Saturday Morning Board Game Show — May 2026

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1:41 THE SHOW STARTS NOW. HEY, HEY. Welcome to the Saturday morning board game show. I'm Kevin.

1:52 I'm Sarah. And I'm Will, and today we've got a bunch of games ready to have some fun with. We've got us hanging out on the couch. We've got folks at the table. We'll let them introduce themselves in a second. And welcome to a early edition of the show. That's true. We're not available next week, so hopefully people show up. I don't know if anybody's here. Say say hi in the comments if you're joining us. We've got a kid graduating next year. Congratulations from Tantrum House. Next week. Next week. I'm not That's how far ahead in life that I am. How far behind. It's crazy. But we're ready to have some fun. Hopefully you are as well. Before we get started, we always do like to give a quick shout out to our show sponsor. For this episode, for this season, it's The Op, and we're going to be playing one of their games at the end of the show, so stick around. Should be lots and lots of fun. But I think we're ready to head over to the table. Let's get started. Hello. Melissa and I are going to be talking about Conquest: Princess Fashion is Power. This is a co-op crisis management game for one to four players.

2:47 You will be playing with all four characters, no matter what player count you're at. You're at, so I do recommend it in either the two to four player count. I have set up a tutorial mission here cuz I don't want any spoilers for anyone who wants to play this at home. There is a lovely a start guide, I guess you could say, that kind of walks you through how to play the mission, which is wonderful when the rulebook is also kind of thick and weighty, but it's nice. There are four missions inside the box. You can play each of those missions over and over again. They are replayable. And the theme of this game is you are elite agents on the Temporal Intergalactic Armed Response Agency. That is both the name of the agency and the ship you are on, the Tiara. Hence the the ship. This is the ship we are in the middle of the board. We are basically trying to save the history of all things timeline from the evil Mugaga, who has sent her minions and all these things, and we're basically going to fight through multiple missions to get there. They do get increasingly difficult, so you might want to stay and do that. On this first mission, we're trying to save one of our friends from space madness, and kind of go over general There's so many places and rules. We're just going to go over general what a turn would look like, so you can decide if it's something you're interested in. Everyone Every person's going to have four actions. You're going to either move, shoot, or engage. Moving

4:19 is just moving orthogonally to a place where you're already at. Shooting is you're taking your little space plate blaster and going to see if you can shoot one of the people in your space. And then engaging is activating the special ability of that space, but once you engage, you will be stopping your turn, so use that cautiously. So, I'm going to kind of walk Melissa through what a turn what a turn would look like and let her kind of show it out. So, do you want to basically You get to pick one of the colors. I'm going to go red cuz you're always red.

4:51 Yeah. Red is that that I don't even remember his name right now. Anyway, that The red agent He's just the red agent by colored. So, you can for your first action, you can move, you can shoot, or you can engage. You do have a minion in your current comms space. Would you like to try to shoot at him, or would you like to move into a different space?

5:13 Oh, let's shoot. All right, so now we've got our

5:16 So, I move this to shoot? You're You're moving to shoot. We've got our bag of destiny. Inside this bag of destiny, there are little tokens. They're You're going to pull one out. They're either hit, miss, or critical miss. And I'll kind of talk through depending on what happens. That is a hit. So, you're going to take the minion, remove him off the edge of the board over into that minion space right there in the gray spot.

5:38 I see minions. Can we see that? I'll put him in the screen.

5:40 is. Crazy little minions. And you replace that token on that space that you just So, you hit him there on that little token. And that would basically be one. Now, you can continue moving. You can stay in that space. There really isn't anything You can move to an adjacent space.

5:57 All right, let's do my move, and we'll go into this space. Now, this is one of those things that I didn't tell me.

6:06 I didn't tell you because, you know, that's fine. This is just a showing how this plays. If you're in a space with one of your other characters, you can borrow their starting action. Starting actions are things like every every different player has a special one. Some are teleporters where they are. Some, if you do an engage action, it doesn't end your turn right away. And various powers. But you do have to ask the other player if they can borrow it. They can still do that thing on their turn, but it's fine. You've moved. You can do another action. Do you want to shoot that minion just so you can see if you can continue to hit him?

6:40 Sure. And I have a rage plate. It says your first, I'm assuming, shot with this corset each turn draw two tiles, then return one.

6:49 So, let me go ahead and let you go ahead and We'll pretend this is the This is the first shot.

6:53 Right. Cuz I didn't Basically get to see if there was one that you missed and one that you didn't, you could definitely put it back.

7:01 this is a hit, and that is

7:03 Now, I'm going to double-check that I'm hitting the doing the correct one. Critical fail is the red one. Blue is the hit. I apologize. That's That's the hit. That's the critical fail. So, put the red one back. That's the critical fail. That's the hit. And you hit the That goes back. If you were to pick the critical fail, what would happen was it basically block that move Whatever action slot, and you would have to waste time, and you'd have less actions on your next turn. So, say for my last action, I want to engage. What can I do in this space?

7:37 So, it depends In the mendery, that's actually how you're going to heal. If people have lost their hit points, their armor, their plates, that's where you're going to take time to heal. If that part of the ship has been damaged, you get to heal less things. Teleporting is moving down to the down into space, so you can help start attacking creatures that is attacking your friend. You In later rounds, you also have the planet, so you're not only trying to mitigate damage on your ship, damage in space, and damage on the planet. You only have four people to do it in. Okay. And I see that there's these little tokens that correspond Do they Are there different ones in Yeah. No, this is This is a Basically, they flip if they've taken damage, and they're less effective. And you can heal them to be more effective. You keep playing until your power up, which is which is that deck up at the top. That is where you don't want to Remember, fashion is power. You don't want to run out of clothes, basically. Okay. So, once that deck has been completely diminished, you no longer have the ability that Tiara, your ship, resets your timeline, and you've gotten back to the beginning. Okay.

