Newsboys | Solo Board Game Tutorial and Playthrough
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hello everybody Welcome to to tabled my name is Shaggy and today I'm doing a full solo playthrough of News Boys News Boys is designed by Sashi and illustrated by tatako takari I talk about her Charming illustrations in my top 10 board game artist video go check that out if you haven't now in News Boys we're going to be taking the role of a paper boy in Brooklyn New York in the 1890s we're going to be trying to increase the area around the city that we sell our paper in expanding into these various different blocks but we're also going to have to fight for wage increases and better working conditions I'm just going to go ahead and get started and I'll explain the rules as I go as I always do now we have our map turned over to the one player side and the first thing we need to do is just roll one of our three dice okay and we check this chart we're going to circle the result that we got and that's going to determine what happens when we hit these timing cards that we've inserted into our deck so we have a shuffled deck of Icon cards and then at specific spaces through that deck we've put these timing cards the first timing card is 12 cards down and we can see here that what's going to happen is the C block which we can see in this chart here is over here in the lower left corner that block is going to be worth less points unless we can fill it before we get to that timing card now I don't think we're going to be able to do that so I'm going to ignore the C
sector and maybe try to fill out some of the other ones okay first thing we do is we just flip over the top card and put it next to it and then we roll our three dice now we can roll zero to three of these dice so we can reroll as many as we want or none at all and we're trying to get matching icons between our Dice and the three that are showing on the card the two on this flipped face up icon card and the one that's face down I think I'll reroll these two and try to get another blue and there we go so now I have to choose one type of Icon the question mark is a type of Icon so if I wanted to I could choose these two question marks and I could make them one of the other five types of icons that aren't showing on the board so at the moment those question marks could not be brown or blue because those showed up but I could use those question marks as a yellow or a green or a red now each of those colors relates to a different type of block like a school or a factory or offices or stuff like that but instead of that I think I want to take the three blues and now I get to decide how I want to use those icons the first thing I could do is I could mark off three blue spaces in in one single block on the map
and it has to be adjacent to a Mark that I've previously made so here at the beginning we have to start from where that X is that Central X and once you know there's a great Blue Block right there a block is just an area of the same color now when you're marking off a block you have to do the empty hexes first before you do the hex with the icon so before you can mark off that with the icon all the other spaces in that block need to have already been marked off when you mark off a hex with an icon you come down here to this chart and you mark off the leftmost unmarked icon just like that you can see we'll get points if we can get sets of these icons marked off now the trick is let's say I had four blue icons I still would not be able to mark more than these three the fourth mark would be wasted because you can only Mark in a single block you can never mark in multiple blocks but something special happens here because I filled in that block exactly right I didn't undershoot which you can do if I had had two uh blue icons there I could have marked off those two spots and that would have been fine you don't have to fill the block but when you fill the block exactly you get what's known as a referral you basically get to take an extra mark and it can be anywhere any color but you
still have to obey the rules for how you mark so it has to be adjacent to another Mark and you know you can't mark off an icon space until the rest of the block has been marked I think for my referral I'll just Mark right there now there's something else I could have done with my icons rather than marking on the map but I'll explain that here in a second let's just move on by flipping this top card over and going again okay now we can roll getting a third Brown would be really good yeah let's go for
that so close well we got two Brown now instead of using that two brown to mark on the map which I could do right here I could just mark off those two spots right there and be done instead I'm going to do the other option that you have I'm going to take my two marks and I'm going to mark them here on this row known as the strike gauge once again I just mark off starting from left to right now that strike gauge is going to be an important way for us to score points in the future I'll explain that in a little bit but you basically just mark off as many of one type of Icon as you have and it doesn't matter what color it is and that's that turns are very fast o okay we got two blue we don't really want two brown and two question mark do we want to go after the brown or the question mark let's go off to the question mark okay there we go we got three question marks there and we only have blue and brown showing so we can make it yellow green or red so let's go for yellow three yellow we mark off that icon and we did it exactly so we get a referral finish another block and that also counts as finishing it exactly so we get another referral so in this way
you can set up multiple referrals as you go along now I can also use that referral to mark one spot on my strike gaug if I wanted to instead I think I'll just mark it right there okay
done o okay we're not really looking for blue just going to roll that whole thing yeah two brown two yellow not too exciting is it h I'll use the two
brown and we didn't fill it up no referrals no nothing H yeah not what we're looking for roll that there we go three blue that works now if you look at this spot here that we just crossed off that has a little money symbol by it so when you cross off one of those icons you also cross off that little money icon right there again that's going to become important for scoring here in a little bit you'll see that in a second and one thing I'm noticing is I'm not doing a very good job of completing these blocks maybe I should need to focus on that a little bit more oh and we got a referral we completed that blue region perfectly so let's just mark this one off and that's another money spot that's another perfect completion so we get another referral okay there we go ooh look at that oh come on now let's try to get some question marks we could get a nice four spot
no okay ah can't do yellow can't do red but we could do three green oh we're not next to a oh no we are next to that green but that's a four green we could also do a three Brown yeah maybe that's the best idea and that is a referral we did that perfectly I might just want to go there so I at least I'm touching that green up there although I'm touching that green there we go I'll go right
there ooh three yellow yeah let's see if we can get that fourth yellow that would be really good come on no oh and I just realized we're not touching there so we can't do that one ah so three yellow isn't fantastic actually I might take this occasion actually to mark off my strike
