Ecclectic Mix of Board Games!🌟| Board Game Unboxing📦

0:02 Welcome and welcome back everybody. Tabletop Toki here and let's see if we are live. Everything has changed. So, um I think we should be good. All right. Uh forgive me. We're in a new space. Those of y'all who didn't see the last live stream, um I did recently relocate. go. Um it's um been a little bit of a process getting set up, just refiguring everything else out, setting it up in the new space. So, appreciate y'all being patient. I'm just going to try to check the levels. Hopefully, the mic situation is a little better than it was last time. I think I finally got it all connected. So, let me know if it's too quiet, too loud, if it's still muffled.

0:47 I can adjust the volume, but um the quality we'll have to take a look at for next time. So, um, thank y'all for being here. If you're here live, if you're here watching in the future, I have some games that I'm going to be unboxing today, um, that I picked up from our sponsor, Noble Knight Games, um, who I am very grateful to. In fact, they're located here in Wisconsin, so I was able to stop in, which is why we have a bag of games this time versus a box. Um, I was at Protoil just last month and decided to pick up on this month's unboxing games while I was in town and I also have a super special bonus treat game that I got while I was at Photoshield. So, um, very thankful to our sponsor, Noble Knights. And with that being said, we're going to go ahead and jump in here. So, I'm going to clear our space here. All sorts of games in here that I'm very excited for. It's been a hot minute. We didn't get to do an unboxing stream last month because my whole life was just boxing and unboxing as I was moving. So, let's see if we can get this a little more the There we go.

1:54 Okay. So, the first thing the game that I want to get into uh before we get to the games from our sponsor is a game that was actually gifted to us by friend of the channel um designer King Clinko. So, this is Robo Rally Dice. um his newest game, which if you're familiar with Robo Rally, it's a programming game um where you have like these little bots battling. I only ever got to play the original once, but to my knowledge, this is a new version utilizing dice and some realtime mechanics, which uh King Cleo is definitely known for, and it's one of the things about his games that I absolutely love. Y'all may or may not have seen um in the Simp City series. I did a whole video about his games and um all of the great things that he does for word game design. So if not, you can check that out after this. But uh it looks pretty similar to Robo Rally where you have like the arena, you have your specific robot and dice that you're going to be programming in real time and then your bots will kind of move and battle based on what you have selected for them. Um, so some pretty quick to read rules about how the bots interact with different elements on the board, what the different dice do. Very exciting. Oh, and we should look at the back of the box, too. I'm just so excited. So, we have racing robots.

3:16 After a long day of work on the assembly line, the robots turn to the factory floor to the ultimate raceourse with dangerous obstacles rival sabotage. We'll be cutting it off to survive and win. So, mostly a racing game um full of robotic pandemonium. Use your dice to program your robot to tag checkpoints, attach powerful upgrades, and turn this jewelry old warehouse into a fabulous, fast, and frenzied factory. That sounds really cute. It is for two to four players, ages 14 and up, about 30 to 45 minutes. So, let's dive in here and see what we have for components. It looks like we have some boards to make up the main racetrack. So, I'm guessing that you have some modular setups that you can have depending on your um intended like race goals or ease, difficulty, etc. We have some additional tokens. I'm guessing that these are some of the powerups and bonus things that you can interact with that'll be placed out on the board. I like the idea, too, of being able to upgrade and do different things as you're racing. Um, okay. And then we have two more boards here.

4:22 There's one. And last one. Merrygoround Toasted Sticks. These are side A. So, yep, there's B. So, it looks like each game will have a different variable racetrack that you can set up. And I see lasers and all sorts of fun things. Charging stations. Not sure exactly what, but each of these boards seems like it has some different things. Like the merrygoround has this in the center. We have spin class with all these spinners. Toasted where you're just going to get lasered. It looks like confusion. That does look quite confusing. Sticks like the river. Um double zap. We have the abyss. Just a giant hole to fall into and the pits with multiple different pits. Very cool.

5:10 So, yeah, I can see how this would be a lot of fun in terms of kind of trying to harness some of that chaos and anticipate what other players are going to do um as they're programming their different robots to move around. It seems like you can interact with the other robots to kind of push them. So, we have our unique dice that you'll be utilizing as well as the little player pieces for those robots. We have some unique cards, too. So, I'm wondering if these are some of the different powerups that you can get. And it looks like you can program Dyson there then. Very cool. Smack you around. Strafe, angular, retrofit, overclock. Yeah. So, some customization there as well. Um, and I'm personally a big fan of games that utilize real-time elements. It is something that I find to be exciting instead of trying to minmax and optimize just seeing how quickly you can adapt to certain scenarios. So, I am very excited to try this one out. And we have a really concise, nifty um reference card here with the round sequence, the die faces, and then specific elements that are found on the board. And then we have our different player boards. And these are like really nice laminated finish. Uh, Smashbot, Twunky, Hammerbot, and Zumbot.

6:32 Excellent. So, yes, I am very excited to try this one out and share more thoughts on it in next month's um first looks. Uh, we need a little baggie. First looks, right? I didn't bring my big box of bags, so we're a little limited on storage, but I did bring like one big thing of baggies, so I'll have to grab that next time I'm back down and transporting goods to the house. But the exciting news is our game room is pretty much almost set up. So, I'll be posting pictures of that over on Discord and maybe on Instagram. We'll see. All right, so that is our first game room, Rally Dice. And huge thank you to designer K Clinko, friend of the channel for giving us a copy um just by happen stance. Bumped into him at Photoshield um in Madison. So very excited to try that one out. And now we're going to get to some of the different games that I got from our sponsor Noble Knights. So let me just make sure we're looking okay here as far as stream goes. I'm extra paranoid because last time we were streaming it kind of crashed. It crashed at like the perfect point. I finished reviewing one shelf. Um, but then it was not so good. Uh, so just want to make sure we're good to go there. All right.

