Santa's Workshop - GameNight! Se11 Ep 32 - How to Play and Playthrough 

A disgruntled elf is an unproductive elf. An unproductive elf is a dead elf. Santa is watching.

This is a great family game, perfect for Christmas. My 7 and 8 year olds were able to play no problem on standard ruleset…my 7 year old went all in on reindeers lol

My family loves this game. It's Christmas in a box and brings everyone together for a great board game. It can also be played by literally anyone with the standard game. Everything looks beautiful.

Looks like a chill worker placement game to play at christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone on Game Night 🥳🎄☃️❤ love watching your play throughs🎉🌟

Happy Holidays Nikki, Lincoln and the whole Game Night Fam-thanks for bringing us gaming joy and happiness all year round. 😊

Surprised how different this was from the first edition! Thanks for showing this Christmas game.

Nice work explaining the game and a fun quick game. Well done

Merry Christmas yall!!! Seems like a really fun game!

Loving these game 🖤

I own this game and have already played it multiple times with my step kids and wife. We all love it. We've only played the standard side thus far but I really want to try the advanced.

Actually, it looks like all three elves are different. Of the two that look similar, one looks chubbier, so I think it's just an aesthetic thing to make play more fun. A festive game. Thanks for the playthrough!

I have the original version. Although the art looks better here, I miss the plastic and cookies. Plus, going to school. Thanks for showing this version though. I’m glad people are discovering this game again.

I’ve watched this 3 times love the idea of this game, I even did something I never do I went and ordered one directly from the creator’s website cost me way more than I normally pay for a board game but since it will be the last game I buy for at least 3 years I figure might as well make it a good one, also hey Lincoln, I see u got one of the special edition ones could u tell me what number? Also do u think u could play this again for ur next video but play the reverse side!?!?!?! 😁😁😁😁

Nice playthru. Very different from first edition, which is closer to the advanced version. No reindeer cards in the original, and no tree with ornaments on any boards in the original. Reindeer were the classic 12 printed in stables on the board. Each reindeer had cookie tokens of 1,2, or 3 points on them added to them at the end of each round. When you cared for a reindeer, you collected all its cookies and took its bonus (gain a specific material, gain a toy to work on, gain 2 coal, gain a temporary worker in black, or gain the first player marker). There was also plastic materials that you could mass produce (7 with one worker), but reduced the point value of most toys (except legos that need 10 plastic) the more you substituted them in. Every player also starts with 4 upgradable workers instead of 3. Most places only gain you 1 or 2 material, except with upgraded elves. Since no ornaments, only completed toys contribute to cheer. Board and point track were a bit more colorful. The biggest thing I wish was better on this new version is the score markers. I wish they were at least wood cubes or disks. Wish someone would at least make an upgrade for them, unless Elf Creek does in an expansion.

Im really surprised you guys didn't play the advanced version. The standard version you played is really so little kids can play too.

Love the socks 'Flash Gordon' reference - I can hear the song now - LOL 🥰 Another stellar show - Love this group 🥰 This looks like a simple and super fun game - Have to get this one 😍 Lincoln - Is your jersey marked with the original Lego Space logo? I love it 😀

"What if we're disgruntled" lol. Also, this is a nice game

I heard that in a 2-3p game (advanced) players each have three elves and one helper (the one character that doesn't "match" the other elves). Do you only play with two elves and one helper when playing the basic game? Thanks for the playthrough. Game looks fun.

There's actually 3 shapes of meeple. They are used in the advanced game, on the other side of the board.

Thanks for another great video! I have a question for you: Why do you have multiple copies of Wyatt Earp in the background? I've seen that Lincoln rated it a 10 on BGG (that's why I bought it years ago), but are you collecting more because it's out of print, or some other reason? Just curious.

I've watched the MvM and Before You Play videos and each were 2p advanced games, so this 3p standard game was nice to see. Curious if playing with four/five players on the advanced side would be too tight given there are only two spaces for each of the areas? Yes three more total turns, but you could get shut out from the material you need and then not complete a toy for two days and take less points just going to the tree, or really not being able to get your reindeer set. I'll need to rewatch one of the advanced plays and see how many times during the course of the game each player went to the coal mine becuase if it was three times, then those three extra days on the advanced side are soley for that and that is a little bit of a bummer b/c getting coal lets you do the other actions but they in themselves are wasted turns. I'm thinking I would play the standard side, with advanced reindeer, make the ornament area spots like the advanced side (gain control of start player, and +1vp), and play nine rounds.

This looks so cute and very fiting for Christmas - wonder, if I could get in Germany - why would no publisher bring this out in German?

You missed to give Lincoln 1p in the middle.

You aren’t collecting the reindeer, you are caring for them. Each reindeer will only appear in each 3day section once so it’s been cared for and no one needs to or will get credit for it. But you all are playing the simple version so non of that makes sense