8:45 basically how you lose. This is a difficult game to manage everything, but it is fun replayability. And that is Conquest: Princess Fashion is Power. Now, we're heading back to the couch. Welcome back to the couch. We are looking at Got 5 from Blue Orange. This is a deduction game, kind of like Clue, where if you figure out the exact combination, you win. But if you ever guess at what the combination is, and you're wrong, you're out for the rest of the game. So, the combination we're trying to determine is of the five tiles that we have in front of us, going from left to right, smallest to largest, what numbers are on those tiles. So, we each have gotten one of each color, and our opponent, or neighbor, has sorted those for us, smallest smallest to largest. And then we, looking [clears throat] at our neighbor, and also a pool of one of each color, can mark those off to know those aren't the the ones on our thing. And then we start taking turns. So, I've I've showed here I've marked off the ones that I can see both in the pool and in Sarah's, but I've also marked off the ones I know aren't possible because orange is my smallest, I know all of these colors below orange aren't going to happen. And because red is my largest, I know it's not going to be 60 because 60 is orange

10:16 and it's not possible. So, what I do on my turn is I draw a new tile from the pool of tiles and I flip it over. It is 53, so I know I don't have 53. And then using the tiles out here, I can do one of two things. And this is shown on this board here. You can either take one of the tiles from the pool and ask your neighbor to sort it or take one of the tiles from the pool and ask your neighbor uh is this tile does it have the same number of dots as this tile? That sort of thing. And they'll say yes or no. Because there's a 31 out here, I like to go with the 30s because it goes up to 60 and say, "Can you please sort that for me and place it in whatever notch it would go if it was in the number line. Okay? So, sort the 31.

11:06 It would go right there. Okay. So, I know my pink and my red are both below 31, so I can cross all of these numbers off. And then everything else is above 31. No, backwards. Oh, everything else above 31 I can cross off. So, uh all of these greens and all of these blues and all of these oranges. And there's probably more I can figure out if I wasn't talking and trying to think at the same time. And that's your whole turn. Now it is Sarah's turn. She gets to pick one and we'll just go for a little bit while they're setting up at the other table. And uh oh, we'll show the dot thing at some point as well.

11:48 I'll do a dot question.

11:50 [snorts]

11:50 Can you

11:50 Cool. Is it Well, did you draw one first?

11:54 Oh, I didn't draw. Okay, draw one. Gives us more information. It is 11.

11:58 11? Bomp bomp bomp. Okay.

12:02 [sighs]

12:03 Oops. Um I [snorts] guess can you show me is it matching dots? Yeah. So, pick one of your tiles that you think might have three dots on it. And you can see in the columns each column so by fives the dots increase. So, 1 through 5 is one dot, 6 through 10 is two dots, 11 through 15 is three, and then ones, twos, threes. I'll do that one. Okay. So, you want to know is this the same number of dots?

12:34 Uh-huh. It is not. And so, you're supposed to put it behind and they suggest putting it askew to say it's not the same number of dots. Uh so, I just pulled a 44. So, I'm going to mark that off. And uh let's see. I think a 53 would be good to know. Uh or yeah, 53. Can you sort that for me?

13:02 [snorts]

13:04 All of my numbers are below 53, so I can mark off all of these. It's good. Good information. Uh yeah, and then it's your turn. So, my red's my highest at 39, so I also know that these are all gone. Sort. I'm 20. Okay, the 20 is right there on your number line. So, [snorts] these two are below 20 and these three are above. I drew a five which is helpful information. So, I know it can't be six or eight because uh the lowest for me has to be 10 now. Um I like some numbers.

13:56 Let's do this 27. Can you sort that 27 for me? Oh, okay. Interesting. I don't think that gave me any new information.

14:09 think it did. I was hoping it would. Well, that's a mistake. All right.

14:16 [snorts]

14:16 19 19? Oh, it's already off. Um

14:24 [snorts]

14:25 Let's Let's sort.

14:31 [snorts]

14:33 You probably don't want to sort the 19 cuz you know it's not going to give you any new information. I had to keep telling my daughter that. Don't do consecutive numbers when sorting.

14:41 the 35. The 35 goes here. Okay. Which gives you some really good information. All right. All right. [clears throat] I'm going to draw another number. I'm going to draw this 39. So, I can cross that off. Uh and I can also cross off my 37 because now I know it can't be over 34. All right. Uh I am going to stab in the dark because I think they're about done over there. I think I know my highest two are 34 and 32. So, I'm just going to stab at the other ones. I'm going to say Oh, I know it's not 20. Sorry. Cuz I I just saw her do that. Uh I'm going to say 10 16 23 32 and 34.

15:38 Are those my numbers? We have 10 16 Woohoo! 23 Oh, is that it? 32

15:47 Oh, that was a shot in the dark.

15:49 34

15:50 Shot in the dark. Woo! I like to have a lot more information. And that's how you play the game Got 5 from Blue Orange. Uh we played a few times. My daughter hasn't quite gotten it, but she's five and she still enjoys playing. We just have to coach her a little bit. Uh I think we're heading back to the table. Hey, welcome back to the table. Uh we have here popcorn um that you, you know, have to get in some popcorn at the movies. This is from yellow. This is for two to four players and takes about an hour to play. Melissa, what's Popcorn all about? So, Popcorn is about creating the best theater and getting the right customers into your theater. It is a bag building game where you're going to be pulling meeples colored meeples out of your bag to try to match to the colors of the movies and the seats in your movie theater. We're going to The game is played over several rounds and a lot of the turns are simultaneous and I'm just going to walk through what you would do. So, in turn order, so this part is one at a time, you can spend your money to improve your theater. You can buy movies to show, you can buy new theater seats.

17:01 Um so, let's just say that I buy this one here. It's going to cost $2. It has a little special thing on the bottom that says if I put it in a theater with two seat capacity, I get a bonus and I get to do something I get to put advertising out which is going to be helpful. And I had already bought something that you didn't know. Um I bought some seats to improve my theater. Okay. So, I would take I can buy one movie and up to one theater seat. Maybe I don't want to buy a theater seat right now. Just uh the movie, so I would pass and then it would go to Kevin where he could buy something. Then we go into the showing round and this would be simultaneous. Okay. So, The number of meeples we pick are Yes. At the beginning of the game you can only pull three meeples out of your bag, but you can increase the number by getting more tickets.

