Miami Dice: Luxor 

I disagree with this. Everyone doesn't start with the same hand of cards. We are giving random starting hands off of the top of the deck. If I get more 4s and 5s than a player who got 1s and 2s then I will get further into the temple and can move my adventurers faster and score more points in the end. There's not a way to mitigate this in the base game. If you can't select Horus cards you will have to draw from the main deck which you could get stuck with a bunch of lower cards.

@@adamholt5395 So then you are going slow and getting more stuff for the set collection. And you can utilize the tunnels once they show up so you don't lose lots of points for being near the start. Sure there is some luck, and how much luck you want in a game is up to you.

2401Jem1980 i very much agree with youx

Yes, this is just pandering to Queen Games.

Whenever you cross over the spaces with adventurers, they start at the beginning of the track.

Rathskeller I believe. He has a review of it somewhere.

Ok, thanks.

Meh, I give games the same ratings I always have. I enjoyed it, more than I thought! But I didn't give it a 7.5 anyway.

Just something I've noticed lately, not just with the Dice Tower. I'm also into video games and if a game has an average rating of 70/100 its considered pretty bad. 70 should be pretty good! But when it comes down to it the number doesn't mean much. I watch for your guys' thoughts WAY more than a number rating. I'm a big fan of the Dice Tower.

I always think of ratings like grades. 70 is good. 80 is very good. 90 is great. 60 is passable. The rest is various amounts of just how bad it is. A rating of 7 or 7.5 of this game seems acceptable because they put it in the reference frame of light family game. It is a good light family game that they did not hate, but it is not for everyone. If you told me that it was a 5/10, I would think it was a bad game and would never give it a second look.

I suppose if the “1 to 10” scale is thought of as a “-5 to +5 “ with Zee’s 5 being minimally acceptable and anything below that being negative/underwater, the Zee saying meh, and the other two giving essentially +2.5 makes sense as “Candyland for adults”... That’s the way i think of it anyway 👍🏻😉

Corey Batten Yes, when the game is being discussed because of its nomination for an award where the first criteria is the following, "Does it have a completly new concept or does it bring existing elements together to create a new experience?"

@Jared Bell But it DOES have a new concept. They talk about it in length throughout the review. Whether or not it brings together existing concepts to create a new experience is completely subjective. My point is, since when do we knock games just because they utilize tried and true mechanics? Sure, they should have something unique about them, but not EVERYTHING needs to be fresh and original.

This is their opinions on it - personally I find this kind of set collection very boring and would rate a game lower for it, but that's my view on set collection. The Dice Tower are not the board game council who deem whats worth playing and what isn't.

Tried and true doesn't always go hand in hand with unoriginal and uncreative but in this case it does.

@mrmaybe79 What? Tired and true literally means it's been done many times before and has been shown to work. How would that not always be "unoriginal"?

I just watched the dice tower seals explained again, and I was wrong, it is 7-8 for approved seal, I don't understand Tom would even rate it a 7, if he just thinks the game is average however.

It probably got more flack from them because it didn't feel worthy of the nomination. Without that to taint it, it may have ended up with a 7 (e.g. the card mechanism). Similar to how The Mind didn't live up to the hype for them. They may not have known that several better games were rejected due to horribly written rules -- that would have lowered expectations.

Well, I gave Cascadia a "7".. No raving here.

Legend is the right word for that, or rather unfounded and ridiculous myth. Also easy to refute, as there are renderings of the Sphinx without nose predating Napoleon's birth and he himself was quite an Egyptologic buff, who was accompanied by a huge number of archaeologists and other scientists during his Egypt campaign.

Jesse Welch this game seems annoying just by the look of it...

I will say that playing the game definitely provides a better experience than one might think reading the rules or watching it being played.

I dont think so. It has a stupid way of moving and one of them is roll for move... the VP mecanism is kind boring and the only thing thats actually something is the choice mecanism (cards from both left or right). And even it, for me, its boring...