Come join us for this BOONLAKE Board Game Playthrough, Designed by Alexander Pfister, published by Capstone Games and art from Klemens Franz. Waiting Screen 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:15 Components 00:10:51 Rules Teach 00:15:50 Playthrough 00:59:20 Scoring 02:52:48 Review 03:02:54 Chat 03:14:05 ************************************************** "With a group of pioneers, you have left civilization behind to settle along the shores of Boonlake, a long-forgotten region inhabited by humans long ago. This unexplored area beckons you! Become part of a new community and commit yourself to the common good. Explore the landscapes, build houses and settlements, raise cattle, produce raw materials, and develop an infrastructure. Do your best to automate these processes. Seize the opportunity to make the best of your new life in Boonlake. Boonlake is an expert game in which you are finding yourself improving your life — and your group's life — in this new territory...but how you accomplish this is completely up to you! Due to a novel action mechanism, each game progresses differently. Each action needs to be considered carefully since the other players also benefit from the action you choose. Besides this, the action determines how far you may move your ship — the further and faster, the better!" —description from the CPG website Music provided by Lofi Girl - Listen: bit.ly/lofigirI-playlists ************************************************** Subscribe for new videos ❤️ and hit the notification bell 🔔 for updates https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS3nQCBdRehEuMDZA9ztAWg?sub_confirmation=1 Shop https://www.thenerdshelves.com/shop All proceeds go to The BC Children's Hospital website http://www.thenerdshelves.com

Sorry for the technical difficulties at the beginning at the beginning. Use time stamps below to skip past. Come join us for this BLAZON Board Game Playthrough, Designed by David Conklin , published by 25th Century Games and art from Ian O'toole. Waiting Screen 00:00:00 Tech Dificulties 00:01:10 Intro 00:07:30 Rules Teach 00:11:11 Playthrough 00:40:14 Scoring 01:22:29 Review 01:27:42 Review 01:39:20 Secret Ending 01:47:31 ************************************************** "The use of various symbols and devices to signify individuals and groups dates to the age of antiquity. Warriors often decorated their shields with patterns and mythological creatures. Heraldry refers to the design, display and study of armorial bearings, a shield used to identify a person or family. The concepts and systems of regular heraldic designs were developed by heraldic officers between 1000 AD and 1300 AD during a period known as the High Middle Ages. Originally conceived to assist with identification in battle, the beauty and intricacy of various heraldic designs meant that they survived the abandonment of armor on the battlefield and preserved the honor of the family line. To this day, we still see their use by individuals, organizations, corporations, towns, cities, and regions. To blazon arms means to describe them in the language of Heraldry, which has its own vocabulary, syntax and grammar based strongly on an anglicized version of Norman French. A game of Blazon allows you to act as a herald, designing your own heraldic shield by acquiring elements, placing them on your Shield board, and earning distinctions through careful choices." —description from the CPG website Music provided by Lofi Girl - Listen: bit.ly/lofigirI-playlists ************************************************** Subscribe for new videos ❤️ and hit the notification bell 🔔 for updates https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS3nQCBdRehEuMDZA9ztAWg?sub_confirmation=1 Shop https://www.thenerdshelves.com/shop All proceeds go to The BC Children's Hospital website http://www.thenerdshelves.com