7:47 Uh, let's see. And I may or may not have continued to stream for like 7 to 9 minutes until I realized that when I looked over, I'm like, "Oh, wait. The stream's not even live anymore." So, just checking on that. Might be a little paranoid. All right. I'm just going to go from whatever's on top. So, we have Chromaix from designer um George Zang, who is also a friend of the channel. Um they were local back when I lived in um Illinois. So, Chroma Mix, use cyan, magenta, and yellow to mix the perfect color. You play cards to get colors, mix these into stronger cards, and then there are synergies that will help you win depending on the different win conditions. So, it is for ages 12 and up, one to four players in 30 minutes.

8:36 So, I'll be excited to try this one out. multiplayer as well as potentially solo. Um, I like the idea of a color game that doesn't rely on just, you know, matching colors and things like that. So, that should be pretty interesting. And I've heard good things about this one, so I'm excited to finally be able to try it out. Okay, let's see. Oh, do I have my Uhoh. I'm all sorts of There we go. I did bring it. All my supplies are everywhere just getting packed, unpacked. I don't know where anything is. Also, it's strange because um at the old place, I have like two desks to make an L-shaped configuration desk kind of dealio. So, at uh my old place, it was this way with the long the side piece on the left, and now I have it on the right. So, I'm all sorts of I'm disoriented here. All right, so we have Chroma. We have our rule book. Oh, these cards are so colorful. And it's really just a bunch of different cards that are going to interact in different ways. So, it looks like there are some basic actions you can do. So you can like print, which is play a card, mix, refill, swap, and then there are some different ways that you can end the game. There's a solo variant as well.

10:05 Adequate amount of tiebreers. I don't know if y'all are a fan of ties, but it is a common joke within our groups about shared victory. I'm on the side of no shared victory. So there's only ever one or no tie breaks. It's always thus to me. Um, and then we have advanced ruling as well as some different um, combinations or types of cards and what they do. Very cool. Wow, I love how colorful this one is. Petrol. Is that a color? I didn't know. I thought I was pretty hip to all the different colors, but maybe not. And then we have our cards themselves. So, we'll just take a quick peek at that.

10:50 All right. Oh. Oh, it is a baggie. It's just taped down. Whoops. Well, my bad. Probably put them in a bigger baggie anyway, just so they don't get um Oh my. Just so they don't get um the card edges don't get ruined. Yeah, we're going to do not that. Okay.

11:23 Oh my goodness, I am getting tape everywhere. Okay, should be good there. All right, so we have some of our different cards. Orange, pear, raspberry, azour, slate, gray. I really love the look of this game and I like the little kind of printeresque pixelated details in the corners. Lemon, violet, turquoise, ceruan. Very cool. All right, we have some reference cards here as well. Our different basic cards. Light yellow, pale magenta, rhythm. Ooh. So, yeah, it's all about, if you're not familiar, um, these are the different colors that are used for printing for inks. I'm not an expert in color theory, but it's different from your painting colors. Um, like primary colors, red, blue, green.

12:26 I'm not sure why that is. I'm assuming it has something to do with like properties of light and all sorts of sciency things that I am not well verssed in, but it's kind of like primary colors except for for printing. Not sure why that's different. Somebody more educated on the topic than I am could let us know in the comments or in the chat. Okay, so we have our Chroma mix cards. I'm going to put these Yeah, I'm going to put these all together. I don't know for setup if the level ones, twos, etc. are supposed to be separated out, but we'll go ahead and do that for now. And then we have our mix cards or a couple of mix cards or chroma cards. Okay.

13:15 Oh, and they have numbers on them as well. Interesting. Okay. And then we should be good. All righty. So, these are for solo play only. Interesting. All right. So, I'm going to go ahead and make these stacks a little more even, and then we should be good on that one. And again, hopefully I'll get to play all these games this month and give you some um first looks, first thoughts in next month's monthly plays videos. That is Chroma Mix from George Zane. All right. This feels like it keeps tilting. Am I crazy? Maybe a little bit. We'll see. Okay. Uh, next up, we have a game that I've really been wanting to try for a while.

14:02 I just hadn't really found a copy until I was at Noble Knight. They had it just like on the shelf and I was like, "Yes." Um, so this is Yellow House from Mandu Games. Um, designer Yonil and gorgeous art by Adu Val I believe. I'm not sure how that's pronounced, but um as artists, you entertain heated debates. Four topics always come back. Passion, skill, money, and of course, inspiration. In order to win the game, you must have the final word by playing your last card. To do so, make claims and strengthen your the four topics. So, I believe this is inspired by two famous artists, Van Gogh, and I'm not sure who the other artist is. I'm sure we'll find out once we open the box, but it is a two-player game. Uh about 30 minutes, ages eight and up.

14:52 Yeah. Vincent Van Go uh stayed in the yellow house in Arlo, rented it, and wanted to establish a community of artists. So, Paul, oh gosh, I don't know how to pronounce their last name. I know I've heard it, and I know it's nothing like how it's written. Um but unfortunately, they didn't get along. So this is about the contention between these two artists um trying to reconcile their uh philosophies about arts. So it is another card-based game. I personally love card games. We have a little playmat. Gorgeous. Love that. It's like um canvas. It's pretty sturdy as well. So that's very cool.

