WOW Thank you very much for your words about the art of Phoenix and about Cities. I'm the artist of both and it is amazing for me to ear those things. It made me very happy and gives me a lot energy to follow.
Love how Seas of Strife is the last game in the Chapter, making it look like it was the overwhelming highly ranked game but secretly the rest of the games were hidden within.⛵
Watching some Spiel content from Germany and somehow this was washed into my timeline. What a great video with such wonderful, likeable people. I hope there will be more.
its a treat to see you in video format. One suggestions i would give, is if you have the game box there whilst youre explaining maybe turn the box around and that way you can point out the components so people watching can get a better idea? This came to mind whilst watching the bomb busters segment
So, in some ways this was a bit of an unusual episode to start with as we normally cover 3, at most 4 games per episode. Fifteen was a bit of an outlier. Which is all to say that in future episodes I think the displayability will be more manageable and better.
My friend & I had the same thoughts about White Castle. Gosh, we thought "are we missing something here?" Everyone and their cool moms seemed to be raving about this game - and it just felt unsatisfying for both of us, especially because we were looking for those engine building, combo decisions in the game. But we settled that White Castle is a game for people who love a quiet, contemplative, optimization puzzle and it just wasn't our cup of green tea.
Hello! thank you for your words about Phoenix New Horizon, was a surprise to see it here! We invited you to play Satori too, you can explain it even in less time than Phoenix and feels very nice. It is a non-typical 20's eurogame because it haven't player boards
This is such an amazing video! What a joyful experience watching it! I’ve pasted by Gibberers multiple times and haven’t decide to pick it, but my friend who recently got really into roleplaying game took it so I might be lucky trying it! I did manage to buy and try robotrick this Essen, so awesome! And would like to share my number one game for now from Essen (haven’t tried all yet) it’s Harmony, a cooperative deck building but with a major twist that on your turn you can put a card to a shared pull and anyone else can use it and make it part of their deck!!!
Hello my beautiful people This is great guys. I have been listening to the podcast a lot lately and I was thought that If you guys make a video format about it it would definitely help you with subs and also with views because sometimes Efka or Elaine say something and I wish I could picture their faces and this will definitely help with it. Keep up the good work and good job to you guys. Thanks for this.
We played Bomb Busters a lot over the weekend. I do think you should give it another go and you could probably skip straight to mission 8 which is the "final exam" The first bunch of missions are just teaching you rules that are already in the rulebook. I don't like it as much as The Crew but its in the ballpark. I particularly love how a wrong guess still results in a ton of information (you know the guesser has the #, you know the token that was pointed at, and any associated implied information)
23:31 as a person that played big to since i was a child it is so weird hearing a description of big two by people that didn't grow up with it😅. And some of the rules sounds like when i meet people from a different regions of Asia that have their own homebrew rules 😂
Thank you for taking a look at our game, Potato Tomato, even though you guys did not like it because the iconography on the cards. We will try to do better next time to make you like our games. Please look forward to it! 😊
- "if you've played euro games, all of these mechanisms - which there are a lot of - will seem very simple" - "do they feel synergetic?" - "ehhh.. no" brutal ^^ Great pick with Fishing for #2 though, one of the few games I actually bought at the fair. Another trick taker that really hit for me was Zero to Hero, no idea if that one's part of the bonus episode or whether it eluded you. It has a similar idea to Seas of Strife where the lead suit is not necessarily the winning suit.
I like the idea of video podcasts! I had an opportunity to play a game of The Strange Forgeries Of Mr. S.C. Rheber as well as to chat with the designer himself at Spiel 2024. It's certainly not a party game you'd play after a few beers or with players with low tolerance to failure while problem solving, but for a group of 4-7 "STEM enthusiasts" who enjoy Tim Burton-like aesthetic (rather his drawings than films) it might be a fun and quite unique experience!
Damn, now I'm really sad to have passed up on Gibberers, it sounds amazing. I checked it immediately on Thursday but the game was not available yet and I didn't check again the other days.
There's like a bajillion cards in the game with word prompts. There's also a mechanical element there too, where each card has five words, each tied to a different symbol. Getting more of the same symbol is beneficial because it lets you define new words in your own language for free, but also, symbols corelate to specific subgroups. For example, one card might have "gorilla" as a word and the lead player might pick that word to define. If players guess it correctly, they get, let's say, a moon token. Then on the next card the word under the moon token might also be animal related. Which makes picking it a double edged sword. You are getting a pair of identical tokens = good, but you are defining words that are too narrow and similar, thus limiting your potential vocabulary for harder words = bad. TL;DR - no, you can't.
