Loved the game!! Just picked it up today and played twice. Thank you so much for the video!!!made it much easier and faster to learn! Azul was a great one also!🎉🎉🎉
Haven't played Equinox yet, but this is an excellent teaching video! After seeing how it's played, I'm pretty sure it's a game I'd enjoy. (Also a Knizia fan so that's not surprising!)
Thanks so much! I hope it makes more people aware of it and helps people with the learning of it. We had a couple early stumbles in our first game of Equinox because of trying to grasp some of the rules or strategies, hoping this alleviates that for people, at least somewhat!
I have played it some few times at BGA now. The game is in alpha-testing. I like it a lot, smooth and fun. I got the game in real life, and also got the special neopren game mat for it. But not played it live it. Also got Colossal Arena, but not played it yet.
Good video. I think I could play this now still without any idea of how to make mischief. It looks like a game with beautiful art and crisp iconography that has to be decoded. For that I bet the appendix gets passed around, like a lot. This game screams come explore me. Who doesn’t like disappearing critters in a cloud of smoke? The meat and potatoes though are in the special powers and for that the rulebook gets manhandled.
It's really unique! I'm someone who likes to have lots of different genres and mechanics in the board games in my collection for variety. And Equinox kind of stands alone in our collection right now with the type of experience it is, I would say.
You'll definitely see it covered by one or both of us in a future video! Whether it's own review, Own it Play it Skip it, or something else! Because I'm sure we're going to have some thoughts about it, very intriguing after just one play!
Not sure if this will get answered, but the rules don't explain what to do in the case where the game ends by exhausting the draw deck. It just skips right to the scoring, but it doesn't tell you how to resolve the end. If you haven't finished round 5, and you don't know what 3 creatures survived to the end, how do you do the scoring for it? Does no one win? There was a case when we ran out of cards, but there was still a creature on the 4th round of which a card hadn't even been played yet, so we just considered that one eliminated. Then we eliminated then next lowest creature, so that we would have 3 creatures for scoring. We had to just make up our own rules for it because there's no explanation in the rules book. It would honestly be better if the rules said you just reshuffled the discard pile and continued until the end of round 5. Especially when cards like Carmen and Squeak are in play which can result in going through the deck much quicker. Another question: It is allowed to play a Chameleon card on an empty space, rather that just on a creature? We've been playing as if we can, but the rules aren't clear.
Thanks for your question! Under the "Phase Four" part of the rules it says: "If you draw the last card of the draw deck, the game ends immediately. Do not eliminate a creature in this round. This is the only case where a game can end with more than 3 creatures still in play." So the game would end right away. For your second question, yes chameleons can be played in open spots even if there hasn't been a creature played previously. Hope this helps!
IMHO the rules manual for this game is so badly written it makes the game nearly unplayable. This is a real shame as it seems to be a really cool game. Played this at a cafe the other day and the experience was not fun at all. The number of caveats and exceptions in the rules swamps the core concepts and the manual barely describes basic concepts of play. Solution: great videos like this one. Basic/advanced play modes. Thanks for the video. It was far better than the manual.
What happens if every player makes a secret prediction? Since you skip phase 2 that means nobody would be playing a card in round 1. Do you just skip phase 2 for everybody, finish up the round, and the start playing cards in round 2? So it would be a row of the grey cards, and empty row for round 1, then starts filling in the row for round 2?
I played Equinox yesterday. Does the game usually end through finishing the draw pile? We got to round 3, then had to redraw cards because we had a tie, and we drew the last card, so the game was over. We were only 3 players. With more players, this would have happened even sooner. The "you must play all your cards" rule in combination with no shuffling cards back into the deck AND the game finishing when the last card is drawn, when there's only 102 cards used in any game, really seems to go fast. And even in a 3-player game you'd never get to a Round 5 since that'd be 3 x 5 x 8 (players, rounds, cards per round) = 120 cards needed. What did we miss?
You're not supposed to play all your cards, you play 1 card a turn until there's at least 1 card present for each creature, & you draw back to 8 at the end of each turn. Once a whole row is filled, 1 creature dies off, & you start the next round/row.
Have you played Equinox? If so, what did you think of it? Have you played the game it's based on, Colossal Arena?
Loved the game!! Just picked it up today and played twice. Thank you so much for the video!!!made it much easier and faster to learn! Azul was a great one also!🎉🎉🎉
Haven't played Equinox yet, but this is an excellent teaching video! After seeing how it's played, I'm pretty sure it's a game I'd enjoy. (Also a Knizia fan so that's not surprising!)
Thanks so much! I hope it makes more people aware of it and helps people with the learning of it. We had a couple early stumbles in our first game of Equinox because of trying to grasp some of the rules or strategies, hoping this alleviates that for people, at least somewhat!
Just picked the purple version up last week! Can’t wait to get it on my table now, thank you!
Awesome! I hope you have fun with it!
I have played it some few times at BGA now. The game is in alpha-testing. I like it a lot, smooth and fun.
I got the game in real life, and also got the special neopren game mat for it. But not played it live it. Also got Colossal Arena, but not played it yet.
