Another great video! I'm sooooo happy you found Nana! It's soooo much fun! It was great meeting you & I hope to run into you two again (and game at the table)! Cheers!
Planning on going to Japan and attending the Tokyo Games Market at the end of April, and this video is is so brilliantly useful. Looking forward to checking out some second hand board games as well now - wish more of the Australian board game shops had second hand sections like this. Thanks for the excellent video.
You should see one half of our gaming room 😂 we could stop buying and have games for years... how do we get more hours into the day??? 🙃 thank you for watching!
WAOW! What a haul! Love your channel so much! So much care and craft in how things are reviewed and shared. I always push your channel whenever I talk about content creators! Hoping I can make it to TGM one of these years! much love from Seattle!
Hi Amy and Maggie! Really glad to hear that you guys had a fun time in Japan, and great that you got to hang out with Monique and Naveen too. We are living in Tokyo, and made it to the Tokyo Game Market this year for the first time. What a great experience it was! You also picked up a really great haul of games. Shibuya is one that I am particularly interested in trying out. Thanks for all of the great content and keep up the good work! Cheers!
What a fun video! Sounds like a dream trip, definitely very high on my bucket list. I’ve been taking a break from TH-cam/social media but this was a nice treat to come back to :)
Wow, I'm taking my family to Japan in a few weeks and was just about to start researching Tokyo game stores and interesting local games to look for. Talk about great timing for me! Thanks so much for the video! Excited to do my own exploring next month!
Missed you both in TH-cam land. So I watched all 38 games covered! And let me guess, you like trick taking games. 😂 That is hilarious about Luciano but at least you got to see him if not understand him. I want to visit Japan again one day (have been to Osaka and Kyoto but not Tokyo).
My favorite trick-taking games of those you just bought: Schadenfreude, Nokosu Dice, Boast or Nothing, and luz. I have not played Knights with Poison, but the push your luck looks really fun. Hope they bring you much gaming joy!
KINGs Tricktakers may sound intimidating but you’ll enjoy it if you like trick taking games. Backed it on KS and received it 2 months before the estimated delivery date! The drafting of roles is just the tip of the iceberg. With only 5 tricks per round (3 rounds total), every trick becomes crucial as everyone tries to meet their bids. The tension is palpable! Add the different combination of roles each round and you have an amazing trick taking game!
Eee! We love trick taking so can't wait to try this, even if it is a bit intimidating. Love a high tension game though! Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts 😊
I love japan and I love boardgames so this is the perfect combo ^_^ Keep the good work. I love your channel!!! And by the way. I live in Coimbra so I gave to play that game and grab the beautiful expansion 😊
Your time looked so fun!!! I was following along on Insta and there was just so much joy going on. I actually had Stereo Mind sent to me and need to get it to the table for review! Loved this video , couldn't stop laughing at Maggie's teaching of nightmare millionaire! 😆😆
Such great tips for the game market! We went to Japan recently and I went to about eight game stores in Tokyo alone, some of them multiple times haha. I can still see the eye rolling every time I mentioned a board game store! DT west, TGM and Essen in one year? You ladies are the ultimate relationship goal right there! Hope to see you soon and try all the quirky games :D Tom and Alex
Hi, what a great trip you had. Gee, how many trick taking games can there be? New top10 list maybe? I only once made it over to Tokyo, for tooo few days; 3 only on a stop-over. Wasn't even able to find a shop with great and expansive Go-stones. (I need a new set, my old ones are getting fewer, and some are shipped off.) But I need to go on a historical Go-trip (with museums etc.) to some other cities in Japan. If I manage time (and extra money) for other game-shops - that will have to be seen. Great video.
OMG Nana Toridori is gorgeous! I LOVE Skull King! A friend who is usually very good brought this and we played and I crushed. I was honestly shocked as he's usually one of the best players I know but apparently he had never played it before. But the tension of the pirate, mermaid, and skull king cards was nervewracking. I'm very glad we do not eat the hamster.
