Let's Talk Board Games #13 - Halloween Games + Giveaway!
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Welcome to our thirteenth episode of "Let's Talk Board Games," where we discuss and review several board games.
JUMP:
00:00 - Start
03:35 - Hocus Pocus Yahtzee
07:26 - Skull of Sedlec
11:39 - Jekyll vs Hyde
17:02 - Ghosts Love Candy Too
22:42 - Dulce
29:26 - Dungeon Decorators
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Happy Halloween, everyone! What are your favorite games to play for Halloween?
I love playing the Bloody Inn from Pearl Games
Mansions of Madness forever.
Dominion Nocturne, sometimes with Dark Ages (and lots of Rats). Happy Halloween! #NinjaStar
We played Abomination the heir of Frankenstain in the spirit of halloween 🎃 I love this game!
We played Abomination the Heir of Frankenstein. Can’t really get more Halloween themed than this!
A little bit about Skulls of Sedlec: Sedlec Ossuary (an ossuary is a room where bones are placed) is an actual place in the Czech Republic. Estimates are that tens of thousands are skeletons are buried there. In the ossuary, the bones are arranged "artistically," so that's why you're stacking skulls in the card game. It's all thematically related. If I'm not mistaken, the designer visited Sedlec when he was traveling through Europe and then entered a Button Shy contest where entrants were asked to design a game around a real-world place.
(Monique, the original solo version of SoS is called Monstrance and it's quick and fun. There's also a later expansion called Crown of Bones that I haven't tried yet. There are also expansions that introduce other characters such as poets, castle guards, merchants, etc.)
Since I'm on the topic of Button Shy games, I think you and Naveen would enjoy Circle the Wagons, a quick-playing two-player classic. I also like Sprawlopolis and Death Valley.
I've played Jekyll vs. Hyde a few times. It's such a thematcially and mechanically clever game. I have won as Dr. Jekyll but it is hard because Mr. Hyde just has to have one blowout round to pretty much ensure a victory. We always play twice, giving each player the opportunity to play both characters.
Dulce looks to me like a far more fun solo puzzle. Skulls of Sedlec is great also has a solo expansion.
As always is great that you include reviews from older not always mainstream and newer games. Thanks for all you guys do. #NinjaStar
Appreciate all that y'all do for the board game community! You guys have so much positive energy and are a joy to watch. #NinjaStar
I love the positive energy y’all bring every time! Really puts me in a good mood. Thank you #NinjaStar
Call to Adventure is always a goodie, it's basically role playing so it fits in nicely with the costume vibes #NinjaStar
Skulls of Sedlec is a great game. If you can get hold of the expansions I'd recomend them. Lots more variety in the scoring and a really good solo mode with some additional challenges. Would make a good solo segment for Monique!
Your reviews are always fun to listen to, and definitely do a great job of letting us know the vibe of the game! Thanks! #NinjaStar
Heck yeah guys! We played My Father's Work, Villainous, and The Bloody Inn!
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Love your videos- always my first stop “before I play” a new game. Thank you! #ninjastar
Happy Halloween!!
Long time listener, first time caller! Thank you for your thoroughly amazing reviews and playthroughs!! #NinjaStar
Naveen once again you are absolutely crushing it with your t-shirt game!
So funny to hear you guys explain how to play Yahtzee. I played this with my parents and grandparents when I was a wee boy. That’s now almost 40 years ago. Geez, that makes me feel really old, although I am not yet 50.
My favorite spooky game this year was Betrayal Legacy which we finished a few weeks back. #NinjaStar
When I was little, my aunt taught me this dice game called Yan. I wasn’t aware of Yahtzee until I moved to the US (9 years ago).
Yan was similar to Yahtzee, but it was more strategical. You had four columns: normal (3 rolls), Up, Down and “dry” (you score without re rolling). The rows are similar to Yahtzee, 1s, 2s, etc, straights, but also full house. The Up and Down column were interesting, because you could get stuck. You had to do the rows in asc or des order. The Dry column is also a cool decision. Sometimes you get an okay roll with your first roll, and you can decide to score that.
