How to Play Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar
Вставка
- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Technically, this game shouldn't be playable past 2012, but here we are.
"Wanna play this board game about calendars?"
"Uh... no."
"And SKULLS??"
"Hmm. Maaaybe...?"
Use these links to skip ahead:
0:00 Introduction
1:07 Worker Placement (and Removal)
4:17 Food Days
6:23 Starting Player
8:10 The Gears
12:19 Technology
14:47 Game End
15:21 Setup
Shop for your own copy of Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar on Amazon, and we'll receive a small commission:
amzn.to/2t5nlp1 - Ігри
Best Game Rules explanation videos around, seriously. Doesn’t feel stilted or top heavy like Rodney and Paul (still love ‘em tho!). The humour is on point, and by clearly outlining victory conditions at the beginning and returning to important points as you go it makes learning quite complex games (and their maddening iconography) a breeze. It’s like you’re sitting at the table with a group conversing, rather than just reading a PowerPoint display. Thank you so much!
The animations and highlights you put in these vids really help make your explanations clear. Thank you!
Hello, there! Very good explanation. This is seriously the best one I've seen on one of my favorite all-time games. You can see that by the fact that I'm here watching a rules video of a game I already know how to play and have played over 100 times LOL. I'd like to also use this opportunity to point out an error that you might want to correct in the explanation. In the bit about technologies, the second Agriculture technology doesn't only allow you not to need to burn the forest in order to harvest corn. It does that too, but as a consequence of what it actually does, which is that collecting corn from any green space within the Palenque gear no longer REQUIRES a tile (if there is a tile to be grabbed, you still need to grab it, but if there isn't, you can still collect corn in any green space as you would normally do).
Cheers and Kudos!
Nice walk through, I appreciated the little touches: reminders of overlooked rules, tricky iconography, some light touches on strategy and tactics.
Haven’t played this one in a while, definitely feel ready to teach it after this video!
This is by far the best rules explanation video I've seen! The order in which you explain, the clarity, the conciseness! Brilliant video, man!
Thanks so much, whatshendrix!
"Fishin' for corn......"
Ha, exactly!
Great review. This is one of my favorite games. The dials are just so unique! The pressure to stay on a little longer .. to get better stuff! Great explanation; best I’ve seen. I’ve had this game for years and I think I learned a couple things. Thank you
Thanks, Greg! The more i consider the game, the more i marvel at the engineering ingenuity and general chutzpah by the designers. Have you painted your gears yet?
Yeah.... well my daughter did; looks great. And I upgraded the resource components. 🙄
Funny your video motivated me to reach out to Czech games about replacing the missing blue skulls. Actually my daughter lost them when she checked the game out of the “family library”; needless to say her check out privileges have been suspended.
@@greginfla7211 Ah! i just wrote them to replace one of my starting tiles - the paper ripped a little when i punched it. Wouldn't be a big deal if they weren't dealt blind, but i don't have a drawstring bag for them. It hasn't arrived yet, but CGE were very good about processing my request.
Thanks for another excellent tutorial video! Easy to follow, clear component highlights, and funny too!
Awesome video, dude. Keep pulling out older games and always excited to see you made a rules video for it. Great job as always and thank you!
Thanks so much! Glad i could help.
Recently picked this up. I’d forgotten that you made a HtP video. I was pleasantly surprised to find it on the top of my “How to play Tzolk’in” search. Yay!
:)
Such a great video, very clear and concise. This helped a lot, thank you!
Nice clear explanation of the game. Its not an easy one to review. Good job!
Thanks, Lee!
You create awesome videos and are so fun to watch.
I played this game twice and actually get up to 20 points on my second game without understanding how to play lol.
Now I shall return to the game board and have all of the Gawds pleased by my work.
Thank you for this great video
Thanks, Steph! Gawdspeed!
First video I watched by you, and ya got my sub. Best explanation of a game I have seen. Good work man.
Thanks so much, William! If you dig this style of How to Play vids, here's the playlist:
ua-cam.com/play/PLsp7uN03KMgLT1Q1VjvkGpXh0hdHF0_mV.html
Thanks for this clear and easy to understand tutorial. Very much appreciated
A pleasure!
Excellent tutorial, thank you so much for this! Your style of teaching is so easy to follow. I’d love to have a Catan Starfarers and Babylonia tutorial video from you!
Thanks, Nick! The Catan people and i are becoming besties, so look for more Catan stuff in the future.
Wow !! This video is so Gooddddddddd , I’m trying to find the video that teach about how to set up in 2 player game and damn after all those time I spend , I finally find this one that explain this part ! Thank you a lot.
Glad you found it useful, Tawan! All of my setup instructions are split into their own videos. Bookmark this one to save you some time when next you play:
ua-cam.com/video/nUo_fCef8Mw/v-deo.html
Nights Around a Table Oh ! thank you. That’s help a lot.
Love the stop-motion animations. Love your explanations! Do you post a list anywhere of games you plan to make a How to Play video of in the future so I can plan my shopping list accordingly? XD
Thanks so much! At a certain backer tier, Patreon supporters have access to my Trello board where they can see what's coming down the pipe. But if you pop into the Discord server every so often, you can sometimes catch me blabbing about things ;)
discord.gg/yjQ2UVX
An excellent video, informative and entertaining!
Thanks so much!