My take: there is no climbing/shedding card game that is better than "Tien Len," the unofficial national card game of vietnam. One of the core rules of this game is: 2 is the highest card. Here is a video explaining the rules: th-cam.com/video/z2Jas5t-8Yw/w-d-xo.html, the wiki is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%E1%BA%BFn_l%C3%AAn The game has such incredible depth that really really good players are able to figure out what's in your hand based on what you play or what you pass. I honestly think most climbing/shedding games, and most trick taking games, are just derivatives of Tien Len, and I wish most game designers would just acknowledge that.
I cannot explain just how torturous it is to listen to 1.5 hours of board game talk without any pictures or videos of these games you’re talking about…
Sea of strife is one of the tricktakers alongside shadenfreude that kinda makes it so I don't really need more tricktakers. Now I need to check out fishen
I'm going to say something that I hate when the snobs are saying it: If you feel you can't do anything in White Castle in 9 turns and you don't think the game is combotastic then you don't know how to play the game well.
I couldn’t agree more. But the combos in White Castle are much harder to pull off and require more experience. By now, I manage to place 14 or all 15 meeples in maybe every third game of White Castle. Really satisfying if I can pull it off !
Honestly, "SETI" is mechanically mostly resource conversion and touches on other mechanics only slightly. Yes, the cards are multi-use, but relatively simple. Not sure, why people think "SETI" is a complex game. It's not. And "Ark Nova" didn't invent having a big stack of singleton cards. It just copied it from "Terraforming Mars" and maybe there was even something before that that had it. :/
Idea for the next episode: Elaine and Efka rank all board games ever
with all of the future board games to be on the bonus episode?
WOW Thank you very much for your words about the art of Phoenix and about Cities. I'm the artist of both and it is amazing for me to ear those things. It made me very happy and gives me a lot energy to follow.
Love how Seas of Strife is the last game in the Chapter, making it look like it was the overwhelming highly ranked game but secretly the rest of the games were hidden within.⛵
Watching some Spiel content from Germany and somehow this was washed into my timeline. What a great video with such wonderful, likeable people. I hope there will be more.
its a treat to see you in video format.
One suggestions i would give, is if you have the game box there whilst youre explaining maybe turn the box around and that way you can point out the components so people watching can get a better idea?
This came to mind whilst watching the bomb busters segment
So, in some ways this was a bit of an unusual episode to start with as we normally cover 3, at most 4 games per episode. Fifteen was a bit of an outlier. Which is all to say that in future episodes I think the displayability will be more manageable and better.
This was very enjoyable to watch, felt like I could watch you all day. 😊
My friend & I had the same thoughts about White Castle. Gosh, we thought "are we missing something here?" Everyone and their cool moms seemed to be raving about this game - and it just felt unsatisfying for both of us, especially because we were looking for those engine building, combo decisions in the game. But we settled that White Castle is a game for people who love a quiet, contemplative, optimization puzzle and it just wasn't our cup of green tea.
Hello! thank you for your words about Phoenix New Horizon, was a surprise to see it here! We invited you to play Satori too, you can explain it even in less time than Phoenix and feels very nice. It is a non-typical 20's eurogame because it haven't player boards
This is such an amazing video! What a joyful experience watching it! I’ve pasted by Gibberers multiple times and haven’t decide to pick it, but my friend who recently got really into roleplaying game took it so I might be lucky trying it! I did manage to buy and try robotrick this Essen, so awesome! And would like to share my number one game for now from Essen (haven’t tried all yet) it’s Harmony, a cooperative deck building but with a major twist that on your turn you can put a card to a shared pull and anyone else can use it and make it part of their deck!!!
Hello my beautiful people
This is great guys. I have been listening to the podcast a lot lately and I was thought that If you guys make a video format about it it would definitely help you with subs and also with views because sometimes Efka or Elaine say something and I wish I could picture their faces and this will definitely help with it. Keep up the good work and good job to you guys. Thanks for this.
We played Bomb Busters a lot over the weekend. I do think you should give it another go and you could probably skip straight to mission 8 which is the "final exam" The first bunch of missions are just teaching you rules that are already in the rulebook. I don't like it as much as The Crew but its in the ballpark. I particularly love how a wrong guess still results in a ton of information (you know the guesser has the #, you know the token that was pointed at, and any associated implied information)
Thanks, guys. I, too, like milk. . .
Essen Spiel would be a dream event!
23:31 as a person that played big to since i was a child it is so weird hearing a description of big two by people that didn't grow up with it😅. And some of the rules sounds like when i meet people from a different regions of Asia that have their own homebrew rules 😂
Thank you for taking a look at our game, Potato Tomato, even though you guys did not like it because the iconography on the cards. We will try to do better next time to make you like our games. Please look forward to it! 😊
I'm so down for a Stefan Feld prog-rock album. Big, unwieldy, semi-nonsensical, and OH GOD YES!
- "if you've played euro games, all of these mechanisms - which there are a lot of - will seem very simple"
- "do they feel synergetic?"