Come join us for this HAIR OF THE DOG Board Game Playthrough, Designed by Alexander Jerabek , published by Cherry Picked Games and art from Jules Naujoks. Waiting Screen 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:07 Rules Teach 00:07:49 Playthrough 00:37:52 Scoring 01:42:55 Review 01:46:38 Chat 01:54:32 Secret Ending 02:03:13 ************************************************** "Hair of the Dog is the trendy new spot for dog owners to bring their pets. Sadly, no one in your friend circle has a dog. It’s a real problem. You need to pet one; you all do. Luckily, the Hair of the Dog pub will let you in, as long as you’re buying drinks. Your group heads there with a singular mission: pet all the dogs. Of course, it’s not enough just to pet the dogs. You need to win: to be the undisputed best at hand-to-dog contact. To do so, you must get a variety of scratching styles from unique dogs. The dogs at this bar are picky and all have different criteria you must meet before they let you pet them. You also need to be a good patron of the establishment by buying drinks. Failure to be a good customer will result in the staff shaming you for selfishly taking up space. Pet the dogs better than your friends and don’t be shamed. Should be a relaxing evening, right?" —description from the CPG website Music provided by Lofi Girl - Listen: bit.ly/lofigirI-playlists ************************************************** Subscribe for new videos ❤️ and hit the notification bell 🔔 for updates https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS3nQCBdRehEuMDZA9ztAWg?sub_confirmation=1 Shop https://www.thenerdshelves.com/shop All proceeds go to The BC Children's Hospital website http://www.thenerdshelves.com Discord https://discord.gg/NRqEES5cbn Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/164157464310404/

Come join us for this DULCE Board Game Playthrough, Designed by Julio E. Nazario, published by Stronghold Games and art from Justine Nortje. Waiting Screen 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:33 Rules Teach 00:12:18 Playthrough 00:37:56 Winner 01:48:24 Review 1:49:30 Chat 02:00:00 ************************************************** "Competition is tough in the world of sweets. You need to plant your fields strategically with cacao, coffee, peanuts, and vanilla, then use those beans efficiently to make the best confectionaries around! Using every resource is necessary to beat out your competition. In Dulce, each player has their own deck with beans on one side of each card and a factory on the other, as well as their own field in which to plant. Every round, one player draws a card and the others search their deck for the same card, then everyone chooses their action simultaneously: plant, harvest, or build a new factory. Planting gains you new cacao, coffee, peanut, and vanilla resources, and harvesting allows you to use those resources in your factories. Each confectionary made in your factories earns you one point, and at the end of twenty rounds, the player with the most points wins!" —description from designer Music provided by Lofi Girl - Listen: bit.ly/lofigirI-playlists ************************************************** Subscribe for new videos ❤️ and hit the notification bell 🔔 for updates https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS3nQCBdRehEuMDZA9ztAWg?sub_confirmation=1 Shop https://www.thenerdshelves.com/shop All proceeds go to The BC Children's Hospital website http://www.thenerdshelves.com Discord https://discord.gg/NRqEES5cbn Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/164157464310404/

Come join us for this DEEP DIVE Board Game Playthrough, Designed by Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, and Shawn Stankewich, published by Flatout Games and AEG, and art from Dylan Mangini. Waiting Screen 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:23 Rules Teach 00:12:35 Playthrough 00:26:15 Scoring 00:51:37 Review 00:54:10 Chat 01:05:55 Secret Ending 01:24:55 ************************************************** Point City + Deep Dive Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flatoutgames/point-city-deep-dive "Deep Dive is a press-your-luck set-collection game in which you use your waddle of penguins to dive deep into the ocean to amass the most bountiful collection of food! Turns are simple: Flip over an ocean tile, and see what you reveal. You can take what you reveal in the shallows or dive deeper, hoping for a larger catch — but the deeper you go, the more plentiful the predators become. As you surface with food, you build sets of three colors. Target the colors you need to complete sets and score the maximum number of points. When one of the depths of the ocean has been fully explored, the game ends and the penguin waddle with the best sets of food wins!" —description from designer Music provided by Lofi Girl - Listen: bit.ly/lofigirI-playlists ************************************************** Subscribe for new videos ❤️ and hit the notification bell 🔔 for updates https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS3nQCBdRehEuMDZA9ztAWg?sub_confirmation=1 Shop https://www.thenerdshelves.com/shop All proceeds go to The BC Children's Hospital website http://www.thenerdshelves.com Discord https://discord.gg/NRqEES5cbn Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/164157464310404/