17:57 on there, but there is little tiny numbers underneath the marker that you can increase your numbers, so. So, simultaneously we would each pick three. I got a green, yellow, and white. What did you get? Oh, I got two whites and a blue. Okay. So, whites aren't as useful cuz they're not going to match with But I got the yellow I wanted. So, I refill our theaters. I was hoping for yellow because if I could match the color of the movie, then I would get to do one of the actions on the movie card. Yeah, I didn't match my color of the card, but did do this which gives me two points. Yellow person on a yellow seat.

18:38 you might give me a Um popcorn. Popcorn is points and we have little popcorn So, we get two points, put them in my little popcorn container here, and then this guy allows me to activate my card. Yep, one of the actions on your card.

18:53 get two money, I could um put the little token on the red meeple, or I could increase my tickets which I'm going to do the increase. And then this guy lets me get a dollar. Right. Gray seats will be activated by any color, so they are useful. So, I would also get some money. I would probably do a ticket so I could pull more in the future. All of the ones that we've used would go to our exit spot. And eventually these come into our bag once our bag's empty. Just like a bag building game. So, [clears throat] a few things that are going on in this game is we do have a um Oh, they covered up over here. Here's the movies you can't see.

19:35 Oh, thank you, Ryan. So, if you buy a top row movie, it costs two more, but you get to take the matching color and put it So, if I got this blue movie, I get a blue meeple and where's the blue meeple go? It goes into your bag.

19:48 bag which is good cuz you want to match the color meeple to the movie that you have in your theater.

19:53 say there aren't any blue meeples in the supply when you take that. What happens, Kevin? A little bit of player interaction that can go and take a blue meeple from another player and put it in my bag.

20:05 So, From the exit, yes. So, playing with like four players, people can start taking those meeples from you and it's changing up the bag. The seats are better, they're giving you better actions.

20:19 I know this is all about playing the game here, but the fun thing about this game

20:23 All the movie titles.

20:24 movie titles. So, we have here The Godmother. We have here Mr. Giggles. And they have little taglines for them. So, this is like a fun part of the game. There are also going to be goal cards, secret goal cards that will give you points for getting certain combinations of meeples or seats. Um, combinations of movies that you have shown. And each round, the movies start to expire. So, you're going to cover some of the actions. And then you're going to get new movies to replace cuz no one wants to watch Rambo. Oh, no. Sorry, It's My War Again. They want to watch this one instead. And then this would reset. Mhm. So, you're always looking at what are you getting from the movies. You're trying to get certain colors, certain actions. Some actions let you put meeples from your exit back into your bag or draw more meeples. So, there's a lot of comboing you can do to eventually try to get the most points.

21:26 Um, advertising let letting you get certain colors when you want later in the game and maybe steal them from other people. So, yeah, that is popcorn bag building with a little bit of player interaction as you're taking the meeples from each other and then trying to get sets and combos with the [clears throat] movies and seats. See at the movies. Going to the catch. Hey, we're looking at the game French Toast from All Play. This game says that it can play for two to 10 players. But honestly, it's a party game you can play with any number of players. In this game, the idea behind the game is that one of us, I guess it's going to be Sarah for this round, is an alien and she only she's trying to communicate with us. She only knows the word French Toast along with any words that we say out loud that she can repeat.

22:17 Okay. So, she is going to have a card. It's going to be she can show it to you. Well, maybe don't show it down. Let them guess as well. She's got a word that she's trying to get us to guess. Kind of 20 questions style.

22:27 All right. However, she does get to give us one hint to kind of help us out of the gate. And then, right, so we're not totally in the dark.

22:34 But then we're allowed to say pretty much whatever we want. Usually one word, but you can say a sentence or whatever. And then she can repeat the things that are closer to the word than French Toast. So, if we say something that it is not, how will we know that? She'll say French Toast. Cuz she'll be like, French Toast is still closer than whatever you just threw at me. And then she's only got 30 seconds to do it in. So, we're not probably going to get it on the first round. But we do get multiple hints the further we go into the game.

23:01 All right. Okay. Are we All Am I to flipping this over?

23:04 [clears throat]

23:04 She's going to give us the hint first.

23:06 hint. It is It's fun. Okay. So, we've got a is not and it is scale. It is. It is fun. Okay. All right, 30 seconds. Here we go. Board games. French Toast. Activity. Activity. Sport. Sport. Um, ball. Like, does it contain a ball?

23:26 Ball. Basketball. Yes.

23:27 What? What? Wow. The card That's how good we are.

23:32 Amazing. Yeah. It usually doesn't go that fast. I mean, You're welcome. We have played multiple rounds. We have won two. And then there's some that we lost. Is this going to be false confidence? I probably is. Let's let you give it a shot. We'll see if you fall.

23:43 Okay. So, I just pick a noun. Okay. Don't let us see. All right. And then how do I

23:49 you draw five hints and you give us one. And it could be the opposite, remember? So, like is not is. You're just putting it on that scale to help us have an idea. Okay. We played this with our kids and Oh, boy. one round the word was like turtle. Yeah. We did not get it. You had like You got it like a pet in an aquarium. And like you could You guys were guessing clams. And I'm like, who has a clam as a pet? You guys had the word shell and you It's not useful.

24:19 useful. Okay. Okay.

24:21 [clears throat]

24:22 Kind of not useful. All right. Ready, set, go. Is it a person? French Toast. Place. French Toast. Thing. Thing. Um, Tool. French Toast. Is it big? Not useful. Uh, thing. Um, Is it a house? Is it a toy? Toy. Entertainment. Entertainment. Show.

24:49 Activity. Toy. Toy. Um, Is Boy. Toy. Girl. Toy. Uh, everybody. Everybody. Oh. Okay. All right, you get to give us another clue. Another hint.

25:13 And just cuz we're saying the word toy, well,

25:15 okay, interesting. It is magic. All right, ready, set, go. A wand. Uh, toy. Real. Real. Plastic. Plastic. Cardboard. Plastic. Wooden. Plastic.

25:35 Metal. Plastic.

25:36 Okay. Uh, mass-produced. Mass-produced. For sale. For sale. Uh, kid. Kid. Adult. Adult. Old. Old. Not Toy. Not useful toy for everybody. Doesn't matter that it's plastic. Is it uh, bingo? Toy. Is it Toy. Is it sport? Toy. Electronic. Toy. Is it outside? Inside.

