Pro,: you can play it with regular coasters, a deck of cards or almost anything you have at hand

Replayability huge for me. I've played this dozens of time over the last "no idea how many" years. Great game, nice and quick, fun, but good. Works ok ish with 3, but better with more.

With what you said about the teach of the game I completely agree, but also think it’s hilarious as you teach the rules and people just think ‘is that it?’. Playing a round really is the best way to teach it after that.

Thanks for this, easily the best intro to this game out there. Cheers.

I think the response to your neutral #2 is a matter of player count and bidding procedure. Playing with more players could offset the low bid tendency. Luckily, you can create more player components fairly easy with beer coasters or playing cards or whatever. Also, if you open bid instead of in turn order, you put more tension on that bid portion.

@Themhambone

6 жыл бұрын

open bidding sounds interesting, it becomes more auction like? What do you think of this as a quick variant to address Neutral #2: Each player gets one Veto per round, during the challenge phase before the 'Challenger' is identified you can play a coaster (Veto) instead of of Increasing the Bid or Passing. Play then continues to the next player with the option to Add Disks or Issue a New Challenge

I do have a negative.. Price. The price is fairly high for a bunch of coasters

@Guiltygear008

4 жыл бұрын

Well nothing is stopping you from making your own version for free if you really find it to expensive.

Great review. And a great game, in my opinion, too, I just bought it and played it a lot right away. One thing, though, is that the coasters and cards very quickly become visibly worn in the print, which is unfortunate for a bluffing game. On one of my colors it is very easy to identify the skull on the backside, because there's a worn spot. And as these cards are thrown, slapped and dragged on the table (all in good fun), you can almost spot the diference from session to session. That's too bad. I would suspect I would have to go out and get a new copy at some point in the near future. For the game itself is brilliant!

Great review! Love the format and breakdown.

Con: I think this game can be ruined by a single spill, drop, or scrape on the cards

Thanks!

Jon, I have a weird question. I write for MeepleTown but have started vlogging some. What's your secret for taking breaths while talking so much? You hardly miss a beat and don't make a ton of noise. I can't even tell when you're stopping to breathe half the time.

@JonGetsGames

8 жыл бұрын

+Derek Thompson Unfortunately I don't think I have a great answer to your question. I can see my breathes on the audio bar when I am editing, they are a small little bump of audio, and whenever I happen to take a big breathe I sometimes edit it out (this is probably only once or twice per whole video though). In general when I'm speaking to the camera it looks like I just take very short quiet breathes somehow, it feels natural to me now though I don't know if I've always had this or if it has evolved over the 2 years I've been filming. It's also possible that my microphone (Rode SmartLAV) plus the "background noise removal" button that I click in Final Cut Pro do a good job of chopping this sound out for me.

FYI - this game plays surprisingly differently with just 3 players. It's brutal - like a knife fight in a phone booth. Very back-stabby and a bit mean feelings. Also, you certainly can play it with more than 6 players. Just combine 2 sets. There is no reason why different players can't have the same color "cards"

This was an excellent review, glad I found it :)

Top 10 all time for me. Nice review

How do you call off if you have put your own skull in your first round???

Nice review, new sub here.

I guess I don't like bluffing games in general. I just played this recently (I won) and didn't find it anything special. It's just guessing and people generally challenged before everyone laid down two coasters. There's light deduction and that's pretty much it. Oh, we missed one rule, that you have to flip over all of yours before any others. I can see that that adds another element to the bluffing. But I don't remember winning any challenges without flipping over my own. And I lost my skull early on anyway.

Can't you implement a rule where you can't challenge unless at least two coasters are placed for each player?.

@JonGetsGames

8 жыл бұрын

Yep, a houserule is very easily implemented which could help this group think issue out.

Silly question, but what is that table cover your playing on? I like it. Also, great video. I think I have to add this one to the library.

@JonGetsGames

4 жыл бұрын

It's just a long piece of fabric I picked up from Joannes about 5 years ago. I've gotten a LOT of mileage out of it over the years. I picked it because I wanted some texture but also wanted a neutral color to not have certain board game pieces be hard to see.

@Whiskyjumper

4 жыл бұрын

@@JonGetsGames Thanks! I like it and it works quite well for your purpose it seems. The pieces are easy to see and the games look nice on it. I'll have to see if I can find something similar.

It didn't work, the game becomes predictable. No Thanks was much better and more suspenseful: the number of chips gets higher and higher, you don't really know when it's going to stop.