My aunt would just draw everything in a notebook, and she would fill pages and pages of Yan games… she played solo a lot. I was always impressed how fast she was able to add the numbers up 😂!
She was the same aunt that taught me fun card games, including many trick taking games.
I guess this is one of the fake accounts 😢
Happy Halloween, love watching your videos. You both have helped me get into board gaming a couple years ago. #NinjaStar
So glad I found you guys on Watch It Played. I love watching your play throughs. #NinjaStar
You guys are great! I get excited each time I see a video from you guys come out #NinjaStar
You guys have been feeding my board game hobby!!
Thanks to you for hosting and #NinjaStar for providing the prizes!
I enjoy playing Halloween theme games this time of year. Thank you so much for sharing these with us. Love your content. #ninjastar
I absolutely love all the content you guys produce. I get so excited when I see you put out a new video. Keep up the good work! #NinjaStar
My favorite Halloween game would be Horrified. Thanks for all the content guys!
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Really enjoy all your content. Your playthroughs and reviews are both very thorough and well thought out!
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Love some trick taking. Grew up in a family that played Euchre on the regular so it's always been a love. #NinjaStar
Happy halloween! I’m currently on a cruise, but taking a break from the sun to catch up with my favorite channels. #NinjaStar
Right there with you on Yahtzee, M-dawg... I played it once as a kid and never liked it; got into on BGA earlier this year and I have played it close to 500+ times since then. So addictive
Thank you for the fantastic energy and insights as always, you two! Been desperately wanting to try Yokai Septet (and Cat in the Box), so fingers crossed for this bundle! #NinjaStar
Happy Halloween to my favorite channel! Y'all's playthrough of Vinhos is basically my comfort YT video that I will watch whenever i need some peace #NinjaStar
Jekyll vs Hyde is so dang good and I’m falling down the trick-taking rabbit hole.. Happy Halloween! #ninjastar
Fun video! Always love seeing your recommendations as a new person to the hobby #NinjaStar
Happy Halloween guys! Thanks for covering my game along with these other cool games. It really just made my day.
What's the name of your game?
@@jamesmorgan1967 Dungeon Decorators
@@jefflaflam7685 Thanks!
#ninjastar Happy Halloween!!! Thanks guys, always look forward to these videos. 🎉🎃
I am enamoured by you both!
These reviews are always so helpful when I'm trying to find new board games to purchase. Skulls of Sedlec looks interesting, I may have to look into that one. Thanks for the video! #NinjaStar
Always love learning about new games. And playing the even more. #NinjaStar
I’ve only been watching you guys for a short while, but have already bought / backed on Kickstarter a number of games. Thanks for always showing cool games! #NinjaStar
I really enjoy watching your Play Throughs and Overview of New Games. I have backed or purchased many games after watching. You remind me so much of my wife and I. Keep up the great work. Favorite Halloween Board Games - Mysterium and Betrayal at The House on The Hill #NinjaStar
You guys are awesome! Always love your videos. Thank you guys for giving back to the community and good luck everyone. #NinjaStar
#NinjaStar Love your videos, happy I found you both. Just got back into board games, have found a lot of great games watching your videos.
My partner and I just recently discovered Jekyll vs Hyde recently and we love it so much! We’ve played it 8 times and Dr. Jekyll has only won twice. How interesting to hear that other players find Mr. Hyde to be the more difficult character to play! This game is so clever.
Great video, as always. I also really appreciated the honest feedback on Dulce, because it looks so, so lovely.
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Always enjoy watching both of you. Can't wait for more on the Uwe series. #NinjaStar
Fun video! Would love to see a Christmas-themed one too, bit maybe ahead of Christmas, as I'm wanting to find Christmas/winter themed games to play over the holiday season. #NinjaStar
Thank you for all the wonderful playthroughs and teaches. #NinjaStar
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I love you both! You have such calming voices and helped me learn a lot of games I own! Keep up the amazing work!
