Voynich Puzzle - Playthrough & Review

0:45 But I think we are there. Yep, we're live. Good evening everybody. Thank you very much for joining us for a threeplayer playthrough and review of Voyage Puzzle. Tonight I'm joined by Mark and Cath. You two sort of half know how to play the game because I've just spent half an hour teaching them. If you are watching this video live, thank you very much for joining us live. Keep us company in the chat. Send us some messages. Let me know how you are, what the weather's like near you. If you're watching this video back afterwards and you just want to hear what we think about it, there will be a time stamp in the video. Skip forward about an hour and a half and we will be doing a round the table discussion about our thoughts on the game. And because this is not a sponsored video, we can be completely honest about the game. Full disclosure, I have a good relationship with the designer, Danny Garcia, who hopefully is going to be joining us in the chat tonight as well, uh, and keeping an eye on us and making sure we don't get anything wrong. Hopefully, we won't, but if you do know the game and you are watching us live and you do see that we make a mistake, please point it out in the chat and we'll fix it. We'll we'll try and get the rules as right as possible. But, as I say, this is not a sponsored playthrough video. Today is one of my days off work, which I could have done without to be honest because I'm behind schedule. But uh yeah, spent the day learning how to play the game and going to be spending the evening doing a playthrough. So, thank you very much to all of my patron supporters for funding the channel. And it's only thanks to their support that I'm able to keep taking these days off work in order to do this stuff. So, yeah, if you like the content that I create and you want to support me directly, patreon.com/gaming rules is the best place to do so. So, the Voinich manuscript is something that I had never heard of until this game.

2:18 And I have done a bit of reading about it. I don't know if you do know much about it, but it was discovered in 1912 by a guy uh called Wilfred. My dad's called Wilfred. Uh he's called Wilfred Voyage. He was a book seller. And uh he discovered it in an old villa near Rome. And it's been carbon dated, I believe, to the 15th century. But it is this weird manuscript that looks, I think, a little bit like this that nobody actually understands. and it's written in some weird language um that has never been translated. So whether it's a complete joke, it might have been some insane person that just went I'm going to do this and in hundreds of years time

3:00 people are poor and wonder it's what's going to happen in 300 years time somebody's going to find the rule book to Mage Knight and go what's this? This is a mystery. We don't know what this is. Um but yeah, nobody has actually worked out whether this is some kind of language or anything but we are all trying to decipher it and we're all trans translate it. Now the way that that is represented in this game is with victory points or okay it's called

3:28 what is it? Original knowledge. No

3:31 objective knowledge is

3:33 overall knowledge that's it overall knowledge. So we each have an overall knowledge marker which starts at zero. We know nothing. We're going to be moving our overall knowledge markers up during the game. And when somebody hits 52, that marks the end of the game. We've randomly chosen Cath to be the start player. So, the way that it works is that as soon as somebody hits 52, we finish that round and then we play one more round. Now, there's a few things that if you know the game, you may be thinking, "What's this?" This is a score track that somebody on Board Gamegeeek has designed. And I'm going to say who it is. The user is Thank you very much for doing this because this does not come with the game. This is not included in the game, but we're using it because I think that the game would be very uh borderline unplayable uh with the actual system that you're supposed to use. Essentially, each player has five scoring markers. one representing their overall knowledge and the other four representing their knowledge in the four fields of bot, astrology, uh, writing, and baths.

4:51 And the way that the game is supposed to work is that all of these markers go on this one track here, which means there just isn't space for them. They all get clumped together. And you'll notice all of my scoring markers look very, very similar. there is an icon on them, but people have reported that it's very difficult to remember which one is which. Now, I've spoken to the publisher about this and they are releasing uh when they do a reprint of the game, they are doing different tokens for the players so that it's more easy to tell them apart. But even with that, they're still all going to be on the same track. So, this does not come with the game. I've printed this off myself, just so you know. Also, just so you know, the game comes with books, these little plastic booklets. And what you're supposed to do is you're supposed to put your eight starting cards, two of which, sorry, 10 starting cards. Two of which are from bot, two are from astrology, two are from the writing, two are from the baths, and two of them are for the recipes. And you're supposed to put them in your little book. And you two are playing with the books today. I have played a game using the book, but some people have suggested that it might be easier if you just lay all of the cards out in a row, which does take up a bit more space. But what you do is you organize them into pairs, because what would happen is if I was playing with the book, on the first page of the book, it would be these two, and then on the next one would be these two, and then on the next one would be these two. Now, I've also spoken to the designer, Danny Garcia, and Danny said, "Look, the whole thing is about a book." So, he wanted these in there, and I absolutely get

6:22 that, which is why I'm getting you two to use it. And I have played the game with the book, and it's fine, but I'm also just experimenting tonight, not using the book uh and seeing seeing how easy that is. So, yeah, they're the things that we're doing uh slightly differently. Okay, let's give you an overview of what the game is about. You're trying to get as many points as you can get. And the general way that you're going to earn points during the game is by removing your research tokens from this puzzle. So, this is a literal jigsaw puzzle that we are going to be building up over the course of the game. We're going to be making it bigger by adding these tiles to it. And you're going to be removing your research tokens from this area of the board. And whenever you do, you're going to get points. So you're going to get overall knowledge depending on the column and the row where you remove your token from. So if you see what's printed here and what's printed here, essentially the further it is away from the center, the more points you're going to get. So for example, you can't you can't have a piece on an empty space. So just for the purposes of this example, just pretend that there are puzzle pieces going all the way to here. If I had a piece there and I removed that, I would actually get seven points. seven points just for removing that piece. How do you remove these pieces? Well, you remove them when you need to upgrade your cards in the game. It's called progressing your cards. And I'm just going to show you my cards or two of them at least. So, I'm going to show you these two cards. So, these are my two cards relating to the

7:52 baths area of the board. And every card that you get is randomly chosen from a set of I think there's eight. Yeah, there's eight different cards.

7:59 Enough for a fourplayer game.

8:01 10. There's two left.

8:02 Yeah. Yes,

8:03 it's four players.

8:04 Four players.

8:05 So, the cards all start off on this side. And you can see this side because the the drawing is just like a sketch outline. That's how you know what side it starts on. And it tells you what the action is of that card at the top. And it tells you what you need to do to upgrade the card or progress the card. And whenever you progress the card, the first time you progress it, you turn it around like that. The second time you progress it, you flip it over. And the third time you progress it, you do it like that. Once you've reached there, that card can be progressed no more. And you can see that the picture has been finalized. Now, the actions get better the more and more you progress the card. And they are also worth end of game scoring as well. At the very start of the game, none of your cards have any points on them in the top right. So, at the start of the game, you have zero end of game scoring, but as you progress these cards upwards, that is going to increase the amount of points you're going to get at the end of the game. But I talked about how you what you need to do to progress them. And there's all sorts of different icons in the game.

9:05 Now, these are explained in the rule book, but there is also a player aid on BG. Again, there is no player aid included in the game, but I would recommend getting that player aid because it actually shows you what's in the rule. It is in the rule book, but it's kind of it's kind of at the back of the rule book. I'm just going to find it here. There you go. So the back of the rule book has a list of what all of these things actually mean. It's all out of focus, but you get the idea. So this one, for example, means that I need to remove one of my research tokens from an edge piece in the puzzle. So I can't do that at the start of the game, but removing a to a research token from an edge piece is going to get me points. This one, I need to remove one research token from a group of two green. So, if we go back to the puzzle and just show you here, if I for example had an extra piece on here like this, there you go. That is now a group of two green, which means I could remove my research token from here and that has met the progress requirements of this and I can upgrade it. So, that's a very highlevel overview of the game. You get points during the game by removing your research tokens from here. And the reason why you want to do that is to progress your cards. End of game scoring, we'll talk about that now as well because end of game scoring this afternoon was I think worth about 50% of our score. I think at the end of the game this afternoon, we were about here and at the end of the game I was up

10:36 here. So I think from my limited experience of the game, end of game scoring was about 50% of my score if not more actually. Yeah, cuz the game ended No, it was about 50% of my score. So, the end of the game is actually quite interesting with this game because what you've essentially got is you've got you've got five mini games going on that are all interconnected. And your score at the end of the game depends on how many of your cards you've progressed and how much you have progressed them multiplied by how high your marker is on the track. that isn't the one corresponding to the area where the card's from, but it's a different one. So, for example, this area here, this is the writing area, which is you do actions in this area based on these cards.

11:28 But if you upgrade these cards, as it will show you on the card, it's going to get you points at the end of the game based on how far you are up the bot track. So, this is what you need to be aware of in the game. If I play the game and I end up moving my marker really high up on the bot track, then I'm going to get points based on how far I have advanced my writing cards, which might sound confusing, but once you get that, it's actually quite easy because you just go botony track, that's the writing area. That's what I want to do. If, for example, I advance all of my writing cards so that they are super super progressed as much as possible, but this marker is here, then I'm not going to get many points at the end of the game. And well, none in fact. Conversely, if I get my bot marker all the way up to here, but I don't upgrade my red cards at all, nil pu. So, you've got to combine things together. And this is where the theme comes in because the Voinich manuscript is so convoluted and so interconnected. Danny has woven that idea of this manuscript into the game where the different areas are very much interconnected with what you have to do.

12:41 Right, that's the highle overview of the game. To explain how the game works, Cass's going to take the first turn in the game. And the first thing that you do on your turn is you choose one of the double pages of your book. It cannot be the one that you chose last turn. So on the first turn of the game, you can choose any of the double pages. What I'm going to do is I'm going to choose which one and I'm going to mark it with with this to remind myself that I can't do that next turn. Once you've chosen a double page, you've then got four steps on your turn that you do. Step one is you can progress either or both of the cards that you are looking at right now by looking at the requirement, spending the research token, getting the points, and then rotating the card. You can do that before you do the actions. And you can actually do that as many times as you want. So if you progress a card and then you meet the requirements for progressing that card again, you can progress as much as you want, but only the two cards that are facing you. Step two of your turn is you then perform the actions printed at the top of one of the two cards. Not both of them, but only one of them. It doesn't have to be the one that you progress, although generally when you progress a card, the action becomes better. So, you generally do want to do that, but you get to do the actions printed at the top of the card. Now, those actions are going to do things on the board. They might allow you to do other actions, but quite a lot of the time, those actions are going to move you up these knowledge tracks. And whenever you move up these knowledge

14:12 tracks, if you move on to a space either 2, 9, 18, 29, or 42, you get the corresponding piece. So these pieces here are corresponding to this. So if you move up the bot track, you get one of these tokens. If you hit a particular threshold, if you move up the astrology track, you get a yellow one. The writing track is the red one and the bath track is the blue one. So after you've done all of your actions, you might end up with one, two, or three of these tokens. Who knows? Depending on how many things you do in step three of your turn, you must cash in any of these tokens to put pieces into the puzzle. We'll explain that more when we do it, but that's step three of your turn. And step four of your turn is you get another opportunity to progress your cards. So, if the situation has now changed and you now can progress your cards even more, you can progress them and that's it. That's your turn over, right? Hopefully, that's everything that that's an overview. We've not explained all of the rules of the game and I will not be covering every rule in a huge amount of detail. Again, this is not a sponsored tutorial video. This is just the three of us showing you how the game plays.

15:21 So, I'll explain each of the actions, but I'm not going to go into the same level of detail as I would if it was a sponsored video. So, Kath, it's your turn. Have you chosen which pages of the book? So, which pages of the book are you opening on? You're going to go and have a bath.

15:34 Yeah.

15:34 Okay. Good idea.

15:36 You need something to relaxing the book.

15:39 It's very stressful to try and translate.

15:42 So, are you able to progress either of those cards right now?

15:46 No.

15:46 No.

15:47 No one's placed anything.

15:48 So, which action would you like to do? I'm gonna put a water droplet in.

15:51 Okay. So, Cat's action is to add a water droplet to the baths here. So, when you do that, you actually add the water droplet in from either there or there. And both of the spaces are the same. It's going to get you two knowledge on this track. But which one do you want to go on?

16:06 I'll go with this one.

16:07 Okay. Two knowledge, which gets you a blue puzzle piece. And that is your turn. That is your actions done. The actions start off quite quite easy.

16:16 So, I can't upgrade any of the cards again. Well, step three of your turn is you have to cash that in

16:21 for

16:22 one of these.

16:24 So, L or O L.

16:29 No, I'm going to give it O. Sorry.

16:31 O

16:31 O.

16:33 Yeah. I mean, there's no L in voyage.

16:35 No.

16:36 Vich.

16:38 So, there's the Brit version.

16:39 Voyage.

16:40 Okay. Now, whenever you place one or more puzzle pieces into the puzzle, you may then move any one of your research tokens onto one of the pieces that you've just placed. And remember, the further you are away from the center when you remove that token, the more points you're going to get. Do you want to do that?

16:58 Yeah. I want to move my this piece.

17:00 That one.

17:00 That one.

17:01 Okay. So, that one moves onto there. There we go. Right. And then step four of your turn. Have you now met the requirements to do any progressing of cards? No.

17:10 And do you want to?

17:11 No.

17:11 No. And that's it. That's that's Cath's first turn. As I say, turns start off fairly short, but as you start progressing your cards and upgrading them, they get better. The actions get a little bit more complicated. Right. It is me. So, I think I'm going to do something. Well, have I got anything where I can do any progression at the start? I do. I actually because you've put that there. There is now a group of two blue. So I can now progress this card. So I tell you what I'm going to. So I'm going to choose bot and the and step one of my turn is I am going to remove one of my progress uh not progress research tokens from a group of two or more blue. So there's a group of two or more blue. So I'm removing that token. I don't get any points for that because it's in the middle. But it means I get to progress that card. And that card, I am now going to use that card because it's got two actions on it. The first action gives me three knowledge in bot

18:10 which gets you a green

18:11 gets me a green token. Thank you. And I'm going to keep in my hand so I don't forget it. And the second one is I get to grow something in the tree. Now, if you're wondering what the yellow tokens are, that's because we're playing a three-player game. And in a three-player game, you actually draw some setup cards because there is a dummy player that's done something in these two areas. So, whenever you get to grow something, you can move one of your tokens up here. Now, if it's a water token, if you had any water tokens here, they could move up. I don't. I just have a leaf token. So, the way that this works is that you basically, well, I've got three options here. I can go along this branch, or I could go along this branch. And whenever you go along a branch, you can go to any of the spaces on the branch or I could progress up the main branch. Now, each space can only have one leaf token on it. So, if that yellow token was there, for example, I would actually skip over it and go there. But it's not. But if I go here, then it means the next person could actually end up there. So, I don't know whether I want to do that.

19:11 Don't want to play a co-op game.

19:13 No,

19:13 this this thing's so hard to translate. You can't do it on your own.

19:17 Yeah. My other option is that I go to one of these or one of these. But actually, I don't want either of that. So, I am going to go there. That gets me another four points of bot knowledge, which moves me up to there. Right, that's my actions done. So, at the end of my turn, I place this, which is a green piece. So, what do we want? Well, let's have a look at Oh. Aha. Right. Yes. So, that might actually help somebody else, but that's fine. That's fine. We're going to go O green. It's going to go there. And I'm going to move that token onto it. And then step four of my turn. Can I upgrade either of these cards?

20:04 No, I can't. You go. Okay. You've slightly tempted me to change action, but I'm going to stick to my original plan. Uh Paul is fine. The other two are quiet. Ah, I'll tell you why. I know why Cath's quiet because the microphone is facing me. So, I can full I can sort that out. Mark is just generally quieter.

20:22 I have to talk louder.

20:23 Talk louder. Yeah.

20:24 Well, thank you for that. Yes, the microphone was facing me and not Cath, but hopefully that's uh that's sorted now. I'll check the levels as well.

20:33 All right, so I'm going to stick with my original plan.

20:37 So, we'll do this action, which allows me to place one of my tokens.

20:42 Yeah, let me know if that's better

20:43 into here. I'm using this action. So, let's pop it here. So the writing

20:52 first of all I should check can I for no I can't

20:55 you can't do any upgrades do any upgrades.

20:57 So the writing action is well you're choosing the action which allows you to add some text to here.

21:02 Exactly.

21:03 So you've got six rows. You can choose any of the rows but you must place the text on the leftmost space in one of the rows.

21:09 Yep. So I'm going to place it here.

21:10 And then you get to do the action printed on the text.

21:13 Yeah.

21:14 And what's what's also printed to the left?

21:17 Yes. So you get to move, you gain four points of writing knowledge, which is one, two, three, four, getting you a red puzzle base.

21:25 Yeah.

