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🃏 In My Favourite Card, i spotlight one card from a beloved board game that i think is just chef’s kiss — for its design, power, weirdness, or how it flips the game on its head.
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🃏 In My Favourite Card, i spotlight one card from a beloved board game that i think is just chef’s kiss — for its design, power, weirdness, or how it flips the game on its head.
Today’s pick comes from Underwater Cities. Do you agree with my choice? Got your own favourite? Drop it in the comments!👇
🎲 What’s your favourite card in the game? Let’s talk about it.
💬 More board game discussion → nightsaroundatable.com/discord
🍷 Support the channel & join my table! → patreon.com/nightsaroundatable
📺 More bite-sized board game love → Subscribe
#MyFavouriteCard #BoardGames #TabletopGames #BoardGameDesign #CardGames #BoardGameShorts #Shorts #BoardGameFaves
![How to play Ascendancy
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Ascendancy is a worker placement/4X mash-up where everything in your kingdom is upgradeable.
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0:00 Introduction
3:40 The Lay of the Land
7:43 Turn Order
12:47 Worker Tiers and Ousting
14:32 Decade End
18:13 Phase 1: The Frontier
22:52 Phase 2: The Supply
24:29 Phase 3: The Academy
25:59 Phase 4: The Empire
30:56 Battle
40:17 Instant Actions
43:02 Tech Tree
46:11 Quests and Items
45:22 Deployment
49:05 Nemesis Characters
56:24 Setup
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![How to play Fled
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ill take one enormous poster of Rita Hayworth, please. Heres a prison escape board game set on historical Spike Island. Coming soon to Kickstarter:
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0:00 Introduction
1:54 Expanding the prison
3:50 Playing tiles
5:36 Moving warders
8:15 Escaping
9:44 Inventory
12:54 End of your turn/end of the game
14:25 The Specter
17:15 Setup
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(Child, no smoking sign, and antennae were edited out ) How to play Fled](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dYcpTqkQuK0/mqdefault.jpg)
![Unbox-a-thon! Zombicide 2nd ed, Danny Trejo, and Carnival of Monsters + Cryptic Crossword Puzzle
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Time to crack the shrink on some more board games!
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0:00 Introduction and tech check
4:13 Zombicide 2nd Edition
23:37 Zombicide: Danny Trejo
36:18 Carnival of Monsters
47:00 Learn to solve a Cryptic Crossword puzzle!
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![Is Merchants & Marauders fun? (What about EVERY OTHER pirate board game?)
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0:00 Introduction
0:34 FUN: FREEEDOMMM!
2:01 NOT FUN: PvP
3:16 FUN: Sexy arts
4:32 NOT FUN: UX/UI
4:51 NOT FUN: Randomness
6:16 FUN: Luck mitigation
6:56 NOT FUN: Port downtime
8:11 FUN: Theme!!
12:10 NOT FUN: Fussy rules
15:27 The Scales of Funstice decide!
15:51 im not nearly finished.
17:09 Pirates Cove
17:53 Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot
18:34 Black Fleet
19:26 Jamaica
20:02 Jamaica: The Crew
20:46 Dark Seas
21:29 Chrono Corsairs
21:57 Piratoons
22:19 Piña Pirata
22:42 Liars Dice
23:24 Cartageña, Libertalia & Treasure Island
23:49 Dead Reckoning
26:29 Conclusion
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Dance like a pirate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z46_iFcWMPE Is Merchants & Marauders fun? (What about EVERY OTHER pirate board game?)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/f8bkjRKqk7Q/mqdefault.jpg)
![Lost Ruins of Arnak: Expedition Leaders - Falconer vs Baroness
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Ryan and Cheryl further explore the Expedition Leaders expansion, pitting the real-life Pokémon training Falconer against the pay-to-win Baroness.
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![How to Play Stars of Akarios (1.5 Rules Update!)
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Stars of Akarios puts you in interstellar dogfights and missions on alien worlds in a 3-act story-based space campaign that lasts for multiple sessions.
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0:00 Introduction
1:20 Squadding Up
3:31 Space Combat Prep
9:33 Space Combat
13:54 Moving
16:44 Attacking
19:25 Modifier Cards
22:37 Advantage and Disadvantage
23:50 Combat Effects
26:51 Stress
28:19 Special Actions, Bonus Abilities, and More Combat Effects
30:40 Enemy Actions
36:00 End of Round
39:52 Space Exploration
42:01 World Exploration
48:48 Market
50:40 New Pilots, New Ships, and Hiring Co-Pilots
52:06 Adjusting Difficulty
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Dance like an astronaut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSYaEBcl8xI
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![Unbox-a-thon!
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Time to crack the shrink on some board games!
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0:00 Lost Ruins of Arnak: Expedition Leaders
29:00 Wingspan: European and Oceania Expansions
1:03:30 Tekhenu
1:20:55 Troyes
1:34:06 Pendulum
1:58:15 Galaxy Trucker
2:16:44 7 Wonders Duel: Agora
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Thanks to Stonemaier Games for supplying three copies of Pendulum. Unbox-a-thon!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fIAAKpLLja4/mqdefault.jpg)

![This insert hurts. (Teotihuacan Deluxe Master Set)
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It was going so well, until i discovered.... THAT.
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0:00 Introduction
2:57 Boys Board Game Weekend
5:17 Controversies
7:29 Climbing atop tall, forbidden things
9:05 How many T games can you name?
13:05 Manuals, player boards, and CoB garishness
20:40 Main board (Ooh! Spot treatment!)
24:11 Player pieces
28:25 The Undefeatable Duckmonster enters the chat
29:38 Ryan hears voices
31:35 Untumbled wooden dice
32:54 All the Young Dudes
41:35 The Terraforming Mars tile tragedy
42:09 Resources (and the fish sauce story)
48:04 Nit-picking the heat transfers
50:09 The decal debate (and the aluminium switcheroo)
52:19 Catan players crassness over resources
54:24 Ryan resolves to rebox it (while riffing on the Alien franchise)
57.54 Thats where the weights coming from, everybody!
1:03:09 Character tiles (ply your advantage!)
1:05:12 Chris Quilliams?
1:06:48 Drawbags, Grace Jones, and the missing green player
1:12:51 Ryan discovers the absolute insert horrorshow
1:28:09 The pain... worsens
1:31:43 Searching for more missing pieces
1:35:35 The green bag travesty
1:37:53 Awfulness continues with the tech tile tray
1:48:03 Putting it all back in the box
1:52:23 The resource tray fiasco begins
2:11:48 Ryan scours the internet for clues
2:15:14 22 minutes later, Ryan cracks the case
2:22:45 Total assembly time: THIRTY MINUTES
2:24:38 Parting words
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Dance like a mesoamerican: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXaE7cFzhEQ This insert hurts. (Teotihuacan Deluxe Master Set)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fwPlYQ46_lQ/mqdefault.jpg)