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Tricky Tides is a charming and challenging trick-up-and-deliver game. Play cards to tricks like any classic card game. The card you play determines how your ship sails across a network of islands. Fill orders and watch for monsters to amass your fortune.
Tricky Tides is a charming and challenging trick-up-and-deliver game. Play cards to tricks like any classic card game. The card you play determines how your ship sails across a network of islands. Fill orders and watch for monsters to amass your fortune.
Tricky Tides is a charming and challenging trick-up-and-deliver game. Play cards to tricks like any classic card game. The card you play determines how your ship sails across a network of islands. Fill orders and watch for monsters to amass your fortune.
Ambie and Crystal discuss Adventure Games: The Volcanic Island and playing games on Board Game Arena. We then talk about our "top" ten games from low ranking games on BoardGameGeek. Announcements: 0:49 Recent Games: 4:11 Top Bottom Games: 16:29 Outro: 32:30 Bloopers: 33:34 This episode was inspired by this geeklist on BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/277847/top-ten-games-starting-bottom Adventure Games: The Volcanic Island: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284082/adventure-games-volcanic-island Board Game Arena: https://boardgamearena.com/ For the full show notes visit our site at http://www.boardgameblitz.com/posts/265/episode-120-but-this-is-a-good-game
Episode 133 - Best Tiny Table Games (Small Footprint) Introduction: News: Immune - 12 days; $39 Arcana Notebook - 13 days; $19 Petrichor - 2 days; $99 unless you have the game, then it’s $64 for all the newness Games played: Bring Out Yer Dead Upper Deck Dungeon Drop Gamewright Best Tiny Table Games (Small Footprint): Katie - Ars Alchimia Tasty Minstrel Jason - Tortuga 1667 Facade Games Katie - The Legend of the Cherry Tree Iello Jason - Fire in the Library Weird Giraffe Games Katie - On Tour Boardgametables.com Jason - The Shipwreck Arcana Meromorph Games Jason Honorable Mentions: Spirits of the Wild, Dairyman, Breakdancing Meeples, The Crew Katie Honorable Mentions: Rice Dice, Parks, Tiny Towns, It Happens, Tricky Tides, 7 Ronin, Harbour, Illimat, Drop It Closing:
First up we brave the waves and the sea monsters to garner the goods in Tricky Tides.Next we build victory one mole at a time in Periodic: A Game of the Elements.And lastly we’re making our way in the world today or rather in the 80’s most popular sitcom as we play: Cheers Tricky Tides […]
Episode 109 - Turn Ons in Games Introduction: Zany Banter News: Gorinto Grand Gamers Guild - 12 days left; $35; Check out our YouTube channel for a preview Bivouac - 23 days left; $49; design a camp, activities, cute resources and meeples, includes expansion Cindr - 13 days left; $25; cute parody theme, make profile, pick a dragon, match for dice, roll for date, three fires burned Marvel United - 11 days left; $60; CMON, Eric Lang, “sculptures”, cooperative, cute Gaming Glossary: Trick Taking - A trick-taking game is a card or tile-based game in which play of a hand centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called tricks, which are each evaluated to determine a winner or taker of that trick. (Tricky Tides, Fox in the Forest, euchre, Skull King) Pick Up & Deliver - This mechanism usually requires players to pick up an item or good at one location on the playing board and bring it to another location on the playing board. Initial placement of the item can be either predetermined or random. The delivery of the good usually gives the player money to do more actions with. In most cases, there is a game rule or another mechanic that determines where the item needs to go. Black Fleet, Orleans (expansion only), Firefly, My Little Scythe; Clank! Call from member of #theriveted - Brad King’s Forge Game Salute Dice Throne Roxley Gaming Lab Anachrony Mindclash Games played: Jason - Mechanica Katie - Mystery of the Abbey Jason - Matcha Katie - Victorian Masterminds Turn Ons in Games: Jason - Designer Pedigree (Italians, Vital, Feld, Marty) Katie - Tactile Components - Agricola, Fool’s Gold first played piece, Five Tribes, Rise of Tribes Jason - Press Your Luck (Fire in the Library, Fool’s Gold, Incan Gold, Quacks, Deep Sea Adventure, Dicey Peaks) Katie - Immersive Theme - Fire in the Library, Consulting Detective, Hogwarts Battle, Thebes Jason - Tracks to manipulate (Orleans, Terra Mystica, Tzolk’in, Blitzkrieg!, Dogs of War, Coimbra) Katie - Vibrant Artwork - Yamatai, Parks, Princess Jing, Tokaido Closing:
