Christian Amey I would like to hear about board games. Dour and serious is not necessary, but going off topic for a significant amount of time just makes me want to either play the video at 1.5 speed or just skip to the end-list. Watch Sam’s demeanor throughout the video. That is me. “Could we please just get on with it?”
@@chuckm1961 Eh, ok. If you're watching a top 100, though, wouldn't be pretty obvious that people are in it for the long haul? Otherwise they would just post a list somewhere and be done with it. This whole "just give me the information" attitude puzzles me when it comes to games. They're games. They involve personal opinions, and if you put 3 people at a table to talk about them... well... you're going to get banter, disagreements, jokes, etc.
Paul Bauman Watch it again and track how much of the banter is about the games, compared to how much of the banter is about pretty much nothing except inside jokes and gentle teasing about general topics. I want to hear about boardgames.
I really do love the lists that you guys compile, don't get me wrong. However, the real shine in the "Tabletop Trio" videos is your guy's on screen chemistry, it's second to none.
I would love to see videos, where you take a game that Tom likes and Zee or Sam did not play it never before and then they put some thoughts about it. Like Zee playing Yokohama or Marco Polo. I would looove to hear from Zee what would be his opinion about games that he would not normally take into consideration for playing. BTW Grrrrreat top 100 this year!
Wow, I'm shocked that Roll Player made the People's Choice Top 100. I really like the game, but didn't expect it to be widely liked. Great to hear that many people agree with my taste.
I'd really enjoy seeing more info on the banner bellow. Publisher, designer, artist and year it came out. Hopefully in next year top 100 :-) ... Keep the good work, fellows
...and where they bought it, where you can buy it, what the original MSRP was, what it's going for now on eBay/Amazon/CoolStuff, how many times they played it this year, how much time (cumulative) they have spent playing it...
Your having fun over each other’s choices without getting offended is really professional and shows how board game taste could be personal and you should not care if someone does not like the same game. Except Monopoly. No one should like Monopoly :D
Fireball Island isn't available yet. The campaign fulfillment will begin shipping soon, but it very much isn't available for average people to play let alone buy.
It seems like the perfect family fun game to play with kids and adults alike, can't wait to get in the EU! But currently shipping is about 65 USD and you will only receive in January from AmaZon :/
@@MagogTheMagnificent yes it does look like a great family game. I'm looking forward to our copy arriving. Our kids were very excited when it was on Kickstarter.
Continuing my series, here are my 60-51: #60. Onirim, #59. Dice Town, #58. Saint Petersburg, #57. On the Underground, #56. Zooloretto, #55. Riverboat, #54. Between Two Cities, #53. Anomia, #52. Smash Up, and #51. Richard Garfield's Treasure Hunter.
I adore Sam, but I've gotta agree with Tom. Mechs vs Minions has the highest production quality of any game ever. From the pre-painted heroes to the ludicrous amount of gloss-coated minions; the game is gorgeous and every component is the highest quality. The minions even have different poses, which is purely cosmetic, but a it's such a nice touch that Riot didn't have to do. The storage cases are incredible when the box is opened for the first time and the mission envelopes, the secret box and the layout of the instruction manual are all strokes of genius. Rising Sun doesn't even come close. It's not that Rising Sun has "bad" production quality, but it's not even CMON's best, let alone better than Mechs vs Minions. To me, it's just another generic world map board with some colour-coded minis and plastic shrines. It's still great, as CMON usually is, but I think Mechs vs Minions is on a different level.
And I disagree that MvsM was a flash in the pan because of production and price point. It’s a great game and I feel people forget about it and hate in it because it’s only available from Riot. This is an amazing game that would still be talked about more without those who hate on it for those reasons (not just Sam here) and if it were more visible.
I won't argue with anyone who thinks Mechs v Minions is the highest production quality game ever because its excellence is undeniable. But if anything could give it a run for its money, it's an obscure Fragor game called Spellbound. Most people haven't heard of this game, but go check out pics of it on BGG and see if it changes your mind.