26:06 Outside. Outside, inside. Weather. And times up. Oh, sorry. All right, let's go one more round to see if we can get it. Anybody guess in our home? If you have any guesses, put them in the chat.

26:19 Um, Here.

26:24 [clears throat]

26:24 It is not flat. Okay. Not all that useful. Magic. I didn't we didn't go anywhere with magic. No. All right, let's see if we get it. Come on. Feel free to type in the background if you're paying attention.

26:34 [snorts]

26:37 A ball. Uh, a toy. Not a flat Uh, Uh, big. Did we already go over big and small? Toy. Small. Toy. It's not big or small. Uh, Like a frisbee. Frisbee's flat. She said it's not flat.

26:54 Not flat. Oh, sorry. The opposite. Um, Easy Bake Oven. I don't even know what's in this game. I don't know if there's like Uh, I think they're pretty general.

27:02 Yeah, I thought so, too. Uh, baseball, basketball. We already went over balls. Um, not a ball. Not flat. Not big or small. Oh, no.

27:12 been over here, he would have realized that a not useful magic not flat item is a balloon. A balloon. A balloon.

27:20 It's a balloon. Because you use it magic shows that it's kind of a toy. It's kind of yeah. Not all that useful. Kind of a ball. We would have had another round. We showed how it was easy and hard. Right. Right. And it wasn't even any harder of a word. A basketball and a balloon are very similar things. But the directions you get going on with the clues are like, yeah, interesting stuff. We had a great time playing this with our kids a bunch of times. They were literally begging like, no, it's my turn. Let me play again. And I was like, are we done yet? No, I want one more turn. Perfect. Uh, yeah. Lots of fun. French Toast from All Play. I think we're headed back to the table. Hey, welcome back to the table. We have this game called Pirates of the High Seas from Pink Hawk Games. Now, cool thing about Pink Hawk and Pirates of the High Seas, they actually had a prototype of this a couple years ago at Tantrum Con. And now it's finally published. Tantrum Con, the best board game convention ever. in North Carolina.

28:16 Ever.

28:18 Uh, in the Carolinas. In the All right, anyway. Pirates I usually come to Tantrum Con definitely next year. So, definitely put it on your calendar. Pirates of the High Seas is a worker placement. Um, you are trying to do some set collection in the game. Um, you are trying to serve

28:38 [snorts]

28:38 uh, the high tea to the captain. And we're the crew. So, throughout the game you're going to be collecting these tea that you can eventually see on the table. No, you can't. There they are. So, there's teas. Um, you're going to be collecting these teas. The teas tell you how to get the points or coins cuz I mean, we're all about the balloons here. So, if you do the top, um, and these are different flavors that you can get like fruit and chocolate and salt. If you can get one of like this one wants one of each, then you'll get three points. If you can get These are the different kinds of flags or different color flags on them. If you What's that what? Three of the pink or three

29:18 Three that are the same. Three of the same. Sorry. Can't see from here. Uh, three of them are the same, then you would get three points. If you do both, then you're going to get the middle, seven points. Ah, okay. So, you're

29:31 trying to make a set of yeah.

29:33 How do you actually get the cards? How do you get the cards, Kevin? I haven't played this one yet. There are workers. Um, and the first uh, round of the game is a sort of set or um, snake draft. So, I would go, you would go, you would go, then I would go. But in the future they are going to be out here on the board something like this. This is the board and they'll just go back in the order

29:56 order that they were. Does that make sense? Uh this area is where you can get I'm not sure what happened to the deck of cards. Okay, there are where you can get some of the flavors here. This is where you can get some of the teas and here is where you actually serve the captain. So, flavors uh the actual like what you're trying to the goals and then you you have to actually take an an action to serve. Serve. But if you serve here, [clears throat] you would get a uh card um a flavor. If you serve this one this captain then you would get uh a new tea. So, or sorry, these are the teas. I had the wrong wrong decks. Wrong decks. Mhm. Does that make sense? So, I'm going to go out first and I'm going to go right here. We don't have to do it. Mhm. Oh, just put the You just place it place it down. So, it kind of So, is this one I'm trying to I haven't served it yet or I have served it already? Kind of So, is this one I'm trying to I haven't

30:54 No, that's the one you're trying to do. Yeah, you're sort of going to get them and then you're going to eventually So, you're going to reserve and then All right. And then coming here, um do these numbers tell me how many I get of it or So, could I go to a later one?

31:10 Yeah. But I might get later in the order next time.

31:15 You might not get what you want. So, and

31:18 Oh, and then I would go again and let's say maybe I'm one.

31:24 [snorts]

31:25 Sure. I'll do that. And I'm going to get some I'm going to get two pink. So, here I'm going to actually go and think I might eventually get this one later and then your turn. Oh, yeah.

31:39 Yeah, and then it goes back up here. I'm going to do it. Oh, instead of getting one that you can get one of these I haven't talked about these special tokens. Uh there's monkeys and cannons and parrots. Uh cannons cannons lets you wipe a row cuz they blow it up like a

31:53 [clears throat]

31:54 Uh the parrots lets you get some more doubloons based on um the carrot value down here on the bottom right hand corner

32:01 [snorts]

32:01 of the flavors and then the monkeys uh I forget exactly what they do, but um I think they can swap cards or something like that. I can double check what the monkeys do. And did you take a I I took two cuz I'm assuming that's what the two means.

32:18 can be used to draw a tea or dish from the respective face down deck. So, he's a he's a stealer. He can't not steal, but he can take. That's what it was. Did [snorts] you get Did you go twice? Uh so, can I take from here also? I was like I need chocolate. I didn't look. There's no chocolate out there. Yep. And then it'll tell you on the card what they are. So, that's the salt. That's the fruit. So, I'll take a salt and I'll take one from here. And then I'm going to take two. What do I need? I'm looking for Oh, this one's all three? Yep. That's amazing.