A bit late here, but I thoroughly enjoyed this video - so much so that I watched it twice! So many good games! So happy / jealous you were able to find Nokosu Dice. That game is so good! I'm waiting for my TGM order to make its way over and I'm regretting not adding Peas to it, so now I have to make a new order. Hooray for Boast or Nothing! That's one of my favorites... I played it four times at DTW. :D Nana is weirdly good. The rules sound so... not good, and I dislike memory games, yet I love this game! Perfumery... I love this game so much. I think you will BOTH love it because the theme works well, but the mechanisms are fantastic. Plus cute wooden tokens. You were called away to another game when I started teaching David and Edward. Yokohama Roll & Write is *excellent* - I think you'll really like this one as well. It's a meaty roll & write. Thank you for sharing your travels with us!
You met Hisashi Hayashi? へええ。。。ボードゲームの世界の有名人。。。！We love Yokohama Duel and I didn't know that there was a roll and write version. You'll have to let us know how it is. And I also learned that Yodobashi Camera sellls board games. Who knew?! Anyway,, I liked the design of Tatsu and who cannot love the game name "Fish, Farewell, Forever"? Welcome home and glad to hear that you had such a fun trip!
Glad to see you enjoyed your time here! TGM is unfortunately a bit too far for me, but if you ever find yourself coming to the Osaka game market (once a year) I'd be happy to know about it
I'm pretty sure that the game nana you mentioned is a game recently edited in French called Trio and edited by cocktail games. It has a lot of buzz in France indeed!
The thing about Shephy is there's a complete champaign with a decent story, in the app/Steam only though, i bought the physical copy purely for sentimental value.
@@ThinkerThemer my bad, I didn't see that! 😅 Anyway, you guys do more of these when you travel. And maybe you'll consider doing another one-time IAQ video at some point? 🤞 I miss those and loved getting to know you guys more 🙂
Thank you for mentioning Dokitto Ice, designed by my daughter Lana. Listening to your rules explanation, you have the "Game Market" version of the rules. If you ever need the English translation of the rules for the new Arclight version, let me know on BGG, and I'll send them your way. Again, thanks!
I had been thinking of expanding my smaller card games as I tend to gravitate to big "themed" games and I picked up Trio ... and with Nana I was thinking ... this sounds familiar? 🤔 And indeed it's the French Version that I have, not as cute but really as fun :) I also picked up Parade as a Monique& Naveen recommendation but that one I haven't played yet. But damm, I didn't know Japan had so many boardgames 😭. I really tried to find some lesser known stuff when I was there as art style wise I think I have the same taste as you :) But it was mainly manga, figures and an unholy amount of trading cards from Fire Emblem but yeah maybe it's for the best because I made sure my ticket had 2 suitcases included ... and I left with one ... but else I would have been so over the weight :D Hope you have fun at Essen this year. Do bring that extra suitcase ;)
The deck is made up of 5 cards each of numbers 1-5, 7-9, 11-15. Note there is no 6 or 10! Each grouping of numbers is separated into a “suit,” though the suits are more about helping see what’s in your hand and aren’t important for gameplay. This creates no more than a run of 5 cards in the first and third suit and a run of 3 in the second suit. That’s why it’s called 535!
Hehe yesss Marceline thank you!!! This slowly dawned on me when I was taught the game at Dice Tower West. And by slowly I mean...far too slowly... 😂 which I think is what Shelby might be referring to! 🙃 In my defence I was very tired. Lololol. Thank you both for watching ❤️
@@ThinkerThemer I taught this at Geekway and as I splayed out the cards and explained that they're separated into sets of 5-3-5 (hence the name of the game!) I did not catch that I had actually laid them out into sets of 5-3-4 which caused some initial confusion - a quick correction - and then continued ribbing through the rest of the weekend. From that point on, whenever I was teaching any game - at some point I'd be asked: "Yes, but why is it called 5-3-5?" Also: looking forward to playing B.O.N. with you!
Was just in Tokyo couple months ago too. Bought a handful of games from yellow submarine, did a video of it on my new TH-cam channel! Oh, are you watching top chef all-stars? ;)
What? No Aqua Garden or do you have it already? Aqua Garden isn`t available at all for the western country market.....let`s hope that they will schedule another KS for this game incl. expansions in the near future.... About "Schadenfreude": You are exactly wright. Schadenfreude is a German word (I´m from Germany) and it`s the joy over the misfortune of somebody else. A good example would be: Playing Galaxy Trucker and you laugh about the destroying of somebody elses ship....as an example from the gaming world.