The problem is, especially in Sam’s case, he is equating production value with mini qualities. All cmon games beat out mechs at that point. But production value covers every component. Metal counters, trays, nice dice, sealed mission envelopes with nice gloss printed missions, beautiful art on every tile, hidden tiles that you discover later, strong boxes, good cards, sand timer, painted characters, and washed figures. Yes they were all three basic sculpts but the thought that went into making every model fit in every slot. Grand Slam production. If you have a retail copy of Rising Sun (I have blinged out KS) you get cards, cardboard, a beautiful board that is linen finish, and a ton of great minis made with multi color plastic. So on minis alone RS and LoH will win. But from top to bottom detail and quality on each piece maters with the word production. Just my opinion.
Ouch 7 Wonders is still in my top 10, but i see why it would slip for you guys. Dont see the appeal with Discoveries, it's one of the most boring games I've played, but hey to each their own. The Fist bump denial at 36:16 was amazing :)
I agree.. 7 wonders is in my top 5 for sure... The only thing I don't have is Babel, which was completely uninteresting to me. But Armada sounds really cool. Will definitely get that.
@@g8kpr3000 Babel is one I own but haven't technically played it. Both Babel and Great projects modules are sound and play pretty well, from playing a "learning" solo game with it.
After a little more checking, there are a lot of differences between the posted list and the video's for People's Choice. The reviewers lists seem to be the same. My comment above is incorrect, 98 on the video is not Kingdomino, but Gaia Project. Kingdomino is 98 on the website list.
I just realized that Roll for the Galaxy makes Sam want to do violence to Zee. You all know the original face-smack, and now he slapped away the fist-bump.
Gotta say... Roll for the Galaxy IS better than the poop game. Although, glad to see the poop game on a list. I laughed a lot watching this one. Thanks, guys.
I love how Zee got totally "Zee-d" by Sam with the poop game. He nearly lost his...well you know.... 😂😂 This is one of the most hilarious top tens yet!
I'm kinda annoyed all people can talk about is the production of Mechs vs Minions BECAUSE I think it's a great game. People get so anti hype snobby at the fact that is has that level of production, the game itself is a lot of great fun!
Actually we play a lot of dixit with nothing but tje cards and it works very well. We just say 1 2 3 go and then everyone points at a card. Dont even need to score, its a party game
Expansion for dead men tell no tales just came out. At least for kick starter backers. It’s called the kraken and has you fighting a huge kraken and it’s tentacles. Haven’t played it yet but it looks pretty good.
My personal list 51 - Isle of Skye 52 - Castles of Mad King Ludwig (super close!) 53 - Elysium 54 - Junk Art 55 - Reef 56 - Tabago 57 - Hero Realms 58 - Space Hulk: Death Angel 59 - Dimension 60 - Jump Drive My rankings of games that they mentioned: ??? - Spirit Island ??? - Race for the Galaxy ??? - Yokohama 74 - Kingdomino 92 - Rising Sun 95 - Inis 106 - Karuba 121 - Mechs vs Minions 139 - 7 Wonders 174 - Dixit 177 - Specter Ops Obviously there are a ton of really good games out there that I need to play xD Before anyone gets high and mighty about things, I've played a grand total of 323 games as of this posting, so obviously a third of them will appear on the top 100 list because math. Comments and questions are welcome!
I really think that Tom should set goals for his employees to play games from each others list that they haven't played. I just make sense. If a game is in any of these top 100 lists, then it's bound to be a pretty good game despite the fact that you guys don't always like the same things... at least give them a try. I think this could alter your lists in the future as you play really good games that for some reason you haven't... it's your job!
What's the benefit of this? Sam loves conflict Ameritrash (think Twilight Imperium). Zee likes quirky puzzlers (think Onitama) and is way less concerned about theme. What a waste of time forcing them to play each others games. At thousands of games deep, they can tell where they're likely to fall.
@John Smith: There are a quite a few games on their lists where someone went "hmm, I haven't tried that one yet" and not "eww, I would never play that game because ti's too long/boring/etc." Those are the games that they should prioritize playing together. For example, Tom needs to play First Class. Sam needs to play Robinson Crusoe (JK, I think he has finally played it now!).
I for one love the banter and love the dice tower but I am hoping there isn't more references to padding out the video in the future ones. I am a little behind but most of them are up already I see. For those who really hate the banter and simply want to see a list you can go to the very end of the video. Also when is the live marathon happening? I don't want to miss any of the games played live so please give us plenty of notice!
