This looks like a great game! My grandma used to buy stamps for my sister and I quite often from the post office and also order stamp collecting books with some pretty rare and very unique stamps. It was always fun to see stamps from other countries as well as be able to own some specialized stamps with specific themes. I still have those books to this day stored safe and sound.
Rodney delivers! We were getting to our unplayed games over the long weekend and went to watch a video for one of them. We tried 2 or 3 different videos before giving up. We both had the same thought, "this game should have a video done by Rodney." 🥓🥓🥓
@LizGamerGirl the game referenced in my comment was not Stamp Swap. Rodney does a number of these videos for varying games. I happened to be playing a game he has not yet made a video for and it was tough finding another content creator who had the same level of excellence as Rodney.
Love your how to play videos. We got it for our stamp loving son for Christmas and it’s a hit! Your video made learning to play it so much easier, thank you!
10:42 I JUST watched a video about how underrated the "I cut you take" mechanic where a player chooses to split resources and lets the opposing player pick one to keep. Only 46 games have this apparently! And this one has added that! VERY COOL
You're exactly right. You know what happened there? I think I had planned to use a different card in that example, and then when shooting grabbed the wrong one and didn't notice the wording. Which is wild, because it means I didn't see it during the editing process either... where I would have watched that scene multiple times. It's wild what the mind blocks out when it decides something is fine. Sorry if that caused an confusion.
Hi Rodney! Your "how to plays" are always awesome. Any chance you have a how to play Too Many Bones on the docket? You make things easy to understand and this game needs a lot of that :) Thanks in advance!
It's amazing how the introduction of an "I cut, you choose" mechanism can so thoroughly arrest my attention from an otherwise all but decided opinion that a game wasn't really all that appealing.
This looks like a very fun game, and I plan to buy it, but I do have one hesitation- the color palette of the stamps. I don't normally have trouble distinguishing colors, but at 2:57 of the video, when you're showing the color and theme reference card, to me, yellow looks orange, blue looks like gray, green seems to look yellow, and brown looks more like red. I think they made a conscious choice to have the colors slightly muted to mirror the look of older stamps, but I wish the colors were brighter. I do appreciate the different borders to help people who have difficulty distinguishing colors.
I didn't find it a challenge in practice (your mileage may vary), but as long as you can tell them apart, you'll be in good shape. It does happen though, where a game calls a color one thing, but the printing process clearly produced something different due to saturation, they ink they used, etc. Also, in a video, things are going to appears slightly different than in person. I'm in a very specifically lit area, etc.
Hi... One question, we score for the same stamp from first round in the following rounds for your Exhibitor card?. For example, my exhibitor scores for animal stamps and I have collect and showed 1 animal stamp for the first round which means I score 1 point for my exhibitor. For the second round, let's say I added one more animal stamp. So at the end of show phase for Round 2, do I score 2 points (including the stamp in round 1) or 1 point (for the new animal stamp)?
Sorry, just travelling right now so can’t easily look this up for you (and shot the video long enough ago that I don’t recall what I say), but if I don’t say “only score your exhibitor for the tiles gained in the current round”, then you would score for all of them.
This is great! We have a question. You gave the example that you cannot be considered to be "choosing" a pile if you have to pick your own pile. But what if there is only one pile left to "choose"? Is that choosing, so long as it is not your own? (Around min 19 I believe.) In other words, say Teej, Ben, and Rilian are playing. Teej picked adorable little Rilian's pile (of course!). Ben picked lovely Teej's pile. Now, Rilian can only pick awesome Ben's pile, 'cause that's all that is left. Does that meet the conditions of the word "choose" in the game text?
A few things to clarify. When your pile is picked, you get to pick next. So in the example you gave, if Teej picks one of adorable little Rilian's tiles, then Rilian gets to pick next. Then let's say Rilian takes one of lovely Teej's piles, so now it's Teej's turn. Teej takes from awesome Ben, so now Ben is up to choose. The only piles left are in front of Rilian, but keep in mind that Rilian has 2 piles. So Ben does in fact have a choice - which of the two piles in front of Rilian will Ben choose? Up to awesome Ben!
@@paulsalomon27 AHHHH okay, thank you!!!! You did an awesome job! XD Rilian is our 1-month old son by the way. XD I knew there were two piles from the video explanation, but I just wasn't visualizing it in this case. That's a very good explanation.
I'm not sure, but you might be able to find some information at you local game store, or the publisher's website: stonemaiergames.com/games/stamp-swap/
@@WatchItPlayed This game goes on pre-order sale the morning of Sept 4th on the Stonemaier website. Stonemaier pre-orders then ship within a number of weeks, so the wait is minimal.
This looks like a great game! My grandma used to buy stamps for my sister and I quite often from the post office and also order stamp collecting books with some pretty rare and very unique stamps. It was always fun to see stamps from other countries as well as be able to own some specialized stamps with specific themes. I still have those books to this day stored safe and sound.
Oh very cool! I used to love looking at stamps at the post office as a kid. My favorite was the "LOVE" stamp with the scribbled puppy on it (US)!
Glad you enjoyed what you saw - nice when a theme draws on fond childhood memories.
Rodney delivers! We were getting to our unplayed games over the long weekend and went to watch a video for one of them. We tried 2 or 3 different videos before giving up. We both had the same thought, "this game should have a video done by Rodney."
🥓🥓🥓
How did you already get Stamp Swap?
@LizGamerGirl the game referenced in my comment was not Stamp Swap. Rodney does a number of these videos for varying games. I happened to be playing a game he has not yet made a video for and it was tough finding another content creator who had the same level of excellence as Rodney.
I guess I'd better keep making videos then :)
@WatchItPlayed don't overwork yourself! It was Águeda: City of Umbrellas that we needed a video for.
