Let's Play THE THING: INFECTION AT OUTPOST 31 | Board Game Club 

Hope you comeback in the nearest time possible

You were great!

So cool to finally see you at the table, you've been amazing

Having you was an absolute delight! I can’t wait until you can come back to the UK!

Hope you come back again soon!!! Hopefully some zoom games atleast. :) You're a an awesome part of the NRB family

He does play the really frustrated at being accused when he is the evil player a lot I've noticed , he is easy to read because in games like this when people suspect he is "evil" and he is , he shuts down completely, this is about the third time I've seen him in this position where he stops having fun. Usually when he isn't evil and isn't suspected he is one of the main voices. I love watching these videos, im so drawn in to their gameplans , I almost prefer to know who are evil as they play. Adam when he is evil will play the long con , he is very good at cheering a win for the good players to make it look like he is on their team , he runs the risk of letting it get to the point he can't stop it by playing the long game , but when he reveals it and he has won , then he is one of the best at it.

I'm in the same category in my group for Among Us. If there's no obvious evidence of the imposter, it's good odds they'll throw me out. :) And one of my tells is getting frustrated at being accused when I'm the imposter. I need to work on that.

See I am the opposite of I am constantly evil but no one ever suspects me and often name me team captain

In my group, I am always the one who is assumed to be evil. The "proof" of my "obvious guilt" is that I can't hold a strait face whenever I am accused. Thing is... I crack up regardless of being bad or not, and more often than not I am perfectly innocent. I will say, it does get really frustrating when people decide that the one time they are right somehow justifies the previous dozen wrong guesses.

@@steve10 I kinda notices this in this video, he was very loud to begin with, having fun, jokeing around. the moment he got himself in hot water saying he contributed an axe, and got accused, he shut down, went silent and got sullen and quiet. super big tell. when they first started playing, someone jokingly accused him and he jokingly said somthing to the effect of "go on, test me, i dare you, lol" Later when he was accused, and was actually guilty, he got angry instead.

That’s fair! Also you did a great job on it! :)

If anything, it would make a GREAT bonking stick

@@weissbelladonna Thanks!

A vast improvement over the fist trophy thing

@@philwatkins2800 But, the first trophy is gloriously shit.

Yeah, Adam played pretty really well. When Jon first got suspicious of him I was shocked because I have no idea how he made that read.

I think it was the time he allowed Rosie on the team and a sabotage appeared that screwed him

@@Moleoflands It was the two sabotages in one mission that did it for him. It cast suspicion on one of the middle three. If that hadn't happened they could have got to the end of the game thinking there were only two Things.

Yeah, Jon absolutely said who the 3 Things were, but then started doubting himself afterwards.

the only real hint adam had of him being evil where the fact he NEEDED there not to be 3 tests at the end so there was a mission he had to fail (which ment he had to argue with Thing rose) and also MAYBE the sab he failed (he might not have been able to pass it anyway) so yeah Adam played really well and I personally wouldn't have known for sure

dITTO!!!

And Adam, had he been crowned, would make them perform and stand at the beginning and the end. 😏👑

Brooke has cemented her status as Lord of the Board with her fantastic decision making here!

Especially after that epic endgame decision making

Also, they'd better not EVER talk amongst themselves to figure out what the last line of the entry song should be. They must awkwardly mumble their way through it every time!

Meanwhile everyone gets upset at people using social reads in a social deduction game

@@brooza664 Okay, that's a late reply so I'll late respond. What else are ya gonna do? Getting accused for social read instead of the "evidence" you have for your innocence is pretty much all you can do besides going "ahh ya got me :P". You have to discredit social reads if they're not in your favor.

​@@davie1560 one thing that I've found is both a great boon and a huge "burden" for those situations, is having ASD 😂 I may be high function, but it can either work against me, or make things go in my favor 🤣

Agree. There's an old saying: Liars convince, Honest people convey. If you're honest and accused of doing wrong, you just convey the facts. "I'm not a Thing. I played a Knife." Liars try to convince. "I'm not a Thing. I played a Knife. I told you I was going to play a Knife. I mentioned I had a Knife two turns ago. And look there's a Knife in the pile, that's mine." Over-explaining is a classic tell.

@@Phyrre56 I disagree When in a situation where nobody can be trusted, just saying "it's not me" is meaningless. Why should I believe that person?

His job is literally explaining the game, how is doing his job a tell

@@KyrieFortune Not explaining the game; explaining his actions. In traitor games when Adam is the traitor, you can see several examples of him making an action and going into lengthy explanations of why he did it whenever someone gets suspicious.

