What's On The Shelf Part 7

Okay, so we're now on part seven or uh, what's

on the shelf?

So in the seventh cubby, we have pimp pamplona, Mystic

vale stone age quarry ear's and cash flow.

So pamplona was a game that I got in a

batch of games.

I had bought a large lot and got a couple

of games and this one was one of them.

The theme looked kind of interesting.

So it's a game based on the running of the

bull that they do in spain.

So each player has um, some bulls, and then each

player seems to control some of the runners as well.

So from what I understand the bulls, we're gonna go

through this this path.

And however many people they take down, I guess they'll

kind of score for that.

And I'm assuming the score also gets affected by if

one of your person gets taken down by a bull

or not, have never played this one.

It wasn't my collection when I've taken these pictures, but

it's since actually been donated to the Falcon Library.

So I'll have to try it at the next fall

khan. Uh the next game we have on that shelf

is mystic vale.

Mystic vale is such a great game.

So it's a deck builder, but you don't actually grow

your deck.

You start with 20 cards and you're going to end

with 20 cards.

But each of those cards comes in its own little

sleeves, and you can buy new section to add to

the cards.

So all of the cards, upgrades that you'd be purchasing

are on these clear plastic uh card that you would

add onto the sleeve.

So if on my one card, I have something along

the top, then I could upgrade the middle portion on

the bottom portion.

You can also have your card where they kind of

work along with each other.

Um This is also a push your luck game because

as you reveal your deck, um however many I can't

remember like coins or whatever that is exposed shows how

much you can purchase by.

Um But there will be some negative icons that will

show up as well.

And if you reveal a third one, you bust and

you don't actually get to um do anything with your

cards that round.

Very very neat, unique deck builder game.

And I really like it.

This is one that I'm kinda debating whether I should

get expansions.

I'm not huge on expansions and games, but this one

is tempting me.

Um Of course I could say like it has great

table presents and it does except that it's see through.

So you don't you don't get to see tons and

tons of it, but it's a really good game.

Next one I have is Stone Age.

So Stone Age is a worker placement game.

This is one of the older game.

Um I actually traded my copy of um Forbidden Desert

for this one.

So with this game um work replacement, this is the

first point where I saw like, you know, kind of

in the architect of the West Kingdom, you said you

can send 12 or three or more workers at each

location. So this one is like that.

So the more workers you send out the one location,

the more dice you'll get to roll.

Um and depending on where you are, what you would

require for dice.

So if you're going for gold, so I think it's

every six that you would need to get one gold.

So if you have three people there and you roll

a six, a five and a one then The totals

up to 12.

So you would actually get to gold for having done

that. Um if you're rolling for would maybe only need

and I can't remember if it's like two or three

but you would need a lot lower.

So you your role could manufacture more more goods.

Then with those resources you can purchase buildings that would

get added to your own player board.

Um You can send a worker to.

Uh huh.

You would send to to that hut and then the

third one comes out so you can kind of grow

your workforce that way.

Um And then you kind of score points as you

go. Um Human manufactured food um acquire different thing.

It's a very neat one.

And like this work replacement um Game it has it's

been very well received as well.

Um That's what the board looks like here.

I'll get a closer look on that one.

So um yeah so the areas that you see that

has like the small little circles, that's how many players

can be sent at that particular location.

So you can send multiple of your own or different

people can share that same space at the same time.

Um Then you get those little tiles along the bottom

there where you're going to be adding those to your

village I guess and then you have the cards that

requires different, you can purchase it with a different amount

of resources that you can do and then those will

give you some set collecting that you can score at

the end of the gate at the end of the

game if for artifact that you have um Or it

can also supplies different benefits as well.

And one thing that was needed is when you get

some of those cards um Some of them will kind

of give you benefit, but it can give the other

players a benefit as well.

Um And here's another picture of last time I played

uh Stone Age, and then the next one I have

on my shelf is quarry workers.

So I play quarters the first time that I really

like it, I'm a big fan of deck builders and

this one plays very similar except that you're not buying

cards to add to your deck, you're buying dice to

add to your bag each die.

So there's lots of different custom dice on those ones.

Um Each dice will give you different things, so either

it's a spell that allow you to affect the other

dice or maybe it's a device that has um creatures

or monsters that you can battle with.

Um And but each dice has different things on it.

So you're creature dice that you've been buying will have

maybe a couple of sites that were.

Yes that would be something that you can battle with.