gauge okay man this is not what I want need some red yeah let's reroll this we got to do better well that's two red let's make it to Red that might work out okay yellow would be great okay there's one let's go for another one
now okay would love a four Brown ooh that is two red okay let's go for the two red cuz if we could get another red no we're rolling badly let's take the two
brown we need this to be good oo a a four green right now would be fantastic we've been having some trouble oh there it is perfect we're just going to keep that exactly what we needed that's a referral we did it
perfectly that's another referral that's another referral that would be another referral this is the referral Loop that you can get into which we took a while for us to set it up I'm going to take my last referral and put it right there onto my gauge my strike gauge so now something happens because we filled up our second row so we get to Circle that three that's going to be three points at the end of the game but this little star here means that we're going to do a type of scoring here we're going to look at our money value we're going to write that down so our money is at six and then we're also going to look at our strike gauge and see what number it's gotten up to and there we just barely got to the two it's not the number of marks you've made but it's at number above we're then going to circle the lower number and that's how many points we're going to get so ideally you're keeping up your strike gauge with your money so that you can maximize your scoring here so we have to do quite a a few more Marks here on the strike gauge but we'll get to that the next scoring will happen once we filled up a third row of one of each type of block and then we'll do a final scoring of that at the very end of the
game okay and here we go we've got to the first timing marker so what we do is we look down here we see that it's the first one and it's showing Region C so we just come over here and we mark off that higher number now when we fill Region C we'll have to get Five Points rather than seven and we can see that the next time that timing marker comes up we're going to do the same thing for the B region and for this star value but we've already scored that so we got the higher amount so that's why we were rushing to get that done before we got to that second timing which is going to be four cards down so we have basically four rounds before that second timing is coming out now all we do is discard that and now this is our new
icons now I should have been pushing more to get B done that would be the wise thing to do if we can get b done before that next timing so I could just take this blue and fill that in that's not bad though I might be able to get another green let's try to roll this green nope okay so I will take those two
blue and as a referral we'll do that okay getting that green would be fantastic o no let's reroll all of that didn't like any of that ah two green okay I'll take that
now we just need yellow or five Brown so here's the situation five Brown is actually not fantastic because we have this four Brown area we lose out on a referral we could still do it we would just lose that you know last Mark and lose out on on a referral so let's try to roll this and make this something else okay there we go hard to turn down for
brown and that is the D region complete so we can Circle the higher number here six points at the end of the game for that and that is a referral another referral our money is going through the roof right now we need to catch up with our gauge but I want to get that yellow region ah and that's not going to help us do it we're going to be too slow I think so I might just abandon that and go for the blue we could get four blue that'd be really good two yellow yeah we're going to be too slow I'm just going to mark off three on the strike
track yep and there's the timing so lost out on three points there barely and here we don't have to worry about about that cuz we already got the higher
amount so now we could go after the a region there but yeah we're not going to be able to do that in time either no three red man yeah let's go for those yellows three yellow man I think I'm just going to take it okay I'm going to go for the
Browns and now I filled up all the Browns so I'm going to get those three points I also get a referral oh there we go there it is or
yellow so that's going to be another referral another referral another referral and I believe finished B now and finish that so we'll get those four points and then we have to do this scoring so once again I've only gotten my strike gauge up to
three money's at 11 so I'm putting a I'm leaving a lot of points on the board by not getting my strike up that that was a mistake yep third scoring a and then the star we just got so managed to do that okay now I'm not sure what I want to do what I'm after at this point we definitely don't need Brown we should probably just go for the
green all right well three Brown we can work on our gauge we still want to get this up because we're going to lose points at the end of the game if we haven't gotten it high enough so if we get it to seven then we won't lose points but if it's at six we'll lose two if it's at we lose four you can see the little negative numbers there so we do need to get that up before the end of the
game really need blue or red take the two yellow yeah let's take the two yellow three points
referral another referral okay oh man mean you just think well okay maybe we can get the red
yeah let's go for the red no two red Running Out of Time ooh okay well we could make this red or green that could be good all right there we go let's get one more ah red showed up so we could do three green although yeah let's just not lose all those points oh now look at this this is what we wanted four green perfect
I don't need the red now cuz I'm just going to fill it with a referral three blue would be perfect nope really need a three blue ah too
blue okay so this shows that this is going to be the last round and there's no blue on here so oh man okay ooh okay okay if we can get another question mark with this then that would be amazing yeah let's try it oh it's blue oh that didn't work out okay but we do have one red so I think we'll just do this
and then we have one more referral but that's not going to be enough okay into the game we do another one of these scorings we got our gauge up to
five we would have gotten a lot more money if we had been striking for our rights but because we didn't do that we left a lot of money on the table that's sort of thematically what's happening there but we expanded a lot so maybe that will be good enough oh and I just noticed we did complete C so we get that lower number if we had rolled a question mark there we could have completed the entire board that would have been awesome okay so now we just add up our totals so down here we're going to add up all of our circles here we got quite a few so that's 12 and 12 24 four up here we left a lot of money on the table like I said that's just 10 down here it's 1114 and we are going to get A4 because of our strike gauge so that just means our total is 44 we can now consult the rule book to see how well we
did oh and 44 is a senior news boy we were one away from a news boy leader oh man so there you go that was a complete solo play of News Boys thank you so much for watching and goodbye