This was amazing! I was a little nervous about learning this game but now I’m excited and ready to play!
That's great, Jillian! I'm so happy to hear it helped you out! ☺️
Great explanations. Simple and clean. Well done.
Thanks a lot! Glad you enjoyed it, it can be a tricky game to pick up a few concepts and strategies on, hoping this video helps people!
Good video. I think I could play this now still without any idea of how to make mischief. It looks like a game with beautiful art and crisp iconography that has to be decoded. For that I bet the appendix gets passed around, like a lot. This game screams come explore me. Who doesn’t like disappearing critters in a cloud of smoke? The meat and potatoes though are in the special powers and for that the rulebook gets manhandled.
Thanks a lot! Would definitely recommend checking it out sometime when you can, it's very fun!
Haven't played it but this made me want to play it and buy it
It's really unique! I'm someone who likes to have lots of different genres and mechanics in the board games in my collection for variety. And Equinox kind of stands alone in our collection right now with the type of experience it is, I would say.
It's one of my favorite games. I have Al lot of friends, which not related to board games. Anyways, this game catches some of them.
Excellent video, now I'm curious for your review of Equinox!
You'll definitely see it covered by one or both of us in a future video! Whether it's own review, Own it Play it Skip it, or something else! Because I'm sure we're going to have some thoughts about it, very intriguing after just one play!
Not sure if this will get answered, but the rules don't explain what to do in the case where the game ends by exhausting the draw deck. It just skips right to the scoring, but it doesn't tell you how to resolve the end. If you haven't finished round 5, and you don't know what 3 creatures survived to the end, how do you do the scoring for it? Does no one win?
There was a case when we ran out of cards, but there was still a creature on the 4th round of which a card hadn't even been played yet, so we just considered that one eliminated. Then we eliminated then next lowest creature, so that we would have 3 creatures for scoring. We had to just make up our own rules for it because there's no explanation in the rules book. It would honestly be better if the rules said you just reshuffled the discard pile and continued until the end of round 5. Especially when cards like Carmen and Squeak are in play which can result in going through the deck much quicker.
Another question: It is allowed to play a Chameleon card on an empty space, rather that just on a creature? We've been playing as if we can, but the rules aren't clear.
Thanks for your question! Under the "Phase Four" part of the rules it says:
"If you draw the last card of the draw deck, the game ends immediately. Do not eliminate a creature in this round. This is the only case where a game can end with more than 3 creatures still in play."
So the game would end right away.
For your second question, yes chameleons can be played in open spots even if there hasn't been a creature played previously.
Hope this helps!
@@AllYouCanBoard Oh man, I completely missed that part! Thank you so much for clarifying that! That makes more sense now.
Happy New Year!
@@benjaminfast5496 Our pleasure! Happy New Year! 🥳
An ideal game for BGA! Starts out slow but then the drama ramps up at the end!
And then before you know it! **POOF**
*jazz hands* MAGIC!
WHERE DID HE GO?! 😳
Wow, this game sounds awesome!
It's definitely very unique!
IMHO the rules manual for this game is so badly written it makes the game nearly unplayable. This is a real shame as it seems to be a really cool game.
Played this at a cafe the other day and the experience was not fun at all.
The number of caveats and exceptions in the rules swamps the core concepts and the manual barely describes basic concepts of play.
Solution: great videos like this one.
Basic/advanced play modes.
Thanks for the video. It was far better than the manual.
Yep, one of the worst rule books I've ever come across, hence me searching for "How to Play" videos.
What happens if every player makes a secret prediction? Since you skip phase 2 that means nobody would be playing a card in round 1. Do you just skip phase 2 for everybody, finish up the round, and the start playing cards in round 2? So it would be a row of the grey cards, and empty row for round 1, then starts filling in the row for round 2?
Play the round until the row is filled up. Multiple turns per round.
Did you discuss how the game ends and victory conditions? Can't find it.
How does the 5th round elimination work if you draw the last card and end game immediately?
I played Equinox yesterday. Does the game usually end through finishing the draw pile? We got to round 3, then had to redraw cards because we had a tie, and we drew the last card, so the game was over. We were only 3 players. With more players, this would have happened even sooner. The "you must play all your cards" rule in combination with no shuffling cards back into the deck AND the game finishing when the last card is drawn, when there's only 102 cards used in any game, really seems to go fast. And even in a 3-player game you'd never get to a Round 5 since that'd be 3 x 5 x 8 (players, rounds, cards per round) = 120 cards needed.
What did we miss?
You're not supposed to play all your cards, you play 1 card a turn until there's at least 1 card present for each creature, & you draw back to 8 at the end of each turn. Once a whole row is filled, 1 creature dies off, & you start the next round/row.
There are two types of chameleon cards in my game, anyone know the rules for the second type
Q: Purple or Green?
We have the green version! But the purple cover is also very puuurty!
@@AllYouCanBoard Thanks 👍
Looking online.. they said both colors were the same game.. just your layout preference. My purple is beautiful.