32:54 one. Thank you. And then I'm going to take from the top, too. Now, let me just tell you a little bit about uh how you can smash things together because sometimes you're like me or my three cards don't work they get half of the thing, but if [clears throat] I could add a card Mhm. to it then I could complete the whole thing. So, for instance, in this case say I was looking for um two salt and a fruit or something, but I needed also a chocolate. So, I could start smashing these together, but what I wouldn't get is the flag value. So, you're our you're putting that behind the card. So, it'd be something like this. So, I could get all that. Does that make sense?

33:41 So, what's the difference of playing it I can only play three cards.

33:46 Oh, you can only play three cards. That's an important rule. The sorry, but then if I but I play a fourth card it's smashed so you don't get the

33:53 get the extra value. So, the the three flags would be something like that, but I actually I'm looking for three different flags. So, I'm like I really want three different flags, but I really want the fruit that's on this card. I can smash that fruit with this one so I can get the three cards. Thank you. And then get the smashed fruit. Okay. Yep. That's cool. Yep. Yep. So, that's Pirates of the High Teas from Pink Thanks so much for watching. Go back to the couch. Welcome back to the couch. We are looking at 50 from Yellow. This was originally published as a game called Count Up from Jumbo. Uh but

34:30 [clears throat]

34:30 Yellow uh took it over and they have uh tweaked a little bit of the rules so you'll recognize it if you've played Count Up, but it is slightly different. In this game uh there are we are trying to get as many numbers before another person's number is called out. So, we're going to count up from one to 50. As many numbers are called out after your number was called, you get points. Uh because we're playing with three players, there are four numbers that cannot be in the ones place. So, we couldn't do any threes, 13s, or 23s, seven, 17s, 27s, etc. There are all 10 digits that are possible, but these are the four that we weren't able to use.

35:16 There is an additional rule uh involving danger zone cards, which is a little bit more advanced play. If uh once you reveal the numbers that you have selected, you also reveal a danger zone card. If your number shows up in the danger zone and somebody else gets that number at the same time, you don't get any bonus points. Normally, you do. We're going to play through a round. These two ladies have no idea what's going on. They've just selected five numbers and we're going to see how it goes. So, uh we just start at one. So, once I call your number say got it and we'll we'll stop and see what happens. One, two, three, four, five.

35:57 Got it. Okay. So, now you start counting. Every new number you count before someone says count got it, you advance your marker one point.

36:07 All right. So, six. Got it. So, do I go one space or not?

36:10 said a number. Now, I'm going to say seven, eight, nine, 10, 11.

36:19 All right.

36:19 All right. Now, you do yours. 12. Got it.

36:25 Okay. Go ahead. 13, 14, 15, 16.

36:31 Got it. All right. Uh 17, 18, 19, 20.

36:40 Got it. Okay. 21, 22, 23, 24, Got it. 26. Got it. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36.

37:02 36. We both have 36. So, what happens is we cross it off and those will be bonus points at the end. Since we both got it, I still continue to count, but I don't get any points for it. However, for the three player, I got the crown for three players cuz I reached that point part and I'll explain the crowns here in a minute. Oh, I should just say if you get another crown in a later round, the game doesn't go all four rounds. You just end and you automatically win. Okay. Wow. Brain dead. All right. So, 36 was called. 37, 38, 39.

37:38 Got it. Okay. All right. So, I didn't get any points for those. Now, you start at 40. 40. Got it. 41, 42, 43, 44, and I have 45. You just keep counting. 46. Got it. And we cross it off. And nobody has anything over 46. So, it's and we aren't going to get any points for counting cuz we both had it. So, it's 47, 48, 49, 50. Round ends. Now, you look at the number that you had here. So, I had 19. And then you add up the bonus points for numbers you had simultaneously with somebody else. So, my total is 21 for this round and then you go on and do another round. Uh you shuffle these up, pick out four, and go from there. So, you're looking for two crowns or most points after four rounds? Yep. Two crowns, most points after four rounds. So, if we were doing a danger zone card, we would take it the cards, shuffle them, you know, select one, and then we wouldn't show it until after we've written our numbers in and then all revealed.

38:51 And that is 50. Are we ready at the table or we need to play another round? All right. Heading back to the table. We've got Borealis on the table from Lucky Duck Games. This is a pretty interesting little uh puzzle. It's not quite the slide puzzle that we played the other night. But it does have some interesting things going on. Basically, we are trying to uh we are a team of researchers in wherever the Borealis is. Arctic expedition. I don't know. Um and [clears throat] we are trying to capture photography and study all the different types of species that are out in the ecosystem. We've got a starting hand of cards. And so, on our turn, we are going to play one of the cards that's in our hand above one of our research facilities. I'm not being strategic whatsoever, but I'm just going to play a card so you guys can see what it looks like. And so, I might be trying to see this Arctic fox.

39:42 When I do that, when I play the card, my workers have to then travel to

39:48 [clears throat]

39:49 another location cuz they've captured the photography, they're going to go see the other things. And so, I should have Yeah, we'll play over here at least it makes a little more sense. Um when I do it, I have to then send one of my pink researchers to the left, one of my teal researchers to the right. And so, I'm trying to stack up myself for future turns where I can then play other players on them. Sometimes you might have a card that requires two of the same color. So, I actually didn't do this well because I really wanted like two pinks on here. But So, you have to have the color on there to be able to play the card.

40:18 And then if you are able to uh capture the type of creature plus use the right type of transportation, then you get to move your little flag marker down each round. And so, now I've moved it one at the end of the game I'll get one victory point for each one in this column that I'm able to collect for the following type of transportation, I'll get to move this down further and collect points.

40:36 So, you needed this to be able to move from here to there. Correct. Now, I could have played this card and not moved my flag, but this is the Yeah. And you're not actually I think I'm in there a little bit. And nothing [snorts] you can see the the arrow. Uh so, that's giving me one point for future turns. And then at the end of your turn, you're going to draw up a card uh to add to your hand. Now, one of the things that we're trying to do in the game is we are trying to achieve these different goals at the top which I think you can see. Uh and so, we might be trying to have four identical vehicles in place. So, these are the transportation vehicles. So, I might be trying to get four identical. And as soon as I do that I'm able to then claim the victory points on this card uh for using my vehicles. This one is have six uh animal cards in a location. So, the game actually ends as soon as one of these rows has seven cards in it.

