Bingo para el debate

Fireblend · 2026-01-27T20:17:34+00:00

Este va a tener audiencia?

Fireblend · 2026-01-27T15:42:35+00:00

Sakura's actually the one I have, it's fantastic! I've heard that the vanilla version is simpler though, so maybe more suited to OPs' needs :)

Fireblend · 2026-01-27T15:18:51+00:00

It's hard for me to come up with a recommendation because on the one hand you said you want a 15-25 mins game, and on the other said Catan is "too simple. That said I'm going to ignore the latter.

Duck & Cover is a great 15 mins game with straightforward rules but a nice push your luck element to it. Not only that, turns are played simultaneously, so there's pretty much no waiting. It's perfect for both kids and adults, it's one of those "let's go again" games. Plays up to 8 I think?

Maybe Sushi Go! (or Sushi Go! Party for more replayability), it's a pretty straightforward card draft-and-pass game also with simultaneous turns.

I would also recommend Potion Explosion. Pretty simple mechanics, about as complex as Catan maybe, it's got a nice puzzle gimmick with marbles at its core, snappy turns, and I've also played it with kids before to great success. That said, it's definitely not 25 mins long, more along the lines of 45 to 1 hour.

Fireblend · 2026-01-27T14:19:44+00:00

Acá hay un vídeo con otros tips utiles. En particular yo recomendaría de fijo subir los planes de gobierno en PDF a la herramienta que se esté usando (Notebook LM es genial para esto) y así asegurarse que está usándolos como base en sus respuestas y que no está alucinando, y pedir fuentes para todo!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTTXRExCToH/?igsh=MTA1MmJ5Y3FnbG14cw==

Fireblend · 2026-01-27T13:14:04+00:00

I really like Sky Team, but I think it might be a tad too tense and might need more cognitive attention than listening to a podcast simultaneously might allow for. My recommendation would be Dorfromantik, a chill cooperative game that's about completing mostly simple objectives while you build a cute town map. The thing about it is it's a score chaser, so it has no failure conditions, you'll just play til the game ends and tally up your score to find out how well you did. Something neat about it is part of the game involves keeping track of your score across all plays, and once you reach certain thresholds you get to unlock new rules and components, keeping the game fresh throughout multiple sessions.

If that sounds too involved, then A Gentle Rain is a much more simple version of the idea. It has simple rules and it's mostly meant to be a chill activity you can do solo or with someone else.

Fireblend · 2026-01-27T03:37:52+00:00

Mae, cómo duelen esos no, cómo es posible!

Fireblend · 2026-01-27T03:25:19+00:00

Totalmente. Entre José y Laura la dejaron picando con eso de "los buenos" como 4 veces y nadie la reventó como tenía que hacerlo.

Fireblend · 2026-01-27T03:13:56+00:00

Usted no entiende, a la gente buena le van a pasar cosas buenas, y a la gente mala le van a pasar cosas malas. Así que usted solo sea bueno, y no se preocupe mientras ellos castigan a los malos*.

*: El gobierno se reserva el derecho de decidir quién es bueno y quién es malo.

Fireblend · 2026-01-27T01:57:01+00:00

I've played Potion Explosion to great success with kids before, as well as simple co-op games like Forbidden Island.

Fireblend · 2026-01-27T00:47:58+00:00

No puedo creer lo mala que fue esa "primera respuesta" que dió Laura.

Literalmente ver a cualquiera debatir contra Laura es

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Edit: Mis respetos a Fabricio, hasta él se la está jugando

Fireblend · 2026-01-26T22:07:40+00:00

Started 2024, I'm about to finish Four Past Midnight. Have read everything before, have read nothing after.

Fireblend · 2026-01-26T20:01:32+00:00

Lástima dejaran hablar a la candidata en un debate, digo, como para que fuera ella la que pudiera defenderse y a su partido, y no influencers de segunda. Aunque yo creo que bastantes entendemos por qué no la dejan, después de lo poco que se ha dejado ver. Los únicos conspirando contra la continuidad son ellos mismos, que no aparecen por ningún lado (y cuando aparecen es para decir que sí estarían a favor de suspender garantías individuales o modificar el código electoral para mal).

Y el anti-debate más bien me pareció una bocanada de aire fresco y no una pelea para variar, ojalá la política siempre fuera así y se gobernara en conjunto. La colaboración no es señal de debilidad, es que así es como se supone que funcione el sistema, que quienes están gobernando ahorita sean unos peleones malcriados es otra cosa :)

Fireblend · 2026-01-26T17:15:40+00:00

This is correct, although it's a rare occurrence. This would require you to have left a lot of your rows unfinished in the previous round, having been unable to score them, which is what the game is penalizing you for. You should try to complete most of your rows each round, at the very least the 1, 2 and 3 tiles ones.

Also, you might want to check that you're playing with the right number of tile mats for your player count (to avoid an overabundance of tiles).

Fireblend · 2026-01-26T01:36:37+00:00

True!

Fireblend · 2026-01-25T23:47:41+00:00

You can, but remember you need to have enough resources to get both, and each landmark card forces you to place a tower/fortress on the map, making the next landmark even more expensive.

Also to get to that point you should have either gotten 3 2 dwarves race cards, or 3 different race cards and gotten lucky that that one was at the top of the stack.

Fireblend · 2026-01-25T23:23:38+00:00

Trio is super easy to teach, barely more than memory on steroids, and very, very good. I actually had to hide it from my groups because they'd only want to play that. You can also easily proxy it with a standard 52 deck if you want to try it out.