21:25 And you've got two movement points. So whenever you gain movement points, you basically spend those movement points to move your research tokens around the grid. And that has all of the directions on. Sometimes it's only in one particular direction, and you can split them between your pieces however you want, but you're only moving orthogonally.

21:42 Yeah. So, what I think I'm going to do is move this yellow piece. So, one, two.

21:50 Yeah. And yeah, you can't move onto these empty spaces.

21:54 Believe me, I'd like to.

21:55 It's the void.

21:56 Yes. It's not the void niche puzzle.

22:00 Okay.

22:00 Okay. So, the piece, then I

22:02 get to trigger that. Oh, yeah. That's what gave me the puzzle piece, didn't it? Yes.

22:07 And then if your actions are done, you get to place that. What letter would you like? Um, I think I'm going

22:13 Would you like a P, please, Bob?

22:15 No, I think I'm going to go for There's

22:16 no P.

22:17 I'm going to go for an L.

22:18 An L?

22:19 Yeah.

22:19 Give me an L. Where's it going?

22:22 Uh, it's going to go here.

22:24 Okay. And are you putting a piece on it? Putting a research token on it.

22:29 I will be moving a piece. Um, I think we'll move this one. Is that what I wanted to do? Yes. I want to move this one up here. Okay. Any upgrades now?

22:42 No.

22:43 Okay. Here we go. He's done.

22:45 Mhm.

22:47 Okay. Right.

22:48 So, you can't do the thing that you did last time.

22:50 So, I'm going to go to the bot one now. And I can upgrade.

22:55 Yes. I've got

22:55 And I think we're going to have our first points.

22:57 Yo,

22:58 because you need to have a a research token on a group of two blue, which you have. Yep.

23:03 So, if you remove this one, it's actually worth two points. Two points. All right. So, Catherine in.

23:07 Yeah. There you go. So, one of the key rules in this game that I'll just mention while Cath's rotating a card is you have limited pieces. Whenever you place a piece on the board, it can either come from your supply or it can come from a different section of the board. It cannot come from the same section that it was already in. Now, there's one section that we're not going to cover for a while, which is the the recipe section, which is the purple section, which doesn't have an associated track. The purple section is extremely powerful, but whenever you place a piece in the purple section, it must come from one of the other sections. It cannot come from your supply. So, you have to have a piece already on the board and then you do the recipe action. You move it into there, but the benefits you get are more powerful. But again, no track associated with it.

24:05 So, I'm going to do the action on my upgraded card.

24:08 Okay. So, you've got two actions there.

24:10 So, one is put a leaf,

24:12 which is always here. So, whenever you add a leaf into here, it always goes into this section here, which can have any number of leaves.

24:21 Okay. And then you get to grow

24:25 that one.

24:26 Yep. So, you can either go anywhere along that branch,

24:29 anywhere on that branch, or because I'm here, you can go anywhere on that branch, anywhere on that branch, or because that's there, you could go anywhere on that branch, or anywhere on that branch, or you could go to there.

24:40 Too many choices.

24:42 I mean, you've only got 20 options.

24:44 It's not It's, you know,

24:45 it's nice to think of Fifth Roden, right?

24:48 Yeah.

24:49 Let's put a star. So, move.

24:52 So, where where are we going? So, you're going branch. So what you're doing is you're adding a star to here. But just so you know that is now stuck.

25:01 So what I mean is you can't move that further along this branch with any other movement.

25:06 But I can move it to a different

25:07 you can move it to a different one and you can progress up here with different pieces. But once a leaf has moved along a branch that piece cannot be moved anymore within this section with with that action.

25:18 So the only way that moves if it's getting moved

25:20 is if it's getting moved to a different section and then it could be moved back.

25:24 Okay. Okay, so the action there is placing a star within the astrology section. So, we've not seen this section yet. It's divided into five sections. We have the goat, which is randomly pointing at or pointing at one of the random ones at the start of the game. And whenever you place a star, it can go in one of the spaces of the inner circle as long as there isn't already a star there. Or if there is a star in the inner section, it can go in one of the outer sections. Now, the benefit of place placing a star token is printed on the space itself. And if you place a star token in a a sector or a space that already has some text there, then you have completed that space. And when you complete the space, all of the players involved get the the knowledge, the astrology astrology knowledge associated with that section.

26:09 So your choices are you can either go to one of the three inner circles or because there's one there, you could go there or because there's one there, you could go there or there.

26:20 I'm going to put it on the water droplet one here.

26:21 Yep. which allows you to add a water droplet to here. And this is where some combos can happen is because Cath, this is the action that Cath did. But that leaf allowed her to do some astrology. And then the astrology allows you to add water to here.

26:36 And I guess you're coming in here.

26:38 Yes. And I get three of these.

26:40 And because that area is completed, you get three astrology knowledge, which is one, two, three, which gets you an astrology piece.

26:45 Yeah. And then I'm going to put this in here.

26:48 So that moves to there. So whenever you So in the botney section you skip over other pieces. In the bath section you push along other pieces and every time you push along a piece the owner of that piece gets the uh gets the knowledge. So you actually get four knowledge for that.

27:04 There you go. Nice.

27:07 So um one yellow piece.

27:10 Yep. Watch letter.

27:12 Right.

27:13 I'm looking at the chat to make sure we're playing correctly and nobody has spotted that we've made any rules mistakes yet. So hopefully we're getting it correct. Danny, if you are here, please let us know. You might be busy. You might be putting the kids to bed.

27:26 Um, I am going to go for a yellow L.

27:31 L. Poppy letter. Fifth time it's come out this week.

27:34 Mhm.

27:35 Put that. And I'm going to move that one to that.

27:37 Okay. Any upgrades?

27:41 No, cuz it's two blues or two in the outer circle, which not possible yet. So, just a quick note about the upgrades. If Kath had a card where she needed to have two pieces on uh well, or say me, if I need if I had a card which meant that I had I needed to remove two tokens each of which was on a group of two or more green, you might think I could do that, but I can't because anytime you see multiple requirements of the same thing, they have to be on different groups. So although I do have two pieces both on a green group of size two or higher, it would need to be two different groups. So they get harder and harder to progress the cuts, right? My go.

28:30 So I can't do that. Don't think I What was it I did? I did that, which was this, which would be to upgrade that. Do I want to do that? No, because that turns a water into a leaf in here and I don't have any water in here. So, I kind of don't want to do that just yet. Might hang fire on that. These are all edge pieces. That's a group of three. Okay. I don't know what I want to do. So, I've already started moving up this track. If I decide that I'm going to do more bot, what gives me points for the bot track? That's this. So, I want to be upgrading my red cards, which means I need edge pieces. Right. How do I get H pieces? Can I get an H piece this turn? Only if I place two things. If I place two things, I can. How do I place two things this turn? By getting red knowledge and astrology knowledge.

29:27 How can I do that this turn? Think I can or can I? So, I can get astrology knowledge by finishing off a section.

29:39 Was there a bonus here for You did? Yeah, I got it. Did you? Okay.

29:48 Oh, I don't think I need to I need to write something in here. And I don't have an action that allows me to write something in here.

29:55 Voices. I do. Ah,

29:58 could you clean to get one? No, cuz that wouldn't get you the other track you need, would it?

30:04 Clean. Oh, yeah. No.

30:08 No. As long as I'm placing two pieces, that's fine. Yeah. Yeah. No, you're right. Yeah, that's that's good. We like that cuz that's clean. Or Yeah. Okay. Right. I'm going to clean some water. So, you'll have noticed these water. This is dirty water. There's eight dirty water tokens in the game. One of them at random starts there and the other seven go here. With the clean water action, I choose one of these that are in this pool here and I move it to the end. But I get to do the action on it.

30:38 And this upgrade your card. No, I don't.

30:40 Okay.

30:41 Because of reasons.

30:45 It's to do with not wanting to get rid of the token, isn't it?

30:48 It's It's fine. I've got other things for that later on. Yeah. So, I'm going to do this one. I think

30:55 that would let me write in there.

30:57 That would let me write in there. Yeah. This is Is it going to work? No, cuz that writes in there. But writing in there is only going to get me. Oh, no. It's not. I need to move. Oh,

31:14 is it would only move you one. Is that right? So,

31:17 it would only move one. I'd need two.

31:20 I need to put a star on there.

31:23 But then that only gets me that. Okay. I don't think I can do two.

31:28 Might have to be patient for next turn then. Be patient.

31:33 I mean, I could I think you might have chosen the wrong job to translate this. somewhat complex. I could I could do this. Oh, that's true. I mean, I don't know if it's a bit too early to be doing that, but I potentially could. And I could move that leaf from there into here and get all sorts of fancy bonuses. I still don't think he's going to move me up two tracks.

32:06 No. Okay. Would would that get you something like three?

32:09 It would get me three in, which is a a a bonkers amount.

32:13 It's just one track.

32:14 But it's just one track. I I can't see

32:17 Yeah.

32:18 how I'm going to be able to move up. I need to do bot again

32:22 because bot is is I mean, if I could put a star there, but I want to be doing Okay, I tell you what. I'm going to stick stick with my idea. I'm going to do this. And I can either write a piece of text into here or I can put a star into here or I can translate one of my pieces of text that's in here. I don't have any text that's in here, so forget that. So, I'm going to choose to add some text. And it's going to be This is really weak. Um,

33:03 but like you were saying, it starts off that way.

33:05 It starts off that way. I'm actually going to put it just looking at what I need. Right. I'm going to put it there. Okay. So, that gets me that and that, which is three writing knowledge, which gets me that. Thank you. And it gets me to place a piece somewhere in the middle. And I'm going to put it I thought you going to just drop it. I might just drop it. I'm going to put it there. Okay. And that's my actions done. And now I'm going to place this, which is going to be a H, which is going to go in

33:56 there. And then I'm going to move that onto it. There you go. Done.

34:04 Sorry, it took a while. They they can be quite complicated sometimes.

34:12 And yes, the the red ribbons. I was looking around before we started of what we could use as a bookmark. We we do have some bookmarks if we need them,

34:20 but if you guys are okay just remembering what actually you did before,

34:25 you also noticed that Mark's got these little cards here. So, the game actually does come with these. These are small help cards. I didn't personally find them much use myself, but these mean they're smaller versions of the ones you've got in your book, but not completely. They don't have all of the information on. But the reason Mark's got them out like this is so that he can see what his upgrade costs are without having to flip through his book. Alternatively, if you've got a bookmark, then you can flip through your book and not have to remember what page you were on.

34:55 I'm wondering if this has now changed my mind on what I want to do. You've you've offered me the option now of upgrading where I've got three.

35:05 That's the thing. I've actually presented Mark with a choice that he could now upgrade one of his cards cuz he needs to have a piece.

35:11 Yeah.

35:12 On a group of three red and that he's got pieces on groups.

35:15 You scribbled some notes in the margin. I've

35:17 brilliant. That's that's that's the thing.

35:19 I know. There's a lot of extra text in the rule book about the way that this works and this is all it fits with the theme of the game because we are all

35:29 sort of working together to decipher this thing even though it's a competitive game and because I've done something that's actually helped you that's actually built into the game idea.

35:41 Okay. So I think I will take this opportunity. So, I'm going to turn to this page. I will choose.

35:52 And you are going to remove one of these pieces. So, I guess this one.

35:54 Yeah. I'm going to remove two points. Yeah.

35:58 Points.

35:59 So, I will now upgrade this card.

36:01 Yep.

36:02 Which basically just means I move up two on the bot track now. Oh, no. That's not moving up the track, is it?

36:09 Yeah, it is. It's not moving up the track. It's moving to the tree. Ah, so that actually upgrading that doesn't help that much because I've only got one piece. Is that right?

36:18 You move it twice.

36:19 Oh, okay. But once it's moved into a sock,

36:25 it st I need to move on there. Yeah.

36:29 So that's four bot.

36:32 Get you a bot piece.

36:34 Y

36:34 and then you can move again.

36:35 Then I can move it again. Um. Ooh. Would you like five botony knowledge? I'm not sure. Um I was wondering I think I want to move on to one of these and get some more pieces out.

36:55 That's two pieces into the center.

36:57 Oh yeah, it goes into the center, doesn't it? So I think I want one here and Well, yeah, cuz I don't have them there. So it gives me the most flexibility.

37:07 Okay.

37:08 Um Right. So that is

37:10 action's done. Don't forget to slap the card. But now you get to place a green puzzle piece.

37:14 Just placing the green puzzle piece.

37:15 So what's going to be good for you?

37:19 That's a very difficult question. Um, green is a color I'm less interested in based on my book, but it could help in other ways. So I think I'm gonna Can I have an O, please? No.

37:40 Is that because there aren't any?

37:41 Because there are

37:42 not just you saying no.

37:43 It's just like saying no to you.

37:46 You cannot have a green O.

37:47 That's a reasonable.

37:49 The green O has already gone.

37:51 Um, how about a green L?

37:55 We have green L's coming out of our ears. Well, we have one of them.

37:58 I just say,

37:59 where is it going?

38:00 It's a very big piece coming out the ear. Um, I think we'll pop it here. Um, so then I can move. No, I'm just thinking about this. No, no, no. Okay, let's stick it. Let's keep it there.

38:17 We're going to move a piece onto it.

38:19 Um, yes. I will move this piece onto it.

38:28 Okay.

38:31 And any other upgrades?

38:32 Uh, nope. This requires a massive ball.

38:35 Okay. Wow.

38:38 F.

38:38 Right. So, I'm going to do the astrology action.

38:41 Astrology.

38:42 And I believe I can upgrade both of my cards.

38:45 Okay.

38:46 So, I've got two next to red, which is that one, which is zero points.

38:49 So, that's on a group of two or more.

38:51 Two more. Yep. And then I've got

38:53 That was there, wasn't it? Yeah.

38:54 And then I've got next to a group of two green.

38:56 Next to a group of two green, which

38:57 is this one. So, that's two points.

38:59 Two points. But you're upgrading both of those cards.

39:03 Yeah.

39:04 Nice.

39:07 That is nice.

39:12 Yeah. I mentioned at the start of the video that this is a file that's on BG, not included in the game, but it is extremely useful and I don't think I'd want to play without it.

39:22 Right. So now I believe that gives me two two astrology points on there.

39:26 Two astrology, which is that

39:29 and then I'm going to put star.

39:30 Put star on. Okay. Where's it going to go?

39:32 I was going to put it here.

39:33 You can go there

39:35 now. So, this green one, can it move there and then go there?

39:38 If you've got two moves,

39:40 yes, it says two.

39:41 Yeah. So, it goes to there.

39:43 So, I get four.

39:44 Getting you four bot knowledge

39:45 and a green piece.

39:47 And then it goes to there, giving you two things in the middle.

39:50 Yeah. And I've taken a lot off there. And what colors do I need? These I just upgraded, isn't it? So that's the cost to flip it. Um, so I'll put one on the red. There we go. Right. So now I can place this. What do I need? Kind of a green H. Green H.

40:24 Green H. Okay.

40:29 And then I'm going to move um move this one.

40:35 I have another top tip for you. If you're playing this game, you may notice that this jigsaw puzzle that we're building here is not moving around. And that's because I've blacked the central four piece to the board. I would strongly recommend doing that when you play because otherwise every time you add a puzzle piece, this whole thing shuffles around and everything gets knocked. It's a bit fiddly and a bit impractical, but it's fixed with a few bits of Blu-Tack on the central piece and that that makes it a lot better.

41:05 Good old trusty Blu-Tack.

41:06 Good old trusty blue tack.

41:07 Best board game upgrade.

41:09 It is. I should I should sell it,

41:12 right? My go

41:13 um Yes. I can't upgrade in

41:17 I had an idea sort of. I want to do this actually. I guess right. Are we doing this this time? Do we do it? Do we do it? Yes, I'm going to do it. Just watch me. Right. So, I am going to do the recipe action. I'm not doing any upgrades at the start, although I actually could. I've got a piece that's on a group of three. Oh, well, wait a minute.

42:04 Well, that changes everything. I'll do that later. Yeah, I'm going to do that later. So, I what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to do this action, which allows me to move this leaf to here. So, remember with the re with the recipe section, you can't place a piece from your supply. It's got to be a piece from the board. But I am going to put it three rotations. That would be it only be 10.

42:34 No, we're going to go here. So, I'm going to put three water droplets into here, one after another. So, the first one comes in here and gets me two knowledge of the baths. Go. Then my second one comes in and gets me two plus two. So I go up to there. And then my third one comes in and gets me two plus two plus two. So I get another six.

43:02 Means I go to there and I get another blue piece. Wow. Okay. So that's that's that action which went there and got me that. That's it for my actions. Right now I'm going to place these two. So, this is going to be amazing because I'm going to place a D.

43:24 Yeah.