Need to get more plays of Yokai Septet in, haven't got it to the table for a while. #ninjastar
I love these videos, my favorite game during Halloween is Betrayal at house on the hill! Thank you for all that you do! #ninjastar
Love love your videos! Thank you for the fun and helpful play throughs and reviews. Hope I can snag a bundle!! #NinjaStar
I don't actually have a Halloween tradition game, maybe I need to start one! Thanks for doing the giveaway, and thanks #NinjaStar for sponsoring it
#ninjastar love your vids. I'm new to the hobby and your vids help me choose games for my wishlist. Keep up the great work!
Love watching you guys, and specially 2-player games! Jekyll vs Hyde looks so fun! #NinjaStar
Happy Halloween, and Happy Trick or Treating!!
You just reminded me of how badly I’ve been wanting to play Fury of Dracula! Also really need Skulls of Sedlec, it would be great to take camping. Great video! #NinjaStar
Hey! For two player only trick taking games, check out Violet and the Grumpy Nisse. I just got my copy, and only played it once, but it was really clever.
Happy Halloween.. love your videos. Thank you for the great content. Just played the nightcage last night for our Halloween game. Lost but had a lot of fun. #NinjaStar
Great video! I love having games available to be played during Halloween. Thank you for highlighting these fun looking games. I've added all of these to my wishlist! #ninjastar
Thanks for the great content. I really enjoy all of your videos specially the top 10 list’s , it would be very interesting to see your top 10 of most played games of this year.
Congratulations on your channel !
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My friends and I play games at bars all the time, Skulls of Sedlec looks like a must have! You've been doing so many giveaways lately, we are too blessed! #NinjaStar
We had our Halloween game day on Saturday. Hey, I was put in charge of the candy bowl on Halloween! Our street in this small town is a popular trick-or-treat destination. The kiddos were awesome and we had a great time. So, no time for Halloween night games. On Saturday two of the games played were Creature Feature and Mysterium Park. Nice episode, thank you.
#ninjastar happy Halloween! We played Mansions of madness. Zombie dice snd Mysterium this weekend!
My husband and I actually started playing more boardgames because of your channel!! Love that you are growing and offering so many different themes now! I've been trying to figure out the name of the wallet games for a while.. Now I know it's buttonshy. #NinjaStar
Absolutely love Skulls of Sedlec. Mythic Mischief has really hit the spot this year for the two of us here in our household. #NinjaStar
Great selection of games.
Happy Halloween! And thank you for always creating such positive and informative videos. #NinjaStar
I am just exploring two-player trick-taking games, so I would love a video on ranking some of your favorites, if there are enough out there to do so! :)
#NinjaStar You guys are the people who inspired and started my love for board games.
Appreciate all of your playthroughs/tutorials! #NinjaStar
Happy Halloween 🎃 Thanks for your reviews and the #ninjastar giveaway👍
#NinjaStar Thanks for your video! Very fun to watch. I’ve never tried any of these games before.
Thanks for all your videos! Looking forward to trying some of these out soon. #NinjaStar
Love the shirt Naveen! would love to know where you got it.
Me and a couple of friends staked out a table at a local restaurant (we do this once a week, with permission of course) and played Horrified and The Captain is Dead. Wonderful holiday themed time! #NinjaStar
#ninjastar Planning to play two spooky favorites, Camp Grizzly and Grind House, this Halloween.
Happy Halloween! Being new to the hobby, I don't have specific Halloween season games, but I'm keen to try Horrified. It's fun to see a mainstream classic like Yahtzee be spoken of respectfully and not with derision. I've always loved that one. #ninjastar
Thank you very much for the great rundown! #NinjaStar
Love the Halloween vid! Hopefully we'll get more holiday themed videos. #NinjaStar
I really enjoy your reviews and appreciate your teaches and playthroughs 😁. I need to try Skulls of Sedlec. #ninjastar
Happy Halloween, and #NinjaStar too! I Love your channel!