A couple would give you you know, kind of so

much, but then maybe once more powerful than the others.

And then the rest of the dice could be uh

that it has like the purchasing um things on it.

So not only are you buying guys actually think, but

depending on your role, what you can do with it.

Um The way that this works is you would roll

of the dice, you utilize some of those um Guys

that has like a purchasing ability to activate your creature

dies, so you can add them to I guess your

arena will call it.

Um And then at the end of the game you

automatically battle all the the other players.

If they have any creatures in their arena.

Um When it comes back to your turn, if you

still have a creature in your in your arena, if

it hasn't been destroyed by the other players, uh then

you get to score uh for that creature and then

it gets kind of put aside when you run out

of dice in your bag, you collect all the back

and I said you've utilized and they all go back

into the bag and then of course you can also

purchase new dice as well.

Um I'll show you a closer picture of the dice

there, so they all look different, they all have different

color different, you know, some are like kind of more

see through somewhere.

Um It's a very neat one, I really enjoyed that

concept of it and then I was kind of one

that I hadn't really seen before, so I'm a big

fan of quarters.

Uh and then, yeah, that's, that was on the shelf

there, and then there's a lot more dice to then

you play each time.

So each game is going to change up a little

bit because you select, I think it's like you select

five creatures and four spells or something like that, each

game, right?

And then you have like the base dice that are

always showing okay, The next game I have on my

shelf is called cash flow.

Um the first one here, cash flow 101.

So I used to work for a trading company that

we trained people to become stocks and real estate investors.

Um and we would use the cash will game as

a tool, uh kinda implement a little bit of what

we were teaching.

Um So in this game, I'll show you here, the

first portion happens in the middle circle and that's called

the rat race where each player gets assigned a different

lifestyle. So maybe your mechanic.

So you don't make as much money as some, but

your expenses are fairly low.

Or if your lawyer or doctor, your, your income is

quite a bit higher, but you've got a lot of

expenses. Um, and you know, student loans and different things

like that as well.

You can get Children as you play the game.

And for some reason, some of the, you know, if

your doctor, your kids are going to cost you a

lot more every month than the mechanics kids, probably just

non private school or different things like that.

So you go around the inner circle and you'll land

on the green cards, which is opportunity and you select

whether you want to do a small opportunity or a

possibly a bigger opportunity and it could be real estate

business or stocks that you would do in there.

Um And then every time if you land on the

pink spaces, those are called doodads and you're buying some

things kind of like, oh well you bought a pool

for the backyard or you ended up doing this and

because those are, you know, things that in your life

we tend to do as well.

Um you can pass the, every time you pass the

payday thing, then you get to collect uh your payday

and depending on what you've been doing, what you've been

purchasing, if you've been taking loan, um you tally up

all the time, a spreadsheet, the balance sheet, that kind

of keeps track of how much income you're getting, how

much expensive, what's your net income.

So every time you pass the payday you get to

collect that net income that you can spend on more

doodads and more uh more opportunities and different things like

that. If your income ever becomes greater than your, well

not just your income if you're passive income so the

income from your investment ever becomes greater than your expenses,

then you've acquired financial freedom and you now go and

play in the outer circle um where you get access

to bigger, better things.

Um If you have not shown how to play this

game and you just kind of follow the rules based

on the rule book and you try to play this

game will take a long time.

It would be frustrating and it kind of would feel

maybe a little bit broken.

So that's why like they say 180 minutes to play

this game.

Um It's never taking me that long, but I could

see that if you don't know how to play the

game, it would, but if you start implementing trading strategies,

um the best deal in this game is to become

a private lender.

So sell some stocks, get a lot of money and

then you can buy some opportunities as well.

But then you can also lend out to the other

players on their opportunity because that still gives them access

to actually the cheapest loan in the game.

Um But then it uh it gives you a good

return on the investment.

So as an investor, this was a very interesting game

that kind of implemented and got you to kind of

think the way that we were teaching our students to

uh to think.

Um But yeah, so we used to have casual nights

GSM once at least once a month for five years

I think.

So I have played this game a lot and have

shown people how to play this game a lot.

Um, It's one that I very much enjoyed.

I used to have 13 copies of this kind of

have donated actually, a lot of those games to the

high school for their money sense program.

Um, so that they can utilize it as a tool

for their, for their students.

But yeah, so great game.

If you know how to play with other people, that's

kinda develop those.

But it's very neat and that's actually it for that

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