43:25 There. And then I'm going to place a Oh, I need to be looking at this. I need to place I'm going to place a C here. And then I'm going to move one of my pieces onto one of the tiles that I just placed. And then I'm going to do some upgrades. So, I'm now going to upgrade this. That requires an edge piece.

43:49 Yeah,

43:50 there's an edge piece that's worth six points. Boom. Right. So, that's that done. And if I wanted to, I could also upgrade this because it needs to be in a section of three, which it is. So, I'm going to remove that one as well. That's three points. It's quite nice.

44:09 Three. I've done a double upgrade. I'm happy with that. Okay, that's it. That's my go. So, the purple cards, they score for two different criteria, but I believe you choose which one. It's not both of them. I believe you choose.

44:28 Okay.

44:29 And Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Owen says the player interaction in this game is positive and it's actually really interesting because you said this earlier on. I did something which changed what you were going to do. The way that the players build this puzzle up is going to influence what you're going to do because you need your pieces on the things that they've built.

44:50 Yeah. And it's nice to have positive player.

44:52 Positive player interaction is the best kind.

44:55 So, could one of these cards do the green vure points and one of the cards do the red?

44:59 Yeah. But generally, you pick your best one.

45:03 I think that's how the purple ones work. I'll just double check that.

45:07 Okay. So, I think I'm turning to There is a solo mode as well included in this game. I've not tried it. It's a whole extra section at the back of the rule book. It doesn't look Paul friendly to be honest. Uh from looking at it, I might be wrong. I haven't really read it yet. Yeah. So, each recipe page shows two types of knowledge. When you're calculating your final score, choose which type of knowledge you will score. So, my purple ones score for either red or green. So, if I'm going to go up the green track, then I need these cards to be as upgraded as possible. That's my plan.

45:45 Bot.

45:46 Ah, Danny is here. Yes, you choose which to score.

45:49 So, I don't think we covered this.

45:52 We didn't We didn't cover this and we didn't cover this when you had your practice game. So, let's talk about this now. I'm going to roll up me sleeves for this bit.

45:59 So, the water is going to come down here and is going to get you the knowledge on this track as it goes down.

46:05 Yeah. One of the actions in the game is to transform water into a leaf. Can you see that action? It It's there. It is literally get rid of the water, turn it into a leaf. Now, that can only be done here. It can't be done here. Can't be done in the bottom section. Can only be done here. And you can transform the water into a leaf wherever it is on here. Now when it's a leaf, what happens is as soon as it arrives here, it then flows out. So only leaves can flow out of here and it basically gets you extra stuff.

46:44 So does if your water gets pushed into here?

46:48 Yeah, your water stays here and as soon as you transform it into a leaf,

46:52 then it will flow through.

46:52 It flows out immediately.

46:54 Okay. Interesting.

46:56 I don't think I have that action.

46:57 Do you not have that at all?

46:59 No.

47:00 Oh, that's interesting. And it's not even on the other side of the card. It's possible that maybe when the cards get upgraded. I'm not sure.

47:05 No, I took them out. I couldn't see.

47:06 Oh, interesting.

47:08 Okay. Yeah. So, it can be that players do not have access to all of the actions in the game.

47:15 Is there one on the board?

47:16 There might be one on the board.

47:22 I mean, that's just

47:23 Is that Is that right, Danny? Could it be that a a player does not have the ability to do that? Am I sticking with my original

47:35 there?

47:36 Yeah,

47:37 spotted it.

47:37 Ah, okay. There are ways of getting it.

47:40 There is a way to get it,

47:43 but if somebody else goes on there, then

47:45 and then then you got a problem.

47:47 Yeah, there.

47:51 Okay. So, there's a couple of places. Now, I'm going to This wasn't what I was originally going to plan, but I'm going to take advantage of the fact that I can also do a double upgrade.

48:01 Double upgrades.

48:02 Yeah, it's the it's the winner's choice, isn't it?

48:05 I don't know.

48:06 Me neither. Um, so I will be choosing these pages which require either having pieces on one requires pieces on double greens, one requires

48:19 you do have adjacent to a um yellow. So I could actually use both of those because one for the double

48:28 that's adjacent to yellow.

48:30 Yeah, but that one doesn't get any points.

48:32 No.

48:33 So I think I will use Yeah, use this one.

48:37 That's on the double green

48:39 and that one for next. So you you you're doing upgrades of both of those cards.

48:44 Yes, that's right.

48:45 So that's getting you four

48:47 four points.

48:48 Four knowledge.

48:50 Yes. Four four overall knowledge. I feel so much more knowledgeable and wise. Okay. So, this is the clean water, isn't it? That one.

49:09 Clean. Clean one of these dirty water pieces and push it into here.

49:13 Yeah.

49:17 Right.

49:17 She's looking at me funny.

49:20 She's been looking at me for the last half hour. Definitely looking at me funny.

49:24 Um, okay. So,

49:26 and that's looking at you funny. Definitely.

49:30 The goat.

49:30 He looks kind of friendly to me, Gary.

49:33 I think. Yeah, I think I think I could pet Gary.

49:36 You're trying.

49:38 So, I'll choose this one, which is

49:41 uh place of water. So, either one of these is going to give both of you quite a lot of bumps, isn't it?

49:48 It's going to give Cath four, and it's going to give me four. because that will go into

49:52 that one will go into there.

49:53 So I'll get four. Catherine will get four.

49:56 Yeah. Um so I think I'm going to I am going to bump your one.

50:05 Uhhuh. So that goes into here. I get I get four and you get two.

50:09 Yes.

50:10 So I go one, two, three, four, and you go one, two, which gets you a puzzle piece. So interestingly, you can gain the puzzle pieces on somebody else's turn. But you only cash them in at the end of your turn.

50:23 Yes.

50:25 Um, right. And then I can do the cleaning water.

50:32 Which one you want?

50:33 Place a star in the astrology section. Place some text in the astrology section. Place a star in the writing section. Place a leaf in the bot section.

50:43 Well, I'm think I'm thinking there's a good combo here because if I take this one

50:49 Yeah. and place a star in there. That will finish that section which will then get you back.

50:54 Yeah.

50:55 Okay. So, you do this. So, that's that's about to come in here.

50:59 That means I possibly should have put it in there, shouldn't I?

51:02 I forgotten that. Yeah.

51:04 But then you're giving me eight.

51:06 I am, but that's going to happen eventually.

51:08 Pour off me.

51:09 I may as well benefit from it as well.

51:12 So, your water comes in here.

51:13 Yeah.

51:14 Getting calf or which is this. So I get a new puzzle piece. Yeah.

51:21 Right. So this dirty water I think you do this first.

51:24 Okay. So that slides in.

51:25 Placing a star on there.

51:27 Yeah. So I put that here.

51:31 Ah,

51:32 which is which is that again.

51:34 Yes.

51:34 So we're going to have to do Yeah. We'll have to finish this first.

51:37 Yeah.

51:38 So that comes in here getting Kath another four and you two.

51:41 Yeah.

51:43 So one, two, three, four. Getting you two. Yeah.

51:48 Right.

51:49 So then I put that in there.

51:50 Yeah. Getting you four astrology knowledge.

51:53 Yeah.

51:54 Getting you a yellow piece.

51:56 Purple piece.

51:56 One piece.

51:59 And then you have to do another one of these.

52:01 I do. Yes.

52:03 You see the combos?

52:04 Yeah. And you're getting more

52:06 points as well on the action. So

52:08 you got 12 out.

52:09 Yeah.

52:11 Yeah. I'm I'm helping you.

52:13 Yeah. Action resolution can explode, especially Yeah, the stars over here especially.

52:21 Okay. So, I think I will take So, this one is gaining a leaf that area, isn't it? So, yeah, I'll I'll take that one.

52:29 Yeah.

52:29 Okay. So, you put a leaf here.

52:31 Yep.

52:31 That goes into here. That moves down to there. So, I get two.

52:36 That's not leaf. That's water.

52:37 Math. You get another four. One, two, three, four. Getting you another piece.

52:42 Mark, you get two. Two. And then that goes there. That goes there. And that goes there.

52:49 I've got this water.

52:50 I've given you so many points. Get a lot out of that.

52:52 You got 12.

52:53 12. Yeah.

52:54 Yeah.

52:54 12 knowledge

52:56 by by watching some water.

52:58 By by cleaning some water.

53:00 Yeah.

53:01 Yeah. I think we've done that right.

53:03 Okay.

53:04 I think that's how it works.

53:05 So, that is all of things from this page, which means I now need to place these puzzle pieces.

53:11 Yeah. So, what we got? A yellow and a blue.

53:13 Yeah. And I'll be able to move pieces for both of those when it only just one. Okay.

53:22 Right. So, what am I thinking of doing next turn based on that one? I might quite want to do that. So, is there a yellow K?

53:38 There is a yellow K. It's special. I I would like a a K a K for knowledge, please.

53:45 Yeah. K for knowledge.

53:46 Uh can we pop?

53:50 Okay. And the blue one.

53:52 Uh yes, the blue one. Where was that one? Is there an O?

54:05 A blue O.

54:06 A blue O. There's not a blue O. No, there was a yellow O. Um, can I have a blue N then? Stick that one there.

54:17 Okay. And then you can move one of your research tokens onto either of those.

54:21 Yeah, that's those gone.

54:23 So, actually, no. Is there a blue J? I'm going to do that one instead.

54:29 There is a blue J.

54:34 Yeah.

54:38 Yeah. Just the artwork looks different from that.

54:42 I thought you were about to make a joke about blue J.

54:45 Oh, I was. Yeah.

54:47 The artwork distracted you.

54:48 It did. Yes.

54:49 And I'll move that one over there.

54:50 Okay. And then progressing. Any more progressing?

54:55 Um, not today.

54:58 Okay. So, whatever you do on your turn, you've got two blue pieces to play at the end. So this one here does that mean

55:08 Brian's stopping to play Wingspan.

55:10 It's placed three.

55:12 Oh wait, no. Oh, hang on.

55:15 Can I Do these have to be from different areas?

55:19 Let's have a look. It's always different.

55:20 Okay. So that being next to that and that one wouldn't count cuz it's the same yellow.

55:25 It's the same yellow area.

55:26 Yeah.

55:27 Then I can't red.

55:28 Okay.

55:29 Okay.

55:29 Right.

55:30 Right. I was going to do recipe collection. So, I was What does this one mean?

55:37 Because there's not a symbol next to it.

55:40 Where?

55:40 This V.

55:42 It's a victory point.

55:43 Oh, a normal V.

55:44 It's It's one of these.

55:45 Yeah.

55:45 Yeah. Just get one of those.

55:47 Okay. So, I believe I can upgrade.

55:49 So, you need a piece next to three different colors.

55:53 Yep. So, both of these, I think, match that.

55:55 Yeah.

55:56 So, I'll take it from this one.

55:58 Okay. So, that's that upgrade. No points.

56:06 Right. And then I can move a water.

56:12 Well, you get a point.

56:13 I get one point. And I can move a sun or a water into here. I think I'm going to move a water into here and do this one.

56:24 These have been good for you, haven't they? They weren't load points.

56:26 So, if I move

56:28 Yep. this one and put that.

56:30 Okay. So, that allows you to put three pieces of text in this area. So, putting text in this area follows the same rules as the stars. You can either put it in a level one area with no text or a level two area that is connected to a level one area that already has text. So, in other words, that's the only level two or outer circle area you can put it in. Or you could put it in the other ones. And if you complete an area, you're going to get the astrology knowledge.

56:52 Yep. So, I was going to put one here.

56:54 Okay. So that gets you one writing knowledge, which is

56:58 Is that not a viable level two?

57:00 No, because there's got to be text in there.

57:02 Oh, I see.

57:03 And you've completed that section. So that gets you three astrology astrology knowledge. Three

57:10 second one.

57:10 Put that one there,

57:11 which is to put a piece in the middle and another three astrology knowledge.

57:16 Three.

57:17 Getting you a yellow astrology puzzle piece.

57:20 Yellow astrology puzzle piece.

57:21 And the third one.

57:23 Go here. Nice. So, even though you've got both, you only get that once.

57:27 Y.

57:29 So, that's four more astrology knowledge and you've got two movement points which you can spend.

57:35 I was going to move this one.

57:36 Y.

57:39 Okay. And that was from placing that. So, you've done all of those things and now you have to place three pieces of the puzzle.

57:49 Three. Right. So, where do I need these to go?

57:52 Yeah. It's really starting to

57:54 expand.

57:55 Um,

57:56 especially as you have more stuff out, you can then move things a bit more.

58:00 Yeah,

58:01 I also don't want to help you.

58:04 You might be playing the wrong game.

58:06 I can't study what your upgrade cards are my upgrades. I can't do that really.

58:09 And it's it's a lot to think about your own stuff that you're trying to build the pathway.

58:13 Yeah.

58:14 Right. So, I can only move one of these onto one of the I've got three to build, but I can only move one research token.

58:21 Okay. Yeah.

58:22 So, that's got to be next to three. So, let's do

58:27 Desperately need more.

58:29 That's green, two blue,

58:35 two green, right? I'll do yellow. I need to create a new area for yellow.

58:39 It's also very easy to get slight tracked in this game. Somebody put something out and you go, "Sin, oh, there's something there now."

58:46 So, that's one yellow done,

58:47 right? I've got two blue. So, is there a D? Oh, there's no D blue. B blue.

58:53 D went there.

58:54 Uh, it's B. There was a D. Yellow. Sorry. Can I change that one there into a D? I want to put one here. You see?

59:03 Okay.

59:05 So, a D. What letter was that? O. There you go. So, I put D there, right? And then get one B blue there. And then uh another blue. I don't know. Let's just do Oh, there's no O F. That's happening. U isn't it? L. No, no, L. N. Yeah, N. Oh, no. I'm doing blue N. Okay. This feels like it's interconnected enough that it's dangerous to avoid helping too much cuz you might just

59:49 So, I'm going to move this one here.

59:51 Yeah. One of the pieces that you've just placed.

59:54 Um, you have an upgrade

1:00:01 edge piece.

1:00:02 Yep. There you go. Got that?

1:00:03 Yep.

1:00:05 Very nice. 12. I

1:00:07 haven't got any. That's There's no cross there, is it? Oh, yeah. That one. There's a cross there. A cross.

1:00:14 I need a cross.

1:00:16 Oh, right. Buy all four different colors.

1:00:19 Nice.

1:00:20 I know. So, I need to get one there. That would have been good

1:00:23 cuz I placed I didn't place any new Oh, no. I did place a new one down. Should have placed a new one there then. I need a different one.

1:00:36 Hold on.

1:00:37 Yep.

1:00:37 Right. Okay. So, I had three different plans and none of them are actually that good. So, I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to translate some of this manuscript. And I've only got one piece of text here. So, I'm just going to flip it. So, when whenever you translate something, you flip it over and you get, I believe, that and that.

1:01:00 So, it's sort of like almost like you place

1:01:02 it's like you're placing a better piece.

1:01:05 Uh, and that's the solo rules. those writing actions, the translate text, flip over one of your main things, gaining the reward of the side and also the reward printed to the side of the row in any order. So, I get five writing knowledge, which puts me up to there, which is not a piece. Oh, done it now. Rats Roland Ratzenber, right? Um, and I also get to put a piece in the middle.

1:01:40 Got to put it on there.

1:01:41 Uh, and I can't do any upgrades. So, there you go. Shortest turnover ever.

1:01:46 That wasn't part of the plan.

1:01:48 You're encapsulating the biggest frustration of any of these. One shot from doing something is always the worst.

1:01:54 Oh, I miscounted.

1:01:58 If you run up pieces here,

1:02:00 you have to move. Oh, research tokens.

1:02:02 No. Um, stars

1:02:03 other ones. You have to move them somewhere else.

1:02:05 Okay,

1:02:06 you are limited.

1:02:07 Okay, so I think I'm flipping to this page of my booklet.

1:02:13 Flipping page

1:02:15 page. Um, and then I will remove this piece for sadly no points.

1:02:22 But you do get to upgrade that card.

1:02:24 Upgrade this card. So that will allow me to now place one and uh activate oh sorry place a star as well. So I can put this down.

1:02:39 Yeah. So whenever you put a piece of text down you activate that and that the star activates all of the text.

1:02:46 Yes.

1:02:47 So you get basically five

1:02:48 from that.

1:02:49 Five points. You go up to nine

1:02:51 which gets me a red.

1:02:52 Does get you a red. Nine, not eight. Eight is one shot. Not that you're so I'm not bitter about it. No,

1:03:01 not at all.

1:03:02 Um, and

1:03:03 so where you going to place the star? Are you going to put it in the same row?

1:03:05 Yes.

1:03:06 Okay. So, that is going to get all of that.