Hi Daniel! That is so great to know... thanks for connecting (and for watching! 😊) We have a private discord attached to our TH-cam membership. We wanted to create a safe space. Happy to always chat here though too. Where r u based?
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Waited one hour and 14 minutes to hear Amy mention that she loves a rondel.... Worth it.
I actually laughed out loud at this. Thanks Robert 😂
You're very welcome! You two are the best. 🙃
Amazing!!! So glad you got some amazing picks!! The Nightmare Millionaire teach sounds hilarious!!!
Another great video! I'm sooooo happy you found Nana! It's soooo much fun! It was great meeting you & I hope to run into you two again (and game at the table)! Cheers!
I'm going to Japan soon and this was very helpful thank you!!!
Planning on going to Japan and attending the Tokyo Games Market at the end of April, and this video is is so brilliantly useful. Looking forward to checking out some second hand board games as well now - wish more of the Australian board game shops had second hand sections like this.
Thanks for the excellent video.
So glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and have an amazing trip to Japan! 😃
Glad you enjoyed your time here.
OMG!!!! so happy you are back and posting videos again.... missed your videos sooooo much!!!🤩
Very fortunate to be travelling to Japan soon, a year on what are your favourite games that you got and ones you'd recommend. Going from Australia
Nice to hear you enjoyed Japan! That is an intimidating amount of new games to go through!
You should see one half of our gaming room 😂 we could stop buying and have games for years... how do we get more hours into the day??? 🙃 thank you for watching!
Hi Amy and Maggie! Happy to hear you had a GREAT time in Japan! Thanks for the video and have a great week :-)!
Thanks for always chiming in with such a supportive comment. It always means so much to us. Hope we can meet soon! ❤️
WAOW! What a haul! Love your channel so much! So much care and craft in how things are reviewed and shared. I always push your channel whenever I talk about content creators! Hoping I can make it to TGM one of these years!
much love from Seattle!
Enchanted Plumes is one of my favourite games! Money well spent!
It's so pretty! Glad you love this one Rachel! Thanks for watching 😊
Hi Amy and Maggie! Really glad to hear that you guys had a fun time in Japan, and great that you got to hang out with Monique and Naveen too. We are living in Tokyo, and made it to the Tokyo Game Market this year for the first time. What a great experience it was! You also picked up a really great haul of games. Shibuya is one that I am particularly interested in trying out. Thanks for all of the great content and keep up the good work! Cheers!
I love Goat n’ Goat! It’s great at 2p-and I’ve even uploaded a solo mode variant to bgg 😊
Oooooo this is very exciting to hear! Cant wait to give it a go. Thank you for being one of those wonderful people contributing to bgg resources 🥰
What a fun video! Sounds like a dream trip, definitely very high on my bucket list. I’ve been taking a break from TH-cam/social media but this was a nice treat to come back to :)
Wow, I'm taking my family to Japan in a few weeks and was just about to start researching Tokyo game stores and interesting local games to look for. Talk about great timing for me! Thanks so much for the video! Excited to do my own exploring next month!
Great video. Love hearing about all these games I've never heard of before. Looking forward to digging through some unique games in Taiwan next month.
Missed you both in TH-cam land. So I watched all 38 games covered! And let me guess, you like trick taking games. 😂 That is hilarious about Luciano but at least you got to see him if not understand him. I want to visit Japan again one day (have been to Osaka and Kyoto but not Tokyo).
What a great recap! Glad you had an awesome time in Japan! I hope you bring a couple of those games with you to the next DTW 2024😊!
We absolutely will! Wish we could smash through all of them together... that would be so fun. Hope you've been well and not working too hard ❤️
@@ThinkerThemer That would be fun!! All well here! ❤️
My favorite trick-taking games of those you just bought: Schadenfreude, Nokosu Dice, Boast or Nothing, and luz.
I have not played Knights with Poison, but the push your luck looks really fun.
Hope they bring you much gaming joy!