15:40 And then we have our different tokens that represent the four domains, our artist palettes, and our cards. I'm especially excited. Um, I posted over on Discord, but we got some patio furniture for the new place, and we've been able to do a little afternoon session of board gaming out on the patio in nature. And I feel like this would be a perfect game to play outside. All right. So, we have some different cards that are Oh, I don't know why that top one's upside down. A reflection of those different domains. Very cool. So, it seems like the rules are quite simple. Um, and here are the support cards. Here are the reference cards. Um, it seems like the rules are quite simple, but I'm hoping that there's a lot of depth of strategy to the game itself. Um, we'll have to see.

16:40 All righty. Awesome. So, that is the yellow house. And we have a couple more games left. So, let me go ahead and put this off to the side. And we'll see what else is here. Also, why is chat not showing up? Well, hi if you're here. Sorry, my chat isn't showing up at the moment, but hopefully it will soon. I'm not sure. All right. Uh, next game. We'll just get all the little ones out. This one I had not heard of, but again, oops, my necklace is sticking to the magnetic strip on the mic. Sorry if that was loud. Um, turnip. It looks like a pretty cute game from Ken Jenkins, illustrated by Liss Manolles from publisher Rose Goblin. I haven't heard of them before. Quick and easy bluffing game for the whole family set in a silly world where turnipss may be taken just a tad too seriously. It's time to plant those turnipss and see if you have the most turnups to win. So, you're going to draw cards and announce the number of turnups you've planted, but you can bluff and lie about it. So, you might be able to require people to reveal their cards and you just keep going to see who can get the most turnups. Um, this one seems really cute, like an introductory bluffing game.

18:01 Not maybe too dissimilar to things like spicy. I just really love the art. Oh my gosh, look at how precious this is. Ah, okay. I really love the art and theme. Turn up kingdom. And it was super cheap being that it was used copy, so I figured, hey, why not? Could be a fun one. All right, so you turn up and then you harvest. And that's really kind of it. So, we have our little Oh my goodness. These are so extra. Look at this dude. Can you guys see this little turtle? Let me take him out of the bag so there's less glare. Hi. Look at that. And then we have a crown.

18:47 A turnip crown. That's crazy. Is there somewhere in the world that is super obsessed with turnipss where they have like turnip festivals and things? I did not know. But apparently in the Midwest, in the US, they have like corn festivals, which I did not know about. And also in Germany, they have Schmargle Fest, which is like asparagus festivals. I had no no such idea that these things existed. The little turnups are even so cute. Okay. And then we have our cards.

19:25 Oh my gosh, look at these illustrations. These are so darling. It's the last supper, but there's just a giant turnip. Cute. Oh, these are all Is this is this called the creation or something? all different um I'm not sure what the right terminology is, but they're all referential to uh it looks like mostly religious paintings from I'm not sure which century or how to classify them, but these all look very familiar. Um yeah, this is with the ladies standing on the shell. Again, not sure. Are they from the classical period? I don't know. I don't think so. Renaissance. No, clearly I need to uh brush up on my art ed between yellow house and turnip. Who knew?

20:20 All right, so very excited to try this one out again. It seems just like a quick, easy little bluffing game with a really gorgeous presentation to it. Look at this little guy. Got a little floof on his tail. Okay, awesome. Let's keep going, shall we? Maybe up here. Maybe up here. Yeah, why not? Perfect. Okay. Uh, next up, we have a game from All Play. Oddlands. Oh my goodness. All right. So, this is from Dan Shoemaker. Um, art by Cam Kendall. This is I'm a little skeptical. I really like these little box games from All Play, like the card games. A lot of their trick- taking games, um, Ghost of Christmas, Nine Lives, Lunar, those are all great. Some of their other smaller box games I'm not sure about. Ruins I unboxed a couple um a month or two, maybe three months ago, I'm not sure. Um, and that was okay, but we'll see about this one. This one's tiling. So, it is explore the island, document the species, score for discoveries, 1 to five players, 30 minutes, 11 and up, small box, big game.

21:35 Oh my gosh, [snorts] this is driving me crazy. Hold on. Which way do we go? Maybe. Is that better? We'll see if it stays. It might start to shift. No, it might start to shift back. I think that's what's been happening. RIP. Okay. Anyway. Oh, there's an expansion. Okay, good to know. Um, let's see. So, as always, pretty concise rules for an allplay game. Setup overview, turns and game end, and then tips and reminders. Sounds great. We have Oh, I guess there's a dry erase score pad. Perfect. We have on your turn. Oh my gosh, these are huge. I expected kind of like normals sized cards, but these are ginormous. What's happening? So, we have several player references.

22:33 We have pig pigeon horse. Is it a beaver gator? Yeah. Pangaroo. Pendalin kangaroo. This one's a pigeon horse if you missed that. Gri grizzly. It's a grizzly bear sheep. Okay. Owloose. Owl moose. and flora. Just just cards, just flowers for solo. And we have our solo rules. Interesting. Are they the same? Okay, so they have two different sides which have different scoring per different character. And then here are our cards. They seem excessively large. Oh, I love the backs though. Look how gorgeous those are. Um, these seem excessively large. I feel like this is going to take up so much table space. I do really like the art, but I feel like it didn't need to be this big. Oh, and it's unique art for the different spaces. Like, look at all these beach spaces. Got a couple different pieces there, which I appreciate. That's nice. It's a good touch. Okay. And then we have our little our little dudes.