1:03:09 Yeah.

1:03:10 And that. Yes.

1:03:11 So, that's another five.

1:03:12 Yeah.

1:03:13 And two movement.

1:03:14 Bring you up to 14.

1:03:16 Okay. Um, and then yes, I'll take two movement. So, I think I'll be moving this one up to where it is worth some points. Okay. And I believe that is it for now.

1:03:36 That's come around to me too quickly.

1:03:38 Sorry.

1:03:39 Okay.

1:03:42 I quite like these stars. I'm doing the stars. Oh, give me one.

1:03:49 So this What does this give? So that's time. So I just do. So whenever you put text on here, it's whatever's printed on it with the multiplier. So you want to translate it first cuz if it's translated, it's flipped. It's worth more. If I now move that to there, that's nine writing.

1:04:04 I don't think in the same way I don't have that action.

1:04:07 I don't think I have a flip.

1:04:11 Oh no, it's on there. I got to upgrade it. How do I upgrade it? Do that to yellows. Right. So I'm going to Let's do the red action then. So, next to three blues. Oh, it doesn't give me very many points though.

1:04:34 Okay, we'll have to do it next to three blue. Uh, yes, it doesn't.

1:04:37 Next to a group of three.

1:04:39 Next to a group of three blues.

1:04:40 So, there is adjacent to a group of three blues.

1:04:42 Three points. And just as a quick ruling note, I have had this confirmed by Danny that if you were on a blue space, then you are not technically adjacent to a group of three because you are on a blue space. You are part of the group of four. So adjacent to a group, you cannot be part of that group.

1:05:09 Right? So I can put this down and then flip it. That's the order because it's left then right. Well, you can do it in either order, but in this case, you can't flip something. You don't have anything. No, you can only you can only translate text that's here.

1:05:20 Okay.

1:05:21 You cannot translate text that's there.

1:05:23 Okay. But I could move one of these over to here.

1:05:25 You could or you could place a new one.

1:05:27 Right. I think probably putting down cuz I'm running out of magnifying glasses.

1:05:30 You are. Yeah.

1:05:31 So, I'll put this here.

1:05:32 Yep. So, you get one writing knowledge, which is that, which gets you a red puzzle piece.

1:05:37 Yay.

1:05:37 And you get two research tokens in the middle.

1:05:40 Okay. I I decided I needed that one, didn't I? And

1:05:43 should Mark have placed a puzzle piece?

1:05:46 I should have placed this red puzzle piece. Thank you.

1:05:49 Does that make a difference to what I do?

1:05:52 Oh, I haven't.

1:05:53 Hopefully that this I should have been

1:05:56 I don't think it does because

1:05:58 What letter would you like that?

1:05:59 No, it doesn't.

1:06:00 Spot.

1:06:02 Uh, I'm just changing making sure these are up to date cuz that helps me things I need. I lost. So, I've just realized I've just thought of something. People have joked for years that we need some kind of way for people in the chat to alert me. If I got a bulb with a red bulb in it attached to a smart plug that was connected to my I can't say her name because she'll be listening and then somebody is able to that might work. Yeah, we might look at that. If anybody knows any technical way in which the chat could actually trigger off one of my smart plugs, then basically I could have a flashing light if somebody puts something in the chat. There's probably a way of doing it. There's probably some very fancy things that we can do.

1:06:56 Oh, I've realized a problem. When you place this, you can only move stuff that's out there.

1:07:01 Yes,

1:07:01 that's very annoying.

1:07:02 You can just place it.

1:07:04 Yeah,

1:07:04 you don't have to move anything onto it. I I think that's what's gonna happen. Um, can I have a red, please, if you putting it?

1:07:12 Uh, here.

1:07:14 It's a very bizarre thing growing here.

1:07:16 It is.

1:07:17 Right.

1:07:18 That was that was Mark. Thank you, Jack.

1:07:20 Right.

1:07:20 You're keeping us honest.

1:07:22 So, I'm going to put this one here. And then I'm using my red K. Go here. Is it bad that I'm not going to move there? I'm not going to move there either. I suppose it doesn't matter.

1:07:42 Hold on.

1:07:42 Yep.

1:07:43 Right. I'm going here and I'm going to move this translated manuscript to here, which gets me nine knowledge in scripting. So, I go from eight to 17.

1:07:57 Um, I was going to flip this. Sorry, I haven't finished. So, I get another three.

1:08:01 Okay. Sorry. Uh, one, two, three. So, I get a a red puzzle piece. And I also get two movement points to move stuff around here. So, I think I will move that one, too. So, I did that and I did that. Right. And then at the end of my turn, I'm going to trade this in. I'm going to trade that in for the letter A, which is a corner piece. And I'm going to move this onto it. And then I'm going to upgrade this because this upgrade requires a corner piece.

1:08:48 But I do get eight points for that. I go from 9 to 17. Right now, that is my second upgrade of this card. So it flips like that. I'm starting to color it in. We've got crayons and everything.

1:09:06 The future is now.

1:09:07 It is. Um, yeah, I think that's uh I think that's my go. Quite happy with that.

1:09:14 Okay. So, I think I am

1:09:19 I'm not doing anything like I said I was going to do. But

1:09:24 no, I know. I know the feeling.

1:09:26 I move up the bot track. That's what I said I was going to do. and flip my red cards, which I said I was going to do.

1:09:33 And if not, maybe we'll do something different

1:09:39 based on the fact that I hadn't turned that. Could I have changed where that went? That was

1:09:45 It wouldn't have changed what I did,

1:09:47 Cath. Would it have changed you?

1:09:48 Was that the one that you forgot to place?

1:09:50 Yeah.

1:09:50 Yeah. Um I No, it wouldn't have changed what I did. Okay.

1:09:53 So, changed it to um G.

1:09:57 There is one.

1:09:57 Yeah, there is. Yes.

1:09:58 And where's it going? Uh there.

1:10:00 There. Okay. We're just going to slight undo.

1:10:02 Yeah. Sorry about that. I hadn't turned that to keep track of things. So, I need it to be a four step.

1:10:09 Where's this going? That doesn't match.

1:10:12 Yeah. Some of the artwork on here doesn't match the background. That's fine. Oh, no. It does. It's just there's more on it.

1:10:18 Ah,

1:10:18 there's more. There's more artwork,

1:10:21 I guess, cuz we're deciphering.

1:10:23 We're writing more stuff. Yep.

1:10:25 Um, right. So, I will turn to this page. Um, and then I will upgrade this card cuz I need four a piece in

1:10:37 in a group of four.

1:10:38 A group of four, which is that one.

1:10:39 This,

1:10:40 which I believe is then three points.

1:10:42 Three points.

1:10:43 I guess I might need to catch up here.

1:10:47 Um, and then that upgrades this, which is going to mean it flips over. I can get it out of the book. It's the challenge. Go on, you can do it. There you go.

1:11:01 No one told me this was a dexterity game as well.

1:11:05 Um, right. It's that way.

1:11:07 That's it.

1:11:10 Okay. All right. That's interesting. So, that is two movement and then that's not the most useful. That's fine. Um Oh, no. Because I could do this one instead, which is putting a leaf in. No, I do want to move it. So, I will choose this action even though the secondary my Oh, no. I may be able to use it. Um, so I'm moving up to here for my first one, which is four steps up the green track.

1:11:45 Four steps up bot.

1:11:46 Yep. One, two, three, four. It's also not nine. Sure. Yeah. Um, and then is it worth turning these maybe?

1:12:00 Yes.

1:12:01 Cuz once they're flipped,

1:12:02 Yeah.

1:12:03 they're flipped, which means you can then start moving them around.

1:12:05 Yeah. Yeah. They're super good.

1:12:08 Um, then I'd have to put it into there. And I need to make No, I need to make sure I get a piece out here. So, um I will cuz moving this over also triggers it, doesn't it? Yeah.

1:12:31 So, I will move this into here.

1:12:34 Yeah. Which is write a piece of script in the astrology section.

1:12:39 So, I can

1:12:40 Yeah. Or you could move one. Yeah. Yeah. It's up to you.

1:12:42 Um

1:12:45 so, if you move one of these, does it does it slide to the left? That's not happened yet.

1:12:49 There you go. Question for Danny or anybody else. If Mark was to move this piece out,

1:12:55 do the rest of them slide to the to the left or do you just always have to go from leftmost empty space?

1:13:03 Uh so then I can put this in here.

1:13:06 You can.

1:13:07 And that will finish that area. Meaning I'll get

1:13:09 you get four of these.

1:13:10 Yeah.

1:13:10 Which is one, two, three, four. Uh

1:13:12 and then I put one of these into the center somewhere.

1:13:17 Yeah. I don't think it matters whether it slides or not. because the because the order of these doesn't matter. So, in fact, the the rule about it going from left to right, I don't think matters.

1:13:27 Um, so then I think I'll pop it here,

1:13:33 right? And then I'm allowed to do some movement as well. So, I'll move this on too. And then I think that's it. I don't I didn't acquire any puzzle pieces that turn, so I think that's it. Okay.

1:13:56 Right. Um,

1:14:02 yeah, it doesn't really matter because you can activate them in any order. I thought so. Yeah.

1:14:06 Right.

1:14:07 Yeah.

1:14:07 So, I need to get some yellow to three. Let's see if I can do this. I only get two. Right. Um, the yellow action. I'm choosing not to upgrade them. So, I'm going to gain two on the yellow trap.

1:14:24 Two of these.

1:14:25 Yep.

1:14:26 And I'm going to put star. So, you're saying any I don't have to take it from here. I could take

1:14:30 You can always take it from a different section,

1:14:33 but I can't pick it up. A different section.

1:14:34 A different section.

1:14:35 Okay. So, all all in this section at the moment, right? Um,

1:14:41 which means you could take something out and then complete it again, potentially if somebody doesn't beat you to it.

1:14:47 All right. What do I want? Oh, so I can't I'm wondering about one of those purple ones and go another

1:14:56 Mhm. you to place a water drop on one of these.

1:15:00 Is it bad to just go for six?

1:15:04 And it will have to be this one.

1:15:06 Yeah. So this one I just put two leaf tokens. Just put two leaf tokens.

1:15:11 Yeah, that seems doable.

1:15:12 Okay.

1:15:13 Yeah,

1:15:19 I didn't get any pieces. I can't upgrade. Yeah, I'm done.

1:15:25 Oh, I had a plan. What was the plan? I want to do all these things. I think I'm doing this one and I'm doing and I'm not doing any upgrades first and I'm doing this one so I get three bot knowledge. which is one, two, three, which is a piece. It will be a boty piece. And I'm also doing some Oh, I don't have anything in there. Okay. Maybe, maybe, maybe. One, two, three. That's that's that's an inefficient action. I don't have any pieces to move up. I need to get pieces. How do I get pieces? And I don't want to rotate that because that's rubbish. That's really rubbish. We got this completely empty sector here. It might have to be this one.

1:16:12 I'm sure there's been so many other partially complete ones that so tempting.

1:16:16 Yeah, I wanted to do that to upgrade that. I could do that, but no, let's let's do this. Let's do this instead. And I'm going to choose the action where I transform one of my water drops into a leaf. And then because it's been transformed into a leaf, it moves down here. So the first time it moves down here, it goes here and gets me six knowledge on that track.

1:16:39 Yeah.

1:16:39 The next piece that comes on here pushes that one out.

1:16:42 And then you get

1:16:42 and then I get to go all of these. And once I'm there, then it's

1:16:45 it's stuck. But you can move it out. So I move six up on this track, which goes there, which gets me

1:16:51 a blue piece. Right. That's fine because because of something. Yes. So, I'm going to trade in that blue piece. Oh, but then that and that sort of sums this game up, doesn't it? Okay, it's going to be M.

1:17:32 I need more things on here.

1:17:35 Okay, I'm going to move that to it. And then I am going to upgrade this. I'm going to remove that for four points, which upgrades this. Oh, look at that. That's awesome. I'll do that again next time. Except I can't. Right, that's me done. Can you take your stuff from the purple area and keep repeating some of the more powerful actions? Yes, you can. Yeah, absolutely.

1:18:07 Yeah, that's quite interesting is the the free flowing nature of being able to sort of

1:18:12 re-trigger stuff potentially or again the positive interaction of, oh, they moved that. Maybe I want to jump in there now. Um, right. There was something I was going to do. It was. Ah, yes. My old favorite. This one. So, oh, no, not that one. It's Yes. No, it is that one because it's that's moving it. So, let's do something a bit different. I'm going to move this one here. into

1:18:55 uh here.

1:18:56 Yeah.

1:18:58 Which means I get to

1:18:59 you get to put two in the middle and get two points of knowledge on the writing.

1:19:04 Yes, that's right. So I think uh there and there And then I can also place or move a star. So I think I'm going to

1:19:36 I think I'm going to move this star to here. Which gets you all of that stuff.

1:19:43 Yeah. So, there's two more pieces in the middle and two more on this track, which is a writing red puzzle piece.

1:19:51 Red puzzle piece. Um, and I that since that's everything at this point, I can now decide what that's going to be. And I think it's going to be a J. A red J.

1:20:09 Red J. Uh down here, please.

1:20:16 Okay. You putting a piece on it?

1:20:17 Yes. So, I will move that one over.

1:20:21 Okay. Any upgrading?

1:20:23 Um no.

1:20:28 Okay. Right. So, I'm going to do this red action again. I don't can't upgrade anything. So, can I take What happens if I take this one here? Because this one's up here. It doesn't matter. this happens.

1:20:41 I think that's okay.

1:20:42 And I'm going to put this here.

1:20:44 Yeah.

1:20:44 So, I get this and this and that.

1:20:46 So, I can put

1:20:46 So, you put three pieces in the middle.

1:20:48 So, what's the other side of this one?

1:20:50 What does that mean?

1:20:51 Put a piece anywhere on board.

1:20:53 Put Put a research token on any piece on

1:20:55 If I don't have any left because this putting two here and one here is going to use them all up. Can I move

1:21:00 I believe I believe you can remove the Yeah, Danny will tell us if I've got that wrong.

1:21:08 Right. So, what do I need? But the the research token

1:21:12 so they can only be in the middle, can't they? Normally, so I put one there.

1:21:15 Sharing knowledge.

1:21:16 One there.

1:21:19 May move one of your research tokens already on the puzzle to one. Yeah. Okay.

1:21:25 Placing puzzle pieces. Place one of your research tokens. There is a section in the rule book on limited components which I've seen somewhere.

1:21:47 Right. When a game effect allows you to add a new token somewhere, you can take them from your supply or from a different section of the board.

1:21:54 But those can only ever be

1:21:55 I'm not sure about the research tokens. Okay. So, that action only allows you to place them from your supply.

1:22:02 So, can I choose not to place one of the two or ones? So, I have one.

1:22:06 You must be able to not I I I don't believe it's mandatory. So, you're saying you're going to forgo one of those placements.

1:22:12 So, then when I flip it

1:22:13 So, when you flip it, you can now place one. Yeah. We'll say I wouldn't have thought anything was mandatory.

1:22:18 Yep.

1:22:20 Right. So, what do where do I want it to go? So these this circle one, it has to be in one of these circles. Do they have to be complete? It just has to be on one of the

1:22:32 It just has to be somewhere on on those spaces.

1:22:35 And there's this one. This one's on a circle, isn't it?

1:22:37 Yeah, that's one of the eight outer circles.

1:22:38 So I'll choose not to place I need two green. I choose not to place this green one.

1:22:45 Yeah. on a puzzle piece of any color that is part of one of the eight exterior circles on the puzzle excluding the center circle. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing is mandatory. So, yeah.

1:22:59 So, I'm placing it there.

1:23:01 Yes. Are you then using it straight away?

1:23:04 No, cuz it's this action. Um I need four blue, which there isn't. And two yellow. I could flip that one. I choose to get but it's zero points at the moment. So,

1:23:14 done. Yep.

1:23:15 Right. So, I'm going here again and I'm going to do, if I've worked this out correctly, I'm doing that action. So, I get a point and I'm going to move this water drop from here to here, which gets me to do two lots of um writing in here, which is going to be well, I desperately need pieces on the board as well. So, I'm going there, which gets me Three lovely pieces on the board. I have that one and that one and there.

1:24:04 And then I'm going to add a second one which and I've worked this out. I have worked this out. Uh where am I on that track?

1:24:26 Yeah, it kind of works. But I don't think I need to do that yet. Oh, there's good. Okay, let's go. We've already done that, right? I'm going to go here. That gets me three more knowledge of writing. One, two, three, which is one of those. and it gets me two movement points, which is going to be that to there. So, I did that. That got me to do that. That got me to add those two to there, which got me all kinds of stuff. Right then, no. In fact, two movement points with one to there.

