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Nefarious; Trickdraw; Savernake Forest; Crossfire (revisited) · Pick Up and Deliver

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to pick up and deliver the podcast where I
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  Speaker 1: pick up my audio recorder as I step out for
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  Speaker 1: a walk and deliver an episode two while I stroll around.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Brendan Riley. Well, good afternoon, listeners. It's a lovely
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  Speaker 1: day here in suburban Chicago, and I'm out for a walk.
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  Speaker 1: I'm heading up to the library to pick up some stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought I would talk to you about some games.
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  Speaker 2: While I do it. Oh yeah, it is a very
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  Speaker 2: warm day, and.
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  Speaker 1: I foolishly waited till midday to do it. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: walking in temperatures in the mid eighties, which is about
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  Speaker 1: what you would expect for mid June here in Chicago Land.
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  Speaker 1: Looking forward to chatting with you about these games. So
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  Speaker 1: let's jump into it. I've decided to record a board
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  Speaker 1: game Espresso episode. It's been a little while since I've
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  Speaker 1: talked about some games.
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  Speaker 2: So here we are board game espressoh triple shot. Actually
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be more like a board game flight. Well anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So the idea of the board game Espresso is
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving you quick SIPs of games that I've tried
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  Speaker 1: recently for the first time or maybe the first and
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  Speaker 1: second time. These are games I have not played thoroughly
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  Speaker 1: enough to do a full review of, but it's just
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  Speaker 1: kind of first impressions. So if you're willing to join
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  Speaker 1: me on that journey, let's take it for the next
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes or so. I'm gonna change my direction here
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  Speaker 1: because I can hear there's somebody using a nail gun
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  Speaker 1: up this one street, So if I go that way,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to stop talking while.
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  Speaker 2: They use their nail gun. And I say no thank
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  Speaker 2: you to that. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So first, I just wanted to mention a game that
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  Speaker 1: I played, but I'm not really gonna talk about much.
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  Speaker 1: And this is One Night Ultimate Alien. One Night Ultimate Alien.
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  Speaker 1: A friend brought over and we tried it out. It
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  Speaker 1: was fine. It is One Night Ultimate Werewolf, just with
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  Speaker 1: the rolls changed around a little bit, otherwise almost identical.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna spend time on it because it's
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  Speaker 1: the same game, all right. So first up is Nefarious.
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  Speaker 1: Nefarius is from twenty eleven. It was designed by Donald
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  Speaker 1: ex Vaccherino, with art by Nick Acosta, Mary Elmer, Shutago,
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Gustafson, and Tatiana may My Fat or may Fat.
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  Speaker 1: The design on this The art is really cool looking.
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  Speaker 1: It's got a kind of spindily drawing style that feels familiar,
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  Speaker 1: looks a little bit like reminds me a little of
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  Speaker 1: Phineas and Ferb, the way that the Evil Mad Scientists and.
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  Speaker 2: That show is drawn.
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  Speaker 1: In this game, you are mad scientists doing mad scientist
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  Speaker 1: y things. You're building devices, you're doing crimes. You have
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  Speaker 1: minions that are running around doing stuff. It's a simultaneous
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  Speaker 1: accent action selection game where you are choosing to do
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  Speaker 1: things and sending your minions to do work for you.
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  Speaker 1: It was fine. I don't There wasn't a lot. There's
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  Speaker 1: not a lot to say about it. It was not great.
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  Speaker 2: I'll I won't mind if I never played again. It
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  Speaker 2: was a friend.
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  Speaker 1: A friend got it cheap, and I think there's a
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  Speaker 1: reason that it's a game that's.
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  Speaker 2: Often available at goodwill and such.
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  Speaker 1: Having played it now, I think I would pass it
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  Speaker 1: up if I found it at goodwill.
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  Speaker 2: It's not great, but it was. It was fine.
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  Speaker 1: I had an enjoyable time playing it with my friends,
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  Speaker 1: and it's always fun to try a new game. So
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  Speaker 1: that's donald x Vaktory knows nefarious. Next up, we have
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  Speaker 1: Trick Draw. This is posed in twenty twenty two by
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  Speaker 1: Good Games Publishing. The designers were Blake Propoc and Martesa
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  Speaker 1: Ronana Jod.
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  Speaker 2: There were several artists.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Coroda and Leeching My are listed as the main ones.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, no, those are the two.
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  Speaker 1: This game is a two player dueling game in which
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  Speaker 1: you have a series of cards that you're laying out.
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  Speaker 1: Each turn you get to lay it, you can either
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  Speaker 1: draw a card and lay out a card, or I
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  Speaker 1: think you can draw a card and then draw two
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  Speaker 1: more cards. Maybe there's a limit to how many cards
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  Speaker 1: that you can have in your hand, and you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to lay out a tableau of cards, and the tableau
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  Speaker 1: of cards gives you either coins or powers, and you
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  Speaker 1: get coins by laying the cards face down, powers by
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  Speaker 1: laying the cards face up.