Come join us for this POINT CITY Board Game Playthrough, Designed by Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich, published by Flatout Games and AEG, and art from Dylan Mangini. Waiting Screen 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:41 Rules Teach 00:09:09 Playthrough 00:25:15 Scoring 01:06:49 Review 01:10:50 Chat 01:21:52 ************************************************** Point City + Deep Dive Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flatoutgames/point-city-deep-dive "From the team that brought you the smash hit Point Salad, Point City is a card-drafting, engine-building game with more than 150 unique building cards, giving you the opportunity to create a completely different city each time you play! The rules are simple: Take two adjacent cards from the dynamic city grid and add them to your expanding city. Use your resource cards and bonuses to construct building cards that require specific combinations. Build special civic structures to multiply your city's points and be the top urban planner! Point City takes the same simple concept of drafting cards and building the best combinations, then adds new layers of resource management and engine building to the mix — making the game easy to learn, but challenging for everyone!" —description from designer Music provided by Lofi Girl - Listen: bit.ly/lofigirI-playlists ************************************************** Subscribe for new videos ❤️ and hit the notification bell 🔔 for updates https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS3nQCBdRehEuMDZA9ztAWg?sub_confirmation=1 Shop https://www.thenerdshelves.com/shop All proceeds go to The BC Children's Hospital website http://www.thenerdshelves.com Discord https://discord.gg/NRqEES5cbn Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/164157464310404/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_nerd_shelves/Twitter https://twitter.com/Thenerdshelves email thenerdshelves@gmail.com

Come join us for this YNAROS FALLIN Board Game Playthrough, Designed by Luca Sanfilippo and Ugo Tomasello, published by Peekwik Games and art from Swan Keller. On kickstarter now https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ynaros-fallin/ynaros-fallin Waiting Screen 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:42 Rules Teach 00:18:35 Playthrough 00:54:00 Scoring 02:06:49 Review 02:10:22 Chat 02:21:28 ************************************************** "Welcome to Ynaros Fallin’! The world-shattering strategic game for 1-2 and 4 players! Navigate through wild Lands and harness their power to increase your magical might. Meet the other Shaman and prove your mastery. Do you have what it takes to become the wisest Shaman the Land has ever seen? Ynaros Fallin’ is an innovative strategic board game that provides its players with an exciting combination of area control, worker placement, hidden movement ability, tile placement, and a brand new game mechanic we've dubbed “clash-involver”. Combining elements of both Euro and American-style gameplay, it requires advanced strategic thinking and tough decision-making, yet it never ceases to bring you the thrill of a good duel! Each turn has up to 3 phases: Deeds, Fate, Cantrips. In the first phase, a player can play 2 actions from the following: a) Draw 5 cards from the common pile b) Play cards from their hand c) Use the personal die to move miniatures d) Sacrifice a Magic Crystal to perform a control on one of the opponent's characters During Fate phase, player can discover and conquer Magic Lands, evoke new characters and play Magic Battles. During Cantrips phase, player can convert Magic Crystals to get experience points and get Boons from Red Magic Lands. The game ends if one of the following conditions take place : a) A player completes their 6 spaces for magic land in their personal board. b) 3 magic land piles are depleted. c) A player loses all their Vital Crystals. A player win when : a) Has the highest amount of Experience Points. b) The opponent lost all their Vital Crystals." —description from the publisher Music provided by Lofi Girl - Listen: bit.ly/lofigirI-playlists ************************************************** Subscribe for new videos ❤️ and hit the notification bell 🔔 for updates https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS3nQCBdRehEuMDZA9ztAWg?sub_confirmation=1 Shop https://www.thenerdshelves.com/shop All proceeds go to The BC Children's Hospital website http://www.thenerdshelves.com Discord https://discord.gg/NRqEES5cbn Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/164157464310404/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_nerd_shelves/Twitter https://twitter.com/Thenerdshelves email thenerdshelves@gmail.com

