Such a fun game. The theme is strong here. I think Chris didn't make the vegas gambling connection, with the card turns. The game feels like a gamble. One of my favorites.
At 56:06 Mike does NOT score 4 points. He scores one point, does not advance on the score track, and then he scores three points and advances one space on the score track
Great game Waiting for the card to flip gets better and better as the game progresses. The angst of what to do each round and the risk involved is so thematic. At some point you feel like you own the world and the next turn you feel like you just mortgaged your house and lost. Went all in on the new version. Can’t wait!
FYI for anyone getting the new edition coming soon, those solid-color casino tiles they have stacked on top at the start of the video (except yellow/gold) are NOT meant to be used in a normal game. They're spares in case a tile is lost of damaged, or unlocked with certain Underworld expansion cards, but never in the base game. There are only supposed to be 9 casinos of each color, they just had room to spare on the punchboards. It's common for all 9 tiles of a color to get built by the end of the game, which can be used to bully other players out of a color the deck is loaded with, or prevent mergers because there aren't enough of a color to remodel, so it matters.
My first play right after this game came out I scored 81 points because I managed to take over the biggest casino when somebody else re-organized it. I had only one die in it and mine turned out to be a six. It was Fan Flippin tastic.
Mike sitting there on three one-tile casinos with cheap, empty plots ripe for a sprawl next to them basically the entire game hurt my soul. The casinos were all different colours too... he could have doubled his income and scored two points every time a green, purple or brown card was flipped... but instead pumped so much money in to reorganising over and over. 😢
Such a fun game. The theme is strong here. I think Chris didn't make the vegas gambling connection, with the card turns. The game feels like a gamble. One of my favorites.
At 56:06 Mike does NOT score 4 points. He scores one point, does not advance on the score track, and then he scores three points and advances one space on the score track
Great game
Waiting for the card to flip gets better and better as the game progresses. The angst of what to do each round and the risk involved is so thematic.
At some point you feel like you own the world and the next turn you feel like you just mortgaged your house and lost.
Went all in on the new version.
Can’t wait!
FYI for anyone getting the new edition coming soon, those solid-color casino tiles they have stacked on top at the start of the video (except yellow/gold) are NOT meant to be used in a normal game. They're spares in case a tile is lost of damaged, or unlocked with certain Underworld expansion cards, but never in the base game. There are only supposed to be 9 casinos of each color, they just had room to spare on the punchboards. It's common for all 9 tiles of a color to get built by the end of the game, which can be used to bully other players out of a color the deck is loaded with, or prevent mergers because there aren't enough of a color to remodel, so it matters.
My first play right after this game came out I scored 81 points because I managed to take over the biggest casino when somebody else re-organized it. I had only one die in it and mine turned out to be a six. It was Fan Flippin tastic.
If you roll yourself a six and everyone else a four or five, it makes it SO expensive for someone else to reorganise it, haha.
You missed scoring purple casinos when the second purple card came out at 18:00
Mike sitting there on three one-tile casinos with cheap, empty plots ripe for a sprawl next to them basically the entire game hurt my soul. The casinos were all different colours too... he could have doubled his income and scored two points every time a green, purple or brown card was flipped... but instead pumped so much money in to reorganising over and over. 😢
Wow. Mike just never caught on, despite everyone telling him to sprawl repeatedly.