KINGs Tricktakers may sound intimidating but you’ll enjoy it if you like trick taking games. Backed it on KS and received it 2 months before the estimated delivery date! The drafting of roles is just the tip of the iceberg. With only 5 tricks per round (3 rounds total), every trick becomes crucial as everyone tries to meet their bids. The tension is palpable! Add the different combination of roles each round and you have an amazing trick taking game!
Eee! We love trick taking so can't wait to try this, even if it is a bit intimidating. Love a high tension game though! Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts 😊
I love japan and I love boardgames so this is the perfect combo ^_^
Keep the good work. I love your channel!!!
And by the way. I live in Coimbra so I gave to play that game and grab the beautiful expansion 😊
Some absolutely brilliant games picked up there - definitely jealous you managed to get Nokosu Dice (great find!).
Your time looked so fun!!! I was following along on Insta and there was just so much joy going on. I actually had Stereo Mind sent to me and need to get it to the table for review! Loved this video , couldn't stop laughing at Maggie's teaching of nightmare millionaire! 😆😆
Such great tips for the game market!
We went to Japan recently and I went to about eight game stores in Tokyo alone, some of them multiple times haha. I can still see the eye rolling every time I mentioned a board game store!
DT west, TGM and Essen in one year? You ladies are the ultimate relationship goal right there!
Hope to see you soon and try all the quirky games :D
Tom and Alex
Hi, what a great trip you had. Gee, how many trick taking games can there be? New top10 list maybe? I only once made it over to Tokyo, for tooo few days; 3 only on a stop-over. Wasn't even able to find a shop with great and expansive Go-stones. (I need a new set, my old ones are getting fewer, and some are shipped off.) But I need to go on a historical Go-trip (with museums etc.) to some other cities in Japan. If I manage time (and extra money) for other game-shops - that will have to be seen. Great video.
Really great video - I'm hoping to go to Japan soon, so it's given me a few ideas 😀
Would be great to hear your top games from Japan!
OMG Nana Toridori is gorgeous!
I LOVE Skull King! A friend who is usually very good brought this and we played and I crushed. I was honestly shocked as he's usually one of the best players I know but apparently he had never played it before. But the tension of the pirate, mermaid, and skull king cards was nervewracking.
I'm very glad we do not eat the hamster.
A bit late here, but I thoroughly enjoyed this video - so much so that I watched it twice!
So many good games! So happy / jealous you were able to find Nokosu Dice. That game is so good! I'm waiting for my TGM order to make its way over and I'm regretting not adding Peas to it, so now I have to make a new order.
Hooray for Boast or Nothing! That's one of my favorites... I played it four times at DTW. :D Nana is weirdly good. The rules sound so... not good, and I dislike memory games, yet I love this game!
Perfumery... I love this game so much. I think you will BOTH love it because the theme works well, but the mechanisms are fantastic. Plus cute wooden tokens. You were called away to another game when I started teaching David and Edward.
Yokohama Roll & Write is *excellent* - I think you'll really like this one as well. It's a meaty roll & write.
Thank you for sharing your travels with us!
You met Hisashi Hayashi? へええ。。。ボードゲームの世界の有名人。。。！We love Yokohama Duel and I didn't know that there was a roll and write version. You'll have to let us know how it is. And I also learned that Yodobashi Camera sellls board games. Who knew?! Anyway,, I liked the design of Tatsu and who cannot love the game name "Fish, Farewell, Forever"? Welcome home and glad to hear that you had such a fun trip!
Glad to see you enjoyed your time here! TGM is unfortunately a bit too far for me, but if you ever find yourself coming to the Osaka game market (once a year) I'd be happy to know about it
I'm pretty sure that the game nana you mentioned is a game recently edited in French called Trio and edited by cocktail games. It has a lot of buzz in France indeed!
The thing about Shephy is there's a complete champaign with a decent story, in the app/Steam only though, i bought the physical copy purely for sentimental value.
Enchanted plumes is top 5 family favorite of ours
Love these travel-based videos! Can you tell me the names of the secondhand stores you guys stopped at? Currently planning a trip to Tokyo & Kyoto.