41:22 So, some of these are going to take longer to achieve than others in the game. And when you do, I think these are one-time goals. So, you'll claim this one. This will be your personal goal that you achieved. Uh and then you've got this one have five different species in play. There's a whole giant deck of these cards. And so, those goals are going to change every round. And then we've also got some end-game scoring ones, the vertical ones. This one says seven points for each location with more animal cards than the middle location. Because all your pieces are getting bumped back and forth, the middle tends to be your biggest stack of cards. And so, this one's pushing you to have other points on the side. What happens to your ones in little igloos?

41:57 Yeah, so once they're into the research center, they're kind of done. Your other option on your turn is we've got a little cheat sheet here that tells us what things we can do. But basically we're going to play an observation card. If the vehicle matches, we'll get the points. Um the other thing we could do is we could regroup. So, if you regroup on your turn, then you can discard any number of cards from your hand and draw back up. And then all of the things on both of your igloos will go to one location. So, you might end up with, you know, a bunch of them in the middle if you can do that. A lot of times these goals will have things to do with like have only pink on your uh igloos. And so, you have to do that type of research. If you want to take a turn or two uh just to get a feel for it. We [clears throat] are also at the end of the game, I don't know if you can see this chart it's a little light on the scale, but uh at the end of the game the number of matching creatures we have in each column will also score us points.

42:43 So, I might be trying to get another wolf. Can't do that one. Uh And how many do you play Do you just play one card on your turn?

42:50 One card, yeah. Okay. Yep. [clears throat] And so, if you Yep, you got to move your marker. That's great.

42:54 the sled. Uh And I do redraw or not?

42:58 draw back up, yep. From either

43:01 Yeah, either the face up or the uh one from the top of the pile. I believe you can take one from the top of the pile. Okay. Yep, looking at these symbols. What do we have going on here?

43:12 this is the game where like it could You could do tons of planning in advance if you were able to pull it off. I'm playing a little bit tight. Uh if I play my I got another fox here which would have been great to get him in the same row cuz the more of the same you get is how you're going to trigger these points. However, I do have a pink that I can shuffle this way and yellow and I can move my flag down. And we're going to play this game I think I can't remember if the game ends when Oh, the game doesn't end as soon as one as soon as two columns have as soon as one column has seven cards in it, two columns. I don't know. I have to look at that part of the rules. It comes at you pretty quick. It's not necessarily an even number of turns. Um I I'm sorry, it is an even number of turns you just don't know how many turns it's going to be. So, as soon as one player hits that second [clears throat] column of seven final turn, it's over. Um This one's going here. This one's going here. That can go there. Yeah, and if you do well, you can definitely, you know, play this middle one and stack them back and forth and never have to regroup. Although often times what happens is you, you know, you end up with this and you're like I can't even stick anything in the middle, it'll take me three turns to do it. And so, in that case you would say, "Hey, I'm going to regroup. I'm going to discard a number of cards. I'm going to put all three of these guys in the middle." And then I think you actually get points for the number of researchers you had out as well. So, lots of little ways to get little points, but the majority of the game is this puzzle of like I need to stack the pink one over here. Yeah, cuz I I did it so I could get another of the owl. And the owl and the kayak, nice.

44:35 Yes, I can do that and do that and do that. And these match so they'd give you at least one point at the end of the game. Yeah, little simple puzzle where you are just hopping these guys back and forth. Not really Mancala style, but like you get the idea. You're moving these guys, trying to keep them in the center, trying not to have to draw too many times cuz you're losing turns. And it feels really good when you look over and your opponent's like, "I have to regroup again." And you're like, "I haven't regrouped at all." And the goal is don't regroup for five turns, you know, whatever. And so, those goals change it up up a bunch, but the majority is pushing it down the track. We've had a good time with it. Boreal is a lot of fun. It's a very thinky, but also like really simple rule set cuz it's just moving little guys and and having a good time with it. That is Boreal from uh Lucky Duck Games.

45:20 Let's go ahead and head back to the couch. Welcome back. We are looking at a new expansion. Uh it's been out for a little while. To Harvest from Keymaster Games. This is called Fall Festival. And in this expansion, we're going to add a little mini board to the side of the larger board. I don't have all of the main game set out, but I will talk about what comes in this expansion, Fall Festival. Um in it, we're going to have another board. It's going to line up with the edge of the main board. And there are going to be some new action spaces that everyone's going to get a basket. This is going to be um used like a worker. So, on your turn, you're either going to use a worker to go to a space on the main board or you can use a basket to go to one of the three spaces at the top of this board. So, uh there is a new harvest space. Um sometimes being able to harvest can get a little tight in the base game. So, there is another opportunity for harvest. There is also these festival spaces. Um this is first come first serve. So, if somebody is sitting here and has already played their basket, um anybody can come to this space. It's available for any number of players. This one allows you to purchase a festival card and you're going to gain two coins.

46:47 Uh let's talk about the festival card. So, in the deck there are some pies you can buy while you're visiting the festival. And the pies are going to be a set collection. So, the more that you pick up uh the more points you're going to gain at the end of the game. Um there's only one of the pumpkin pies. So, there's a sugar cream and some other blueberry, strawberry, and so on. And here is the pumpkin pie. There's only one of these so only one person is going to be able to get the full points on the pies. The other cards in the deck are going to have an action or something you'll be able to do. If you don't use it by the end of the game, it's still a point. But you can gain some items or gain some type of action or ability. So, for instance, this one says "Reactivate a space containing one of your other player pieces." So, basically you can gain an extra turn with the general store. Um and there's a several of those types of cards in the deck.

47:52 Um so, everybody's basically going to gain another worker in the game that can only be used on this board. There is a sunrise token. So, you'll gain the tokens. Um you'll draft those at the beginning of every round. There's one to add to that. There are some solo rules for this expansion. And then the other thing is we have two new characters. Um we have um Francis Francy the Field Springer. And we have Finn and Maisie the Field Mice. And they have special abilities that you can use in the base game. Um so, it gives you some new opportunities for game play there. So, that is the Fall Festival expansion for Harvest.