1:25:19 Yeah. Okay. So, I'm now going to exchange that. It's going to be F. It's going to go there. And I'm going to move that to there. And then I'm going to do an upgrade with that piece because that piece is part of a group of four. So that piece gets me five points. And that flips that over. Part of a group of six. What

1:26:05 madness?

1:26:06 Oh, if I'd have known that, I'd have put that there.

1:26:09 You can see it on the other side.

1:26:11 Yeah, I might change my mind actually and just put that there. It's not going to change anything. So, it's part of a group of five. Uh, two corner pieces. What the? Yeah. Okay, that's that's me done. I'm happy with those.

1:26:24 It's getting hard, isn't it?

1:26:25 It is. These are getting really hard. Okay, this feels less exciting than it could be. I'm jumping this bit. I don't have anything on the edge, so that's not really happening. Um, right. We're going to do the action to move something to yellow. Uh oh. No, that's not right.

1:26:59 Can an edge piece also be a corner piece?

1:27:01 No. An edge piece is specifically not a corner piece.

1:27:08 Sorry. A corner piece is not an edge piece.

1:27:12 Oh no. It says that in the walls.

1:27:14 I was planning this and then realized that's the wrong symbol. Oh dear. Oops. Okay.

1:27:30 It's really interesting the way that this has happened. Better back up. Um, okay. Let's go with that. So now I will upgrade this. So this is using there's not a lot actually. It's moving the goat rubbish.

1:27:51 Moving the goat is rubbish.

1:27:52 But these can be

1:27:53 at the moment cuz no one's put anything in here.

1:27:55 Yeah.

1:27:56 Yeah. But it's really hard to motivate yourself to when there's just nothing.

1:28:02 Then there's nothing there. But

1:28:05 uh right. So we will No, that in that case there's no point me upgrading. I'd rather save that for something else. So, I'll just do the basic action of I'm going up the yellow track three.

1:28:16 Yep. So, three yellow piece.

1:28:18 Yellow piece. Um, is there is Yes. Um, yellow C, please.

1:28:31 Yellow sea.

1:28:32 Yep.

1:28:33 It's next to the black sea here.

1:28:36 Yep. That's the one. And then I'll move this one over.

1:28:44 And that's it.

1:28:45 Nice.

1:28:50 All right. So, I'm going to do action. I think I can upgrade both. Let's Oh, no. So, you need

1:28:58 Oh, wait a sec. I was going to do that one. Oh, I'm indecisive. I think I'm going to have to do this one.

1:29:02 What did you do last time?

1:29:03 Right. So, two I did the red actually. So, I would need two next to in reds. So, I can Yeah. So, you've got that.

1:29:12 And then I've got two next to green. This one's next to this green. And this one's next to that green.

1:29:16 Yep. So, you're removing this one.

1:29:20 Yeah.

1:29:20 Which is four.

1:29:22 Yep.

1:29:23 And this one for zero. And this one for zero. And this one for zero.

1:29:27 Yep.

1:29:28 So, you get four points.

1:29:29 But I upgrade both these cards.

1:29:30 But you upgrade both of the cards.

1:29:32 Right. So, that one now.

1:29:33 Very nice.

1:29:33 Very colorful. Oh, this nice green lizard. And that one also flips over, right? So, what can I do now? So, I liked this one. So, I get four shy points and I can put a sun down in this area here.

1:29:57 So, I was going to I'm going to put the sun here. Yep. So, I'm going to move this one. Oh, it's going to be too good for somewhere else, isn't it? I don't want this. Oh, I can move five. That gives me two points. Two points. I'll just get there cuz the star is already there, isn't it? So, I get four.

1:30:20 And you get that.

1:30:21 And I get that.

1:30:22 So, four writing knowledge. One, two, three, four, which gets you a a red puzzle piece.

1:30:29 Red puzzle piece. Um, also as part of the action, I get four astrology, which yellow should give me a yellow one.

1:30:35 Yeah. One, two, three, four. A yellow piece.

1:30:37 Right. And, um, now I can move two.

1:30:40 Yeah.

1:30:41 I haven't got anything left, though. I took it all off.

1:30:43 You got this one.

1:30:46 This one.

1:30:48 I want to move that one to Wasn't a really good move, was it?

1:30:56 Where did I go?

1:30:57 There. there. Yeah, I don't want to do that. Sorry. Put that back there. Um, put it on this one, which puts another thing down.

1:31:08 So, hang on. What do we need to undo?

1:31:10 Um, I've removed this off. Four of those on the red track. And I lose that red. Okay. So, I'm going to put one of these down, which can go on there like that. Is that okay? Yes.

1:31:28 Yep.

1:31:28 So, that one just that one just stayed where it was. Yeah. Okay.

1:31:32 And I got the four points because it's on my card.

1:31:34 Yes.

1:31:34 So, I've got a yellow piece.

1:31:35 Yep.

1:31:36 Right. What do I need? I just got rid of all my pieces, didn't I? That's two blue two circles. Still fine, right? So yellow

1:31:56 I I fit. Yeah, it has to fit. Put that one three points. Right, I'm done.

1:32:16 Okay, so that

1:32:17 Oh, no wait. Sorry, I'm moving that one there. Okay, that kind of works. Yeah. Okay. Right. I think I'm doing this. And I'm going to upgrade first. I need a piece on a group of two green, which is that one, which gets me two points. And that upgrades this. And then I'm doing that, which is dirty water. Oh, so cleaning some water and turning one of my water drops into a leaf. So, I'm turning that water drop into a leaf. And then the water that I am cleaning is going to be Oh, that's amazing. Oh, that's bonkers. Amazing.

1:33:04 And being able to do that.

1:33:06 Yeah. Okay. I'm going to put a star here.

1:33:09 Yeah.

1:33:09 All of that. Yeah.

1:33:11 So, I get three pieces on the middle. But I'm not going to put three pieces on the middle. I'm just going to put two pieces on the middle

1:33:20 because then I can put one piece anywhere

1:33:23 can go

1:33:24 which is going on the corner

1:33:27 and I'm getting three points of writing knowledge which is one, two, three. And then Mark, you get two points of watery knowledge.

1:33:46 Well, that doesn't push that down. So,

1:33:51 um, okay. So, that was quite cool.

1:33:56 We're close to doing that. It's very exciting, right? Okay. I think I'm done. Okay. Right. So, I haven't done this one yet. Might be doing it. Yeah, I think finally going to create a recipe.

1:34:28 All right. You're doing this bit.

1:34:30 Yeah.

1:34:30 Okay.

1:34:30 So, first of all, let's do some upgrades.

1:34:33 Oh, I didn't. Ah,

1:34:35 I spent it. I did put it. Okay,

1:34:37 put it there.

1:34:37 We're good.

1:34:37 I just didn't put it in the pot.

1:34:40 Okay, so we've got So, I need to be in two areas that are um

1:34:48 at least size two.

1:34:49 At least size two. I definitely want to do that one.

1:34:52 But it doesn't matter the color.

1:34:55 Yeah, I definitely want to do that one for

1:34:57 six points and five points. The trouble is is no, I I need that for the other one. So, it's either that one. I could do that one, but yeah, probably makes most sense to be that one. So, that doesn't get me anything, unfortunately.

1:35:16 But you got the six for for that.

1:35:17 Yeah.

1:35:18 And that has upgraded that card.

1:35:20 Well, it's done. It's done that card. Yeah.

1:35:22 Yeah. And then I will upgrade the other card cuz that one is next to three different

1:35:31 this one.

1:35:32 Yeah.

1:35:32 Next to three different colors.

1:35:34 Yep.

1:35:34 Yeah. And that gets you five points.

1:35:35 Yeah.

1:35:38 There you go. So double upgrade before you've done the action. Then I work out which bit.

1:35:53 It's a point.

1:35:54 Just get a point.

1:35:55 Just get a point.

1:35:56 Okay. Useful. Yeah. Okay. Um so then one of those two flipping. So that's flipping two things. Is it?

1:36:20 Yeah. Translating two pieces of text in here. Yeah, that's good for you.

1:36:26 That one's also quite good. I've got that up to there. So yeah, I will move uh this star.

1:36:37 So you're doing a star recipe thing. Uh yeah, that one which also will let me do two movements. But the stars going on there.

1:36:45 Going on there,

1:36:46 which gets you six astrology knowledge.

1:36:48 Yes.

1:36:49 Putting you up to there.

1:36:52 One off.

1:36:53 One off.

1:36:54 Classic. Um

1:36:57 and you get two movement points.

1:36:58 Two movement points, which will be that.

1:37:01 Okay. Any other upgrades?

1:37:03 Uh no, that's it.

1:37:04 Okay.

1:37:05 Right. I'm doing the bath action and I'm going to take away an edge piece. So, I get

1:37:11 six points to

1:37:13 upgrade this one.

1:37:16 Right. So, I'm going to put a water in and I can do a clean water.

1:37:21 Mhm.

1:37:21 So, I'm going to put

1:37:21 in either order, I believe.

1:37:23 I'm going to put the water.

1:37:24 Yeah. Water in first.

1:37:25 Oh, it does. I suppose I'm not there anymore. I could go from here and not help anyone. Oh, no. But the clean water's coming from there. Yeah, I put it in there.

1:37:31 Okay. So, Mark gets two or on here. gets you a puzzle piece.

1:37:35 These all slide down.

1:37:37 I get two.

1:37:37 And then you do some clean Oh, yeah. You get two.

1:37:39 Yeah.

1:37:41 And then you do some clean water,

1:37:43 which is going to be this one. So, this is move up.

1:37:45 This is two movements in here.

1:37:47 So, do shall I do that first?

1:37:48 Do that first. Yeah.

1:37:50 So, I'm going to go um

1:37:53 So,

1:37:54 oh, wait. No, cuz I'm going to go on this one.

1:37:56 So, which order do you want me to do it?

1:37:58 Okay, we'll do this. We'll do this first because that pushes that into there

1:38:03 which immediately because it's a leaf

1:38:06 goes into here. Moves me up six on this track and then that comes in and omg I don't know which of these I want to do. I think I'm going to go what what gets me points for a blue track. It's there. I haven't upgraded any of those cards. So that's rubbish. I'm going to go here for five points.

1:38:37 When in doubt, take points.

1:38:38 In doubt, take points. Right. Then that comes there. Mark gets two movement this track. These all slide along. You get two movement on that track. That goes there. That goes there. Then you get two of these.

1:38:49 Yeah. So in my first one, I'm going to get four,

1:38:51 which is four bottom moving you up to eight.

1:38:55 And then I believe I jump over the yellow. I can land there.

1:38:58 Yeah.

1:38:58 To put another water in.

1:39:00 Yes.

1:39:01 Should be this one.

1:39:03 Yeah.

1:39:03 Oh, I could take from here though, couldn't I?

1:39:05 You could.

1:39:06 And then I But I could free it up for someone else.

1:39:10 No, that's put a new one in. So, it goes there.

1:39:12 So, that goes down into here where it will stay. You get two for that and two for that. So, another four up on here. One, two, three, four. Wow. Okay. Right. And I didn't get any pieces in all of that. Uh, remember need to be two different colors for this. Yes.

1:39:30 Four, five, six. No, I didn't get any.

1:39:32 I'm on one.

1:39:32 You get lots of different um

1:39:36 less of these jixel pieces.

1:39:37 Yeah. As it goes up, that slows down.

1:39:40 Oh, can I can I What does this mean? Green. A green edge piece. There's no green edge pieces. Yeah. So, that's me done,

1:39:52 right? Well, this hasn't worked because Oh, no. It It will. It will work. I'm going to go on here. Even though these actions are a bit rubbish because I'm going to place this. And you'll like this. Not a lot, but I'm going to place it here.

1:40:24 Right. And I'm going to get four movement and two up on this track. So the two up on this track goes to there. And the four movement is going to be one, two, three, four. And that's all my actions done. But now I have two edge pieces. So that is seven and that is four. That's 11. 34 to 45.

1:40:50 That upgrades both of these.

1:40:53 Now, can I upgrade them again?

1:40:56 No, cuz they now need yellow edge pieces. Not going to happen. Why I did that, I don't know, cuz that's given me points from bot track and my bot track. Rubbish.

1:41:06 But

1:41:07 you did something.

1:41:08 I did something. I mean, I got the points for removing the magnifying glasses. So, that was good. Um, did I get any? I didn't. Did I? No, I didn't get any pieces to put. As you say, that slowed down,

1:41:25 right? So, I know what I need to do next turn.

1:41:29 That must be nice.

1:41:31 Well, I know what I need to do. I don't know. That's

1:41:34 how I'm going to do it.

1:41:40 Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Yeah, that doesn't work. I think I need to do that. But this is a rubbish. All my good upgraded good actions becoming harder to make work.

1:42:15 I just flip something. That's pretty good. Oh, that's placed anywhere. Yeah. Okay. We'll choose this action here. Oh, that's a circle spot, isn't it?

1:42:46 That is one of the eight circles. Yes.

1:42:48 And that's a circle spot.

1:42:49 And that is one of the eight circles. Yeah. I think in the next printing of the game, they're going to highlight those

1:42:56 both on the pieces and on the board so that it's a little easier cuz it's always FEBA.

1:43:03 Ord this action.

1:43:07 Yeah. Yeah. See what it means? which lets me place

1:43:12 put a research token anywhere.

1:43:15 Oh, that's also a circle, isn't it?

1:43:17 That is also a circle.

1:43:18 Put it there.

1:43:20 And you also get

1:43:21 I also get

1:43:22 two up on this track.

1:43:23 Yeah.

1:43:24 And you also get to put one in the middle.

1:43:25 I get to put one in the middle, which will go

1:43:29 Yeah. So now that means Why do I want to upgrade this? This is an track.

1:43:36 I'm doing the same thing with you.

1:43:37 Yeah. Well, you're all quite even out though, weren't you? You've got a bit of some hoes.

1:43:43 We're all bit rubbish at boty.

1:43:45 Yeah,

1:43:46 I know nothing about astrology, right?

1:43:49 But

1:43:49 yeah,

1:43:50 I'm going to do it anyway. So, I'll upgrade this. So, I'm removing uh that one for eight points. And then that one four.

1:44:10 Yeah,

1:44:11 that's 12.

1:44:11 12.

1:44:12 Uh 22.

1:44:18 Yeah. So if I remove that, that triggers the end of the game.

1:44:22 Yep.

1:44:24 You're right. It's not a very long game, is it?

1:44:26 No.

1:44:28 There's still loads of things I want to do.

1:44:31 Yeah. Yeah. not done enough.

1:44:35 It is an action efficiency puzzle.

1:44:38 Are you um using this?

1:44:40 Oh god, I have to

1:44:41 you do

1:44:42 how the game works.

1:44:44 Um boy oh boy.

1:44:50 Um okay. Did I done here something wrong? 31 has disappeared. Oh, no. It's there. It's It says 32 there, but it says 31 there.

1:45:09 Oh, we've we've got a typo in the game.

1:45:11 That's why.

1:45:12 How interesting. So, I don't know if that is known about, but one of the cards has a has a typo on it. It's only the card number, but on one side it says 31, on the other side it says 32.

1:45:37 All right. There is There's both of those. Uh, right. Can I have the blue eye, please?

1:45:48 Blue eye.

1:45:49 Yeah.

1:45:50 Here.

1:45:51 Yep. You Oh, and then I can move.

1:45:55 You can move something onto it. I feel like I might as well.

1:46:00 Right. Hold on.

1:46:02 Yeah.

1:46:03 Right. So, I'm going to do the bottom.

1:46:04 Bottom.

1:46:05 So, I'm going to remove these two for two circle pieces.

1:46:08 That gets you eight. He gets you 11 points.

1:46:11 11.

1:46:12 Putting you up to 36.

1:46:18 And then I'm going to add a water drop. So when you add a water drop to the tree, it comes in at one of the

1:46:23 removing remove that.

1:46:27 So that's two. I remove this one.

1:46:31 Okay. And what do you want? Do you want four? Four. Four or three.

1:46:35 I'll go for four, please.

1:46:36 Which four?

1:46:39 This one. This one. Your bottom.

1:46:41 What I didn't mention earlier on is that whenever uh a water gets to here, you get a bonus move. So if water ever arrives at this point here, it pushes it gets a bonus move.

1:46:55 Oh, the water goes

1:46:56 the water goes. Nothing pushes on here. You just you just jump over.

1:47:00 So you go there, you go there, you go there. Then from there you go here. But when you go from there to there, you get a bonus move.

1:47:05 Right.

1:47:06 It's like this space doesn't exist for water.

1:47:08 Okay.

1:47:10 So four spaces up on the bottom track.