23:38 So, these are I'm not sure why they're different colors for each different one. And then we trash that one. Oh, wait. So, we'll just put these in baggies. Is it for Everybody gets a set of their own color. So, we'll go ahead and do that. Let me put these back in here. I would be curious to know. I was looking at um they had several of these smaller box games at Noble Knight um that had come out recently. I think there was one about Vegas. There was one about money. Um I'm failing to remember what the other ones might have been. Uh, but if y'all have any recommendations of which of these games might be worth looking into, I'm curious to try more of them. I just don't really know which ones. They seem like they might be kind of hit or miss just based on preliminary investigation. Um, do I need a unique bag for each player? Maybe. We'll see.

24:42 Um, and it's nice because obviously through Noble Knight, they're all pretty affordable and so it's a little easier to kind of like try some out and see how they go. But I would like to know if there are any that y'all would recommend checking out specifically. Um, that might be at least a good starting point and then I can go from there. Okay, sounds good. So, it looks like the deluxe version has um specific uh whatchamacallit meeples for each player for these guys instead of just the tokens, which might be cute. But also, these tiles are huge. My word, are there enough bags for each color?

25:31 Yes. Okay. I just can't sort colors. So, for a moment, I was like, wait a minute. They put all these baggies, but not the right amount. Okay. So, yeah, it looks like variable scoring for each different species each game. That's kind of nice. I'd be curious to see as well how solo goes. I do generally laying as a primary mechanic is not my favorite. I like it in comb combination with other mechanics, but for solo, I find that I like it quite a bit more than I usually do with multiplayer. Um, just because I think there's a little bit more control when playing solo for a lot of tiling games, just how they play up mechanically. Um, so we'll have to see again if I'm able to get this one to the table.

26:26 Multiplayer and solo. Compare the two. See what's what. So the marker in there so I don't forget that. Okay. This box barely fits everything. Hey, welcome. Glad you could make it. Hopefully I'm responding in a timely manner. My chat has been acting up. All right. So, that is Oddland. Let's see what else we have. We have one more Smallish box game typewriter um from Tim Powers, Jeff Beck, and Sky Larson. Art by Ryan Goldsberry. So, this is from the same kind of line of games as um paperback and hardback, which I liked paperback. I love hardback. This one uses instead of cards and deck building, it uses poker chips.

27:19 So, I'm curious. I love word games. Yeah, I was hoping I wasn't sure that I was going to be able to go live today. Um, and then it worked out. Oh, I forgot to put a link in Discord. That was my bad. I put it up on Instagram.

27:45 that we have. Um, let's see. Oh, sorry. Back of the box. Um, so this has a 100 double-sided letter keys. That's a lot. Is it poker chips? It feels heavy. I don't think it's just um whatchamacallit cardboard typewriter. Players use their collection of keys to spell words, but plan ahead because all of the keys will flip. You play as a wannabe. You play as wannabe authors doing the freelance writing hustle and rumaging through old parts so you can build a better typewriter than the competition. It's a new evolution of word games. So you spell a word, you fill the meter, use the meter, um, and then flip a word and gain a key. So these represent your different keys on the typewriter. Very cool. Um, not too much these games, but I mean it'll be up, the video will be up after the fact, too, so you can always go back and watch it when you have time.

28:37 Oh gosh, there's a lot happening. What the heck? Okay, I'm just going to take everything out of the box and then we'll put things in the Oh, this is the first time I've ever seen a new copy of a game put the rules on the bottom. Interesting. I know that some people store their games that way, and that's their problem, but I've never seen it come like that. Uh, yeah. So, here we have our um player boards. It's very cute. I'm guessing you can track down here and then you get special bonuses once you have certain numbers. Yeah, that's your meter it would seem. Okay, let's see what's what. So, we have all these different keys.

29:28 Having the perfect typewriter, the most important part. You take starting keys, which it looks like are these green ones. Oh, so you have four starting keys, which are the same for all players, but the two sides are different. And then you have two of the um whatchamacallit uh standard keys, non-starting keys. Okay. Interesting. And then you can flip to get the specific action. Okay. Okay. So, you're building up the different keys that you have, but they're not always utilized the exact same way. Very interesting. Okay. I'm going to go ahead and punch these and put them in a baggie.

30:28 All right. And then we'll put the cards in a baggie. And then these chips, I believe, are going to go into the main bag other than the starting ones. But I'll verify that before we dump them all in there and get myself in trouble. All right. These bags are huge. Oh my goodness. Should be good. Okay. good for those. And then we have Yeah. And life is going well. How have you been? Hopefully going to be able to play more games now that we're settled in at the new place a little bit more. Get back to playing more games, I should say. So, we have events. We have the player reference for the different meter icons.

31:21 Then we have some bonuses. Okay. Cool. And the different events of things that can impact your keys. I think I want to Oh, it's two differentiz baggies. Very strange. I'm going to swap these so that the cards are in the bigger bag. Less chance of them getting damaged that way, I would think. Okay, let me just verify. 75 letter keys into the shop bag. Give it a good shake. Okay, so we're gonna leave the starting ones out and put the rest into the shop bag. This should be the fun part. Y'all ready for the ASMR portion of this video?

32:09 So, these are all the starter ones, green ones. Okay, so they're like um plasticky, not acrylic. Is this acrylic? I don't know. They're very cute. And we're going to dump the rest of these into the typewriter bag.