My pleasure! I don't own Tzolk'in but you may have just sold me on it! Congrats on a wonderful channel :)
I was super curious to see how a banjo relates but it became hilariously clear at 13:01. Looool
I don't know the language but you spoke the names with such confidence. I can never pronounce them.
Real talk? i scoured the Internet looking for videos of native Spanish speakers pronouncing those names! :)
And thats why it sounds legit. :p
Thanks for help!! Great video!
Love your videos, wish you had one for every game i need to learn or get a refresher on!
Thanks! What are your top three that i'm missing?
@@NightsAroundaTable i don't have a "top 3" per-say, nor can think of any in particular off the top of my head. It was just in general there are games i've looked for a video on in the past for quick refresher or learn how to play and forced to watch from others that do a good job as well, not to shame them. But i do enjoy the humor and how you do your explanations.
8:21 I think that's only 1 gold and 2 corn. You said 1 gold and 3 corn.
Very impressive. Well informed. Well edited. "fishing for corn" made me lol. Subscribe!
Thanks, Eugine!
Great video! Thank you very much!
Good explanation.
Great job!
THANK YOU. I've played this game like ten times on BGA at the request of a friend, but I hadn't understood half the rules until now.
Some friend! :P
@@NightsAroundaTable I don't think she understands either. xD
Banjo! Ha! Your graphics are great. Really well done.
Thank you! (*twang*)
Great video.. thanks
Hey! Great job!
Hey! Thanks!
Nice explanation as usual. Just a clarification. In Tzol'kin are only considered resources wood, stone and gold (cristal skull and corn are not). It might get some confusion since you called all of them as resources on 1:23. In addition, another thing I only figure out years later after start playing this game is: even though technology track are cummulative, you only get extra perk related to the specific action that you took. In other words, you won't get a extra gold, stone and wood if you reach lvl 3 in resource track and trigger action 3 in Yaxchilan. Srry about my english I'm not a native speaker (brazilian).
Good observations, and they both crossed my mind. i addressed the latter in my call-out about that confusing "construct a building" icon, but didn't further say that the same reasoning applied to all tech spaces. Yet it doesn't seem as perilous in other tech spaces... that second space on the Agriculture track, for example (dig to get corn)... it's reasonably clear that's a "when..." scenario. The "construct a building" icon, not so much.
There are lots of picky points to mention with games like these, and i try to keep them as tight as possible. i didn't want this one to run 20 minutes, but there you are. You're right about the resources, but the saving grace that the game makes clear is the icon is a square, and only the three resources you mentioned match that profile.
One clarification. If the starting player decides to advance the day twice, he can't do so if there are workers on the second to last spots on a wheel, not the last spot. The last spot would get knocked off anyway on a single-day advance. You can't knock off a worker who wouldn't otherwise be knocked off (i.e. in the 2nd to last positions on each wheel).
Thanks for the correction! i've added a link at that time code to an addenda section on the NAaT website.
@@NightsAroundaTable Nice! That rule was fresh in my mind because I had just read the rule book. Your video is excellent and so clearly explained. You have my sub.
"Fishin for corn." HI-larious!
i’m sure it’s what the designers intended.
"Everyone places their markers on the scoring track..."
Shows the eleven space?
At our table, we like to start every game at 11, just to make all players feel cuddly and accomplished right off the top.
I'm still confused, but thanks for the video, we are trying the game now
Watch the video 12 more times! ;)
Hi😃👍Thank you for a nice run-through of the Tzolk'in game! However one thing is still unclear! The second track on Technology???! The rules give two opposite explanations?! One rule says you can take like two stones here, the other explanation says that technologies are cumulative ---So which is it???! On the second spot on the second technology-track, can I still take two wood even if my player is on the spot for an extra stone?! I would be very grateful for an answer! Yours sincerely Zindy Roka👋😃
Ermmmm… try this!
boardgamegeek.com/thread/2062582/technology-tracks
Thx.
You made a slight error when explaining the end-of-age (blue) scoring. If multiple players are tied for the lead on a temple track, they don't "split the points". Instead, they each score half the points (see p13). The outcome is the same for two tied players, but not for any other number of tied players.
Another mistake I noticed: the second agriculture advancement (apart from improving your "corn fishing") doesn't just let you dig under the wood to get the food underneath; critically, it also lets you get corn from a Palenque space when there are no corn tiles there at all.
I have heard that the 2 player game doesn't work that great in this. It is best played with 3 or more players. Is it right?
It’s hard for me to comment on player counts - until this year, i only ever play games at 4p!
you are funny :')
@8:21 You get: "a gold and 2 corn" not 3, minor goof.
It’s not the first time i’ve been called that.
Are the rules as complicated as I am finding them to be or is it only me who think this is going over my head...😊
You’re not wrong. i don’t consider it a light game by any means. But you’ll get it! Do you own a copy?
@@NightsAroundaTable no I don't it yet. But it's been on my watchlist for quite sometime. I like it's theme and game pieces..But it's the rules that I find intimidating
@@Physiology-E-Paathshala Keep watching this video! :)
It's pretty complex and even after you learn the rules, finding a satisfying strategy is harder than in most games. But worth the effort, in my opinion. You can also play it online for free on BGA and learn it that way.
It's difficult...
It really is.
Sigh.
*adds yet another game to wish list*
I really have to stop watching your how-to-play videos.
No! Anything but that! :)
This game seems corny. Cornographic material.
It’s packed with Mex scenes.