@@aformofmatter8913 Late reply, I think this comes down to that huge amount of desperation saying "I did X, " comes off better then saying "I did X, I told you all I was doing X so I did it, X was something I was planning to do so I did it, I am not evil, I did X" Especially seeing as your trying to cram that into a short time making it feel rambled, overexplaining your actions is really a 50/50 bet some people see through it others dont.

its an easy weakness to fix though - just dont discard any of the cards... its not like the excess human cards matter, you can just turn over all your cards at the end and if any on the chopper have at least one baddie card then baddies win

i never saw laurie do this, but i spoted Adam do this at 33:10 during the first contamination stage. He lent back, looked, then lent forward, then had to lean back and check again, before putting a card back. At that moment i knew he was a thing. Had to be, because as you said, why double take if both cards are human.

@@SharienGaming Can't be done, cause they have a limit to the number of cards, and need to do it twice. Once at stage 2, and once at stage 3. If the thing person gets another thing card, and can't put it back, that effectively means 1 less thing forever for stage 3, cause they still have the second thing card. You give back all the human cards, and keep the thing cards, cause then in stage 3, there is a higher change of all people staying humans, cause the thing cards were most likely taken and kept in stage 2. But there is still a chance of a new infection from a thing card not already on the board.

@@Jirodyne true, my fix would introduce the possibility for only 1 or 2 things actually coming into the game (due to one person getting more than one card) as a cost for avoiding tells based on having to pick the right card to return essentially a tradeoff i suspect they tested both variants during design and chose this one, because the tell likely goes away with experience and they preferred the dynamic where at least 2 things are guaranteed every game and 3 are likely (with the number of players on display in the video) in general there are a lot of different methods for introducing additional traitors to these games with various tradeoffs (like for example the mingling mechanic from another thing game that looks really cool, but puts the original thing somewhat at the mercy of chance) its genuinely fascinating what game designers come up with - one of the big attractions of boardgaming =)

Or... when youre done you put them side by side and remember which one was to be handed back

I would be all for this.

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This is perfect! Someone get this pinned 📌

YES!

Blair seething every time anyone called her by name. :-)

Daddy Ben is gonna be SO confused 🤣

They missed the chance to yell "Eat shit, Blair".

Jon would be accused in clue of being the murderer because of him being suspicious

I have to do similar in guiding friend thru games we play, and is obvious that Adam draws a hard line between giving others info they need to play the game and being deceptive within his game-given role

I was thinking the same thing for Laurie. When he is all in to win as a good guy he will scream, shout and accuse everyone if he has to. Still unfortunate that he couldn't do much about it.

There is newer games on the same theme. Outpost something. Might be easier to find.

@@johansvanborg5870 Also 'Who Goes There', a random kickstarter game based on the book the film gets the plot from.

They've done a reprint so might be available again

There are 3 games I think so far: -The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 - The Thing Boardgame (also has a Norweigian Camp add-on available to buy - Who Goes There?

If anything it should be longer

Yeah it's surprising because Adam genuinely acted like a good guy. It was funny seeing Jon unravel trying to figure him out.

this is late because i've only just watched this video, but yes! i was here in the comments seeing if anyone else noticed. when he took that second look at his two blood test cards, i was like "wait... he wouldn't have to double check he was getting rid of the right card if they were both human!"

Could that have been because they didn’t want to give anything away about being human/thing?

This is absolutely a thing with social deduction games if you play them a lot with the same people. I have a friend who is perpetually assumed to be on the evil team and as a result, he can't get anything going. When he's on the good team, no one listens to him. When he's on the evil team, no one listens to him. You just have to be a good sport about it. Another weird dynamic is that no one ever trusts the person who explains the game to new players, I guess the assumption being you are the most experienced with this game at the table so you're probably good at bluffing it and I have to be wary of you.

@@Phyrre56 in my experience the people explaining the game use it as a cover for their nefarious plays

Thanks for posting this. Helps everyone know who is the best overall

2 not on YT? I’m guessing Patreon? Will they count?

Lol Carley best stats and only there short time.

@@11th-lemon That's fair

@@dna507 idk. I guess they will be on patreon but his two losses were edited out of YT. So at two instances his board has magically one additional loss there. I have not included it in his stat because someone would have won that game and I don't know who, so I don't have the data

Thank you all for making it! It's a spectacular game!