I bought Bunny Kingdom when it came out at Gen Con and JUST FOUND OUT about the new board. Apparently its out of stock so I have to wait till next year.
I would love to teach Zee "Gaia Project". It's heavy, but it's not that long. I finish games in around 2 hours, usually. Either way, it is an absolutely fantastic game.
Ignoring the fact that you're an experienced player and you haven't said how many players you typically play with, I'm pretty sure Zee considers 2 hour games to be "long".
@@PandaOfElastic Yeah, probably. I'll stick to (in this imaginary world where I teach him anything) getting him to finally play Feld's best game! I still can't believe he's never tried Castles of Burgundy....
You're correct. Even the Miami Dice review from June refers to it as Manhattan Project 2: Minutes to Midnight, as does bgg, Minion Games and all other sources
I can understand the frustration of not finishing the castle in Castles but it is technically on theme as Ludwig never finished Neuschwanstein before he died.
Time stories feels like its the same tricks repeated often. That first time you see the tricks is an ah-ha! moment and its fun. The 3rd time its a grind. They also seemed to lose the reasons to actually reset the time and do the time travel thing after the 1st one. I agree the 1st scenario was a 10 but some have been as low as a 3/4 for me.
Unless you get old stock. The slightly bigger board is in the current run of the game, the lot # is: BKEN122017". If the date on the barcode is BEFORE 122017, you will get the smaller board
Wait, Tom was saying that he did not know about Mechs vs Minions before it came out? Did he not say before that they had brought him out to their studios and picked his brain about the game during it's development?
Yes and no. In previous top 100s there was a unique countdown. Sometimes it was Eric, sometimes it was Eric's kid, once they had a different contributor do something different to countdown each segment of 10. It's varied from year to year.
'cept for the card titles, the game looks very language neutral. Lots of icons on the cards. Also from the BGG img showing a player aid card with a german flag, I would expect there to be an English player aid also.
So many funny moments in this one. Glad the banter is back.
I was just going to post something positive about the "banter" in this episode. It was so much fun to watch. Keep it up guys.
Christian Amey I would like to hear about board games. Dour and serious is not necessary, but going off topic for a significant amount of time just makes me want to either play the video at 1.5 speed or just skip to the end-list.
Watch Sam’s demeanor throughout the video. That is me. “Could we please just get on with it?”
I agree there were a couple of instances where it got a little out of hand; but overall, I had fun watching it.
@@chuckm1961 Eh, ok. If you're watching a top 100, though, wouldn't be pretty obvious that people are in it for the long haul? Otherwise they would just post a list somewhere and be done with it. This whole "just give me the information" attitude puzzles me when it comes to games. They're games. They involve personal opinions, and if you put 3 people at a table to talk about them... well... you're going to get banter, disagreements, jokes, etc.
Paul Bauman Watch it again and track how much of the banter is about the games, compared to how much of the banter is about pretty much nothing except inside jokes and gentle teasing about general topics. I want to hear about boardgames.
Pick-up and deliver, cube pusher, cube pincher... One of the best segments ever.
I thought those jokes were some real stinkers... but then again, I'm a bit of a party-pooper.
Sam slapping Zee’s fist away was too funny.
No fist bump for you! :D
and the wink afterward - that's one for the fans!
"These need to be longer, you be quiet!" LMAO 48:10
Yea these videos are WAY to short, need more banter
More, moRe, mORE!!!!
This was so funny--I love the subtle dig at everyone screaming at them to make the videos longer lol
Why can't they think of Backgammon?!?
"Selling like mad cakes". Tom, you never cease to amaze me.
Came here to say this. "Selling like madcakes" - Tom Vasel, 2018
That needs to be on a T-shirt
Sam, we are all very excited to hear about your top 100 games. Even if you're not LoL
I really do love the lists that you guys compile, don't get me wrong. However, the real shine in the "Tabletop Trio" videos is your guy's on screen chemistry, it's second to none.
i think that's the first time i've ever heard derek laugh in the background during a video...that's when you know everyone's having a good time
I heard that too. was wondering how many noticed that!
Loving the last couple of these! So happy you listened to the feedback! This is a great length for the video since you added peoples choice. Perfect!