Love your how to play videos. We got it for our stamp loving son for Christmas and it’s a hit! Your video made learning to play it so much easier, thank you!
So very nice to hear - I'm glad the game was a hit and that the video was useful. Merry Christmas!
10:42 I JUST watched a video about how underrated the "I cut you take" mechanic where a player chooses to split resources and lets the opposing player pick one to keep. Only 46 games have this apparently! And this one has added that! VERY COOL
Yeah, it really forces you to make tough choices, knowing that either pile you create could be taken... so how best to divide?!
The only game I'm seen so far that has that that I can remember is munchkin shakespear
This is a great explanation that will have me looking for the game in a couple of months. Like Tussie Mussie, but a real full length game.
Glad you found the video helpful!
Thanks again Rodney 🍻
I've been asked to teach this game to some buddies tomorrow, and this video really helped 🎉
Glad we could virtually team up :) You've got this! Have a great time playing!
Great video! Hopefully, this game gets a lot of stamps of approvals from reviewers because it looks like a very interesting theme.
The final show phase appeared to draw inspiration from _Wingspan_ (love that game BTW).
You've used the word "stamp" 95 times, that is only 4 times per minute.
I was going for 100 times. Boo!
AMAZING.
Don't make me fact check this 😅
@17:00 you might have the rules slightly wrong for scoring that green card. It says "on any edge" not anywhere on your mat. Unless I'm mistaken!
You're exactly right. You know what happened there? I think I had planned to use a different card in that example, and then when shooting grabbed the wrong one and didn't notice the wording. Which is wild, because it means I didn't see it during the editing process either... where I would have watched that scene multiple times. It's wild what the mind blocks out when it decides something is fine. Sorry if that caused an confusion.
Hi Rodney! Your "how to plays" are always awesome. Any chance you have a how to play Too Many Bones on the docket? You make things easy to understand and this game needs a lot of that :) Thanks in advance!
Thanks for the interest! I talk a bit about that here: ua-cam.com/video/EdtDuvIUa6A/v-deo.html&t=342
It's amazing how the introduction of an "I cut, you choose" mechanism can so thoroughly arrest my attention from an otherwise all but decided opinion that a game wasn't really all that appealing.
Sometimes it just takes the right hook!
Thanks for the teach, the swapping part was throwing me off
Very glad this was helpful!
This looks like a very fun game, and I plan to buy it, but I do have one hesitation- the color palette of the stamps. I don't normally have trouble distinguishing colors, but at 2:57 of the video, when you're showing the color and theme reference card, to me, yellow looks orange, blue looks like gray, green seems to look yellow, and brown looks more like red. I think they made a conscious choice to have the colors slightly muted to mirror the look of older stamps, but I wish the colors were brighter. I do appreciate the different borders to help people who have difficulty distinguishing colors.
Yes. The borders were out double-coding effort. :)
I didn't find it a challenge in practice (your mileage may vary), but as long as you can tell them apart, you'll be in good shape. It does happen though, where a game calls a color one thing, but the printing process clearly produced something different due to saturation, they ink they used, etc.
Also, in a video, things are going to appears slightly different than in person. I'm in a very specifically lit area, etc.
“If I say stamp two more times, that's 46 stamps in this stamped up rhyme.” If you know you know
What a throwback. That was almost a quarter century ago. 😅
Hi... One question, we score for the same stamp from first round in the following rounds for your Exhibitor card?. For example, my exhibitor scores for animal stamps and I have collect and showed 1 animal stamp for the first round which means I score 1 point for my exhibitor. For the second round, let's say I added one more animal stamp. So at the end of show phase for Round 2, do I score 2 points (including the stamp in round 1) or 1 point (for the new animal stamp)?
Sorry, just travelling right now so can’t easily look this up for you (and shot the video long enough ago that I don’t recall what I say), but if I don’t say “only score your exhibitor for the tiles gained in the current round”, then you would score for all of them.
Thank you Rodney, this helps...
This is great! We have a question. You gave the example that you cannot be considered to be "choosing" a pile if you have to pick your own pile. But what if there is only one pile left to "choose"? Is that choosing, so long as it is not your own? (Around min 19 I believe.) In other words, say Teej, Ben, and Rilian are playing. Teej picked adorable little Rilian's pile (of course!). Ben picked lovely Teej's pile. Now, Rilian can only pick awesome Ben's pile, 'cause that's all that is left. Does that meet the conditions of the word "choose" in the game text?
A few things to clarify. When your pile is picked, you get to pick next. So in the example you gave, if Teej picks one of adorable little Rilian's tiles, then Rilian gets to pick next. Then let's say Rilian takes one of lovely Teej's piles, so now it's Teej's turn. Teej takes from awesome Ben, so now Ben is up to choose. The only piles left are in front of Rilian, but keep in mind that Rilian has 2 piles. So Ben does in fact have a choice - which of the two piles in front of Rilian will Ben choose? Up to awesome Ben!
All of that is to say, there is never just one pile in front of a player.
@@paulsalomon27 Excellently explains (so I'm removing my reply to prevent confusion!)
@@paulsalomon27 AHHHH okay, thank you!!!! You did an awesome job! XD Rilian is our 1-month old son by the way. XD I knew there were two piles from the video explanation, but I just wasn't visualizing it in this case. That's a very good explanation.
Where is this game being sold?
I'm not sure, but you might be able to find some information at you local game store, or the publisher's website: stonemaiergames.com/games/stamp-swap/
@@WatchItPlayed This game goes on pre-order sale the morning of Sept 4th on the Stonemaier website. Stonemaier pre-orders then ship within a number of weeks, so the wait is minimal.
It'll be on sale from the Stonemaier website tomorrow, 9/4 :)