48:45 Come on in, everybody. going on. Come on in, everybody. All right. Next up, we are going to play a game together called

48:53 Red or Yellow from our sponsor of the This is a party game that you can play along with us uh today, right now. You can play with us if you're watching live or if you're watching this later. Let's see if you can Um whether you're with us or against us, we'll see. Oh, boy.

49:11 That's ominous. All right. Um everyone's got to pick a a white token and then a matching uh yellow or red. If they're yellows on one side, reds on the other. Stars. Okay. I mean Oh, it's the S It's the S symbol, Will.

49:24 Did Did you draw the S symbol on your middle school? Oh, yeah. Definitely. I'll take that. And we got a heart. We got the infinity symbol. So, basically you're taking matching. Uh I'll I'll do the hearts. All right. I'll do the smiley face. So, all right. Okay. What's going to happen is Uh I'm co-opting popcorn from popcorn. Okay. These are going to be our points because technically you just write them down, but you know, we got points here. It works. We're going to have a category. Yes. Uh well, there's nothing really to see. Should we just uh

49:54 [clears throat]

49:55 I No, I'll show them the I'll show them. Oh, well, just so people know, the rules. What are you doing? The rules are just in the box. You're never going to lose them. Never lose them. Mhm. All right, our first category is toilet paper over or under. All right, so if you think over, did you get your two tokens? Yes. If you think over, you're going to you're going to hide red face up in your hand. If you think under, then you would hide yellow face up in your hand.

50:24 Mhm. Then you're going to take your white token. Okay.

50:27 And you're going to say, do I match just one other person? I'm going to take my white token and put it in front of the person I think I match with one other person. Mhm. If I think I'm the only one doing this, Mhm. then you put it in front of you. If you think everyone is uh your what you chose, then you put it in the middle. All right?

50:48 Okay. We'll do that simultaneously, then we'll reveal, and then you'll get one point if you match, you'll get two points if it's if you're solo, and you'll get two points if it's unanimous. All right.

51:00 All right.

51:01 And simultaneously put it down? Simultaneously put it down. Ready? Three, two, one. Y'all better be Yeah, come on now. Uh-oh, Sarah. Whoa. What? So, I think I'm only matching with Sarah. Well, it's okay if like you match with three people as long as it's not unanimous, but you think you're matching with Sarah. Yeah. If you If you mess with Sarah, I'll be

51:21 I'm going to be so upset. two, one. Thank you. Melissa's wrong.

51:26 MELISSA'S UNDER. WHAT? WOW. OH, I DID IT. I DID IT. I DID IT. IT IS OVER. ACCORDING TO THE official patent, it is over. I picked the wrong color

51:41 because beards are cool, mullets are not. THAT'S HOW YOU REMEMBER OVER OR UNDER. WOW. SO, YES, I AM RED.

51:51 I was trying to figure out what How yellow and red have anything to do

51:53 sorry. So, yes.

51:55 So, basically if if you did unanimous and it was unanimous, you get two points. Now, because it was unanimous, you would not get points.

52:04 But if any other at least one person had gone the other way, sorry about that. Technically, Melissa did go the I knew what I meant and I did the wrong wrong color. Okay, we got to pick something more controversial than the You had to be psychopathic to go under. All right, read that out loud.

52:23 know, there's someone who visits our house and if they replace the toilet paper, they do it the opposite way. Someone who It is not me. I promise you it's not me. Charlie. He's not replacing the toilet paper. Let's just put that

52:38 All right, well, Do you break your pasta before you put it in the pot? Red is yes, no, I'm not a monster.

52:47 Oh boy. Oh boy. Break the pasta before you put it in the pot. Okay. Melissa, have you cooked pasta

52:55 imply that I say you

52:57 And you call it long noodle pasta? All right, three, two, one.

53:03 Go with the spouse, you know you're safe. That's I actually don't know. Okay, three, two, one. Yeah. Everyone breaks it. Wow. So, you don't get a point because we didn't pick the unanimous.

53:17 So, can we actually see everyone's hands?

53:19 all did red. We're all okay with breaking. We're all monsters. We're all not Italian or something. That's probably what it is. I was trying to see whose hands we could or couldn't see. Wow. I think we're all monsters. Yep, that's I'm okay with this one being called a monster for you. It should have been, do you cut your pasta afterwards?

53:39 Is there one hole or two holes? I assume this is a burrito. It could be toilet paper. What is it? A toilet paper roll. Is there one

53:47 ankle sock, but

53:48 I don't know what we're Which one's one hole? Do you think it's one hole or two holes? Which is which color is which? One, two. Yeah, one hole is the

54:02 One would be red, two It's hilarious. Right? Uh What is the other? There's three. Okay, okay. Oh, hold on, hold on. Three, two, one, reveal. I have no idea.

54:17 You guys are matching with me. Okay, three, two, ONE. OH. ALL RIGHT, I did Oh, who did Kevin match with?

54:24 cuz what does that even mean? Is red one hole or two? No one matched with me.

54:28 So, I was I was solo to myself, but no. Um rematch, okay. But did any of those people match with you?

54:36 No.

54:38 That's so weird. I selected Hannah and matched. And Hannah selected that she would be by herself, so she got got nothing. Got it. Wow. Here was my thought process on this. If something was inside the tube, it has two options to get out, either hole. That's why I did two. Yeah. I I'm I understand the one hole all the way through, but Like I would say a straw HAS ONE HOLE.

55:05 IS THE TOILET paper roll a hole uh Is it a toilet paper roll? I literally think it's a burrito and I think you're only eating from the hole on the one end.

55:14 I don't know. That's That's unique. All right. Would you rather fight one horse-sized duck Oh, no. or 100 ducks 100 duck-sized horses?

55:28 One horse-sized duck. Horse-sized A giant duck. A giant duck or 100 behind your small horses. Yeah, tiny horses. Oh. You'd rather fight fight Uh that that that was that was ooh. Okay. Okay, I have my Has anyone ever answered these questions before? Xander needs to play this. He would be all over All right, three, two, one. Uh Oh. All right. I don't even know [clears throat] what I picked. Let's see.