6:14 - Possibly the best joke of 2018 Dice Tower. Tom was right behind with the support.
I would love to see videos, where you take a game that Tom likes and Zee or Sam did not play it never before and then they put some thoughts about it. Like Zee playing Yokohama or Marco Polo. I would looove to hear from Zee what would be his opinion about games that he would not normally take into consideration for playing. BTW Grrrrreat top 100 this year!
I've been waiting ALL week for this... always a great resource to see which games I expect will be making their way onto my wish list
Funniest top one hundred segment to date! Love you guys lol
36:15 I'm dying! So perfect Sam! Straight face and the wink. laughed so hard!
How is Rising Sun new to Sam's list? Wasn't it in his top 20 last year?
Edit: checked it, number 11
Just wait 'til the CMON version of Go - I hear the stretch goals minis will be amazing!
Still waiting for a king piece to ship to play their Chess version ;D
Wow, I'm shocked that Roll Player made the People's Choice Top 100. I really like the game, but didn't expect it to be widely liked. Great to hear that many people agree with my taste.
I laughed out loud so many times during this. Those last three minutes were great too!
One of my favorite sessions so far. Laughed so many times!
Best Top 100 section yet. Thanks, guys!
I'd really enjoy seeing more info on the banner bellow. Publisher, designer, artist and year it came out. Hopefully in next year top 100 :-) ... Keep the good work, fellows
...and where they bought it, where you can buy it, what the original MSRP was, what it's going for now on eBay/Amazon/CoolStuff, how many times they played it this year, how much time (cumulative) they have spent playing it...
@@jcb3393 yeah, you know. All the basics XD
@@jcb3393 best player count, BGG rating, BGG ranking, What SUSD thought of it, so we can turn this crap off and go watch their video....
3 point font was created for a reason!
Man...whatever you guys put in Zees drink, keep it coming 😀 I so enjoy the bantering guys!
That fist bump denial kills. I could watch that 100 times.
Your having fun over each other’s choices without getting offended is really professional and shows how board game taste could be personal and you should not care if someone does not like the same game. Except Monopoly. No one should like Monopoly :D
Fireball Island isn't available yet. The campaign fulfillment will begin shipping soon, but it very much isn't available for average people to play let alone buy.
It seems like the perfect family fun game to play with kids and adults alike, can't wait to get in the EU! But currently shipping is about 65 USD and you will only receive in January from AmaZon :/
@@MagogTheMagnificent yes it does look like a great family game. I'm looking forward to our copy arriving. Our kids were very excited when it was on Kickstarter.
Continuing my series, here are my 60-51: #60. Onirim, #59. Dice Town, #58. Saint Petersburg, #57. On the Underground, #56. Zooloretto, #55. Riverboat, #54. Between Two Cities, #53. Anomia, #52. Smash Up, and #51. Richard Garfield's Treasure Hunter.
Le Havre's expansion was one deck of special buildings called "Le Grand Hameau". The expansion also fixed the print on the "shipping Line" card.
Actually, it is the best of the worst of the best!
Where is Phillip Rhee?
Isn't it the worst 10 of the best half of the best games?
@@Mackerachi Nah. It's the best 10 of the second half of the Top 100. Don't be silly..
Oh, haha, that's true. For some reason I thought it was 50 - 41. :P
Precisely! It's the best part of the worst half of the best 100 games.
I adore Sam, but I've gotta agree with Tom. Mechs vs Minions has the highest production quality of any game ever. From the pre-painted heroes to the ludicrous amount of gloss-coated minions; the game is gorgeous and every component is the highest quality. The minions even have different poses, which is purely cosmetic, but a it's such a nice touch that Riot didn't have to do. The storage cases are incredible when the box is opened for the first time and the mission envelopes, the secret box and the layout of the instruction manual are all strokes of genius.
Rising Sun doesn't even come close. It's not that Rising Sun has "bad" production quality, but it's not even CMON's best, let alone better than Mechs vs Minions. To me, it's just another generic world map board with some colour-coded minis and plastic shrines. It's still great, as CMON usually is, but I think Mechs vs Minions is on a different level.