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  Speaker 2: And then many of the cards either activate immediately.
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  Speaker 1: When you lay them down, they have activated immediately when
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  Speaker 1: you reveal them, meaning you turn them from face down
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  Speaker 1: coinside to face up power side, or they give you
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  Speaker 1: an ongoing power you can use once per turn, and
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  Speaker 1: these powers let you flip cards over. So the whole
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  Speaker 1: gimmick is you're trying to flip the cards over in
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  Speaker 1: a pattern so that you have ten points. And if
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  Speaker 1: you flip the card over in a way that you
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  Speaker 1: have ten points, that triggers the.
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  Speaker 2: End of the game.
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  Speaker 1: And then I can't remember if you get one, the
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  Speaker 1: other player gets one more turn, or if it's a
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  Speaker 1: thing where the person who caused the ten points ends
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  Speaker 1: the game immediately. I think everybody gets one more turn.
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  Speaker 1: Or the third option would be you keep going till
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  Speaker 1: everyone's had an even number of points. Honestly, I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember which one it is.
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  Speaker 2: It might be even number of turns, and then you.
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  Speaker 1: Reveal and then how many however many coins you have
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  Speaker 1: at the end is how many coins you have in
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  Speaker 1: the winner is the person with the most coins. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I may have said that this was a two player game,
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  Speaker 1: but it might in fact be a four up to
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  Speaker 1: a three or four player game. I don't recall. I
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  Speaker 1: know we played it at two. Yeah, no, it definitely
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  Speaker 1: it plays four. This game reminds me a lot of
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  Speaker 1: two different games that I've played in the last year.
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  Speaker 1: One of them is Flipology and the other one is
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  Speaker 1: Drones Versus seagulls now Drones versus seagulls. It's similar because
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  Speaker 1: you have these powers that you're messing with the other
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  Speaker 1: player and you're flipping them around to give you the power,
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  Speaker 1: give them the power. You're trying to set things up
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  Speaker 1: so that you have the most points when the game ends.
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  Speaker 1: That's where that reminds me of drones versus eagles. The
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  Speaker 1: filipology thing has to do with your flipping cards face
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  Speaker 1: down or face up, and you get points based on
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  Speaker 1: which way they're facing, and you have a line of cards.
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  Speaker 1: So those two things together both seem related to Trick Draw.
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  Speaker 1: The art in Trick Draw is this sort of weird,
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  Speaker 1: like Weird West style cowboys with laser guns kind of drawing.
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  Speaker 1: Reminds me a little bit of Doomtown reloaded in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the style, although a bit more maniacal like the
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  Speaker 1: magic and stuff. I don't know if Magic the Gathering
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  Speaker 1: has ever done a Old West theme set, but if
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  Speaker 1: they did, I could see the art from this being
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  Speaker 1: those on those cards. It's really good, really good art.
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  Speaker 1: The game was fine. I can't say I would probably
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  Speaker 1: I will probably want to play the game a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of times more, but it's a fine little filler. Anybody
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  Speaker 1: sort of thing where we have a few minutes. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's let's bust this one out.
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  Speaker 2: We can.
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  Speaker 1: There's an interesting tactical element of getting the cards and
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  Speaker 1: dealing them out.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I think we played best of three. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: what the game suggests that you do. But yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: that's trick draw. I did get a chance to revisit
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  Speaker 1: a game. Sometimes here in these board game Expressive episodes,
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  Speaker 1: I talk about a game that I dusted off. This
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  Speaker 1: is a game from twenty seventeen that I played once
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  Speaker 1: or twice in twenty seventeen and then haven't played again since,
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  Speaker 1: so really long time.
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  Speaker 2: But I did get a chance to play it again.
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  Speaker 2: This is Crossfire.
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  Speaker 1: Crossfire is a game from Emerson Matsucci, the designer of
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  Speaker 1: specter Ops and Century Spice Road In Crossfire, Crossfire is
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  Speaker 1: a quick light social deduction game. Each player gets a
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  Speaker 1: card assigning you a role. You are either an assassin,
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  Speaker 1: a VIP a target decoy. Those are the three roles really,
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  Speaker 1: and your goal is to either assassinate the VIP or
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  Speaker 1: hide the VIP and the game goes really quick. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: there is a couple different stages in which things get revealed.