Episode 102 - Favorite games of 2019 Introduction: Zany Banter Promo code for Proto Spiel effective January 1 2020. Riveted is the code. Favorite games of 2019: Joel: 5 - Black Angel Jason: 5 - Naga Raja Joel: 4 - Tapestry Jason: 4 - Wingspan Joel: 3 - On Mars Jason: 3 - Taverns of Tiefenthal Joel: 2 - Wingspan Jason: 2 - PARKS Joel: 1 - City of the Big Shoulders Jason: 1 - Trismigestus: The Ultimate Formula Honorable Mentions: Jason - Res Arcana, CotBS, Abomination, Artemis Project, Draftosaurus, Circadians First Light, Fantastic Factories, Fire in the Library, Homebrewers, Tricky Tides, Museum Joel - Sierra West, Edge of Darkness, Wayfinders, Extraordinary Adventures Pirates HomeBrewers, Marvel Champions, Escape Plan, Horrified, Parks, Aeon's End legacy, Newton Oops I forgot about these (Joel) - Silver, Dawn of Mankind Oops I forgot about this (Jason) - Wreck Raiders Joel (did not get a chance to play) - Deep Blue, Res Arcana, pax pamir, paladins of the west, kingdom, cloudspire, Pipeline, taverns of tiefenthal, blood on the clocktower, nanty narking, jaws, ecos, cartographers, it’s a wonderful world, the king's dilemma, reavers of midgard, funkoverse, azul summer pavilion, point salad, Underwater Cities Closing:
Ambie and Crystal talk about a bunch of the games they played at Dice Tower Con 2019. Announcements: 0:33 Dice Tower Con: 1:10 Outro: 31:23 Bloopers: 32:36
We jump right in this week after just a couple of minutes of what has been going on in our lives with our first impressions of Tricky Tides (2:45), as well as our review of Pipeline (7:22). We then jump into our top 5 for this week, the games we most wish we could get the other to play more often (19:04). We end with our book segment (48:43). Enjoy!
Recorded in War Room Studios - Albuquerque, NM : 6/10/19 This episode is brought to you by PowerMeeps.com and Van Ryder Games. With special guest, Noel, in studio - Josh and Brandon discuss the happenings of Memorial Day, including a boardgame retreat (in the mountains!). Origins Game Fair is just about here and we spend a good amount of this episode unveiling our most anticipated games of Origins 2019! For the first time ever, we publish a review in "TOMORROW" - check out our Batman Gotham City Chronicles Review before you click that back button for season 2! Episode Timeline: 00:00:40 - Introduction 00:23:12 - Giveaway - EVOLUTION 00:27:45 - THEN - Featuring: Torpedo Run! 00:36:57 - NOW - Featuring: Sidereal Confluence, Caylus and more! 01:19:12 - TOMORROW - Batman Gotham City Chronicles Review 01:48:49 - Feature Segment - Origins 2019 Preview Game Timestamps: Abomination : The Heir of Frankenstein - 2:41:35 Age of Steam Deluxe Edition - 2:01:45 Altar Quest - 1:56:54 Clank Legacy : Upper Management Pack - 2:05:15 Detective: City of Angels - 2:04:00 Die Hard: The Nakatomi Heist - 2:46:40 Dwellings of Eldervale - 2:42:00 Endeavor : Age of Expansion - 1:53:00 Europe Divided - 2:44:00 Football Highlights - 2:08:50 Grimm Forest Masquerade - 2:46:10 Imhotep: The Duel - 2:31:30 On Mars - 2:16:45 Pipeline - 2:37:35 Revolution of 1828 - 2:28:00 Sierra West - 2:36:00 Skull Tales : Full Sail - 2:12:15 Subtext - 2:22:15 Tricky Tides - 2:26:16 Uboot - 2:32:30
Today I chat with Steven Aramini who is the designer behind many games including Tricky Tides, Sprawopolis, and Animal Kingdoms. We chat about how to enter and win design contests His design process And the difference between B-17s & B-52s
Join Kurt as he talks to Steven Aramini (Designer of Tricky Tides, Groves) about his new design, Animal Kingdoms! This new game promises to be a great first time game for the newly formed Galactic Raptor Games. We talk to Steven about how he got into gaming, how Animal Kingdoms came to be, and winning awards for doing the fun stuff! Thanks for listening. http://mfgcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Episode_213_Final.mp3
Steven and I discuss his newest game, Tricky Tides. It's a cool little pick up and deliver game with some neat movement mechanics. We also talk about his up coming Button Shy game, Sprawlopolis.
Episode 16 - News, Games and Uncle Vital Introduction: Zaniest of all banter! News: Brook City - Adam and Brady Sadler from Blacklist Games. Coop Cop game like Police Precinct but with minis (of course) Tricky Tides - designed by Steven Arimini by Gold Seal Games. Trick taking pick up and deliver game. Campaign Coins Deluxe Metal Meeples Discussion of games with 1 to 5 wrench rating: Jason - Cavern Tavern Joel - Artifacts Inc Jason - Blueprints Joel - Feudum Jason and Joel - Royals Vital Interview Closing and next episode teaser: Wrench ratings: 5: Play anytime and would suggest it to 80% of gamers to own 4: Play most any time. 60% of people should own this game. 3: Play it sometimes in the right mood or if others want to play 40% of gamers suggested 2: Play if convinced 1: Will not play. Rather play TI4 (Jason) or Munchkin (Joel)