I love how the minions all have different poses, but still fit in any of the plastic slots regardless. That's taking designing to the next level :)
And I disagree that MvsM was a flash in the pan because of production and price point. It’s a great game and I feel people forget about it and hate in it because it’s only available from Riot. This is an amazing game that would still be talked about more without those who hate on it for those reasons (not just Sam here) and if it were more visible.
I won't argue with anyone who thinks Mechs v Minions is the highest production quality game ever because its excellence is undeniable. But if anything could give it a run for its money, it's an obscure Fragor game called Spellbound. Most people haven't heard of this game, but go check out pics of it on BGG and see if it changes your mind.
I would say that starship samurai is nicer than rising sun.
The problem is, especially in Sam’s case, he is equating production value with mini qualities. All cmon games beat out mechs at that point. But production value covers every component. Metal counters, trays, nice dice, sealed mission envelopes with nice gloss printed missions, beautiful art on every tile, hidden tiles that you discover later, strong boxes, good cards, sand timer, painted characters, and washed figures. Yes they were all three basic sculpts but the thought that went into making every model fit in every slot. Grand Slam production. If you have a retail copy of Rising Sun (I have blinged out KS) you get cards, cardboard, a beautiful board that is linen finish, and a ton of great minis made with multi color plastic. So on minis alone RS and LoH will win. But from top to bottom detail and quality on each piece maters with the word production. Just my opinion.
The poop jokes were so good! You just made me rotfl guys :) I think you are the best long-distance relation I ever had. Oups! That was awkward ;)
Look at Sam when Zee says that 25min isn't short :D :D priceless @49:25
P.S. Really appreciate you guys actually making the videos longer.
Glad the banter is back,made me laugh often..great list, and keep them coming!
You are getting better and better at this. :)
Love these lists, keep the banter coming guys.
This had me cracking up a couple of times. Thanks guys!
Ouch 7 Wonders is still in my top 10, but i see why it would slip for you guys. Dont see the appeal with Discoveries, it's one of the most boring games I've played, but hey to each their own. The Fist bump denial at 36:16 was amazing :)
I agree.. 7 wonders is in my top 5 for sure... The only thing I don't have is Babel, which was completely uninteresting to me. But Armada sounds really cool. Will definitely get that.
@@g8kpr3000 Babel is one I own but haven't technically played it. Both Babel and Great projects modules are sound and play pretty well, from playing a "learning" solo game with it.
LOL.... love the Sam and Zee singing "We Built This City" at the end.
My 51-60:
51. Mesopotamia
52. Drakon
53. Colt Express
54. Puerto Rico
55. Carcassonne (base game with some expansions)
56. Heroes Incorporated
57. Ra
58. Takenoko
59. Heebie Jeebies
60. Exodus: Proxima Centauri
Drakon is an unknown/underrated Take That Crawler that sees more play time then my actual Crawlers. Lol
Great show. Thanks
I loved the random breakout into a song.
My 60 - 51
60 - deckscape
59 - times up title recall
58 - ethnos
57 - Puerto Rico
56 - trajan
55 - oceanos
54 - merlin
53 - captain sonar
52 - the godfather corleones empire
51 - kemet
34:07 " Whatever you do, I'll be right here waiting for you." LOL
Liveplay goals: Sam, Tom, and Zee, A Feast for Odin.
The Top 100 lists at the Dice Tower website have 98 and 58 switched, so Kingdomino is #98, and Onitama is #58. (For the People's Choice lists)
After a little more checking, there are a lot of differences between the posted list and the video's for People's Choice. The reviewers lists seem to be the same. My comment above is incorrect, 98 on the video is not Kingdomino, but Gaia Project. Kingdomino is 98 on the website list.
Again a very entertaining video. Keep up the good work guys!
I just realized that Roll for the Galaxy makes Sam want to do violence to Zee. You all know the original face-smack, and now he slapped away the fist-bump.
Gotta say... Roll for the Galaxy IS better than the poop game. Although, glad to see the poop game on a list. I laughed a lot watching this one. Thanks, guys.
Best ending ever on these videos. You guys ROCK! Litterally speaking ofcause😂
I love how Zee got totally "Zee-d" by Sam with the poop game. He nearly lost his...well you know.... 😂😂 This is one of the most hilarious top tens yet!
