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Thos is a really hard game to get ahold of!!!

Love your videos Alex. Watched gipf and tzaar vid’s. Fantastic. Keep em coming.

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Never loose that sense of humor, this was great!

One thing you didn’t do was compare the blossom tokens of the 2 retail editions, as it would be clear just how less distinctive the newer blossoms are from each other - especially the black/purple/blue & the red/orange ones. For me, the older retail version is the one to get hold of - they’re still available & tend to be cheaper than the new retail release.

Great video Alex

appreciate the Count von Count impersonation attempt 😆

Are you good 👍

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Why is this so fascinating to me? I think I need to join a board game club now, this is cool, glad you’re documenting this

This is one of my favorite solo games. For the ultimate difficulty level, I play with 7 visitors: Furious Farmer, Vengeful Villager, plus 5 random visitors.

Most Yinsh games I play end up being 3-2. Occasionally it's 3-1. This is the first time I've seen it 3-0.

Thanks for taking the time to make this. Since it's been three years since it was posted, I suspect only a handful of people will ever see this comment, but I feel sort of compelled to make it anyway. 1. I don't understand your reasoning for not including Chess. If you wanted to squeeze in as many games that most people don't know about as possible, you could have just made it your top 11, or your top 10+, put Chess where you felt it belonged, and spent virtually no time on it. This would make the list more useful, as it would serve as a reference point, so people would have a better idea of your tastes/criteria-- if you had Chess at #2, many people would evaluate your other selections differently than if you had it #9, for example. 2. I'm trying really, really hard not to be snarky about this: I just can't take a top Abstract Strategy Game list seriously that doesn't even mention Go. My personal opinion is that Go is #1, and that to the extent that such a thing could somehow be 'objectively' be measured, Go would clearly be #1. But putting that aside, by not at least including it along with Chess as a classic game that you won't be rating, you are basically declaring that you don't like abstract strategy games enough to have learned and become familiar with the most widely played abstract strategy game in history. 3. While I don't think it's as big of a deal as the first two, I think a list of "games you were probably expecting to see but didn't make the cut" would have been helpful, so that we would know which games just didn't do well enough in your estimation to make the list, vs. those that you just haven't played. Obviously you couldn't compile anything resembling a complete list, but games like Othello and Connect Four are well-known enough that it would be helpful to know why they aren't on the list. 4. I think the triumvirate of abstract strategy games for many-- probably most-- people would be Go, Chess, and Shogi. I don't mean 'triumvirate' in the sense of being the best, but rather being the three well-known games that have been played for thousands of years and are still popular enough that people can earn a living playing professionally. I think you could throw in a fourth game that semi-qualifies but is lighter in depth and doesn't have a professional level of competition in Checkers, if you wanted a list of "All time classics that I won't be rating,"-- although, again, I think it would be useful to rate as many of these as you can and just make the list longer if you want to include 10 "not all-time classics", because rating well-known games gives people reference points.

Game looks fun. Can't help buy say I'd love it in digital form. Your meandering distractions are understandable. Your strategic blunders were painful to witness. And you undercounted yourself 10 points at one moment.

I have the Heirloom edition by Wyrmwood games. Looking to sell it though

Seems very chaotic. Like being tossed around in a small boat in a strong swell. Borders on being an activity rather than a game.

I know the USA historically lost this war, but we did get as far as York. Is that even possible in this game?

Great video, really interesting

Looks like my cup of tea. Is this gaming coming stateside?

Can i only flip a maximum of two tiles? If i throw double 6, can i not flip 1,2,3 and 6?

Feather River College has this game available to play free through their history department’s site. They have a few other games available as well- Constantinople and Levee En Masse to name two others. Just search on Israeli Independence computer game to find it.

I'm not gonna lie.. I actually like this video and really appreciate the ideas you mentioned! Putting this on the office desk with paperclips, etc! I'm curious if you have combination videos. So I'm gonna go ahead and subscribe and go looking through some of your videos for more ideas. Thank you! Very helpful 👌

I have other wooden puzzles from CreativeCrafthouse, HOWEVER the point I guess here is NOT to defeat the Janelle cipher, but for you to compose a secret message under a secret wheel setting, then your buddy sees the secret message, sets THEIR cipher to the same secret wheel setting, and can un-code the secret message, other eyes who see will not know how the heck to de-code the message, or else if your buddy doesn't know the secret wheel setting(s), they are screwed. 🎉

Oh, that's super transportable and easy to craft!

