Been waiting for this video. Love your discussion on the nominees every year

My 8 year old loves Azul and it's typically short enough that the "harshness" has not been an issue

So many videos at one time. Amazingggg. Time to get some snacks and relax.

Playing Azul wrong was a highlight of the con. Playing it correctly is a continually rewarding journey. Azul is the only game on that table that I like.

@BadgeGuy

6 жыл бұрын

You should publicly shame that person that taught you wrong at the con. Oh, wait..... never mind.

@clumsydad7158

6 жыл бұрын

... doesn't it seem like almost any game is slightly more fun when played wrong?

Really well thought out reviews, thanks all. Thoroughly enjoyed the depth of thought here

Great job guys! You have such a wonderful atmosphere in your group. Awesome "advertising" for the hobby!

amazing job guys .... i'm just catching up after my usual first half of year hiatus ... great discussion , thanks much

Dear friends of GameNight! A looot of people here in Germany played the monk activation wrong the first times! Believe me, it's not language dependant! ;-) We're all gamers wanting to activate nearly everything! :) Thanks for this brilliant content tonight with so many wonderful videos!

@heccubus1

6 жыл бұрын

Marco, thanks for letting us know. I guess it is just easy to get wrong. Thanks for watching and the note.

The Mind is interesting as I agree with Lincoln. Every time I love played it there was always 1 person who clearly cannot get in sync or got the timing/body language whereas everyone else was on the same page. That's completely fascinating.

Azul and Heaven and Ale should win. Michael Kiesling is on a terror! Riverboat is also an fantastic game

@clumsydad7158

6 жыл бұрын

Mr. Warsch got some luv

Excellent discussion! I was in "high anticipation mode" for this episode. Thank you! I think that Lincoln makes some excellent points about the challenges some people have engaging with The Mind - this is not to fault the players for whom the game does not click, I know there are types of games that don't work for me. Nonetheless, it has indeed generated many moments of brilliant joy and is my favorite of the bunch. Also, some excellent points raised by Lincoln about Azul as a FAMILY game. To those points, I add the individual scoreboards that the players have (I don't trust Nana!), their small size, and the ease that marker cubes are bumped (remember that?). Also, I do wonder about how strong of a driver the positional placing of tiles in the mosaic actually is: I wonder if the scoring benefits of neighboring tiles, when added through the course of the game, actually end up being a rather random reward. I wonder ...

The Mind is ok, but for families with social issues, it tends to be too stressful. Holding eye contact is rough for some folks. Azul is my pick. Really enjoyed the video!

Awesome video. As much as I enjoy the playthroughs this special every year is always the episode I most look forward to. My guess for the KdJ for a while now has been Quacksalber, in spite of it being the one I haven't yet played. I've watched a number of playthroughs now and it looks like it hits that sweet spot between luck and strategy and is just a lot of fun. Plus a ton of replay value with the different powers on the tokens. And don't get me wrong, I love Heaven and Ale, it's one of the best games I've played in the past few years. But it's definitely too heavy to win what is really a family+ game award (and to be clear there's nothing wrong with that, obviously I'm here following and anticipating the award, and a number of the nominees are also among my favorites). I'd be shocked if it won. And I had to laugh at the Kanban comments, because that's a top 10 game for me. Heaven and Ale is interesting because from my perspective it's actually on the lighter side of my favorite games, but still definitely feels too heavy to win a KdJ. Pretty Clever on the other hand just didn't have nearly the staying power I wanted. No criticism intended to Dave, it's awesome that you've played it so much and you still really enjoy it, but for me after about ten solo plays in a 24 hour period I was just totally done with it and I felt like I'd seen everything there was to be seen. So to me it's hard to understand how it would win, but maybe that's my flawed perspective. And I mean, most of those games were fun before I got burnt out, and ten games is quite a lot more than some games I've played (Russian Railroads lasted like three plays, and those were stretched out over a much longer time period). Also, The Mind is an interesting one. I respect it a lot for creating a really interesting and unique experience, but I also sort of feel like once I've had that experience I've seen what the game has to offer and other than potentially wanting to give others that experience I don't really feel any need to revisit it. Especially if the context is the same group playing over and over I just don't see myself going back to it, and I think that's the group the award targets, a fairly static group. It definitely deserves kudos for creating that experience and I don't think there's anything quite like it, but I don't know if I could give it the award. But it would also be a lot of fun seeing a ton of people on BGG freak out if it won (and like I said, as a design I really respect it), so part of me is rooting for it. I wonder if you've ever considered doing more videos like this that are just focused on discussing games. Like I said, I definitely enjoy the playthroughs and the discussions after them, but it would also be really cool to see more videos like this where there's a lot of discussion and comparison.

Azul and Heaven wil win for sure. I love those games.

I loved playing The Mind! I need to get a copy for myself. The demonstrative, nonverbal communication is a lot of fun but I also agree with Dave that playing with absolutely no communication is a blast too. Quacksalber was so much fun - the push your luck and strategic bag building mechanics played really well together. I think Lincoln just has crazy good luck with this game!! I definitely want to play this game again when the english version comes out. Thanks GameNight for the review!

I'd most certainly nominate Azul and Heaven & Ale to win. I own both games and when I ask people who are "new" to board games(Sure they've played Monopoly, Chess, Checkers, and Life) after playing what I consider gateway games(Ie Ticket to Ride, Jamaica, Royals) they've chosen either of these 2 games and loved both. I personally like both because not only are they simple to teach but they're also simple to play and are greatly done.

And once again Lincoln is spot on in his predictions!