32:32 We have some double letter keys as well that I see here. Interesting. And they have different colors on the back. I'm guessing that's just for easier reference. And like certain suits. So, it looks like these um like black gray ones with the yellow bands are just points. All right. This is reminding me quite a bit of hardback so far. We have these ones that add to your meter or let you do other things. The red ones. These black ones it looks like can become wild. Very cool. very excited um to try out more word games as always.

33:22 Hey, if there's one thing, at least we're consistent here. I'm going to put all these other baggies off to the side. We'll put them in the bag of bags for later. Okay, and then we have two more games that are a little bit uh larger. Where am I going to put this? Maybe over here. Um we'll go ahead and see what's what. So we have blaze on um artwork by eno tool Dave by game Dave game by Dave Conklin. Um this is from 25th century games. So this is the widespread of armorial bearings in the middle ages gave rise to a new occupation of heralds. These heralds have the responsibility of learning and maintaining the rules and protocols governing the design and creation or blazing of arms. So, we're going to become a herald. Carefully select the right elements for your shield board.

34:16 Earn distinctions through shrewd play. Earn your rank through accumulation of prestige as you blaze on your shield to distinguish yourself among your peers and be crowned the king of arms. And this is where did it go? somewhere some amounts of players and things. Two to four players, 30 to 60 minutes, ages 14 and up. Look at how cute that is. All right. Ooh, very nice like linen finish rules. I don't know how necessary that is, but I'll take it. And this is the solo mode. This is multiplayer. Very cool. So, we have our shield board.

35:08 Oh, wait. Yeah. So, this is where the different cards will go. Cards underneath. I really like the look of this game. Robo Robo Rally. Blaze on. Yeah, me neither. I had no idea. And then we have our shield boards. Ooh. Ooh. Okay. These are very hefty. Very impressive for each different player. And it looks like you track your points around the edge. I don't know about that part of it. I might have I might struggle with that. Uh just knocking over my uh tracker here, but we'll see. Very nice cloth baggie. And then we have our specific things we're putting on here.

36:00 Wow. Okay, this is like primo. Look at these. Whoa. Okay, sorry. These are chunky. What the heck? Okay, one second. I need to get my life together. Eastern Europe. The main that word means a crazy person. I wonder if it's connected. Are all of those soloable? Um, Chromaix is uh, Robo Rally Dice is two to four. Turnup is a bluffing game, so three to five. Yellow House is two-player. Oddland is solo. Chroma mix is solo. Blazing has solo. Um, yo though, check these out. Oh, these are sick. I love this art style.

36:47 These are insane. Look how chunky. Oh, baby. All right. Love that. Love to see it. Um, do I put them in like a bag or do I just leave them in here? I guess we'll just leave them in here just in case. I don't know that that's necessary, but uh-oh. Oh no, I may have made an error. Spatial reasoning. What? Maybe. No. Uh-oh. This should not be this challenging, y'all. It's been a long day. Okay, Piggy definitely What the heck? Maybe not.

37:33 Okay, Piggy definitely goes there. Uh, good. [snorts] Well, we were going to wrap up stream soon, but you know, now this is a whole other challenge. Wait, is it okay? There we go. Maybe I flipped a lot of them around and that's why it's challenging. This seems to be the right shape. There we go. Okay. Never fear or do I'm not going to tell you how to live your life. What the heck? Okay. I feel like this is like the equivalent of like a toddler puzzle. And for some reason, I'm just really struggling. Okay. Okay. Okay. We're good. We're good. Those are the fees. That's a foot right there. Nailed it.

38:26 Hey, if you wanted top quality unboxing skills, I mean, look no further. We have arrived. You're welcome. Okay, I should see what all is in here. So, we have our um these boys. Let's look and see what they are. Our achievement animal tokens. I feel achieved. We have our centerpiece board. We have our four shield boards. And then we have our player pieces, I'm assuming, which are not sorted out by player, but that's okay. Maybe there are just a couple of things that we need to get our distinction markers. So, we'll do like purpley pink up here. We'll do sky blue over here. Really interesting choice of player colors as well. I have to say I'm digging it.

39:20 Thank you. I strive to achieve perfection in everything that I do. Why is the streaming? Hey, listen. Listen. It was only like maybe I don't know. It was maybe maximum like I can't even put an accurate number on how long that took cuz in my mind I'm like whatever number it is it's way too long. If it was anything more than like 20 seconds you're cooked. Uh we have ink ink abatement ink and ink. Perfect. I'm going to put these into baggies based on player colors. Do that.

40:06 I wonder if they could fit in here. Apparently something that I say a lot when we're playing games is could that be a thing? Um I was packing up dinner at a friend's place the other day and just like looking at the container trying to figure out if it if I could fit like both containers into the baggie or something and he just blurted out, "Could that be a thing?" And I'm like, "How did you read my mind?" And I said, "Wait, is that something that I say all the time? Did you say that on purpose to make fun of me or was that reflexive?" And then we both just kind of like made eye contact for a second and never talked about it again until now as I'm telling everybody publicly. Now everybody knows. Great. Thanks for being here. Okay, player baggies are made. We also have or are these distinction cards.

40:55 Wow, this bag is huge. Probably don't need a bag that huge for just a couple cards. 25 of them. Oh, so cute. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25. They have different names. So, mercenary, commander, balance, potency, variety, simplicity, unity, fidelity. I really like these really clean fonts as well. Big fan of fonts. Um, put these in a smaller bag. Especially any fonts that are like derived from any sort of like broad nib calligraphy slashwriting devices. Huge fan. There need to be more games about calligraphy and fonts. Is that a thing that exists? I would imagine so.

