District Noir - Board Game Review - Go On, Draw Those Cards!

District Noir - Board Game Review - Go On, Draw Those Cards!
District Noir - first released as 聖杯サクセション (Throne and Grail) - is a two-player game with bluffing and set collection. To set-up the game, remove three face-down cards from the deck of 45 cards from the game, then lay out two cards face up to start a line. Each round, each player receives five cards in hand, and each turn you either play one card from your hand to the end of the line or - once per round - collect the most recently played five cards. Once all the cards from hand have been played, deal out five cards to each player and start the next round. After four rounds, the game ends.
Some cards have positive or negative numbers on them, and you score those points directly. Other cards are numbered 5-8, and you score 5-8 points for a value if you have more of those cards than the other player. Additionally, you score 5 points for each set of 5-8 that you've collected. And while normally points decide who wins, if you collect all three special cards - each of which are worthless on their own - you win immediately.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:22 - Basic Overview
02:48 - All About Tempting Your Opponent
03:57 - Components
04:42 - Next To No Rules
06:04 - Summary and Verdict
07:07 - Please Share and Support The Show
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[@drccddmm]

I like your reviews of new games I have not heard of

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

Sadly the masses don't share that opinion but glad some like you appreciate them 😊

[@trening4]

Thanks for the review

[@elainetyger]

Sounds like a good (small/cheap/light) game to have on hand when you're early to the gathering for the "real" game and the only other person there is that friend who plays Lost Cities day and night

[@mrbovinejoni569]

good review. i have this one pre-ordered. looking forward to it since i like games like hanamikoji and fantasy realms

[@shawns3911]

I thought about trying to get this one, but I just got hanamikoji, so I think it might be similar feel

[@shawns3911]

Wait this game comes in a tin?? Strange choice.

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

No it comes in a box?

[@shawns3911]

@@TheBrokenMeeple you said and I quote “it does what it says on the tin.” Is this another strange britishism?

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

@@shawns3911 ha ha yes, it's British slang, it got said in a lot of commercials

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

@@shawns3911 Ha ha yes, we had it in British commercials all the time back in the day.
"New De-Stain Paint Remover - does exactly what it says on the tin"

[@elqord.1118]

I’m so tired of these “Interesting for three plays then quickly forgotten games”. I have so many of them in a box and
I would rate most of them a 7 but never play them again. Good but forgettable. Hooks your with a new premise/concept but rarely if ever has staying power. These games are like the fast food of board gaming. Cheap pleasures that have no lasting value or impression.

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

There are also a bunch of heavier games which are feasts but then you realise it's a feast you will only play once as you can't arrange a massive feast often or the feast itself is full of poisoned food.

[@neptuune]

Not true. District Noir is a very clever, quick, easy to teach and play game. The kind that you'll play more often than you think. I really love it and it's more than just one more average game.

[@elqord.1118]

@@neptuune I already have Mandala, Schotten Totten, Schotten Totten 2, Patchwork, Arboretum, Haggis, Race for the Galaxy, Fox in the Desert, Time Barons, Wizard of the Grimoire, Mirroring of Marry King. These are in my rotation constantly. I don't see how District Noir has a place there.