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Excelente explanation. I was having a hard time understating with other tutorials but you really nailed it! I get it now.
If there's a tie in mak rolls, you don't split the points. Each player gets full points.
Same with pudding
Awesome job! Excited to play with my kids, thank you 😊
😊 depending on how old your kids are, if they have a hard time learning the game, I'd recommend sorting out the deck to just teach them half the card types at first, then add in new types every time you play until they know them all.
I’m confused. You can only hold 10 gems at ones. But I see something that cost 13 gems
Development cards count as gems that you can permanently use for the rest of the game and do not count toward your 10 gems limit
Thanks for answering this so fast! That's exactly right. It's impossible to save up enough gems to buy the expensive cards at the beginning of the game. But once you've bought some cheaper cards, those give you basically a discount for the rest of the game, that helps you buy the big stuff.
Helpful. Thank you.
Thanks! Happy to help
If we start with a card face up next yo the discard pile and it gets taken do we flip over another card or does that pile just stay empty?
Flip over another card, so there's always something available in the discard spot. Good question!
Can you buy more than one card in a single turn?
No. Good question. You also can't reserve more than one card on a single turn.
Thank you for this explanation! I was reading the rules thinking "8 year olds are supposed to be able to play this?!"
hahaha maybe they aren't supposed to win I guess.
Noble visit can only be possible with cards of the necessary gems, not token, right
right 😊
i have small d hehe
Top rate tutorial!!!
Would you please do How to Play Wingspan?
Ooh that's one I'd love to do someday. Such a great game
Explaining the scoring first really helped me understand everything that followed. Great job, thank you!
That's so great to hear. Really validates my whole philosophy of board game teaching ⭐
Do we shuffle the cards at first?
Yes, shuffle the deck at the beginning, then you should have enough cards to play all 3 rounds without having to shuffle again.
The perfect tutorial
Thank you! I love this game and it was so hard to find a good tutorial when I wanted to teach friends, so I'm glad this work paid off for you!
Ok I am totally going to play this game! It sounds really fun and fast paced! So happy that you dropped this video☺️
I don’t know why you don’t have more subscribers! You are a great teacher! I just got this game for friends to play with me today☺️
Thanks Maria that's so sweet! I love this game and I hope you and your friends enjoyed it.
@@GamePointTabletop Thank you! It was so fun and this weekend we are going to play the full board game version which I had no idea was a thing!😊
@@Sweet.Maria. Yes the bigger version is super fun! I've played it a couple times and really enjoyed it. I've been meaning to get a copy and make a video. It's basically the same game, just with a wider variety of card types so every round is more unique.
@@GamePointTabletop That’s awesome! You should totally get a copy and do a review! I love board games! We have a place called Sweets and Geeks in my town where you can just play random games to see if you like them. Anyway, I will be looking forward to your next review! ☺️
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Many thanks. A great explanation and very clear to follow.
You're welcome! I hope you enjoy the game!
Thanks for the great explanation
Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed it!
You had this video and a Sushi Go vid, thank you so much! I hope you keep your channel going!
That's the plan! I took some time away from the channel after moving and changing jobs and had a bunch of other stuff going on, but restarted last year and plan to keep releasing about one video a month for the foreseeable future.
This is the best sushi go tutorial ever in KZread😮😂
Thank you that's incredibly high praise!
Me and a few partners, play with all 3(core, and both expansions together) was fun and longer. We changed some of the rules, cause we had to. But we were addicted to the game. I'm even thinking about purchasing the Marvel Version for my nieces and nephews. I have no kids.
Ooh I didn't know they had a marvel version. That's so fun!
Great tutorial...almost as good as Rodney Smith!!
🥹 thank you!
So isnt this just Akropolis but erm, not as good?
😄 guess I gotta add Akropolis to my 'to be played' list
@@GamePointTabletop it's pretty good! Easy to learn, easy to play, the locations vs plazas seems to confuse new players but they get the hang of it, not great at 4 players though as it can be very AP particularly if you are player 1 at the start of a round.
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I love being a Millennial, but we make crappy card games i stg
Nicely done video! :) The audio & video were clear and easy to follow. I'll use what I learned here to teach the game at one of our upcoming game nights. Question - What would you say is the optimal number of players?
Ooh good question. Not one I feel super confident answering unfortunately. I've only played it with 4 players or solo. Between those two choices, I'd prefer 4-player. I generally am not very excited about solo games though, so that's not a dig at this game's solo mechanics. I suspect a 2- or 3-player game would make it easier to strategically watch what your opponents are collecting, so you could strategize around that more if you want to.
Extremely helpful! ⭐⭐⭐
Thank you! ⭐⭐⭐
Thanks! This was helpful.
I hope you enjoy the game!
Just bumped onto this channel. Your videos are very simple and helpful!
Thank you! I hope you bump back around in the future!
Does the 5 also represent 5 emerald or just one emerald and 5 prestige points as bonus
Just one emerald and 5 points. Every card is worth one gem, and 0 to 5 points.
thank you!
This is the best how to play tutorial. I now understand how to play. Thank you! Please make more tutorial. Can you make wingspan?
Thanks! I love wingspan and eventually I may do a tutorial for it, but there are already some good ones out there. If you like Wingspan, you'll probably like my next video, though. It's for Evolution: Climate, which has a very similar scientific vibe and similar card-combo-optimizing mechanics.
Huge thanks for the detailed, yet efficient guide. I've got my first Splendor tournament in a week, and I'm looking forward to practicing Splendor now that I know what's going on.
Happy to help! Good luck with the tournament.
Very good teach! Simple, to the point and very pleasant. Thank you!
You're welcome and thank you for the support!
thank you for this, explained so perfectly!