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  Speaker 2: People can look at a.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of people can look at a couple other people's cards,
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  Speaker 1: and they can communicate. There's a little bit of bluffing,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of accusing, and then you point three, two,
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  Speaker 1: one point. It's very similar to something like One Night
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  Speaker 1: Ultimate Werewolf, but there's almost no shenanigans. So One Night
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  Speaker 1: Ultimate Werewolf there's all these shenanigans where you're moving cards
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  Speaker 1: around and stuff. This is sort of like hyper quick
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  Speaker 1: One Night Werewolf if you didn't have those shenanigans, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like some of the other games today.
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  Speaker 2: It's fine.
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  Speaker 1: I'd play it if somebody got out and said they
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  Speaker 1: want to, but it's probably not a game I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be super excited to play a bunch of times.
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  Speaker 1: It's very simple, not a lot of depth to it,
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  Speaker 1: and frankly, not a lot of room to spend time bickering.
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  Speaker 1: So not my highest rating for a small scale social
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  Speaker 1: deduction game.
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  Speaker 2: But it was fine. So that is Crossfire from twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly what the dust rating on this was,
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  Speaker 1: but I dusted it off in twenty all right. I
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  Speaker 1: only played it in twenty seventeen and not since, so
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  Speaker 1: something like seven.
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  Speaker 2: Years or eight years and that's again designed by Emerson
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  Speaker 2: Matsucci with art by Jen z that's j E. N
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  Speaker 2: Zee as opposed to.
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  Speaker 1: All of the people born in the millennium after the
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  Speaker 1: Millennials were no longer being born. Finally, the last game
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about today is a game called
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  Speaker 1: Savarnaki Forest.
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  Speaker 2: I assume that's how it's pronounced. I haven't looked it up.
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  Speaker 2: It is a.
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  Speaker 1: Game from de Vere published by Devere in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Sabernaki Forest was designed by Rodrigo Rego and with art
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  Speaker 1: from Nuria A Parzio.
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  Speaker 2: The art is very cute in this game.
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  Speaker 1: In this game, it is the autumn in the Sabernaki Forest,
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  Speaker 1: which I founded is in Britain. I was surprised it
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  Speaker 1: was in Britain, but there it is, and you play animals.
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  Speaker 2: Getting ready for the winter. It's a pretty simple game.
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  Speaker 1: In the game, you have a You start with one
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  Speaker 1: animal and a couple of cards, and on your turn
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  Speaker 1: you're drafting cards and laying down cards. And what you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to do is build these paths in your forest
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  Speaker 1: that provide.
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  Speaker 2: Food for your animals.
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  Speaker 1: So you have to kind of balance between drafting animals
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  Speaker 1: and drafting path cards.
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  Speaker 2: But also each.
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  Speaker 1: Animal likes different kinds of food and they can only
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  Speaker 1: store so much food, so you have to build a
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  Speaker 1: path that gets each animal the most food that you can,
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  Speaker 1: while also doing that quickly, because if you like to
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  Speaker 1: have your path full of stuff, they hello, or as
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  Speaker 1: if you have your path full of stuff that they
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  Speaker 1: don't eat, they actually take it fill up their storage
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  Speaker 1: with stuff they don't eat or don't keep you points for.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a sort of funny and frustrating. Part of
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  Speaker 1: the flow of the game is that you could gather
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  Speaker 1: up all of this food then that your animals won't eat.
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  Speaker 1: Goes until everyone's built I think a four by four
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  Speaker 1: grid or a five by five grid, and then at
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  Speaker 1: the end you score each of the animals you have.
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  Speaker 2: There are also some things you can get that bolster the.
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  Speaker 1: Bolster the kinds of food the animals are when we eat,
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  Speaker 1: or how many points they get for collecting those foods.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very simple, filler game, easy to play, cute,
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  Speaker 1: We'll definitely keep it around.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be one we'll bust out once or twice a year.
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  Speaker 1: Very tactical, not a huge amount of depth, like if
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  Speaker 1: I wanted. If I wanted a cute animal game that
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  Speaker 1: had a bit more depth to it, I would grab
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  Speaker 1: Pnumalia for example. This is a little lighter than that,
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  Speaker 1: but it is music and I said, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: really cute. So something will hold on food for a
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  Speaker 1: little while away. That is Savarnaki Forest from Deevere Games. So,
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  Speaker 1: dear listener, what have you been playing lately? Head over
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  Speaker 1: to board game get Guilt three two six nine and
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  Speaker 1: share your game plays there. I'd love to know have
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  Speaker 1: you tried any of these games that I mentioned, or
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  Speaker 1: do you have other games you've been playing that you'd
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  Speaker 1: like to tell me about. You can reach out to
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  Speaker 1: me directly. Brendan at rattleboxgames dot com is my email address,
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  Speaker 1: or you could send me a board game Geek message.
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  Speaker 1: Wombat nine two nine is my user name over on
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  Speaker 1: the geek.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks for joining me on my walk today. I
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  Speaker 2: hope your next walk is as pleasant as mine was.
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