29 Well, I effed this up cuz I do have a way to get a cattail for my dollop card, but I don't have it in my hand. Um so,

1:12:42 Um I don't know, man. I don't even care about that. Trade anything for an o- o- oh, a past resource?

1:12:50 [gasps]

1:12:50 Yeah. Yeah, bro. Mhm.

1:12:54 Um okay. So, I do this thing.

1:12:57 Trade any curiosity for a past cool thing. I don't know I can't even I don't even want the trading post. That's not why I came here. You don't want to do that ability here? All right. Oh, you're able to zoom anywhere, huh? Yeah. Okay. If you zoom to the bluffs,

1:13:13 I cannot zoom to the bluffs.

1:13:14 Cuz the bluffs are you get three of these and then you immediately go here and activate the village to get friends. Yeah, it's pretty sick, bro.

1:13:21 Yeah.

1:13:22 Maybe I'll do that next turn. Maybe I have a plan and then

1:13:24 just saying I want to do that next turn, but this is the last turn of the game, Becca. Well, I got a card in hand. I have another friend.

1:13:29 Oh, this is my last one. Darn it. No, I've got two more. I've got two more.

1:13:33 Okay. And um and I can only get one friend at a time? Yes. You let me know. Cuz I cuz I want a lot of friends. One friend at a time. Interesting. I guess I got to leave options open in case you take it. Take uh if I take something? Yeah, I'm not going to get anything at the trading post. We're just going to sit tight. I don't even need it, but I will uh craft this storybook with these three wood. Okay. Oh, nice. Dang.

1:14:08 Boom. Very nice. Boom.

1:14:10 Shoot. Okay. She freaking did it. Love it. Um I'm going to go with Oh, and when I do, I get a music note? Mhm. There we go. Okay, I'm going to use the striped skunk to travel along the dotted line here, which gets me a butt, please. Mhm. And then I will get a cat's tail and a clay. Uh the cat's tail is your a current sun good, so I get an additional cat's tail. Did you get that earlier? Did you

1:14:43 I didn't get any. Okay. Um and then I may craft Oh, wait, after traveling, I did get that. Okay. Uh I may craft I'm going to craft the doll one, two No, I can't. Dang it. Dang it, this is hard. Okay.

1:15:06 Um So, I've activated that. Do ending resources do anything for you? Ending resources?

1:15:13 Uh every three is a point.

1:15:15 Okay. Uh you know what I'm going to do? No, that doesn't do any good because I'm good. I'm done. Okay. Uh I'm just going to take an easy turn and dawdle. I'll take a cattail and a flower. Should have done that first. Okay. Boop boop.

1:15:38 I need to get acorns. Acorns are up there or I can hot air balloon. Okay. I am going to Let's do that hot air balloon thing. I can't. Dang it, this is the wrong one.

1:15:53 No, no, I can't. Okay. Uh spend the map first. That is a free movement um along here. Yeah.

1:16:00 And then I'm going to use my

1:16:02 forest.

1:16:04 And then I'm going to use my bat to go along the do- uh dotted line the mountain, which will gets me to the hot air balloon. Your [snorts] bat can also go anywhere if you spend a cattail. Oh, that's right. I can zoom anywhere. Ooh. So, you probably just want to go to the hot air balloon anyway.

1:16:25 Yeah. Cuz that's going to get me the goods that I need here.

1:16:30 But you can still have a map. Oh, yeah.

1:16:34 your free map back if you spend that instead.

1:16:36 Okay, yeah. Thank you. So, get my map back. If that If that wins you the game, Yeah. I also get uh so, a special gold star? Okay. So, I'm going to be doing this. I spend a cat's tail to do a zoom somewhere. I want to zoom here.

1:16:56 That's got to zoom. Zoom zoom zoom. And then to zoom there, what is this one? This was a five pointer. Yeah, this is a six pointer, though. I can't Oh. No. Darn it. It's a hard game.

1:17:10 If I do this one uh for I can trade for a No, it's a bear Okay. This is what I'm going to do, Becca. I'm going to I can't do it. What the I'm going to Okay, my zoom is zooming over here. Trading post. Oh, no, you can't. It has to be un- unoccupied.

1:17:32 No, no, it We can share space. No, it has to be Oh, my darn it.

1:17:36 Sorry. No, it's all good. Let's go to the the space here. Uh where's the berries? The berries is here. So, I zoom over here for the berries and an acorn. Enjoy. Thank you. Okay, crafting time. What you got? Got three berries for the fruit punch.

1:17:57 god. Okay. Okay. He's going off. Five points. And then I get to place this on a cupcake over here. Nice. And then I also have um acorn, cat's tail, and an herb. Here, let's see them on on the close-up.

1:18:15 Okay, there's that.

1:18:16 Yeah. And then I've turned in those resources there for four points. Okay. Cute doll. Thank you, doll. And then that is going to go get me a cube on a present.

1:18:27 gosh, you've completed the bake sale.