55:57 two, one. One horse. Oh my goodness. Only one. Kevin was all by himself. Y'all got me. I matched with Hannah. I was going to do it with me, too. I I matched with Hannah for one point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely, I can run away from one giant duck way more than I can get ALL THE 100 ABSOLUTELY, I CAN RUN THROUGH THE I CAN ABSOLUTELY I CAN fight that more than I could do with the 100 little horses. It's easier to hit one giant THAN LOTS OF LITTLE ALL THOSE LITTLE BITES. 100 HORSES ALL THOSE LITTLE bites So, it is part of the rules that you're supposed to lobby for your incentive. Yes, I will say um it doesn't say how many are coming at me at once. It says 100.

56:40 to fight them all. It's still exhausting. Yeah,

56:42 no, absolutely not, no. I do think one giant duck would be very scary. Oh. A normal-sized duck is scary. I mean, my brother Charlie has been chased by geese before And that's scary. So, we all have a goose chase story, like absolutely. The horse The neck on this duck is going to be

57:01 Like I don't think I'm going to choke it to death. I DON'T YOU CAN ride it. No, at least I know how to kill. Ride it and tame it. Ride it into battle, everybody. Here's that running away and taming, but you're supposed to fight it. Yeah,

57:14 I'm just going to, YOU KNOW, OH, NO. IT'S KIND OF A tough one. Okay. Mhm. Are we ready? Are we unanimous on this one, y'all? All right, three, two, one. I'm going unanimous. Oh. Oh. PICKED THE OTHER PERFECT. I'M A HALLOWEEN ALL THE WAY. Hannah chose I absolutely have more This is my first point. Are we all going in, she says, and then She gets two points. No, absolutely not. Two points if you're No, I will say Kevin with his magician abilities could probably easily manipulate this, like in his palm as he does it. Lick your fingers so that you Yeah. I meant for it to be all yellow. I will say, yeah, no. All right. I have more Halloween decorations than you. Let's do one or two more.

58:00 What's it say? You are locked in a room of spiders. Ew. NO, NO, NO. NO, I'M OUT. ABSOLUTELY NOT.

58:06 ALL RIGHT, READ IT OUT LOUD. IT'S A GREAT ANSWER.

58:09 Lights on so I can see the little spin doctors creeping.

58:14 Or make it as dark as my soul. Come to me, my eight-legged little babies. [clears throat]

58:21 All right, red [snorts] is lights on so you can see them. Yellow is oh Oh, no. No. I don't I don't know what people are going to say on this one. No. I just I just love the first one and everyone's like, you're locked in a room full OF SPIDERS.

58:38 NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. WE'RE OUT. NO, we're leaving. All right, everyone, three, two, one. Oh, I don't know what's happening here. Three, two, one, reveal. Yeah. It's all right by me. Come on. Come at me, bro. All right, two more, two more. What is the end game? We just want to win. Supposed to get 10 points, but All right, we have a train or a plane. Train or a plane? Where are we going? Is that the whole point? Is that what we have to argue? Cuz if it's like the Strasburg Railroad and it's like a scenic day versus like going to California.

59:14 Or just like an Amtrak. I know, that's the difference. This train looks like a choo-choo train, which makes it a little tougher. I mean, I just don't know what other people are going to pick. All right, three, two, one.

59:26 We'll find out. We'll go here. Yeah. You did get me. I didn't get Melissa. So, I'm going to say train. Good job. All right, last one. I'm like, if it's a

59:39 if it's a cool train, but only if it's a cool scenic train. Otherwise, get me where I'm going quick.

59:44 Absolutely.

59:45 what's worse? Hearing the word moist or literally

59:54 [screaming]

59:55 It is getting summer. I'm just saying. Hearing the word moist or literally Just keep saying it. Just keep saying it. Moist. Oh, boy. Moist. All right, I think I'm ready. Uh 3 2 1. Oh. I'm going for Melissa on this one.

1:00:17 [snorts]

1:00:18 Oh. Hey. Wait, which one? Which one? Oh. I do not yeah. Okay. It what Being sweaty is definitely worse than This one. Summer moistness is like every day. Yeah, I'll just swim in the pool. Yeah. Enjoy your hot tub. I don't think I got any points on that. Good job. I think Sarah you got a lot of You're supposed to get to 10 points, but good job Sarah. I think she got seven. Six, seven. Good job Lauren. I had four. Wow. How much do we think alike or can we start can we start arguments? Uh we went through like seven or eight cards. There are 300 cards in this deck. And as you can see, they range from pictures to Yeah, it was pretty interesting.

1:00:53 complicated questions. How many players? How many tokens? Uh one to eight, I think. Does it say? I can't read. Yeah, it's impressive that you could

1:01:02 eight. That's what I said. It's impressive that you could create such a controversy, you know, by just like this picture versus this picture.

1:01:08 Absolutely. There's a lot of pictures in here. Uh yeah. I say this is fun.

1:01:13 And it's versus what your opinion versus what you think other people do. What? Do I think everyone's going to be the same? Or who do I think Do I think I'm So, I think that's the harder part than choosing which side I want to go. It's like how are other people I do feel like we know each other all a little bit more now.

1:01:33 We can say moist and it won't even bother us. Kevin, tell us about our play through showcase. What's coming up in the future? Oh, yeah. The first Saturday of June. Um which will be June something. Um

1:01:45 June uh June 6th. That's the day that is. I will figure that out when he does. So, anyway, we are going to do a whole party game showcase. I don't know if it's going to be 1 hour or 2 hours. Probably it'll probably be a little longer. Yeah, very possible.

1:01:57 Probably be a couple hours. So, definitely join us next uh sorry, next time, which is June what? June 6th. June 6th. So, write that down. June 6th. Um it's going to be all the Op uh games uh party game showcase. Lots of things like this that you can play along with us and have fun. Yeah, so it'll be very similar to our Saturday morning board game show format, but all party games. Come in, have a great time, actually play along. We'll try to set up some systems so that you can even maybe we'll have some prizes. I don't know where we're going. It's going to be fun. Be sure to tune in. Don't miss it. And then uh yeah, look for us on Thursday nights for our regular play throughs. And as always, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Hope you have a great weekend. We'll catch you next time. Bye.