I played Mysterium for the first time this month, which was a lot of fun. And also some Zombie Dice. Thanks for another great video! #NinjaStar
#NinjaStar Love your content. Keep it up! I just bought dune imperium because of your review. Now my favorite game. Thanks!
Kingdom Candy Monsters for the win! Best when eating actual candy.
These games sound fun, especially Jekyll and Hyde, so thanks for this. Although it wasn't for Halloween, I recently played an apparently quite rare game called The Tower of Madness, which is basically Kerplunk plus Yahtzee, with a Cthulhu-esque theme. Sounds ridiculous, but is amusing and somewhat strategic.
The eponymous Tower has 'tentacles' to pull out, and what falls out are the marbles of Madness (red), Magic (white) Power (blue) and Doom/Chaos (green). To avoid pulling a tentacle (and possibly going mad), you have a mini dice game, with different rules depending on which spooky Room you're in. If you beat all other players to win the room, you get points, but if you fail the minimum rolls, its Kerplunk time. True to the theme, the Tower can bring benefits, (spells/points) but at the risk of madness, or total obliteration!
If you get too many Red marbles, and go irrevocably mad, you can still win by getting all the special small Green marbles to fall out ... but only on your turn. So suddenly your goal is almost diametrically opposite to all the still sane players, for whom the falling of the last Green marble is equivalent to Yog sothoth turning up in the living room!
Hello! Just recently started getting back into board games with my wife and discovered your channel. What I like about your channel is, one, that you two have great tastes in board games, and two, that you two have a nice non-competitive playing for fun energy. #NinjaStar
Y’all have lit a fire back in my board game soul!! I’ve gone through your top 50 games videos and picked up a few of them. My friends and myself are loving them. KanBan is a tough one to learn but I’ve had fun doing so. Also found a copy of Arboretum at my local target, it was pushed all the way to the back and it was the last copy, it wasn’t even in their system anymore, they sold it to me for $10 🎉. Loving the videos y’all, definitely going to be checking out Jekyll Vs Hyde. #NinjaStar
Love watching your content! I always enjoy your 2 player reviews #NinjaStar
#NinjaStar sounds fun. Thanks for the giveaway!
I was not familiar with Jekyll and Hyde. It sounds really light and enjoyable. Thanks for the video! #NinjaStar
Played The Bloody Inn and Unmatched (with certain spookier characters) on Halloween. Almost played Jekyll & Hyde, which I am a big fan of. Jekyll and Hide have pretty even win rates, in my memory. Recently got Cthulhu Death May Die and Judge Dredd Helter Skelter which seem to be decent Halloween games as well.
Thanks for the giveaway, it’s been fun watching your channel grow 🎃 #NinjaStar
Happy Halloween! We played Horrified a couple years ago before the pandemic ruined everything - it was okay. I'll have to remember DoW for next year!
Love your videos and really appreciate your giveaways - thanks for everything you do! #NinjaStar
Cat in the Box is such amazing design! #NinjaStar
I honestly still love betrayal - if I can ever get a group big enough for it haha! But honestly Halloween-esque games are my absolutely favorite. We love villainous, root, nemesis, unmatched: cobble & fog, and we have both Horrified but still haven't played them (trying to finish nursing school). Would love to one day get my hands on my father's work and Dracula's fury.
Thanks for the post! Enjoy the holiday!
#NinjaStar Thank you guys! Great selection for Halloween!
Thanks for the giveaway. Really appreciate the chance to win a couple new games. #NinjaStar
Nemesis has to be my favorite horror game! I have the Thing: Outpost 31 but still haven't had the chance to play it. Thanks as always for a great video! #ninjastar
Happy Halloween, and thanks for the game suggestions! Skulls of Sedlec looks fun, and I'd like to check out Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde! #NinjaStar
Happy Halloween! Love your videos. You made me get some new games, thank you!! #NinjaStar
Love your videos, just to let you know there is a 3 player version for skulls of sedlec 😊
Happy Halloween 🎃 Thanks for the fun video! Great work as always. #NinjaStar
Really enjoy your videos. You’ve introduced me to a lot of good games. #ninjastar