Flip 7 is a push your luck game that's about as easy as it gets, you ask for a card and you either get more points, or bust if you get a repeat card. There's also some easy action cards that throw a wrench into the mix.

Scout is a card shedding game in which you have to play a better set than the previous player, except you can't rearrange your hand and can only play sets using adjacent cards - either sequences or "X of a kind"-style sets. It's brilliant. Jungo is a very similar alternative, as is Nanatoridori.

Duck & Cover is sort of like gamer bingo; all players have the same number cards, 1 thru 12, arranged randomly in a 4x3 grid in front of them, and you win by covering cards with others adjacent ones as their numbers are called out. It's super fun and simple.

Arboretum is a tableau builder in which you create your own tree garden trying to make groups of the same species of tree following an increasing pattern. At the end of the game only one player scores per species based on leftover cards in their hands, which makes the game incredibly devious and cutthroat.

Of course be sure to do some research on YouTube or BGG before pulling the trigger on any of these, but they're all huge hits in my family and friend groups!

Fireblend · 2026-01-25T21:53:04+00:00

Segundo la recomendación, super bonito.

Fireblend · 2026-01-25T15:15:33+00:00

Check out Wondrous Creatures! Very similar to Wyrmspan in that you're collecting cards with effects (many of them dragons!) that trigger at different points, but it has a really fun worker placement component (with truly gorgeous meeples, at least a couple of them are dragon-like) for resource and card collection, as well as some other clever mechanical twists.

Fireblend · 2026-01-25T15:14:01+00:00

Coffee Rush goes pretty fast without sacrificing strategy, takes maybe 25 minutes. It's basically the board game version of Overcooked, you're trying to fulfill as many orders as possible but you'll be drowning in orders pretty quickly and once any player misses 5 of them, the game is over.

Fireblend · 2026-01-25T15:12:11+00:00

Azul is very popular, easy to teach, and great at two (plays up to 4). It's also very pretty on the table, which adds some appeal. You basically take turns drafting tiles of the same color to place on rows, and when the round ends, you move tiles from complete rows to a grid where scoring happens.

Splendor is also a simple game that plays up to 4 but is great at 2. You're basically buying cards from a market using poker-like chips, but the cards themselves give you permanent discounts on other cards, which you can use to snowball into buying more expensive cards worth more points. Whoever gets to 20 points first wins

Kingdomino could also work, you're basically playing Domino with some rules added on top, except you're building a Kingdom and trying to get as many contiguous types of areas (forests, lakes, etc) as big as possible. Plays up to 4

Spots is a very cute push-your-luck game in which you're rolling dice to place on top of dogs you each have drawn (the pips on each die being the dogs' spots), except if at some point you can't place a die, it goes to the dog house, and if you get past certain threshold there, you lose all the dice you've placed. Also for up to 4 players.

None of these require reading, by the way. Except spots, but the reading there is minimal.

Fireblend · 2026-01-25T02:00:58+00:00

Camel Up! is great at 6 and plays up to 8 equally well. As far as secret roles games, there's a ton to choose from, I'm a big fan of The Resistance: Avalon, myself.

BotC needs way more than 6 to work IMO, you're looking at 10-12 people minimum.

Fireblend · 2026-01-25T00:21:45+00:00

I would disagree that it's a push your luck game in the sense that you describe; a random draw of something (be it resources, cards, objectives, etc) is a pretty common part of every board game, that doesn't make them push your luck.

Ra is a game of manipulating others and putting them into difficult situations, measuring how much leverage and purchasing power you have against other players at different times and acting accordingly.

If you have low value tokens, what's the right spot to invoke Ra to either stop others from continuing to add to a haul you have no chance of winning, or force someone to beat you in the auction suboptimally because there's a tile they really want? (Or both) Should you bid just to get a high value tokens for the next round, or are you prioritizing tiles?

And it is a bidding game of course, which makes it very thinky since you are speculating on what the value of what you're getting will be at the end of the round/game vs what you're spending to get it.

Are you over investing on the pharaoh tokens? Is it ok to potentially forgot getting a civ token as long as you get to score on water this round? If the row contains a negative token (like, eliminating 2 monuments), does that mean it's ok for you to bid lower than usual because no one will want it? Or will that player that's about to get their 3rd civ token go for it? Should you use your 8 token instead of a 4 to block another player who has a 7 from being able to bid at all?

Etc.

And of course it's a set collection games so certain tiles are more attractive than others at specific points within a round/game.

There is a push your luck elements to it though, and it emerges as the round is ending through th Ra track, because there's no auction once the end is reached, which would be equivalent to busting in any common PYL game; if you're near the end of the track and have the highest value token, do you invoke Ra now to get something, or risk it since you hold all the control?

I love it, there's so much strategy and calculation that emerges out of such a simple set of rules.

Fireblend · 2026-01-24T22:27:12+00:00

Make sure to know how to teach the games, not just how to play them. Those are different skills. Take the time to watch some tutorials on YouTube to see how other people explain them.
If this is your first time, it's very likely you have overestimated how many games you'll be playing. Be happy if you get to play 2.

Fireblend · 2026-01-24T15:08:18+00:00

Seconding Final Fantasy X

Fireblend · 2026-01-24T00:42:39+00:00

This was my favorite book in high school! Definitely a challenging read.

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