1:47:12 One, two, three, four, which gets you a bot piece.

1:47:14 Yep. And then um so this leaf

1:47:18 so you can grow either this or you can grow this.

1:47:21 So what this this action is I can go

1:47:22 is either grow water.

1:47:23 I want to do a leaf cuz I want to get a puzzle.

1:47:25 See you're going to get

1:47:26 which I have one of these cuz I'm going to left. So I just put it

1:47:30 anywhere because I'm now going to place this green.

1:47:33 Don't say that Rayma. I'm trying. I'm trying. I want to do it.

1:47:36 Um green edge piece.

1:47:39 But yeah, there isn't another corner.

1:47:41 What's the most I suppose an E or a B? Green E.

1:47:47 Very very cool to smash things though.

1:47:50 Yeah, but getting the other corner piece is tricky.

1:47:53 Yeah.

1:47:55 Oh, is that B?

1:47:56 We're getting closer. We are getting closer.

1:47:58 Right. And then that piece I just put there is going to go.

1:48:00 Yeah. Oh, might be possible.

1:48:04 Absolutely. Might be possible.

1:48:05 What? Oh, two corner pieces. Oh, you're saying Oh, problem is

1:48:09 That's all right.

1:48:10 Yeah, I'm I'm going to struggle. But

1:48:11 yeah. Um, go on. Pull this.

1:48:14 So, I could put that there. That would go there. Oh, that's crazy good. I think it's got to be done.

1:48:24 Really would like more red pieces, but they're so hard to get now.

1:48:29 Well, this is the thing. So, if I go on here, I can move one of these leaves to here. which gets me two stars in the red section. That is going to be pretty amazing. That moves me eight spaces up on this track, which gets me a red piece. The red space can go into the corner. So, I I I think I can do it. Now, whether I want to do it is another matter. I think I do.

1:49:05 Oh, you're thinking about ending the game.

1:49:07 I think I do. So, I'm going to go on here.

1:49:09 Mhm. I'm not going to do any upgrades yet, but I'm going to choose this action. Now, this action actually allows me to move a leaf and a piece of text because I've upgraded it. So, this is now super powerful. I think I'm going to move the leaf first. So, I'm going to move this leaf. No, in fact, I'll move this leaf to here. That is going to get me to place two stars in the red section. So, I'm going to go here, which gets me five up on the red trike. One, two, three, four, five, which is a red piece. And it gets me two movement, which is going to be one, two.

1:50:03 And then my second star is going to go down here. which gets me another three up on this track. One, two, three. And another four movement, which is going to be one, two, three, four.

1:50:26 Right. So, that's that one done. Then I get to place a piece of text in here. And it's going to be this one, which goes here. That's not very good actually. But it's two spaces up on there,

1:50:50 right? And then I place this that Oh, no. You've got to be kidding.

1:51:00 There's no red A.

1:51:05 It's there. That's the red.

1:51:06 My dreams are crushed.

1:51:11 Oh dear.

1:51:12 I'm not undoing it cuz I can't undo that. That would be a nightmare. It's fine. It's fine. It's all fine. So, I'm going to take red E and it's going to go here.

1:51:31 Make a mega.

1:51:32 And then I'm going to put that on there. And then I'm going to upgrade this because I need a piece that's part of a group of six. And it is part of a group of seven. So, I get seven, which does trigger the end of the game, but it also flips that over to the most awesomest hour card ever. But unfortunately,

1:51:56 why are you not

1:51:57 I didn't manage to flip

1:51:58 this one for one extra point

1:51:59 because I might No, I'm not going.

1:52:01 Oh, cuz you got one more turn.

1:52:02 I've got one more turn, but I can't No, you're right. I can't do that one again. So, you're right. I'll I'll have an extra point.

1:52:08 Thank you. Although actually it didn't make any difference because at the end of the game that's going to be worth four points because it's half round down.

1:52:16 Oh, you those

1:52:17 they count as half round down. So actually no, I am going to keep it there. I'm going to keep the one on the corner

1:52:23 because that's worth four points at the end of the game instead of three. So it's a net.

1:52:27 There you go.

1:52:28 And you got to keep the dream alive.

1:52:29 End of the game has been triggered. We finished this current round of play which ends with Mark and then we all get one more turn each.

1:52:36 You know, I really wish you had. No, I've got too many things I need to do. There's only one research piece on the board. That could work.

1:52:57 It's one shot. Might do it anyway. Just because Oh, yeah. Cuz I can. Yeah. No. Yes. Yes.

1:53:15 Yes. No. Yes. No. No. Yes. No. No. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. No.

1:53:19 Okay. So, I will move.

1:53:23 Oh, there's probably two. It's fine. I can just upgrade that one. So, um, so there's only one letter of each color and A is a corner piece. I will remember that for the rest of my life or at least until tomorrow.

1:53:41 That's probably more realistic.

1:53:45 Um, so I think I'm doing the um placing a star in here. That's is it it can be from here or it has to be from there.

1:53:56 Okay, that's fine cuz I have one here.

1:53:58 Yeah.

1:53:58 So, and that makes sense. Yeah.

1:54:01 So, I will do that one. So, I believe that allows me to I can flick both of those.

1:54:07 It's to translate two pieces of text.

1:54:09 Yeah. So, flip that one,

1:54:12 which gets you seven.

1:54:15 Seven. Oh, cuz it's for each of them. Yeah.

1:54:17 Yeah. So, seven up on this track.

1:54:19 Yeah.

1:54:20 Yep.

1:54:21 And then the other one,

1:54:23 that one,

1:54:24 which gets you six more.

1:54:26 Yeah.

1:54:27 33, which gets you a red puzzle piece and three movement points. you know, um, not quite as much movement as I wish it was.

1:54:41 Yeah. So, my my beliefs, my personal beliefs are that astrology is a total bunch of hogwash rubbish. Astronomy is where it's at. The real stuff. So, pretty much the best I can see is a shame because they're actually giving me points for that price to three. Uh, and then I upgrade this card. That's two in two in areas of three.

1:55:15 So, this is in an area of three and this is in an area of three. Both have been four. You get six points in total,

1:55:22 which is insufficient.

1:55:25 But you still get one more turn.

1:55:27 Yeah, but I've been

1:55:28 on the board. The only thing for the last turn, but

1:55:31 you're finished.

1:55:31 We'll see. Um, yeah.

1:55:33 Bath, final turn of the game.

1:55:34 Right. So, can you just remind me what this is, please?

1:55:36 It's convert two of your water drops into leaves. So, they have to be on the board. It's

1:55:40 not done. No, it's not done. Thanks,

1:55:42 they have to be in here.

1:55:43 So, I've got two there. So, that Yep. So, they can convert into leaves, but that does nothing until they get here. Oh, so you just convert them there so they don't move down. Okay, so I'm not going to do that. Yeah.

1:55:54 Well, that's most annoying.

1:55:58 I too do not have a red piece that works.

1:56:05 Would you like a B, sir?

1:56:07 No.

1:56:08 Would you like a C, sir?

1:56:09 I'd like to scribble on

1:56:11 and get a pair of scissors.

1:56:13 Yes, that would

1:56:14 that's in the expansion set coming next year.

1:56:16 Okay. as a felt tip pen.

1:56:22 So anywhere that eye is useful. I mean making a seven just seems excessive.

1:56:27 A red eye.

1:56:29 It's it's it's No, that one doesn't work. Um let's go with red D.

1:56:40 Red D.

1:56:41 Yeah. Um

1:56:43 red D has to go there. There's no other spot accessible.

1:56:48 Well, there's no point moving a thing to it because it's worth less once.

1:56:50 This is not good.

1:56:54 Right.

1:56:55 Done.

1:56:55 Off we go then. We are finally starting the final turns of the game.

1:56:58 Right. So, I can upgrade this action cuz I've got a green edge piece. So, I get seven points.

1:57:06 And that one's removed. So, I'm upgrading this one. Is there any?

1:57:13 So, I can put two water droplets in. Where are my water droplets? I've got one over there and one here.

1:57:20 Yeah. Where's your other two?

1:57:21 They're there.

1:57:22 So, I'm going to take that one, please.

1:57:24 Do I have to do one at a time? Should I do one at a time?

1:57:26 Yeah. It's going in here, is it?

1:57:27 Yeah.

1:57:27 Okay. So, that goes into here. That goes down. That goes down. You get

1:57:30 two, six.

1:57:31 Six.

1:57:31 I think I'm going to go off the top. One, two, three, four, five. That's not me.

1:57:35 That's you.

1:57:36 One, two, three, four, five, six.

1:57:38 Okay.

1:57:38 Right. And then I do my second one.

1:57:41 Yeah. Which is eight.

1:57:42 Eight. And then I'm off the top.

1:57:44 Okay. Nice.

1:57:46 Oh no. I'm on I'm on the top.

1:57:48 Okay.

1:57:48 Oh.

1:57:49 Not quite at the top.

1:57:49 Not quite the top.

1:57:50 But you got a blue puzzle piece.

1:57:52 Oh, blue puzzle piece. And then I can

1:57:54 That could be a corner piece. That

1:57:56 What's going And then if I had 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 movements. Well, unless you get

1:58:03 and and was breaking the rules of the game and chose the and chose the same action on two, but apart from that,

1:58:11 we're all good.

1:58:12 And then I can do a clean

1:58:14 some water.

1:58:15 So, I haven't got I don't think this isn't worth it. It just gives you zero points. I can put something in red. That just gives me Oh, red. Where am I here on the red? Yes. I need to get at least one victory point on that.

1:58:30 So, is this coming in? Um, wait. Where do I put it? So, I can It comes in here. From here to here,

1:58:37 can I go up? If I go four, five. Oh, one shot.

1:58:45 Yeah. So, we'll just take this one off here.

1:58:47 Mhm.

1:58:47 And put it here.

1:58:48 Yeah. So, five up.

1:58:49 Five.

1:58:51 Get you a red puzzle piece as well.

1:58:53 Red puzzle piece.

1:58:54 And then this comes in here and you get eight more.

1:58:57 I don't movement on the blue track. So you that top you get another blue puzzle, please piece.

1:59:02 So I get another blue puzzle.

1:59:04 Yes.

1:59:05 But that's it. You're stuck at the top now.

1:59:06 And then this one means I can put this anywhere.

1:59:09 Anywhere in here.

1:59:10 No, that's the starting four. Yes.

1:59:13 And well, doesn't matter, does it?

1:59:15 Right. Oh, cuz I can move it.

1:59:16 You can move it,

1:59:17 right? Is there a blue corner piece?

1:59:19 There is a blue corner piece.

1:59:22 But you can't move.

1:59:23 Just don't rub it in. No, I can't. I can't do that. So I'll use the blue corner piece. Oh, apparently there's a special rule of the game that if you call Paul, then on the last turn of the game, you can use the same.

1:59:35 We approve of these house rules.

1:59:36 And then I use a blue E on that one.

1:59:38 I also need like 15 movement.

1:59:40 And then I use a red.

1:59:42 I I didn't notice you texting sending a message to Danny and some kind of brown.

1:59:47 Oh, they've all gone. They've all gone. Um N.

1:59:50 And presumably you're moving that to the corner.

1:59:52 I'm moving that to the corner. Yes,

1:59:53 it's worth the most points.

1:59:54 That pattern doesn't matter. That's better.

1:59:57 Okay, it's starting to look quite nice.

1:59:59 Right. And um do I actually get any points for red now? Yes, I get one point. Perfect. And I believe I'm done.

2:00:07 Okay, so I'm going to choose this action. So I messed myself up earlier because I moved out my only leaf from here. And my cards don't allow me to put anything else in there.

2:00:16 Oh, see I can't I can put lots in there, but I can't put anything any I was screwed. Thankfully, I can upgrade this card now before I use it. I need a piece. ah

2:00:26 next to at least three red.

2:00:28 That is next to seven red. So I remove that for seven.

2:00:32 Yeah,

2:00:33 that allows me to upgrade it. And now when I upgrade it, the action is place some water in here. So I will have or one, two, three, four, which gets me a green piece. Uh and then move it. And I move it to there getting me another three. One, two, three. And then at the end of my turn, I've got a green piece, which shows nothing because I'm I'm keeping that there. So, we'll just have green C. And that is Yeah, that's it. I mean, upgrading it wasn't worth any points, but I needed to do it to get that to get that up so that those were worth an extra point.

2:01:21 Yeah. Done. Okay. Right. There was a thing I was going to do which was that I believe. How did this work?

2:01:43 Yeah. Those are kind of equivalent at this point except one well actually I guess it moves you up the track. You can't really go up the track anymore because that one pushes in a piece which would only get me two wall two track movements and that

2:02:06 on here which does

2:02:08 and that's two track movements as well.

2:02:10 Yeah.

2:02:10 So

2:02:11 I'll just do it that way.

2:02:13 Yeah,

2:02:13 it's easier. So I have two blue track movements but not part of dirty water. piece of dirty water, which is going to be the one that lets us do the fun combos.

2:02:25 So, astrology then.

2:02:28 So, yeah, that one

2:02:29 is a star somewhere in there.

2:02:31 Uh oh. What do we do with this again? Oh,

2:02:33 it goes in here and Cath gets like a bazillion.

2:02:36 Well, I mean, you need to have a bonus for going off the top.

2:02:40 Uh, right. So, then that allows me to place a star

2:02:43 in here.

2:02:45 Goes in here, of course. Okay, which completes that area.

2:02:48 Yeah.

2:02:49 So, you get four astrology knowledge. Yeah.

2:02:52 One, two, three, four, which gets you to place an astrology piece.

2:02:56 And you also get to place some more dirty water.

2:02:58 I do indeed.

2:02:59 Which gets

2:03:03 I'm helping. Um, and I see no reason why it shouldn't be that one.

2:03:12 So, that lets me then move writing.

2:03:16 One, two. Oh, it's changed now.

2:03:20 Can I complete that one here? That looks good.

2:03:23 You can't That's the only one I can complete, I believe.

2:03:27 Yep.

2:03:28 Oh, no. That one I can complete, but that would help.

2:03:30 That would help.

2:03:31 I don't need any help.

2:03:32 Oh, I do. That gives me

2:03:33 So, three points on

2:03:36 the red.

2:03:37 This me.

2:03:41 I mean, and also three on here. Not in any pad.

2:03:44 Two, three,

2:03:45 which gets you another.

2:03:46 I know that's this one. You need to move.

2:03:48 Sorry.

2:03:50 What was it?

2:03:52 But just below, I think.

2:03:53 One, two, three.

2:03:53 Hey, another level. Hey,

2:03:56 I would have got there if you

2:03:57 And then you place a yellow puzzle piece,

2:03:59 which really definitely helps.

2:04:01 It actually doesn't help at all because

2:04:05 it So, the best place you can put it is here. And if you move on to it, it's the same points. Sorry. Yeah, let's put an E anyway. Wait, no, that helps. That might help someone. The game's over.

2:04:18 Game's over.

2:04:20 Right, we're done. Final scoring.

2:04:22 The first thing is the puzzle piece. Uh, these

2:04:26 are worth half points. So, I get four points for that.

2:04:29 Two, three, four, rounded down.

2:04:32 You get three points for that and you get four points for that. Right. Then we go through. So let's do the first double page first. So the bot pages I I get effectively the points value based on my astrology marker.

2:04:50 Okay, that's me done.

2:04:51 Cool.

2:04:51 Mark,

2:04:52 I get

2:04:54 I get twice mine.

2:04:55 So you've got twice twice. Wherever you're responding, you get 10 points.

2:05:00 I get twice. So I get eight.

2:05:01 You get twice. So you get eight.

2:05:04 Right. The next set of pages, none of mine are upgraded, so I don't get any points, but it would be points based on

2:05:11 the baths.

2:05:12 I am not upgraded.

2:05:13 No upgrades.

2:05:13 I got four times.

2:05:14 Four times 10.

2:05:16 40 points.

2:05:18 95.

2:05:19 95.

2:05:19 Right, we can stop now.

2:05:20 I mean, that is your big point score, isn't it? Right. The next one is the baths, which are going to score for the writing track. So, on both of mine, I've been upgraded once. So, I'm going to score eight points. 16.

2:05:35 Uh, you

2:05:36 Oh, yeah. 16. Cuz I've upgraded them both. 16. Um, 79.

2:05:41 I'm in the same position. I get 16 for mine. So, 67.

2:05:46 Report of upgraded any page other than bot. Uh, no, you can only upgrade the pages that you're currently on.

2:05:54 Um, I get two.

2:05:55 So, two points. Right. Next, we have the writing track, which is giving points for the sorry, the writing, which is giving points for the bot track. So, I've got double where I am. I'm here, so I get four points.