@boardgamegeek

6 жыл бұрын

Heh, not entirely. Nikki takes that distinction this year. I knew Azul was very likely to win but I really was pulling for The Mind.-Lincoln

@astod7792

6 жыл бұрын

BoardGameGeek True enough! (I had to rewatch ;) but nevertheless that still does not rob Lincoln of sdj prophet status from the bgg show episode just before they announced the nominees on May 10... I think he called at least 6 of the games that were either nominees or on the recommended list for sdj and ksdj. I'm a Lincoln believer!

Favorites: SDJ: The Mind KSDJ: Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg Predictions: SDJ: Azul KSDJ: Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg

@clumsydad7158

6 жыл бұрын

any game that makes people in Indiana say "quacksalber" has to be good

@cucho6873

5 жыл бұрын

Your prediction was supercorrect

Thought Richard Dreyfuss was guesting for a minute there Rusty ;) It's a shame The Mind didn't click with Rusty, it's so much fun. If you can't read expression, can you read time differentiation? Another aspect of The Mind. Great discussion guys, thanks for the company.

@clumsydad7158

6 жыл бұрын

...everyone needs to see "the goodbye girl", hilarious, dreyfus absolutely nailed that one

Nikki's shirt is so rad!

I Love all 6 games. So much better than the years before.

What was the coop dexterity game they mentioned? Something like Marara?

Heaven and Ale is an Amazing Game!

Luxor seems the most family friendly.like some 80s crazy game

Great pronunciation of „Spiel des Jahres“, Dave!!

I took -14 points and still won the game.

Best show about the nominations in the net. I love the discussion element. Having not played Heaven & Ale but watching the game that you guys played, it feels to me a lot like Palaces of Carrara. With the tile placement and the scoring element. But Codenames is a bore fest to watch and to play ;-))

@clumsydad7158

6 жыл бұрын

def the best discussion.... boardgamegeek is clearly the premiere channel now, kudos ! i don't really see the sim. with palaces of carrara, but i so wish they would reprint that game, it is lush loveliness

@marcohoehener463

6 жыл бұрын

Clumsy Dad in that game, you also choose to place the tile for points or for money. You also decide when you wanna score your cities or building types. That what feels samey to me. The other mechanics are probably different but i just got that feeling when i watched them play.

@clumsydad7158

6 жыл бұрын

i gotcha, ty

Good review guys and gal

I’m really torn between Azul and The Mind. Azul feels like the game that falls in the tradition of forever games in the mould of ticket to ride which will always be worth a game. But the mind is so wild with what it does with the people playing. I agree with Dave - it’s a co-op where you can always feel neutral about losses and great about victories. The game does need a pseudo moderator though - it needs a player to maintain the no bad feeling tone and convince everyone to buy into the magic circle. Ganz is amazing. It’s mind boggling how balanced things feel but also how it maintains momentum (constraints are the death of many roll and writes). Also I’ve finished the book playing mostly two player (the true award :))

Good Stuff :)

I'm hoping Heaven and Azul win.

What's the name of the co-op stacking game @ 1:13:40?

@frankytunggaldjaja210

6 жыл бұрын

Menara

@jtflynn

6 жыл бұрын

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244608/menara

@michaelmills4924

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you both.

I think Luxor will win...it's a typical family game which tends to win the spiel... funnily I've got both the other games which I love... Couldn't even guess the kennerspeil...great video...thanks to you all.

@clumsydad7158

6 жыл бұрын

luxor is quite an appealing game... i like the mech of sending meeples back to the beginning to get more loot, very cool

What's Richard Dreyfus doing in this video? ;)

I hate artificial catch-up mechanisms; glad I heard Dave talk about Quacksalber.

@DianeMountford

6 жыл бұрын

When I watched their play of Quacksalber, I formed a different impression of the rat tail mechanism, which did seem a little artificial at first. But instead of a "catch up mechanism," it seems like a way that enforces consistent excellence round over round. If people start at more-or-less the same place on the spiral each round, the player who plays each round the best will win the game. Some of that is luck, of course, but I'm interested to experience it myself and see what I think.

@danteshydratshirt2360

6 жыл бұрын

to play devils advocate when is a catchup mechanism natural in a game?

When I started watching the DQVQ gameplay, I also thought that the “socialism” mechanic was not nice. “Socialism” mechanics negate a player’s efforts to play better. On the other hand, sometimes these mechanics are needed, and I gradually got to think that in this game this mechanic is actually well implemented. I never played the game myself and I could be wrong, but it seems to me that this game benefits a runaway player; the benefits you get from being ahead actually help you a lot to get better and better scores, and I think that the rat tails are not powerful enough to totally negate that, while keeping the players in the back still interested in playing the game all the way to the end.

@tiagomarques9822

6 жыл бұрын

And now I get to the part of the video where Dave mentions that this mechanic might indeed have been added later.

Will we ever see/hear about those stats...about who is ahead in forecasting the correct winners? :)

@MarkJohnson-hw2xo

6 жыл бұрын

I’ll post them on BGG sometime soon

@teen-at-heart

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Johnson Cool, thanks!

@MarkJohnson-hw2xo

6 жыл бұрын

Here they are boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/150604/item/6260859?commentid=8141265#comment8141265

@teen-at-heart

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Johnson Thanks so much!

Not sure why, but I feel like the SDJ nominees are kind of bland this year. I own all three from last year, but this year I only have a mild interest in Luxor. I don't understand the love for Azul, or The Mind.

I think the mind is a great experience but not a “board game” just my opinion

@bobbylow175

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Standalone card games should be labelled card games and not board game.