41:49 I know Gutenberg is printing press, but where all the font games at? All right, let's see what we have here. So, these are device cards and element cards. There should be 80 of these device one. Oh my gosh, a unicorn. Okay. Um, there should be 80 of these. So, we'll do one, two, three, four, five. Uh-oh. Are these elements? Uhoh. How do I know these are yellow? I lost track of my counting. Okay, let's do this. One, two, three, and one. That's 10.

42:44 Y'all count your cards this way. 1 2 3. Oh gosh. 1 2 3 10 20 uh 30 1 2 3 1 30 1 2 3 1 40 Also, I'm trying to put them in the right orientation as we go. Um so that's not helping. One, two, three. Okay, so we have 50 of those. This is one of those yellow ones. One, two, three.

43:30 So, now we're at 60. Coming up on 80. One, two, three. Okay, so we need nine more of these blue ones. I wonder if they're mixed in here. Maybe. Yep, looks like it. So, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Uh-oh. Did I miscount? Or I wonder if I wonder if it's not based on the cards? Well, let's see. Oh, yep. Not based on the card backs. I guess I probably just messed them all up, didn't I? Excellent.

44:19 [clears throat]

44:21 You love to see it. Let's see what the differences are. Probably should have checked that before. Element cards are the nine types of heraldic elements. Picture and device. Mhm. How do I know the difference? You may be asking. And that would be a great question. And I'm here to answer it or not

44:55 your blaze on. Mhm. Cadency. A system to mark junior branches of a family. Whoa. We're learning all sorts of new words here today. Okay, great. Let's see what the setup says. Two and three. All the device cards mixing the included expansion device cards. Maybe that's why there are more. How many you ask? I'm not sure. H. No, it is separated. Look. Look at this. Look at that. Boom. Boom. They should be separate. So, there are just extras because of the expansion. Nine. 10. How many? I don't know. I guess we're mixing in the expansion.

45:42 Sure. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 20 21. Okay. Right. Nailed it. Like I said, we're just we're just over here being perfect. Don't even worry about it. I'll look into that later. Don't Don't even worry about it. Let's just put all these cards together into the bag. But look, now they're all facing the same way. We have our priorities straight and the cards. Mhm. It seems like seems like there are a lot more of these though than there are of the other kinds.

46:29 Oh lordy, what is happening? Also, these don't fit super well in here. I'm going to use the bigger bag for these. Okay. Interesting. There are all those. We should look through and see what are actually on these cards, shall we? Never count cards to check if they're all there. I only do it with um used games. Sometimes there might be something missing or like sometimes I've had it where like I'm missing like one piece and then they're under the box or something like that. But yeah, with new board games, no. Um unless I notice that something is missing. With used games, I always double check to count and make sure. Um and I'm sorting it anyway, so it seems like a pretty easy step to do.

47:30 Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. So, these are just like the backs of pages. Two. These are all upside down. 9 10. Now, they're the other way. 15 16 17 18 19 20. Okay. So, yeah, these are just the colors of the different shield bases, if you will, versus the elements. 40 tincture cards. Was that the right amount? I totally forgot cuz I was talking. There's um 10 2 3 20 1 2 3 1 2 3 40 and then I'm guessing three extra from the little expansion. Oh, yeah.

48:24 Three extra. And then 21 extra. It's literally right there. Yeah. So, some of these are used. So, Noble Knight does um new and used games, which is why a lot of them are so affordable. Like, I think Blazison, between you and me, I think Blazison was like $18. It was disgustingly affordable um for all of this. Like look, just look at this boy. You would take him home for $18 plus the rest of the game, right? Look at that little tongue sticking out. Actually, all of them have tongues out.

49:12 All five boys tongues out. I was going to continue down that line of discourse and we'll just stop there. I would like to stay monetized. Um, 20 herald tokens, but there was one extra. Maybe. Let's see. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. Okay. For some reason, it just wasn't in the right baggie. There you go. This is why we check. All right. And our blazon cloth baggie. for some reason. Guess we'll find out what goes in there later. Is it just for cuteness? Is this where the boys go?

49:59 Is this meant to be their home? I think it is. It doesn't have it anywhere in the setup. The solo you win by getting all five animal achievement tokens. I think it's just the storage for the boys. All right. So, yeah. Can that be a thing? Um, oh, I'm glad you saw. Why are you glad that you saw it first for mayor of Chicago? Like before you played or before other ones? All right, boys. We're going home. All this work we did. See, I was just flexing. I just wanted to show my superior spatial reasoning skills just so we can take these boys out and send them home to their bag to their very nice blazison bag. Watch them not even fit in here.

50:54 That would be hilarious. They're like cookies. They're like really giant hefty cookies. No, this is definitely what that was made for. Look at that. Five tongy boys all in there. plus a game. All for $18 craziness. Okay, I digress. We'll go ahead and get to the last game. So, everyone can get back to their real life, myself included. But why would we ever want to leave? Okay, what's happening?

51:33 I always feel like towards the ends of streams things like tend to really go off the rails. I don't know if it's just a time thing or if it's like a an impending the sense of impending doom of real life coming back. The print and play streams were the worst. I did get another new printer for the new place. So maybe we'll do a print and play stream. Maybe. And maybe it won't be a huge disaster where everything stops working and we can actually, you know, end up doing some stuff with some cool games. Maybe. I don't know. We'll see. All right. Last game is the largest, which is why I'm trying to like, you know, got everything situated. Um, this is Tribes of the Wind. Tada by Wim to pronunciation and art by Vinton Detroit.