2:06:11 I get double where I am for two points.

2:06:13 Two points.

2:06:14 Hey,

2:06:15 I get one. So, I'm two points.

2:06:16 Two points. Right. And then finally, the recipe one.

2:06:22 This is your big one, isn't it?

2:06:23 Well, I've got six points. Multiplier of six. And I'm going to choose this track which is 48.

2:06:30 I've got a multiple of two and I'm choosing this track which is 20.

2:06:32 So 48 onto 83. Well, if I do the eight and then I do the 40 uh 40,

2:06:43 you're on

2:06:44 I get 20 times.

2:06:47 So 20 to 11 mark. I get three times and it could be I need it for red cuz that's my best one. So I get 3 * 8.

2:06:57 Oh, so for me, mine are both red and green.

2:06:59 Yeah, mine are both the same as well.

2:07:00 Oh, no. Sorry, that's blue. I didn't notice that. I've chosen red anyway.

2:07:03 Yeah.

2:07:03 Yeah,

2:07:03 I thought they were both red and green, but they're not.

2:07:05 Only yours.

2:07:06 Mine are both the same. Mine.

2:07:07 Yours were both the same.

2:07:08 Yeah.

2:07:08 Sorry, Mark.

2:07:09 You were 3 * 8 24.

2:07:11 24. So 1 2 3 4 plus 20.

2:07:15 Yep.

2:07:15 93. I think that's it.

2:07:19 So winning score this time 131. I think I won this afternoon with 121. So I

2:07:26 obviously I've played once before.

2:07:28 Uh calf 1119

2:07:31 Mark 93.

2:07:32 I also played

2:07:33 you did play.

2:07:34 Right. So the game is over. We are now going to do our review part of the game. And hello to everybody who has skipped forward to this part of the video. We've got a lot to talk about here. Um, first of all, let's talk about the game uh and separate it from the component issues. We'll talk about them. We'll talk about them later. I liked it. I liked it much better my second time because my first time, to be fair, we were learning from the rule book. We were basically taking actions while we were playing. We didn't even know what we're doing. We didn't read the end of game scoring until we were halfway through the game. So this afternoon's learning game was a learning game and I needed that before today, but it didn't feel like a proper full game.

2:08:20 In this game, I had a plan of what I was going to do from the start, but that plan didn't work,

2:08:25 and I then shifted that plan based on what was happening to me and what was happening elsewhere.

2:08:34 It feels different.

2:08:35 Yes. Even though it's it's it's really weird and it's really interesting because a lot of it is just five mini euro games each and the rules for each one are fairly easy. Uh they're not complicated at all but it it feels a bit different and I don't quite understand how it feels different even though I'm not sure there is anything different in there. the bits which feel which I like. I like the card upgrading.

2:09:07 Yeah,

2:09:07 I like the fact that you really have to work to get things in the right position,

2:09:16 but you are influenced by other people as well. That that part of the game where other people are building the puzzle and then you're going, "Oh, there's a yellow piece on an edge." Right. And there's two main ways that you can get the research tokens there. One of them is just by, you know, placing a piece yourself and going on there or the movement points which you can get from from various sources. So I I I like the fact that you can upgrade your cards. I also like the fact that the upgrading of the cards is what gives you the points but in a different area. Now some people are going to hate that.

2:09:50 Yeah.

2:09:50 Yeah. But if the rule was that if you upgrade your red cards, you're going to score for the red track, the game wouldn't work because everybody would just go, "Right, well, I'm just going to do red cards and upgrade the red cards."

2:10:04 The fact that upgrading the red cards gives you points for the bot in your track

2:10:08 forces the interconnection between the different areas.

2:10:13 That's exactly how I was going to respond to that. There's so many so many other bits of the game that will let you do that. you probably will use that action to more try and grab onto the bits that will let you move up on the one that you want to do that's related to it.

2:10:26 But I didn't do astrology at all.

2:10:29 So I wasn't doing the astrology actions which means I was never upgrading the astrology but actually the astrology scores for this track. So I I've done quite well at this track and that was my second best track. The track that I didn't do well on was astrology. So for me

2:10:46 upgrading the bot cards, there was no point me upgrading the bot cards except on that last turn I needed to in order to actually get that piece on there.

2:10:55 And I'd realized that earlier on,

2:10:58 but what's really clever about this design is just because you're not going to upgrade the cards doesn't mean that you can't do the actions. Yeah,

2:11:05 I I could have been doing bot any actions for the whole game, just the basic actions and just putting things on and moving them up and never upgrading the cards.

2:11:14 Yeah.

2:11:15 Because there's no point me upgrading the cards cuz I hadn't moved up this track.

2:11:18 Were you two in a similar situation where something you weren't going to do?

2:11:21 Yeah. So, the bars was something that I was doing a lot of to get the my track up here.

2:11:26 But you didn't upgrade

2:11:26 I didn't upgrade this card. I upgraded this one twice just because it gave me points towards the end because I had nothing else to do.

2:11:32 Right. But it didn't get you many points on it. Gave you two points at the end.

2:11:35 It didn't give me I just needed that one little extra point.

2:11:37 So, was it worth upgrading it?

2:11:39 It gave me the points from removing the research.

2:11:43 Oh, because every time you upgrade, you're removing a thing.

2:11:45 Yeah. And it was particularly this one liked edge pieces and those will give you a lot more points.

2:11:49 Yeah. I mean, at the start, we were removing so many tokens from here and everybody's getting like two points, whatever. Suddenly, when the board expands, it escalates

2:11:59 because you place a puzzle piece on the board, you get to move a research token on it, and you go, "Oh, I've got one on the edge." Boom. Seven points.

2:12:05 It It really does escalate. What was it that you didn't do much of or what didn't you upgrade

2:12:11 that you ended up doing a lot of?

2:12:13 I I actually

2:12:16 You did a bit of astrology.

2:12:19 Um, no. I guess I had the opposite where I barely did any botany, but I upgraded this cuz I was trying to hit astrology and trying to get myself up that track since I've got some nice multipliers. Cuz what I started off the game with a plan of is I've got several cards that relate to upgrading the red ones. So, let's try and, you know, try and get that. Let's try and get up the red track and get some red things out. problem I ran into in the end is because you wanted to get that connected up, I was kind of blocked out of the final bit because I can't make these bits work. I can't get enough cuz at the first bit you get a few upgrades and then it sort of gets further away. It slows down.

2:13:04 There's also Yeah,

2:13:05 cuz there's only actually what one, two, three, five in total.

2:13:09 Five on each track. So it I think I guess to a bit to a certain extent you have to adapt a little to what other people start doing

2:13:18 which I wonder if that means that foreplayer might be one of the best counts for this like everyone's doing different things.

2:13:24 I now want to play this at four player.

2:13:26 Yeah. Yeah. Because there'll be more people putting pieces in here to get them.

2:13:29 Yeah. I I do. I was nervous about playing any Euro game for the first time with four. Yeah.

2:13:34 But I I want to play this with four now. If anybody in the chat has played this before or if you're watching the video back later, if you have played it before, let me know how it goes. Let me know what the play time's like and yeah, whether whether the dynamics of the board fill up. Um, the two-player game, the rules for the two-player game are that what we did here with these two areas, you do in the other areas as well.

2:13:56 Sure.

2:13:57 So, there are it's like it's like there's another player doing this stuff as well as that stuff.

2:14:01 Yeah.

2:14:02 Um, but yeah, I I liked the game. I want to play it again. I think the best thing for me is that I went into the game today knowing all of the negatives about it and hearing a number of stories from people who played it, really didn't get on with it, and don't ever want to play it again. I heard a lot of those stories today. So, I came into it

2:14:23 expecting to have more problems than I thought.

2:14:27 Yeah. And as it turns out, and again, we'll touch on this more in a bit when we talk about the component issues, the game isn't as much of a problem as I thought it was going to be going into today, which which is good, which is good. Uh Kath, thoughts on the game?

2:14:43 Yeah, so um I really did like it. Um although I had an issue that I didn't have in in my cards a way of getting the leaves out of here. So early on I was using a lot of my leaves, but I couldn't get them out of there.

2:14:54 Yeah.

2:14:54 Um

2:14:54 that's this, isn't it? Because if you convert them to leaves.

2:14:59 Yes, I could have done that.

2:15:00 I think you take the leaf from there and put it into here.

2:15:03 So, I have to use this action here on the board.

2:15:05 Yeah.

2:15:06 And then I couldn't get stars into here, which is this action on the board. But you have to have a star here in order to put a star here.

2:15:12 Yeah. Being that being sort of not

2:15:15 So you then I guess could your red card didn't allow you to do that.

2:15:18 No, I don't have a star.

2:15:20 The my starting card allowed me to put a star.

2:15:24 Well, sorry. Put a star into here. Yeah,

2:15:28 they're all they're all different.

2:15:29 Yeah, that's that sort of restricted me, which also meant that I didn't really do very much for the red action.

2:15:33 Yeah.

2:15:34 Um because I couldn't move the stars into here. I did a little bit. I mean, I needed to get one more point to get a few more points.

2:15:41 I guess if you played the game more, you'd identify from your starting cards, oh,

2:15:45 that's that's a bit I can't interact with as much. Maybe. Oh, maybe I want to do that occasionally and I need to use sort of special spots and places, but maybe that's not

2:15:55 I think your first time playing this game, you kind of just need to do stuff and see what happens.

2:16:00 But if you two play again, you're going to look at your starting cards more and go, "Right,

2:16:05 yeah, I think so.

2:16:06 What which bits can I not do?"

2:16:09 Um, but that's the thing with the with the tokens because they're limited. You go off on the branches, you get the immediate bonus, and you're like, "Ah, right."

2:16:16 Yeah. Yeah. So, I had to stop doing that because I couldn't move the leaves off to

2:16:20 put them on.

2:16:21 Yeah.

2:16:21 Cuz I'd run out of stars because I couldn't move my stars. I could move my stars to here,

2:16:25 but I didn't want any of these two actions.

2:16:27 So, I couldn't move my stars to here to then put them back on there. So, they were stuck on there.

2:16:30 I mean, the water here would have been good for you

2:16:33 cuz you could put the water up here and then the water can go up here.

2:16:37 But, I wasn't trying I wasn't going to upgrading the cards that gave me the green,

2:16:40 right? So, I didn't.

2:16:42 But yeah, I I I I stand by what I said at it feels different,

2:16:48 even though I'm not sure why. So, Mark, thoughts?

2:16:50 Well,

2:16:51 enjoyed it.

2:16:52 Yeah, I I definitely enjoyed it a lot. I I'd quite like to play it again. Like you say, having a second play, seeing looking at your cards and

2:17:01 thinking a bit more about how you're going to make them work with each other. the things that that are different. Well, one the way that the positive interaction is implemented. Uh the fact that sort of you're growing off each other,

2:17:16 helping each other in a few areas.

2:17:19 Exactly. And

2:17:21 yeah,

2:17:22 and not just that, but with things like cuz actually I don't think you took advantage of it enough, but when I was sort of moving things around then that kind of left spots left. Yeah. And what for me that was great that it got left cuz I was just sort of trying to abuse that a bit like okay I move stuff into there I move it out and then I move it back in and it

2:17:45 triggered that. I mean obviously it didn't pay off but you can see that there's something you can work with there. And that's something I really liked the fact that stuff isn't just blocked once you've done it. No.

2:17:56 So that's something that happens in a lot of games like oh that's that bonus has been taken. No that's done. That's out of the game. So that area is not that the super powerful things you could hit again if you manage to make it work,

2:18:07 which is really interesting.

2:18:10 I did that a lot more in this game than I did in the previous game, but that's cuz in the previous game we were learning as we went. We didn't understand how this worked and then we got to it and went, "Oh, wow. That's really good."

2:18:20 I think I possibly should have done more of that cuz I had a few pieces to play with.

2:18:25 I think I did it well. I did it five times. whether I did it. I mean, once I'd upgraded that, that was doing it twice with one action. One one card allowed me to do two things in here.

2:18:35 So, I my two cards had similar actions. They were both on the yellow and both on the blue track. So, my only actions I could only move water drops or

2:18:44 they're associated with the things.

2:18:45 Yeah.

2:18:46 Oh, of course.

2:18:47 So, I could only do two of those things.

2:18:49 Yeah. So, I couldn't move stars on top.

2:18:51 I mean, there were other things on the board like these two purple actions here. You could move a water droplet or

2:18:57 Yeah.

2:18:57 Now, mine mine were a little bit more

2:19:00 Oh, and over there

2:19:01 I can I can move uh these and I can do leaves or stars. And I was mostly doing stars.

2:19:11 What's also really interesting compared to the game this afternoon is this didn't move.

2:19:15 Yeah.

2:19:16 The reason this didn't move is because we randomly started it here and the next sector was empty.

2:19:21 Yeah.

2:19:21 Which means anybody who does move it gets nothing. Yeah.

2:19:25 So, none of us wanted to move it, but if somebody had have moved it,

2:19:28 it all it does is open up

2:19:31 So, that was just

2:19:32 odd.

2:19:33 Yes.

2:19:33 And interesting.

2:19:35 Um,

2:19:35 and if somebody had started put something in there, everyone else off of it, so that's why no one was ready to do it.

2:19:43 I If I done the action again, I could have moved it twice. I could have got nothing and then got something.

2:19:47 Yeah,

2:19:47 I did strongly debate actually doing that three times

2:19:51 just cuz like

2:19:52 cuz it would have got seven followed by seven. 40 in a lot

2:19:55 on the aology track.

2:19:57 In a weird way, it could almost work out that people might put stuff here go, "Oh, well, it's safe. No one's going to want to move that." Well, actually, if you build those up enough, maybe I will.

2:20:08 Yeah, I want that's why I couldn't get the leaves onto here.

2:20:10 Yeah,

2:20:11 I suppose there are is there must be one on this action to get a leaf.

2:20:16 Uh I don't think there's one here that allows you to move a leaf

2:20:20 because these are This is the leaf action. Yeah.

2:20:23 So, I think there would be one somewhere else.

2:20:25 There's It's not there.

2:20:28 Oh, is it covered over by one of the yellow ones?

2:20:30 What What thing we looking for?

2:20:31 Um, this one, but with a leaf instead of a water or a writing.

2:20:36 Don't think there is.

2:20:37 No. Okay. Anyway, um, so we all enjoyed it.

2:20:42 Yeah.

2:20:42 Yep.

2:20:43 Definitely

2:20:44 better than we possibly expected.

2:20:48 Play it again. I I didn't I suppose I was I wasn't I didn't really

2:20:52 You weren't part of the conversation earlier this week. Right. Okay.

2:20:54 Well, no, no, I saw a little bit about that, but um

2:20:57 I didn't really know much of the game at all.

2:20:59 Some some people commenting on it. I with a little bit of a grain of salt.

2:21:04 Um I expected there would be some issues

2:21:07 and but we got we got round some of those issues. So, let's talk about let's talk about the issues now. Um, and it and it what I want to do is I want to separate here the design of the game from the production of the game because Danny Garcia, who is still wizard in the chat, hopefully Danny is the designer of the game.

2:21:27 Salt and Pepper Games are the publisher of the game. And a lot of people might not know this, but sometimes a designer is fully involved in everything to do with the production of the game, and sometimes they're not. Ultimately, some of the final decisions come down to the publisher. So, we are going to say some negative things about the production of the game here. And I don't want this to take away from the fact that the game is good and we enjoy the game and the game is a is a good design.

2:21:53 But you will have noticed we are using an external scoring track. And the reason we're using an external scoring track is if we didn't use that, you would literally start the game with all of these pieces here on the zero and all of these pieces on the zero. And then I'd be like, right, okay. And this this wouldn't exist. And I'm like, right, so I get free astrology knowledge. So, I've now got to look through I've got to find my pieces

2:22:28 that has the astrology on it. Ah, found it. And then I I move it three spaces. Now, I'm getting I'm getting specific here, but the shape of these pieces are done so that it looks like they should stand up

2:22:41 and not lie down. If these pieces were going to lie down, they should have just been discs. But because they're shaped like this, kind of means that you want to stand them up. The problem with that is that's the So anyway, that's the bit you need to see.

2:22:56 There's two problems here. I've got four markers on the scoring track.

2:23:00 Okay, we'll lie them down. But still, even when they're led down, I'm now advancing my botany knowledge. I've got to look

2:23:07 go

2:23:07 and go, which one's the button knowledge? It's that one, right? That that is mental gymnastics and hurdles I don't want to have to do as a player. And it adds time.

2:23:16 And it adds time and it adds frustration and confusion and people are going to be moving the wrong markers.

2:23:20 Yeah.