Did I hear you say that even though I ran out of cards, someone can still challenge and take my assets?
Yes they can. They'd need to have the right card (or a wild), but people often save wilds for the end specifically to do that. Hopefully if you've gotten a big asset, you can get it covered before the end so that it's safe even if your hand can't protect it.
If at the end of a game I have two silver in my hand, there is no draw pile left, can I pick up a discard and pair it with a silver to make a pair?
Yes. You can also pair something from the discard with a wild from your hand earlier in the round if you want.
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Thanks for this very clear explanation!
You're welcome!
nice thx
Great video really helped us learn how to play 🎉
Happy new year! Hope you enjoyed the game
First Question Hi , my question is on the level 12 of ACHIEVEMENT SCENARIO that can be played in solo mode. In this scenario the Roosevelt elk token cannot be placed on forest habitat , does it means that the Roosevelt elk cannot be placed on the tiles that represents two types of habitat like forest and Prairies or forest and mountain ?? Or It cannot be placed only on those tiles that represents the single forest habitat ?? 2nd Question:- During a particular turn ,I had used a Nature token to wipe all the wildlife token , when I took out the next set of wildlife , three fox token came out , can I again replace those three fox tokens as mentioned in the rule book ?? Before I replace those three fox token , shall I put back all those wildlife token into the bag that I had wiped out using the nature token ??
I'm not familiar with the fine details of the achievements, but I can answer your second question. The wording in the rulebook for overpopulation and nature tokens implies that the order is strict, and you deal with overpopulation BEFORE using nature tokens only. So that would mean you can't choose to replace the three foxes. And for the second part of your question, about when to put the tokens back in the bag. The rulebook is clear when it comes to overpopulation, but not as clear when it comes to nature tokens. My understanding of the literal wording of the rulebook is that you leave all removed tiles out of the bag until you finish dealing with overpopulation, then mix them back in. Then you may spend any number of nature tiles, and if you use multiple you'd keep the removed tiles out until you're done with spending tokens, and mix them all back in when you're done. That literal interpretation of the rulebook seems overly complicated and legalistic to me though, so if I were actually playing I'd probably allow players to use nature tokens before or after resolving overpopulation, and keep removed tokens out of the bag through that whole process to mix back in once they're done with ALL replacements. Replacing tokens multiple times in a turn doesn't happen often enough for that to be a significant time burden on the game in my opinion. The one legalistic limitation from the rulebook I'd want to keep, though, is that you can only do a voluntary clearing of 3 matched wildlife, once per round.
Great tutorial! I really like how you put setup at the end... Putting the rules first gives context to the components, and, if a group is watching and then playing, everything to get started is fresh on the mind. Edit: And Madison represent!
Yay Madison! And thanks for the support!
I still don't get the chopstick
It makes a ton more sense once you've done it once, but it is probably the most confusing part of this game so you're not alone. I'll try to give an example with numbers. See if this helps. The hands going around the table always need to have the same number of cards as each other so that they'll run out at the same time. So imagine you play chopsticks when all the hands have 6 cards each. Now all the hands have 5 cards and they pass around the table. You get a hand with 2 Sashimi in it, and you've already played one earlier. So you really want to play both of those sashimi to finish your set of 3. With chopsticks, you can do that! You'll hold out one of the sashimi face-down and reveal it when everyone's ready. Now everyone has a hand of 4 cards. But before you pass the rest of that hand to the next player, you pick up the chopsticks that you had played earlier and put them back in that hand, and take out the second sashimi in their place. So, in one turn that hand lost 2 cards (both sashimi) but it also gained the chopsticks that you picked back up. And now it has 4 cards in it just like the rest of the hands at the table, and you pass it along. Eventually, someone gets stuck with the chopsticks card and has to play it at the end of the round when they won't get a chance to pick it back up because the round is ending. That's sad because they have to play a card worth no points.
But I think that doesn't make sense that way either. One of the hands will never change, so they know very approximately what will come in the next turn. I'm trying to explain: it's the first turn, player 1 controls the Dummy. He plays both cards and player 2 plays his. Then player 1 switches cards with player 2 and changes control of the Dummy. When they switch again, player 1 knows the cards that player 2 is going to give him.
I'm going to explain how I play with 2 players. Turn 1, deal 9 cards to player 1 and player 2 and play. They swap the cards. Turn 2: before playing, both take a card from the available deck and discard one (it can be the new one or another one from the hand). If it is a Maki or Pudding card, it faces up for the Dummy to count points at the end of the round or game. They change cards again and turn 3 begins and they do the same. Like this until the end. This way it is more interesting since the players will not know all the cards when they return and it also influences the Maki and Pudding cards that we put in the Dummy to bother the opponent. I would also find your opinion interesting. Greetings
Ooh that version sounds really good! I agree this idea makes for more decision making and more opportunities to really surprise your opponent. In this case, I was teaching the official 2-player rules but I haven't actually played this game with only 2 players a ton of times (I usually play most games in larger groups). So your version might be better. I have a lot of playtesting background so in general I emphatically support tweaking and making up rules to experiment and improve your gaming experience. One worry I have is that this might make the dummy just win maki and puddings most of the time and the players just fight for second place. Do you find that happens often?
@@GamePointTabletop Thank you very much for your answer. In this way, players have to think better about their strategy if they want to score with makis and if they do not want to subtract 6 points at the end of the game for Pudding.
What an incredible helpful video this is. Thank you!
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Excellent instruction video! I like how you explain the scoring first, since that's often what's needed to explain to other players so they know what to look for and play towards. Thanks!
I'm glad it helped! I've found with this game (and lots of others), info about how you play pieces and stuff like that just doesn't stick when people don't already have the context of what they're aiming for. That's probably the first tip I'd give for most game teaching.