All of the links are in the description! Glad you are enjoying these and hope you have a wonderful time in Japan!! ☺️
@@ThinkerThemer my bad, I didn't see that! 😅 Anyway, you guys do more of these when you travel. And maybe you'll consider doing another one-time IAQ video at some point? 🤞 I miss those and loved getting to know you guys more 🙂
Very cool. I’ll be heading over in October. Hoping to get some soloable games. How did you manage to get English rules for these games?
Thank you for mentioning Dokitto Ice, designed by my daughter Lana. Listening to your rules explanation, you have the "Game Market" version of the rules. If you ever need the English translation of the rules for the new Arclight version, let me know on BGG, and I'll send them your way. Again, thanks!
So game 6 has some similarities as woodcraft for modifying card value. Ok, sounds neat and Halloween theme is fun.
I had been thinking of expanding my smaller card games as I tend to gravitate to big "themed" games and I picked up Trio ... and with Nana I was thinking ... this sounds familiar? 🤔
And indeed it's the French Version that I have, not as cute but really as fun :)
I also picked up Parade as a Monique& Naveen recommendation but that one I haven't played yet. But damm, I didn't know Japan had so many boardgames 😭. I really tried to find some lesser known stuff when I was there as art style wise I think I have the same taste as you :)
But it was mainly manga, figures and an unholy amount of trading cards from Fire Emblem but yeah maybe it's for the best because I made sure my ticket had 2 suitcases included ... and I left with one ... but else I would have been so over the weight :D
Hope you have fun at Essen this year. Do bring that extra suitcase ;)
Amy, can you please explain why 5-3-5 is called 5-3-5… 😅 Glad to hear you had an awesome trip and scored some great games!! 🥳❤
The deck is made up of 5 cards each of numbers 1-5, 7-9, 11-15. Note there is no 6 or 10! Each grouping of numbers is separated into a “suit,” though the suits are more about helping see what’s in your hand and aren’t important for gameplay. This creates no more than a run of 5 cards in the first and third suit and a run of 3 in the second suit. That’s why it’s called 535!
Hehe yesss Marceline thank you!!! This slowly dawned on me when I was taught the game at Dice Tower West. And by slowly I mean...far too slowly... 😂 which I think is what Shelby might be referring to! 🙃 In my defence I was very tired. Lololol.
Thank you both for watching ❤️
@@ThinkerThemer I taught this at Geekway and as I splayed out the cards and explained that they're separated into sets of 5-3-5 (hence the name of the game!) I did not catch that I had actually laid them out into sets of 5-3-4 which caused some initial confusion - a quick correction - and then continued ribbing through the rest of the weekend. From that point on, whenever I was teaching any game - at some point I'd be asked: "Yes, but why is it called 5-3-5?" Also: looking forward to playing B.O.N. with you!
Can't believe you were able to nab a copy of Nokosu Dice! it is VERY revered and basically can't be bought anywhere!!
I'm curious to know what both your impressions were about sheep n sheep & goat n goat.
Still waiting, no video since your mention here on Goat 'n' Goat or Sheep 'n' Sheep 😢
It’s a flock of sheep😊
🤣 ooopsssss... thank you 😆
Was just in Tokyo couple months ago too. Bought a handful of games from yellow submarine, did a video of it on my new TH-cam channel! Oh, are you watching top chef all-stars? ;)
What? No Aqua Garden or do you have it already? Aqua Garden isn`t available at all for the western country market.....let`s hope that they will schedule another KS for this game incl. expansions in the near future....
About "Schadenfreude": You are exactly wright. Schadenfreude is a German word (I´m from Germany) and it`s the joy over the misfortune of somebody else. A good example would be: Playing Galaxy Trucker and you laugh about the destroying of somebody elses ship....as an example from the gaming world.
I need to stop watching your videos. So. Many. Games. Added. To. My. Wish. List.
Welcome back TT! 🎉 Love your videos as always. I’m a J-E translator btw. Love if I can ever be of help in the future. Where is your discord link?
Hi Daniel! That is so great to know... thanks for connecting (and for watching! 😊) We have a private discord attached to our TH-cam membership. We wanted to create a safe space. Happy to always chat here though too. Where r u based?
@@ThinkerThemer No problem! I’m in Perth myself.