52:29 Look at that bird. That's a good bird. Uh this is two to five players 14, ages 14 and up. 20 minutes per player. Interesting. Um so this one says, "Pollution has covered the ruins of past civilizations. Only the tribes of the wind remain, flying from tree to tree to clean up the forsaken lands. Play as a guide of those tribes and use the back of your opponent's cards to optimize each of your actions. Reach your goals and make your territory a nice place to live. Choose your actions depending on the cards of your opponents. Unlock new powers and goals during progress. And then clean up the area around your capital force and develop your villages. Why is this double shrink wrapped? What's happening? That is like I don't know why that is so concerning to me. I have never had that happen. Mispronounced studio Gibli.

53:20 Yeah. Gibli. Gibli. Gibli. It's just Giblly, right? Why is this double shrink wrapped? I don't trust it. What's happening? Is this a known thing? Is this like a somebody re-shrink wrapped the shrink wrapped game? I'm so confused. Oh gosh, that's I don't like that. All right. Okie dokie. Tribes of the Wind. Let's see what we've got in here. Definitely very pretty. I'm intrigued by the idea of having to adapt to what your opponents are playing. We'll see. So, we have some nice card holders for that purpose. We have a million bags. Every bag you could ever see in the world. Oh gosh. All of the game.

54:17 Play as a guide using elemental magic to fight pollution and grow forests and build new cities in the canopy and secure the future of humankind. That's just my normal Tuesday. Okay, good. I'm trying to see what things go in which baggies so we can be a little more organized. However, you may think that as I'm going through these rules that I'm looking for indications of how the pieces are sorted. I assure you I am not. I am just looking at how cute and beautiful all these illustrations are and like pretty colors. So glad we did that. Order too many fillings for your burrito. Tortilla breaks. Have to use a second drink. Yeah, but there was nothing wrong with the original shrink wrap. Ooh. Hello.

55:09 Okay, these are the player boards. Very nice. Oh, dang, girl. I usually play as yellow because it is the least picked color in our game groups. Everybody goes for the different colors. And now I am so used to picking yellow that if I play any other color, I inadvertently end up moving the yellow players pieces. That's like a known thing. Okay. Fire Lady. It may or may not also be, but like look at this character. That's value right there. Um, we may or may not also try to entrap uh certain members of our game group into stating that I am yellow.

56:02 you'll just be like, "You can't say that. It's 2026." But you know who's counting? I don't know, right? But like which one? I could I feel like if I did hair and makeup, I could be either of those characters possibly. You know, just get me a sick over the shoulder asymmetrical cape like that. and some gel for my hair. I used to have super short hair. Um like a pixie cut. Yeah, I can make that work. Just grow out the back and cut the the top short again.

56:50 First shrink wreck was contaminated. What do you mean contaminated? That's concerning. These are cute little tiles. Okay. Okay. Looks like there's some like engine building elements. I think I need a bigger bag. These bags are all slightly almost the same size, but not. And it's kind of wigging me out. Okay. I think towels can go in here and then we'll be good. And this is the last game. So, after this, we'll just do a quick wrap up, talk about each game, and then we'll be on our way. This is much better. This is just It was so close in size, but it's not the same. The source.

57:37 Hi, welcome. Okay, there we go. There we go. Yeah, I'm going to try to do also a better job of scheduling in advance when live streams are happening and remembering to post on Discord, etc. But it's been challenging with moving and all of that jazz just to like even find time to record and stream. So, appreciate all y'all being patient with that and kind of just uh you know, we're doing what we can. Um, but hopefully there will be a little bit more predictability with schedules and things like that. I think these are good for the red and blue pieces um, moving forward. So, we'll see. Don't let me forget these cards. I will forget them.

58:27 Play this a few time. It's fun until the symbol you want won't show up from the section available. No. Okay, I will keep that in mind. Is there no way to like refresh some of the areas or is that in reference to um like the other players having the right cards? Because that feels like it could be strategic. But if it's just from like a central buying area or something, then that's more problematic. Always appreciate when games have a way to like refresh whatever market or what have you. Um, this is a lot of water and I'm not sure. Wind, cloud, fire, smoke. What's the red?

59:13 Okay. I'm also I feel super behind on new games that are coming out. So, if y'all have any recommendations of games I should be looking at or looking into, I just have not had time to do anything other than move. I feel like I haven't even gotten to look at a social media feed. Not that I spend a lot of time looking at social media and things, but you know, just to see like what people are up to, what new games are out. I have not had a spare second to do anything of the sort. So, anytime somebody mentions a new game, I'm like, "Yep, nope. No idea. Zero idea what any of that is." A new Monopoly really. So, now they'll have like what, three different versions of Monopoly.

1:00:12 Just part of the game. Sometimes you get lots of these and none of those. Okay, we'll have to see about that. I know a lot of people are like, "Oh, but you could just house rule it to like refresh the this and that and blah blah blah." I'm like, "Yeah, but like I'm not getting paid for that. That's somebody else's job to figure that out, not mine."

1:00:40 Hands are a little cramped. Yeah, moving has not been the best for my tendinitis or whatever is going on with my hands either. So hopefully that will calm down. I can use my hands more fully, like actually hold cards in my hands and things and be able to like pick up board game pieces. It's been rough, guys.

