Ta Yü (大禹)- How to Play 🎲 and Why It's a Gem 💎

In Ta Yü (大禹), a two-player game that can be played four-player partnership, opposing teams play opposite directions: N-S vs E-W. Players/teams take turns placing tiles and extending canals, trying to have as many connections as possible lead to their opposing sides of the board.
Ta Yü is the Germanification of 大禹 (Dà Yǔ), a reference to a great Chinese historical hero who built many canals to help ease flooding and improve irrigation. It's an abstract game that gently evokes that setting. While it's a two player (or team) abstract game, it's casual and approachable and playable by almost any age.
00:00 Intro ▶️
06:00 How to Play 🎲
11:42 Why It's a Gem 💎
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[@samanosuke73]

Nice too have you back again
Really like your work
Greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹

[@morrigambist]

My group uses a second bag for the "target" tiles. It simplifies things a bit.

[@elgmd]

Good evening . Welcome Back .

[@elgmd]

Woohoo !

[@mmm-go5it]

I spy 'the bridges of shangri la' in the back, One of my favourite games, I hope you'll cover it some day! That one really needs more exposure, It's pure brilliance.

[@BoardGems]

It's been requested, and I fully intend to. 🙂 Need to get it played more first!

[@keatonhawkswell5714]

Looks fun, I'll have to be on the lookout for a copy! I just happened to play twixt today, another east/west abstract, a bit of an odd coincidence.

[@upandawaygames]

Very nice! I have the original edition. The red "lava" edition is too much visually. We play almost exclusively 4-player and do build the cube. Everyone always seems to want the marked tiles. Handling the tiles is nicely tactile, like playing with Mah Jong tiles. It looks good on the table and thus is effective at drawing in non-gamers, especially as the rules are simple as well.

[@fingersmaster]

20:05 At the exception that in the Kosmos edition, some of the tiles have their exits off and so when you place tiles perfectly aligned on the board, the exits don't match. Very frustrating visually.

[@diamondmeeple]

I got both the 1999 and 2012 edition (the one with the two warriors on the outside) now 🙂

[@BoardGems]

Nice! Curious to hear your preference. And also whether my comparison vid came up short in some way in helping you choose one over the other. 🙂

[@diamondmeeple]

I want to buy this one 🙂

[@fingersmaster]

23:00 Thank you for the video. May I ask what year is the Goliath edition with the pattern mistake, please? Thx.

[@BoardGems]

The version pictured is this one, according to BGG:
boardgamegeek.com/boardgameversion/30904/goliath-multilingual-edition-2009
I don't know if they fixed it in later printings. FWIW the game still works, it's just a lack of perfection once you know about it.😔

[@jwspiker]

I've got the original game, what are some of the other games in this series you mentioned in that family of games that you mentioned? I have the original as well.

[@BoardGems]

It doesn't seem to be a recognized "series", but other games that have the Spiele-Galerie mark include Giganten, Dos Rios, La Città, MarraCash, The Bridges of Shangri-La and The Pillars of the Earth. Some really great, notable games in there - many of which I hope to cover for the channel!