38:50 You should have made your 5x5 square one tile to the left, only requiring 2 additional tiles instead of 4.

This game looks like an updated version of Columbia Games' War of 1812 Block Game. There is a video game by John Tlller which is actually very good. Turn based some 60 scenarios covers all the major battles and some minor ones.

6:50 This made me laugh. The other person in that photo is actually John Cooper, not Kristin. X-D

This deserved a comment.

Argh! At 5:05 I had a brain melt and should’ve retreated our St. Lawrence front marker, but DID NOTHING. Even if we had control of Lake Ontario the British would’ve tried to take it back.

Do the turns mean anything ("January 1944") or are they generic?

I wish there were more different pocket games like this currently. I’m sure there are but it’s also cool to know the history behind it. This is really cool. You should do more reviews like this!

cool but if it really is Alien technology what is it? Is it part of some circuit or something

What an adorable little pocket chess set. Do you know of other game sets carried by people during WW2?

Can this set-up play chess 960 [fast becoming popular!]? What about selling one for pensioners at half the price?! Good thought!

One could simply use a shobu board.

A couple of mistakes: at 18:32 when I pushed the British out of Detroit their regulars should’ve gone away, I forgot to flip it over. At 19:40 from my understanding I didn’t have to flip two more British units to regulars since two were already flipped.

At about 7:30 or so. Japan rolls a 3 and pushed your Central Pacific front back. But. You had control of the sea. Would that not give them a -1 DRM? Or does that not work both ways?

MISTAKE at 9:47 where I somehow overlooked the eyeball icon looking down and ended up getting 1 energy by getting rid of that card. I should’ve played it in my Home area.

thanks, i saw the bloom edition at target and wanted to see how to play before i bought it. now i think it's not really for me, but it does look great!

Not sure why I was recommended this channel. However, am pleased to discover this video and the game looks to be great. 😃

Clever and fun game.

I made a couple of mistakes on the video but you get the idea. For instance, when I was in Japan and we got attacked, It should’ve been -3 DRM for them to attack us because being in Japan is -2 PLUS I had sea support in the Southwest Front. That would work against us if it was the other way around and the Japanese had sea control in the Southwest Front while we were trying to get into Japan which would’ve been -3 for us to attack Japan. I also overlooked the negative DRM when we pushed back on the China Front and the Europe Marker was in play. That would’ve been -2 for us to attack there. Same in the India Front. And finally on turn 19 the atomic bomb would’ve dropped ending the game immediately because we rolled a 4 Japanese action which indicates that during turns 17-20 if we roll a 4 for a Japanese action the game ends with the atomic bomb being dropped. Being fairly new to the game, the constant yapping, and the cat distractions, I overlooked a thing or two, but again, you get the idea. Great little game!

I like the idea and bought the book. But I have a problem to get over the fact that I have to consider my shadow as another person, I have to go back in my castle after the shadow figure and look for changes and something missing. It somehow doesn't work for me; how do i 'surprise' my self by hiding something for myself? Any tips to get over that, are welcome. If I would succeed, this could be a great gaming book!

What a fun playthrough! Looking forward to the 1812 video. You can't have 2 fronts on 1 spot, according to Key Game Concept 9 so I guess that front would have 'jumped' Japan? Odd situation. I played 10 times or so and never won the game. I even reached a score of -1 once... Anyway great video!

Too bad the box was broken. Hate it when that happens and to a deluxe edtition especially. 😖

That doesn’t look like nearly enough animeeples and vegimeeples but those components are quite expensive so it wouldn’t surprise me if they just put a nominal amount and then some multiplier tokens. You could use the pieces from your other set, or from Caverna I suppose. Personally I think I will stick with my original edition to which I have added a full set of wooden meeples.

Thank you for showing the comparisons. I think I’d rather have a copy of the original edition-the aesthetic is nicer, and even the backs of the cards seem more calming to me, somehow. I’ll probably search around for a used copy 🙂

I recently bought one of these at my local toy store, and I like it quite a bit. Hours of fun can be had with this puzzle!

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