1:01:10 I just dropped that little thing. Yeah, this one's been out for a while now. I think Oddland's a little newer. Robo Rally Dice is a little newer. Chroma Mix has been out for a couple years, I think. Burnups, I don't know. Typewriter is relatively new. I think at least I had not heard of it until I saw it at Noble Knight. Um, it's crazy, too, because some of these games they I found out they only have like at their physical store in I think it's in Fitchburg technically, but it's right outside of Madison, Wisconsin. Um, they didn't have typewriter on the website, but they did have it in the store. So, I'm very glad that we were able to stop by when we were at Proto Spiel. Just played my solo over the weekend for the first time.

1:02:01 actually refreshing um those stores. The only way you can screw someone over, so the mechanic can work both ways. Ooh, interesting. Okay. Okay. Feel like that might be potentially very frustrating if you've been like waiting and waiting and then it happens to come up on someone else's turn and they just cuck you out of whatever it is that you need. Have I seen a doctor about it? Yeah, I've tried to, but we could get into a whole thing about my luck with doctors just in general in life. Uh, but you know, that's a if you want an 8 hour stream, that's where we could go for it. Um, it's also just unfortunately one of those things where I have tendinitis in my forearms and that's like pretty not prominent but permanent just from uh earlier years uh working as a musician. So that's like something that will always just kind of like there's no cure for it once you've gotten to a certain point. You're always just kind of susceptible to it flaring up. Um, I think my hands are the same, but obviously I use them more, so it becomes a little bit more prevalent, unfortunately.

1:03:21 Um, I also just need to do a better job of like managing it, doing like physical therapy, stretches, and like not overusing them. But that's hard to do when you're like moving and you have so many things that need to get done. It's like, well, I can't really not use my hands. Oh, just have to find the right balance of things. Um, all right. And then we have our cards. Super pretty.

1:03:54 Two stacks of cards. I'll probably just keep them in two stacks just so they can fit in the box a little better and hopefully not get damaged in the baggies. And then that will be it. Oh, shoot. I forgot to add these all to my BG. I'll do it after stream. I'm like, there's no way I got through a whole stream without forgetting something. Oh, let's look at the cards, though. Okay, so these are the backs, like the resources that other players can utilize. And then here's some of the card art. So, it does look like there are a couple different variations of art for each of the different uh card suits at least. Um, yeah, but that's fair. Art's very expensive.

1:04:41 So, wow. Cute. Love to see it. No, because this one was double shrink wrapped. Although, that makes me skeptical. But the cards themselves were shrink wrapped only once, so I trust that. However, if they were double shrink wrapped cards, I wouldn't trust it. We got some more cards. Oh, it's like a big I don't know what that is. Is that like an otter? That dude's That dude's seen some things. Yeah. And then we have some different like scoring cards, it looks like. And then some player cards. Very cool. All righty. Let me go ahead and throw these in here.

1:05:39 This token, I'll just put that in there, too, just for fun, so it doesn't get lost. It's about the same size as the cards. Rules go on top. This goes over here. Why does my phone keep buzzing? Oh, I think we're fine. I don't know. No, I just dumped all those bags over. Okay, so we'll do a quick wrap-up of all the different games overview. Um, and then we'll head out. So, we started off stream with Robo Rally Dice, which um is a new implementation or like a new take on Robo Rally using some realtime elements with dice to program. Um, gifted to the channel from uh designer Kane Clanko, front of the channel. Look, it even says my name on it. Check that out. How special is that? Um, and then we had some other games from our sponsor Noble Knight. So, we have Chroma Mix, which is one to four players 30 minutes about mixing to together different cards in order to create colors. We have Oddlands, which is um one to five players 30 minutes. Uh, tile laying game with some different scoring objectives.

1:06:50 We have Yellow House, which is a two-player card game that plays in about 30 minutes. We have Turnup, which is a little easy, light bluffing game, 15 to 30 minutes, three to five players. And we had Typewriter, which is a word creation game, similar to paperback, hardback. Um, this one, oh, did we say two to five minutes? Two to five players, 30 minutes, ages 10 and up. Everything's 30 minutes apparently, except for these ones. Um, Blaze On, which is two to four players, 30 to 60 minutes, ages 14 and up. Um, although it looked like, wait a minute, wasn't there a solo mode included? Solo mode. Yeah, why don't they advertise that? One to four players. There we go. Um, and then we also have Tribes of the Wind, which is two to five players, 14 and up, and 20 minutes per player. So, um, all about that 30 minute mark, depending on except these two, maybe. So, yeah, there you have it.

1:07:52 Those are the games I'll be trying out this month from a variety of sources. Very excited to get into them. I've played none of these prior to uh obtaining them this month. So, um it should be good. Hopefully, we'll have more time to just sit and play games and enjoy and hopefully more time to record, stream, etc. Um I've got a couple of solo games lined up that I'm really excited to play through. I have some I have lists and lists and lists of games to burn for disappointing games list videos. Um so fingers crossed that everything goes as planned and we can get back to more of that. But um yeah, physically build the temple for which one?

1:08:40 Oh, okay. Yeah. [clears throat] Anyway, so uh all of y'all who are here live, thanks for joining. It was great getting to hang and chat. Um, super appreciate your support. And those of you watching in the future, thank you as well. Uh, it has been a pleasure and I'm excited to be seeing y'all more and share more about games and hear more about games that are going on on your ends. All right, thanks as always for joining me and we will see you next time. Bye. If I can find the end screen. There it is. Okay. Bye.