1:18:29 Completed that. So, now one full from the finisher clockwise, each player may spend any resource on the or each player may spend any resource on this card to gain any two different of these three resources. Then the finisher collects all the resources from this card. So, starting with you, Becca, you may place a any resource on this card to gain two acorn, raspberry, or honey. They have to be different. You can take any two of those. Basically, a free trade. And I don't want to give you cattail or honey. Correct. Cool. So, you get a one for two, basically. Mhm. Uh okay. So, I can spend a raspberry and get two raspberries, and then I can It does say it has to be different. Gain any two different Oh, I can spend anything. Anything to get any two different acorn, berry, or honey. And I can do that twice or three times? I don't know. I think you can only do it once because whatever you put on there, I get.

1:19:36 Anything you put on that card, I'm going to get. Festivity. And I'll only score for every three in the end game that I have.

1:19:44 Correct. Of any kind of favor or curiosity and goods together? Mhm. Oh, I I will also have the ability to trade as well, but the finisher gets to take all those resources in the hand. Okay, but right now I have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. And if I just give one up and get two, I wouldn't get to nine. Correct.

1:20:06 no point. Okay, so you're not going to do it. I said ass. Ass. Oh, wait, but I'm going to get three more. Mhm. Yeah, so again, doesn't matter. No. Mhm, no, bro. Okay. I'm not falling for your game. Ruel, did you pass two? No, I haven't passed. I'm still doing my turn. Like I filled this up, so uh you're not going to do this thing, correct, Becca? I think that if it doesn't get me over a threshold of three, it's not worth it. Yeah, oh, cuz you don't have anything to craft right now. Correct. Yeah, I don't think it's worth it. Ruel, you just get two for free, right? Cuz whatever you put on there to get the two, you get it back. Yeah, I'm going to place one here and get Oh, man, I'm so close.

1:20:52 So I would get a honey and a acorn, for instance. And then because I'm the finisher, I get this one back.

1:21:00 Nice.

1:21:01 Okay. But I mean that I'm short that

1:21:05 you from no points into three a point.

1:21:08 Yeah, I'm totally out of it. Cool. Is it my turn?

1:21:10 It is. Boom! Canada leaks. Boom! We're going to the bluffs. We're getting three things of the cattails cuz that's what's in the sun. Boom! Boom! Boom! Ant. Then I'm I'm fast traveling to buy a friend.

1:21:26 Zoom. Yeah, baby. It doesn't matter. Uh we're going to go with the American beaver cuz who doesn't love some classic American beaver? I said it. It cost me two bucks to recruit this beaver. This beaver This is my beaver now. Nice beaver. Start monetization is what it cost. [gasps]

1:21:49 Uh boom. That's all I got. Nice. But I made it to the bluff. The first The first to traverse the bluff.

1:21:57 That was nice, Becca. Okay. Uh that is uh so we do the round end. Uh this is the final round, so we go straight to scoring. Uh we're going to take our player boards, our little pack, and turn it over. What? For our scoring, you will take your little meeple. Um I'll be the squirrel in this uh Here, can we punch in on scores?

1:22:16 Oh, yeah. Let's do that. Make a save. There you go. You like more work [snorts] at the last minute, right? There's your character. Thank you. You're welcome. Uh let's um do the scoring now. We're going to start scoring with favors as they are. So we can discard the ones that we did not craft. Oops. I don't even know what you're talking about. All I did was craft craft craft. Crafted craft craft. So go ahead and just take the the hearts on the right side the upper right corner, and those are victory points. Um so I've got 8 + 5 is 13. I got this many.

1:22:48 goodness.

1:22:49 15. Nice. All right. All right, 13 and 15, not bad.

1:22:54 Okay, also on uh favors are your friends. So any new friends, I've got two and three for five. Ooh, two and four for six. 21.

1:23:07 Uh next scoring are patches. I did not get a patch.

1:23:10 get no patches. Okay, we weren't patching it up. Leftovers. Uh one point

1:23:14 version. Yeah, oh. Oh, so it's if you have a map or honey, those are worth one point each. What the [ __ ]

1:23:23 I had two maps. Thanks, Becca. So I have two points.

1:23:27 One, two. Do you have any honey left over? Well, I would have if I'd known that rule. No, wait, I got this honey last, so that was one point. Yeah, I I totally Wow. Now it's three points for every resource, including the um What are those called? Curiosity. So I got one point. I got three points. Woah. Now we go to the area majority up there. Whoever has the most will score that many cubes plus four. So I've got three there plus four equals seven. So 29. And then Becca, you're second place on that middle one, so one cube plus two points is three points. One, two, three. Unfortunately, I did not go over there, so you're going to get two points for the cubes and four points additional for six. One, two, three, four, five, six. And I've got 29 points. 33 points. Nice, GG, Becca. There it is, Maple Valley.

1:24:24 difficult game, Maple Valley. Yeah. Uh this is set in the Creature Comforts um world. Uh very cute and cozy, but surprisingly deeper than you'd expect.

1:24:35 There It was so such difficult decisions.

1:24:38 tight tight tight. Yeah. To quote Tuco from Breaking Bad, it was tight tight tight.

1:24:43 Tight tight tight tight. That's a new show that's been around for 20 years, right? I just heard about it.

1:24:50 But yeah, Maple Valley, I really I mean, I love the cuteness of it. I want to play it again because this is a puzzle of a game. Like the movement is so constricted and the resources and It's so so The more friends you have, the more you can move, but it's so hard to gain a friend in this world. You know WHAT I MEAN?

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