- "ehhh.. no"
brutal ^^
Great pick with Fishing for #2 though, one of the few games I actually bought at the fair. Another trick taker that really hit for me was Zero to Hero, no idea if that one's part of the bonus episode or whether it eluded you. It has a similar idea to Seas of Strife where the lead suit is not necessarily the winning suit.
The way efka describes civolution sounds like a prozd sketch including the game title in itself
Woo video form of my favourite BG podcast!
I like the idea of video podcasts! I had an opportunity to play a game of The Strange Forgeries Of Mr. S.C. Rheber as well as to chat with the designer himself at Spiel 2024. It's certainly not a party game you'd play after a few beers or with players with low tolerance to failure while problem solving, but for a group of 4-7 "STEM enthusiasts" who enjoy Tim Burton-like aesthetic (rather his drawings than films) it might be a fun and quite unique experience!
Ahh. Loved it. So sorry I never saw you at Essen. Maybe next year
We spent maybe 3 hours in total at the Messe. The rest of the time we were playing games, so the chance to encounter us was very low.
Yay, more Elaine and Efka content
Tricktaker tierlist coming in the future?
“Like picking raisins out of a cake”. My favorite saying
Damn, now I'm really sad to have passed up on Gibberers, it sounds amazing. I checked it immediately on Thursday but the game was not available yet and I didn't check again the other days.
I’m with you on the attractions of Monoprix!
Fun watch, thanks!
that last game, the gibberish one, couldn't people play it by just downloading the PDF of the rulebook?
There's like a bajillion cards in the game with word prompts. There's also a mechanical element there too, where each card has five words, each tied to a different symbol. Getting more of the same symbol is beneficial because it lets you define new words in your own language for free, but also, symbols corelate to specific subgroups.
For example, one card might have "gorilla" as a word and the lead player might pick that word to define. If players guess it correctly, they get, let's say, a moon token. Then on the next card the word under the moon token might also be animal related. Which makes picking it a double edged sword. You are getting a pair of identical tokens = good, but you are defining words that are too narrow and similar, thus limiting your potential vocabulary for harder words = bad.
TL;DR - no, you can't.
Hello Elaine and Efka!
Toki Pona has more like 120 words, by the way. Also, I did not know that Sonja Lang was married to Eric Lang, so that was interesting to find out.
Saying "po-tay-to to-mah-to" is like nails on a chalkboard!
Fishen is one of my top games to try to get.
My take: there is no climbing/shedding card game that is better than "Tien Len," the unofficial national card game of vietnam. One of the core rules of this game is: 2 is the highest card. Here is a video explaining the rules: th-cam.com/video/z2Jas5t-8Yw/w-d-xo.html, the wiki is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%E1%BA%BFn_l%C3%AAn The game has such incredible depth that really really good players are able to figure out what's in your hand based on what you play or what you pass.
I honestly think most climbing/shedding games, and most trick taking games, are just derivatives of Tien Len, and I wish most game designers would just acknowledge that.
Maybe panda spin may overcome it 😁
Gibberers could make a good team building game for corporations if more base words to always include. Play team mode.
@Talk Cardboard I would consider myself a milkoseur. Generally I prefer 2%.
PLEASE please pease DO A PODCAST ABOUT INNOVATION (from Asmadi games).❤
I cannot explain just how torturous it is to listen to 1.5 hours of board game talk without any pictures or videos of these games you’re talking about…
Then don't inflict this to yourself 🤷
Gumtoochoo to every family!
Hey, shall I come and teach you Oranges and Lemons? Would have loved to have demoed it for you.
appreciate the talk through of so many games... your content has yet to cost me money for games I ended up not liking
I think it is 200.00 turnstiles during the four days. So it is not unique visitors.
Think gibberer is the game tom vassel said in a podcast was rubbish, different tastes i suppose
Orange is the new black ?
Sea of strife is one of the tricktakers alongside shadenfreude that kinda makes it so I don't really need more tricktakers.
Now I need to check out fishen
I'm going to say something that I hate when the snobs are saying it: If you feel you can't do anything in White Castle in 9 turns and you don't think the game is combotastic then you don't know how to play the game well.
I couldn’t agree more. But the combos in White Castle are much harder to pull off and require more experience. By now, I manage to place 14 or all 15 meeples in maybe every third game of White Castle. Really satisfying if I can pull it off !
The juice is not worth the squeeze
Honestly, "SETI" is mechanically mostly resource conversion and touches on other mechanics only slightly.
Yes, the cards are multi-use, but relatively simple.
Not sure, why people think "SETI" is a complex game. It's not.
And "Ark Nova" didn't invent having a big stack of singleton cards. It just copied it from "Terraforming Mars" and maybe there was even something before that that had it. :/
Microphone positioning is so off... barely could see faces...
well it's a podcast