STAR WARS: THE DECKBUILDING GAME Board Game Review, Designed by Caleb Grace, published by Fantasy Flight Games and sent to us by Asomde Canada. Intro 00:00:00 Overview 00:00:20 Review 00:06:45 Rating 00:10:55 ************************************************** "The Rebel Alliance fights valiantly against the tyranny of the Galactic Empire. Each new victory brings the Rebels hope, and each heroic sacrifice strengthens their resolve. Still, the Empire's resources are vast, and the firepower of its Empire Navy is unmatched. With neither side willing to accept defeat, their war rages across the galaxy... In Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game, a head-to-head game for two players, the galaxy-spanning war between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance comes alive on your tabletop. In this easy-to-learn game, you and your opponent each choose a side, playing as either the Empire or the Rebels, and as the game progresses you both strengthen the power of your starting decks and work to destroy each other's bases. The first player to destroy three of their opponent's bases wins. In more detail, each player starts with a unique ten-card deck, with seven of those cards providing only resources to acquire new cards. Six cards from a galaxy deck are always on display, with Rebel cards facing the Rebel player, Empire cards the Empire player, and neutral cards turned sideways. You can spend resources to acquire cards in the galaxy row that don't belong to the opponent, and you can use attack power to take out cards that do belong to them, gaining a reward in the process. Each player starts with a base that lacks abilities (Dantooine for the Rebels and Lothal for the Empire), but when that base is destroyed, you get to choose a replacement from your base deck, with each base having a special ability. Choose wisely to counter your opponent's plans! In addition to having special abilities, capital ships absorb damage meant for your base. Players also fight for control of a Force track to gain additional resources or make use of "If the Force is with you..." abilities on their cards." —description from the publisher Music provided by Lofi Girl - Listen: bit.ly/lofigirI-playlists ************************************************** Subscribe for new videos ❤️ and hit the notification bell 🔔 for updates https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS3nQCBdRehEuMDZA9ztAWg?sub_confirmation=1 Shop https://www.thenerdshelves.com/shop All proceeds go to The BC Children's Hospital website http://www.thenerdshelves.com Discord https://discord.gg/NRqEES5cbn Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/164157464310404/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_nerd_shelves/Twitter https://twitter.com/Thenerdshelves email thenerdshelves@gmail.com

Come join us for this CENTURY: SPICE ROAD Board Game Playthrough, Designed by Emerson Matsuuchi, published by Plan B Games and art from David Richards and Fernanda Suárez . Waiting Screen 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:43 Components 00:10:16 Rules Teach 00:16:07 Playthrough 00:29:25 Scoring 02:44:52 Review 02:50:22 Chat 02:55:22 Secret Ending 03:01:34 ************************************************** "Century: Spice Road is the first in a series of games that explores the history of each century with spice-trading as the theme for the first installment. In Century: Spice Road, players are caravan leaders who travel the famed silk road to deliver spices to the far reaches of the continent for fame and glory. Each turn, players perform one of four actions: Establish a trade route (by taking a market card) Make a trade or harvest spices (by playing a card from hand) Fulfill a demand (by meeting a victory point card's requirements and claiming it) Rest (by taking back into your hand all of the cards you've played) The last round is triggered once a player has claimed their fifth victory point card, then whoever has the most victory points wins." —description from the publisher Music provided by Lofi Girl - Listen: bit.ly/lofigirI-playlists ************************************************** Subscribe for new videos ❤️ and hit the notification bell 🔔 for updates https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS3nQCBdRehEuMDZA9ztAWg?sub_confirmation=1 Shop https://www.thenerdshelves.com/shop All proceeds go to The BC Children's Hospital website http://www.thenerdshelves.com Discord https://discord.gg/NRqEES5cbn Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/164157464310404/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_nerd_shelves/Twitter https://twitter.com/Thenerdshelves email thenerdshelves@gmail.com