I'm kinda annoyed all people can talk about is the production of Mechs vs Minions BECAUSE I think it's a great game. People get so anti hype snobby at the fact that is has that level of production, the game itself is a lot of great fun!
One of my favorite co-ops Mechs vs Minions made the list. Yeah :)
Actually we play a lot of dixit with nothing but tje cards and it works very well. We just say 1 2 3 go and then everyone points at a card. Dont even need to score, its a party game
Expansion for dead men tell no tales just came out. At least for kick starter backers. It’s called the kraken and has you fighting a huge kraken and it’s tentacles. Haven’t played it yet but it looks pretty good.
My personal list
51 - Isle of Skye
52 - Castles of Mad King Ludwig (super close!)
53 - Elysium
54 - Junk Art
55 - Reef
56 - Tabago
57 - Hero Realms
58 - Space Hulk: Death Angel
59 - Dimension
60 - Jump Drive
My rankings of games that they mentioned:
??? - Spirit Island
??? - Race for the Galaxy
??? - Yokohama
74 - Kingdomino
92 - Rising Sun
95 - Inis
106 - Karuba
121 - Mechs vs Minions
139 - 7 Wonders
174 - Dixit
177 - Specter Ops
Obviously there are a ton of really good games out there that I need to play xD
Before anyone gets high and mighty about things, I've played a grand total of 323 games as of this posting, so obviously a third of them will appear on the top 100 list because math.
Comments and questions are welcome!
I really think that Tom should set goals for his employees to play games from each others list that they haven't played. I just make sense. If a game is in any of these top 100 lists, then it's bound to be a pretty good game despite the fact that you guys don't always like the same things... at least give them a try. I think this could alter your lists in the future as you play really good games that for some reason you haven't... it's your job!
They are not his employees. Edit: They are :P
He is their boss.
What's the benefit of this? Sam loves conflict Ameritrash (think Twilight Imperium). Zee likes quirky puzzlers (think Onitama) and is way less concerned about theme.
What a waste of time forcing them to play each others games. At thousands of games deep, they can tell where they're likely to fall.
@John Smith: There are a quite a few games on their lists where someone went "hmm, I haven't tried that one yet" and not "eww, I would never play that game because ti's too long/boring/etc." Those are the games that they should prioritize playing together. For example, Tom needs to play First Class. Sam needs to play Robinson Crusoe (JK, I think he has finally played it now!).
Yeah - things they want to, maybe. But not as a goal, imo.
I for one love the banter and love the dice tower but I am hoping there isn't more references to padding out the video in the future ones. I am a little behind but most of them are up already I see. For those who really hate the banter and simply want to see a list you can go to the very end of the video.
Also when is the live marathon happening? I don't want to miss any of the games played live so please give us plenty of notice!
Such a fun video
I love these guys
I was watching this on an elliptical, and after laughing so hard I almost fell off the elliptical twice I switched to a stationary bike...
I'm digging Tom's upgrade in wardrobe he's been sporting lately. This hat and vest combo is, dare I say, a bit classy.
Much love for Domaine! One of the most underrated games ever. Ever!
The Marriage analogy was brilliant. We need more marriage analogies. And we need more reproduction analogies too.
I bought Bunny Kingdom when it came out at Gen Con and JUST FOUND OUT about the new board. Apparently its out of stock so I have to wait till next year.
I would love to teach Zee "Gaia Project". It's heavy, but it's not that long. I finish games in around 2 hours, usually. Either way, it is an absolutely fantastic game.
Ignoring the fact that you're an experienced player and you haven't said how many players you typically play with, I'm pretty sure Zee considers 2 hour games to be "long".
@@PandaOfElastic
Yeah, probably. I'll stick to (in this imaginary world where I teach him anything) getting him to finally play Feld's best game! I still can't believe he's never tried Castles of Burgundy....
I think the game mentioned here that he needs to play (and would actually enjoy) is Yokohama.
They are both great games, but that does not mean, Zee would like them.
@@markusschmidt9260 He likes Istanbul, why wouldn't he like Yokohama?
Discoveries is in my top 10. Great choice, Sam!
zee is the best, laugh so much
FYI there's an overlay error where Sam's number 52 says 82 instead
T-Shirt idea for you guys.