2:23:21 Now, in the second printing of this game, Salt and Pepper Games are doing different tokens for the players. And there is a sticker sheet that you can get on BG right now from somebody who has done stickers which makes that yellow and it makes that blue and it makes that red and it makes that green. Okay. So, if you're going to use these on the track, get the sticker sheet. The second printing of the game is going to have different tokens. They have sent me the images of what they look like. It's basically like the ones on the sticker sheet. So, that's the first problem. The second problem is

2:23:55 even if we have the stickers or the second printing of the game, you're going to have this

2:24:03 and it and this is in a three-player game and it it's going to be a mess.

2:24:08 Yeah. it and

2:24:12 makes it even hard to then search for what your thing is. Yeah.

2:24:16 Um and I have spoken to people who have played the game with this track and said it just doesn't work. And and my my feeling on it is anybody who would have played the game with that would have said this doesn't work and it it's it shouldn't have got past a play test or an initial test. That is by far the most reported problem with this game and is by far the biggest problem with this game and it is a problem that they as I say they're going to fix it by means of different tokens to be honest. I I would I would do that if if I mean I this is a plea from me as a gamer to Salt and Pepper Games and to Danny.

2:24:59 Please do the score track.

2:25:00 Yeah, I agree with that.

2:25:01 It is absolutely 100% needed. So that's the first issue.

2:25:07 Plus gamers love tracks and gamers love tracks. It was easy to see the places where you get the rewards.

2:25:12 Much much easier with the tracks. So thank you very much again to the person on BGG who has done that track. Now I'm actually going to do a version of it myself and I'm actually going to color this track green and I'm going to color this track yellow and I'm going to color this one red and I'm going to color this one blue. So, I'm gonna go one step further with this and I'm gonna I mean, they've got the colored stripes, but I'm actually going to make them a bit a bit clearer because in in the game this afternoon, people forgot which track was which. I knew which track was which, which is why I was doing most of the movement on here for people.

2:25:47 But if the tracks were completely colorcoded, then um it would be good. But yeah, the person who did this, really good job. Absolutely essential.

2:25:57 Right, let's talk about the graphic design and the iconography. Mhm.

2:26:01 I think it's exceptionally good. I don't think there's any problems with the iconography whatsoever once you know what that icon means and once you know what that icon means. And there's not that much. But once you know it, I've never had to look at a player aid in any game at all. So, I've only played it twice, but in both of those games, as soon as I learned that that means to place a leaf in here, and that that means move six up here, and that means um what is it? Translate a piece of text. The iconography itself

2:26:38 is extremely good, I felt.

2:26:40 Yeah.

2:26:40 Was there any iconography that you felt wasn't clear?

2:26:43 The only one I questioned at all is the one to do with two of something. might have been nice to have a just a little time

2:26:52 and not eat. Oh, okay.

2:26:54 But that's it. And it's it's pretty minor. As soon as someone says that's what that means, you go, "Oh, yeah, okay. I can get on board with that." It's not instantly intuitive, but you can take it on board pretty quickly.

2:27:06 There's also this one where you have to be next to the group and you could the group.

2:27:11 Yeah. But again, yeah, I I think that's that's clear. I think the I think the iconography is is clear. the two parts where I felt the graphic design was not well there's one main part

2:27:26 Mhm.

2:27:27 where I felt the graphic design was not clear and this is here. So thankfully

2:27:33 that

2:27:33 yeah we went through the learning curve this afternoon um but the rule book says that when you are adding a water token you add it to one of uh to one of the two fountain spaces. So where's the fountains?

2:27:47 Right. I'm expecting to see fountains. I want my fountains. Um, I don't know if you can see this on the board. And what I might do is I might I might just use this this button.

2:27:57 Uh, and we might just uh we might just zoom in and we'll show you. Right. So, yeah. I don't know if you can see it, but that is a black icon on a dark blue sea. And there's another one there that's a little bit clearer, but these are the two spaces where water comes in. This needed to be clearer.

2:28:16 Yeah. I'm sorry, but that that is not clear. There needed to be a fountain or something to say this is where the water and I know there is an icon saying this is where the water comes in, but it it needed to be better than that.

2:28:29 Well, we had a clear test when we had to ask you. We we didn't could not see.

2:28:34 Yeah, you couldn't see it.

2:28:35 So, but as I say, not to distract away from the rest of the iconography, every single other icon in the game is really really clear. It's just that that was a bit that was a bit disappointing. artwork is very subjective. I like it. I think it's very much in theme with Yeah. I mean, I've not looked at the Voyage manuscript, but I'm going to assume that they've done it as to as to what it actually looks like.

2:28:58 It It really gives off that sense of

2:29:01 this is what is this bizarre

2:29:04 home we've got here. Yeah. Know, it's perfect for that.

2:29:07 I like the way the color of the cards became more colorful as you

2:29:12 Yeah. It's like you kind of learn more de you

2:29:14 Yeah.

2:29:15 So, one of the things that they've said to me that they're going to do for the second printing is

2:29:19 they're going to put a mark on on where which is the starting section of each card. And I was like, oh, maybe I should do that.

2:29:27 And then I looked at them and went, well, no, it's obvious.

2:29:30 Yeah.

2:29:30 So, they are going to put a mark. Maybe some people have reported that they found it difficult which one was the starting one. But yeah, having some kind of icon on or a circle around the number to say

2:29:41 this is the starting one.

2:29:43 But it's fairly easy. You look at the artwork and it's the one with the with the pencil outline.

2:29:48 Um, now rule book. Uh, as many viewers of mine will know, I am the most fussiest person when it comes to rule books in the world. And this is actually pretty good. Um I didn't what we read when we were learning the game from the rule book this afternoon was clear. Um so I and I and I've been through BG and I've read a few people questions that people have had and in general the questions that people have had I'm like well I know that because it's answered in the rule book. So this rule book is actually better than most rule books that I've looked at in the last few months. Um, it's not a big problem and I wasn't sure what it was going to be like going into it because I'd heard a lot of the negativities about the game. I'd made an assumption that therefore the rule book wasn't good as well. But we learned how to play from the rule book this afternoon. Danny was helping us. Thank you very much, Danny, for helping us this afternoon.

2:30:43 But I don't think there was a point where anything wasn't clear. I think it I think it was all very clear. The only issue I had when I was learning it was it told me about progressing a card, but it didn't tell me where the icons were explained. What I wanted is the individual conditions to upgrade the cards are explained on page

2:31:08 35. That's what I wanted in there.

2:31:10 So, when we were learning the game, this was all about progressing a card with no explanation of what any of the icons mean. And Danny said, "It's in the back of the rule book." At which point I went, "Oh, there it is. All it needed was a line here to say this is all explained on page 35.

2:31:25 Yeah.

2:31:25 Um but other than that, yeah, I I felt so congratulations. Good job to the people who who did the rule book. I felt it was fairly clear. If there is something in the rule book which isn't clear, I I I might have missed it, but you guys have not looked at the rule book. So yeah, and I've not read the solo rules, so I don't know. I don't know how the solo rules are. What else did I want to say? Anything else you two wanted to say about anything?

2:31:52 These the uh like it's it's a really nice thematic aspect. It is very fiddly having to go

2:32:00 this

2:32:01 was easy.

2:32:02 Yeah.

2:32:03 Uh so yes, I I know having the book is is thematic and the fact that you've got a book is nice. Personally, I don't like the plastic in the books and yeah, I felt getting the card in and out for me was fiddly.

2:32:19 If I play this again, which I want to play this again, I won't be using the book. I I will do this.

2:32:25 It takes up more space. This meant I had access to all the information I wanted straight away without having to do that. So,

2:32:35 I wonder if it could have been I suppose maybe that would have detracted from the theme of it. Think back to books of time. That's sort of like that's more like a ring binder thing. You'd have to like double punch it on both sides. So I guess that would

2:32:51 cause issues.

2:32:52 But yeah, some some people have some somebody on a Facebook group somewhere, I think, or Slack suggested this.

2:32:58 So I thought I'll give it a go.

2:32:59 Yeah. I mean, it's perfectly functional.

2:33:00 And I've now played with the book and without the book, and yes, it takes up more space. So I didn't use the helper cards because I had all of the information.

2:33:08 Ah, yes. Did you use your help cards? Were they useful?

2:33:13 Yeah, they were useful for helping me kind of I had to obviously rotate them at the time that I I upgraded it to remind myself what the next level was.

2:33:23 But how did they help you when you've got all of that information in your book?

2:33:27 Uh because I I didn't have to flip to that page to go, oh, if I want to do that, I need to do that. Because there's a bit of reactive like, ah, those things are out there. So, if I'm positioned there. Oh, that's an upgrade I could do with that. Okay, now I'll have a look at that page. Is that

2:33:42 But if you did this, you wouldn't need the help card.

2:33:45 True.

2:33:46 And that doesn't take up this doesn't take up much more space than that.

2:33:50 That's That is a very good card.

2:33:52 I mean, these cards are a bit too big. They don't need to be this big, but you know, they're nice.

2:33:57 It would have nice if they'd also had the action

2:34:00 because when I was trying to work, I had to get my star in here. I had to get all my cards out and look through them. that that wouldn't fit though, would it?

2:34:06 It wouldn't fit on the problem.

2:34:08 Yeah. Cuz that, like I was saying there, I I go, okay, oh, that's the thing I do. I still then have to look at it and go, right, what does that actually do? Does that do something I want to do?

2:34:16 And I think the reason why the cards are this size is for the book. Cuz if the cards were normal card size,

2:34:22 your book would be tiny. You wouldn't you wouldn't be able to to hold it. So

2:34:25 I can't read this manually.

2:34:26 It's probably the book is a certain size and therefore the cards are the size to fit in the book. But yeah, I think if you're going to have the help cards to avoid people constantly flipping through the book, then it just and that's why I didn't want to use the help cards because I've already got the cards. It seemed weird having another set of cards that had most of the information on just to save me flipping through the book. Um, did either of us use a bookmark at any time?

2:34:52 No, I just put my hand in there. You put your hand in remembered.

2:34:55 Yeah. So Danny said to me this afternoon that his prototype did actually have a bookmark and then the bookmark didn't make it into the final version of the game. Um but a few people have suggested using a bookmark and you can get those little plastic

2:35:07 clip bookmarks that just slot in over it. But

2:35:10 or even a paper clip

2:35:11 or a paper clip. Yeah,

2:35:12 as long as it doesn't damage it.

2:35:14 But yeah, that that's my thoughts on it. Um I'm just going to have a look at the chat. Thank you very much to everybody who's been joining us tonight and keeping us company. We have had a few people join us in the chat that are experienced with the game and I have been looking across and seeing your comments. So, thank you very much for that. Uh yeah, Michael has been here. Uh he says the card steps one and three of beige two and four are wide. Seemed very good. Yep. Some of the scoring was unclear. Rayma says some of the scoring was unclear at the beginning. How did the multiples work and what happens when you pass some of the yellow spots on the tracks? It was a bit unclear and difficult to find. Okay. Yeah. I mean the yellow spots on the tracks do nothing at all during the game. They are just purely end of game.

2:35:51 Yeah.

2:35:52 Um but yeah, we we we thought that bit was okay. Michael says it's a great game. He says, "I don't know much about Salt and Pepper." Yeah, I don't know either. Um I think I've played No, I haven't played it. I think they did Resist, which I remember hearing about. I think that was Salt and Pepper games. Um so Michael said he backed the game based on Danny's past designs and he's glad that he did. I hope they offer an upgrade pack for first edition owners if they do a reprint. Yes. Okay. So, Rayma says, "Yeah, it was not mentioned in the part on moving on the score track." So, that that's like I was saying,

2:36:23 the section in the rule book that talks about progressing cards didn't tell you where the things were.

2:36:28 The section on moving up the tracks didn't mention these yellow bits.

2:36:32 So, naturally, you move up the track and you think, well, what does this bit do? And it's not in that part.

2:36:36 So, you're like, what does it do? And it just needs a line to say,

2:36:40 whenever you pass one of these yellow parts, that's going to increase your end of game scoring. See page 33 or or whatever. Um,

2:36:47 there is an art, isn't there, in in rule books for

2:36:50 rule books are hard.

2:36:51 Well, it's the thing of avoiding making something like, you know, 100 pages because you go, oh, I have to reexlain. No, it's hard to pick those times where you do need to reference something or kind of put a quick note in. But yeah, that's

2:37:06 Michael also says, following on from my conversation about lack of fountains, more fountains, please. is the entry points here are not at yeah I I don't have much of a problem because it's

2:37:19 it's it's

2:37:20 it's faded but it's on a light background so I can I can easily see also graphically these are the end of the the tips of the roots

2:37:27 so that's the point the rule book says whenever you put a water drop into here it goes onto the tips of the roots well that's obvious but here when it says the fountains when there are no fountains that's where I got confused

2:37:41 to be honest If anything, stuff like that is worse.

2:37:44 Yeah.

2:37:45 That's the classic thing of having something going across two different colors. It's always hard to pick something that works.

2:37:51 Yeah.

2:37:52 And I guess it's like you you've got to you got to visualize that this is a branch and this is not a branch.

2:38:00 But yeah, I

2:38:02 it's not it's not as bad.

2:38:04 Yeah. Um yeah, so various things in the chat. Uh Danny says, "I would also flip the red and the blue tracks because you always score for the next to the right." Yeah.

2:38:15 Oh, so when when I'm doing my own version, he's saying he's suggesting flip those two.

2:38:22 Green scores the yellow. The blue the yellow

2:38:24 I didn't realize that green scores the yellow, yellow,

2:38:28 blue scores the red and red scores the green. Thank you, Donnie. Okay, so when I do my own version of this, I will swap those two tracks round.

2:38:37 Yes.

2:38:38 Yeah. cracking idea. Thank you very much for that. Um, anything else in the chat that we've missed? So, Michael says he's played it at four players. He said it's very, very crowded. Oh, I think he means this.

2:38:49 Yes, that would be very crowded.

2:38:51 Okay. Uh, Bart is saying that he had one game where he wasn't able to clean water. Um, yeah. So, I think that's just the nature of the game is that you might get some cards which

2:39:03 Oh, yeah. In the way that I can put stars here,

2:39:05 you can put stars here. If you don't have the cards and the few sort of spots in other places get taken before you grab or before you it's useful to you to get them then yeah you probably can

2:39:16 I can put any leaves in bot.

2:39:18 So apart from starting with one

2:39:20 I I can't put any other leaves in bot. I can put water.

2:39:24 Yeah. You haven't got anything there at the moment have you?

2:39:25 No.

2:39:26 Yeah. But you also didn't do the action very often.

2:39:28 No I didn't because I didn't have any leaves there. So couldn't move it up. Anyway, we are all done. So, just a few things before we finish. Uh, first of all, thank you very much to everybody who's been keeping us company and watching us live tonight. Big thank you to all of my patron supporters for funding the channel. If you missed what I said at the start of the video, this is not a sponsored video. Basically, today has been a day off work for me. I've been learning this game this morning, practice game this afternoon, and public play through this evening. So, all of this is done free of charge to everybody, and there's no cost to watch any of these videos. And all of my advertising revenue goes to charity. So, I don't make any money out of this video itself. Um, yeah, we donate all of the advertising revenue to charity and I'm only able to do that thanks to the support of the Patreon. If you're wondering what the road to freedom is at the bottom of the page, this was something that I kind of just made up on a whim at my last live Q&A. Um, and if we get to 1,400 patron supporters, I'm going to do a live stream of a game called Freedom in the Galaxy from 1979.

2:40:27 It is the oldest game in my collection, which I have never played. I don't know when I got the game. I didn't buy it. I don't Somebody must have gave it me like 30 years ago. Um, and it's in the attic and I want to play it and if I get to 1400 Patreon supporters, then I will. We are currently, as of this morning, 1 1300 Patreon supporters. So, we're only 100 away, but if you like the content that I create, you want to support me, you can do so for as little as $1 a month. patreon.com/gamingrulesules. Thank you very much to Danny Garcia, the designer of the game, for being with us uh this afternoon, helping us with some of the rules and for being here this evening. Thank you very much, Danny. Best wishes to you and your family. Thank you very much to Salt and Pepper Games. I don't know if they're in the chat, but thank you very much for sending me this was a review copy of the game. I requested this uh based on the designer's pedigree and the fact that people recommended it to me. So yeah, thank you very much to Salt and Pepper for sending me a copy of this game. And thank you for you two for joining me.

2:41:20 And also thank you to Rob and Fran who are currently downstairs playing Galactic Cruise, but they helped me learn the game this afternoon. So, uh, yeah, we are all done. Thank you very much for watching. I'll see you next week with some more videos. Cheers everybody. Bye-bye.