I don't have the original from West End, but I have both the '00s Z-Man and the brand-new crowdfunded one from Play to Z. Let's compare the two modern editions of the wondrous Eric Goldberg storytelling game Tales of the Arabian Nights! #boardgames
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Gradually march your samurai west to Kyoto, keeping up with the changing scoring regions in this Moaideas area majority game with a trick-taking-ish backbone. Liking TTers doesn't mean you'll like Joraku, heads up! But I dig it, and the TMG edition was so compact. β€οΈ #boardgames youtu.be/fZwDnVrJwF0
Here I compare side-by-slide the two editions of Emerson Matsuuchiβs Volt: 2015 Nazca (Matsuuchiβs own company) vs 2018 @heidelbaer.de #boardgames
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Oh Hell is an exact-bid trick-taker using a standard deck. I haven't played it! Here I talk about two derivatives that I love though. Wizard adds special cards, and Skull King adds MORE special cards, tweaking a few other things along the way. #boardgames
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I continue my run through #boardgames I've covered, rating them by how much I want to keep them in my collection: FITS, Feudality, Keltis Card Game, Pyramid, Witch of Salem, Top Secret Spies, Lifeboats, Safranito, Wildlife Adventure, The Hanging Gardens, Manoeuvre and Hansa!
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In this video I compare theJeffrey D. Allers games ...aber bitte mit Sahne (2008 Winning Moves), New York Slice (2017 BΓ©zier) and Piece o' Cake / γγ£γ¨γγ€γγγ (2018 New Games Order). #boardgames
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Line goes up! In Speculation, stocks in 8 companies rise & fall relative to each other. As a poor trader with limited starting capital, buy low, sell high, rinse, repeat.
Dice from old edition replaced with bag pulls. Not an improvement β find dice if you can. #boardgames
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I have an internal rating system I use in evaluating whether a game will stay in my collection. It's fun to go back to the old gems I've covered using this lens. Did I or will I keep them? Have they been banished to the trade/sale pile? 2nd video of many! #boardgames
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There have been many editions of the two-player classic The Rose King by Dirk Henn. I obviously can't compare them all, but here are three: Kosmos DE 2008, Thames & Kosmos EN 2016, and Playte KO/JA/EN 2025. Three different decades! #boardgames
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I don't rank games, but I do rate them... sort of. I have an internal βοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈ rating system based on how much I want to keep a game in my collection. So I've returned to and rated the first dozen-ish #boardgames I've covered for this channel. Have I kept them, or moved them on?
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The rise and fall of civilisations can be seen in Philippe Keyaerts's #boardgames Vinci (1999 Descartes) and Small World (2009 Days of Wonder). Same core concept, but they differ in important ways. Let's take a look!
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Add floors to towers, finish them off with roofs, then add them onto the board for area-majority goodness. Escalating points & brutal scoring in which only top two score (if that) ratchets the tension in a four-player game of Capitol AKA Skyline 3000 up to 11. #boardgames
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In this video I compare, with commentary, ye olde Formula DΓ© from the late-90s to the newer (but not that new) Formula D from the late-00s and beyond. #boardgames
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I recently talked about ye olde Kreta and ye newe Sardegna. Here they are, side-by-slide, with commentary! #boardgames
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Kreta was an area-majority game from 2005 in which one player must choose to trigger scoring, putting them behind the pace but giving them influence where scoring happens in the future. 2024's Sardegna is a compact version worth checking out for fans of the genre. #boardgames
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Let's compare the two editions of the board game London, by Martin Wallace: From his own company Treefrog in 2010 to the 2017 edition from Osprey.
Note I haven't played the game, so this is a comparison of the components and my vibes from reading the rules. #boardgames
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Countless* copies of the Colovini classic Cartagena β compared, with commentary! #boardgames
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* well, four
To make money, you have to spend money. Bid away money you don't want, and try to get lots in few different currencies, identical sets, and some precious metals wouldn't hurt too.
Money! by Reiner Knizia has a new edition this year from @allplay.bsky.social. #boardgames
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Hereβs a side-by-slide comparison, with commentary, of the two retail editions of the Dan Cassar card game Arboretum: earlier Z-Man vs later Renegade. #boardgames
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This is a side-by-slide comparison, with commentary, of two versions of a classic CornΓ© van Moorsel board game: Gipsy King (2007 Cwali) and the brand-new Waddle (2025 @allplay.bsky.social). #boardgames
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Warring Italian city-states! It's easy to over-commit your mercs to one battle when your cards have to last multiple. Pick and choose your battles, literally!
Classic from '95, revised '07. Maybe new rules are fine, but this is a love letter to classic Condottiere. #boardgames
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I compare side-by-slide with commentary two editions of the classic Ehrhard game Condottiere: Eurogames/Descartes (late 90s/early 00s) vs Z-Man 2018. (Avoid FFG 2007 as they changed the rules. At least with Z-Man 2018 you're able to play the classic way.) #boardgames
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In this video I compare side-by-slide, with commentary, the two editions of the J. Alex Kevern #boardgames named Gold West: Tasty Minstrel's from 2015 vs Trick or Treat's from 2024.
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In Patrician, play cards to place tower pieces, hoping for the most/highest pieces in the tallest towers. Where you play β‘οΈ what card you get next, leading to a do-this-to-get-that-to-play-there kind of process. Easy to learn & play, with quick turns and a nice flow. #boardgames
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Goldland was a German-only exploration board game by Wolfgang Kramer and Goldsieber, originally published in 2002. Daryl Andrews has re-worked the game into a new 2025 edition, Donald Duck in Happy Camper, published by Maestro. This side-by-slide compares the two! #boardgames
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Old-school German (OG) style games are my jam. Any new games in that style? Here's a good one: Foundations (Matsuuchi/Arcane Wonders). Of Rome (2022) is a luxe plastic-mini-filled city-building experience, Of Metropolis (2024) a more sensible retail version. #boardgames
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Side-by-slide, I compare with commentary the old and new versions of the same great Reiner Knizia board game: Orongo (Ravensburger 2014) and Nyakuza (CMON 2025). #boardgames
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In this side-by-slideshow I compare, with commentary, two editions of a classic Alan Moon / Aaron Weissblum strategy game: Capitol (Schmidt 2001) vs Skyline 3000 (Z-Man 2009). #boardgames
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In Dolmen(gΓΆtter), make stone circles and place blocks of hidden values in a stack, higher the better. NO LUCK, but the secret placement of blocks keeps one from analysing too hard. Open-info gameplay + hidden-info scoring = simultaneously casual and intriguing. #boardgames
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In this video I compare side-by-slide, with commentary, the 2014 edition of Port Royal with the 2022 big box. I compare all the cards that are present in both, and show some extra content in the big box that were previously available in expansions (not included). #boardgames
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