Dice Tower-isms:
1) Cult of the new
2) Alpha gamer
3) Staying power
WOW!!! I did not know Sam was not talking about his number 52 but instead he has two favorites in number 82. So 52 does not exist :p
Sam looks more mopey than usual, I hope he is doing okay! Good guys, good video.
Dustin Bates I think he’s just playing the part of the exasperated guy who has to put up with the two knuckleheads.
Surely the chess-stretch-goal has to be the 8x8-field, standard version is 6x6.
When you have crossovers, would you mind putting their numbers in the description? For example, Automania was Tom's 51 and Zee's 8x. Thanks!
Not a big deal, but isn't it "Manhattan Project 2: Minutes to Midnight?" Just judging the cover even that seems right.
You're correct. Even the Miami Dice review from June refers to it as Manhattan Project 2: Minutes to Midnight, as does bgg, Minion Games and all other sources
It's actually 2 Camel Cups to Midnight
Sam has invented the new version of face palm in this one. Head palm :)
David Sirlin has actually attempted to make an updated Chess called Chess 2. It has some interesting ideas.
I can understand the frustration of not finishing the castle in Castles but it is technically on theme as Ludwig never finished Neuschwanstein before he died.
Heroes of Black Reach is in the US and should be distributed soon. Hopefully Sam will have his copy soon :)
35:22 - Tom, what are "mad cakes"? Are those pancakes you make with syrup and spite?
Time stories feels like its the same tricks repeated often. That first time you see the tricks is an ah-ha! moment and its fun. The 3rd time its a grind. They also seemed to lose the reasons to actually reset the time and do the time travel thing after the 1st one.
I agree the 1st scenario was a 10 but some have been as low as a 3/4 for me.
You compared Inis to Twilight Struggle?
ZEE Marco Polo is amazing! you are absolutely insane!
There's a "Karuba the Roll and Write Game" coming out at Essen - Railroad Ink. It's not *exactly* that but it's got a lot of similarities.
I like co-op and I love tile exploration ( cough Sub Terra). Going to have to try dead men tell no tales.
Is Sam doing ok? Hasn't seemed to be enjoying this top 100 series this year :(
That's right Sam, keep reminding them of Fairy Tale
Tom mentioned Balderdash...I wonder if he's ever played Malarkey?
1 hour 14 minutes heck ya!!!!
“Old means gross” -zee 😂
Micropolis is EASILY a 30 minutes game.
It takes even less than that, which is why I get to play it on lunch time.
Yes!!! Tom! My thoughts exactly. Castles of MKL ends too soon!!!
So Sam's #60 is also his #2 game?
So if I buy Bunny Kingdom now it will definitely automatically come with the bigger board?
Yes
Unless you get old stock. The slightly bigger board is in the current run of the game, the lot # is: BKEN122017". If the date on the barcode is BEFORE 122017, you will get the smaller board
Wait, Tom was saying that he did not know about Mechs vs Minions before it came out? Did he not say before that they had brought him out to their studios and picked his brain about the game during it's development?
I didn't know the extent of the production, I meant. I thought it would be a Ticket to Ride sized box.
Pecunia Non Olet could have had an Indian theme instead. Seriously India does not have enough bathrooms it's a serious issue.
@3:50 we find out some interesting things about Sam
Zee Garcia #60: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Technically, Sam's #60 is also about tales. Oh, wait. That's tails.
You should rename the show “dice banter”!
blocking the fist bump, hahahaha!
Just because no one has commented on it yet, let alone 20, the game is Backgammon. 😁
Odd... but I miss the voice at the beginning of each new number announcing what number it is... Donde esta Eric Summerer? But great episode!
That's only in the top 10's.
Yes and no. In previous top 100s there was a unique countdown. Sometimes it was Eric, sometimes it was Eric's kid, once they had a different contributor do something different to countdown each segment of 10. It's varied from year to year.
Yokohama isn't as complicated as it looks. To me, it's just as good as Istanbul, but different enough to own both.
i get a little confused when you guys put German only games like ahem a smelly # 60 on your list . do you paste over the cards or what
'cept for the card titles, the game looks very language neutral. Lots of icons on the cards. Also from the BGG img showing a player aid card with a german flag, I would expect there to be an English player aid also.