What's so bad about Coimbra? 

To answer your question, love this game. I think it got overshadowed by Lorenzo il Magnifico but I personally like this one much more.

looks like you're getting those webcams under control... huzzah!

3 people at my local boardgame club own it, and according to bgg it's been played 6, 8, and 21 times. Though there's overlap between those stats as they were in some of the same games together. From whenever I've asked them about it they all individually seem to like it! It's even been played as recently as April 2020 by 2 of them!

It is a great game! And Coimbra is an amazing city (hometown here)!!!

What is the best way to send you a box fart? I was able to record a good one for you this weekend.

I wasn’t filming but I recently got photosynthesis had a great box fart. I’ll try to get one on video and send one to you.

I too love a good insert but will any game ever top the box design of Dice Forge?

There’s also a expansion that comes and goes every now and then on the publishers website.

This is the incarnation of a euro point salad and my wife and I love it a lot. And even more since we also played it with fours players recently. I even remember recommending this game strongly to you under another of your videos - really happy to see you finally got it and I am very curious what you gonna say :) My guess on why you might not hear too much about it, is the game hit quite some people with its dry nature and people don't rage about it, because they recognise it is an amazing game, but it's just not for them. And the ones who love it are still busy trying to bring they strategies to perfection or something. Actually in the rather small (2.6k members) German facebook group 'Brettspielspaß' I am in, many people seem to rate it very high and I see pictures being posted regularly. And now of course everbody is looking forward to Alma Mater coming soon by the same designers. By the way you might know games like Lorenzo Il Magnifico, Terramara or Grand Austria Hotel all sharing at least one of the Coimbra designers ;-) PS: My Concordia Venus edition farts like a Preafectus Magnus. Gotta remember recording that for you!

I really wanted to like this, it's beautiful and quite clever. But clever doesn't cut it by itself these days. The theme disappears almost as soon as you start playing. Then you're just getting cards that move you on tracks and it feels like you're fiddling with an excel sheet. The whole time I was playing I was just thinking why I wasn't playing Troyes. Troyes also has dice drafting as a central mechanic and it's similar weight but the draft is much more fun, the puzzle is better, there's more player interaction, the game is much smoother and it's the most thematic euro ever. Troyes is just very close to this game in spirit and I'd always play Troyes over Coimbra. And if I really didn't care about theme and wanted a clever puzzle then I could just play Teotihuacan, which has a much more interesting puzzle to solve.

I’ve had my eye on this for years. Saw it played at a local convention in LA in the before time and it looked intriguing. But then I saw the price and that backed me off. The components look amazing and that insert... I’m a sucker for a good non-3rd party (free) insert. Hopefully my LFGS has a similar sale. Fingers crossed.

It looks like orange might be a player color! I love to play as orange, so I’m now curious about this game, too, hehe. It is very, very nice-looking, too!

Board Game Bliss ROCKS!! I miss browsing there in person.

I was wondering if you feel this game is worth purchasing after playing it. I recently found a copy but I’m not sure it’s worthwhile investing in it. I’m almost buying it for the novelty since my bf and I are planning to move from Toronto to Coimbra in April or May. Thank you

BoardGameCo loves the game, and since Alma Mater (same designers and artist) was better for 4 players, which rarely happens these days, and Coimbra was on sale in Canadian stores, I picked up the game. BoardGameBliss put it on sale, and then 401Games put theirs for even less, so I think BGBliss lowered theirs even further to match. It's beautifully done game, nice insert, and look forward to playing it.

Coimbra has some neat drafting mechanisms and mechanics but the iconography is a bit of a chore to learn (literally gave me a headache 😁) and relearn if not played regularly. Also, it doesn’t have a true built in solo mode which I like to have in a game. That being said I’ll take Newton over it any day as it’s much easier to learn and relearn and has a great solo mode. Coimbra does look much prettier though.

I love how you talk yourself into a corner and can't stop. Super sympathetic.

Played this at a friend's house once. The art style its self is pretty but the visual design has some issues with the massive number of abstract and often similar looking icons, some of which are hard to even see because of overlapping colors left me with a bad first impression. They seem to have tried really hard to avoid using text descriptions which is a mistake in my opinion. I will have to give it another try. This game would probably be more popular if it had better graphic design.

You're literally the only reviewer I've ever seen that pronounces the name of this game correctly!

It’s a great game :) and people I know that do not like it generally do not like the art. I don’t think it was so expensive for what’s in there...

I've owned this AMAZING game since the year it was first available and play it frequently as well as suggest it as often as possible to many people in the 2 board game groups that I'm apart of on facebook. It's my all time #1 favourite game not only in my collection but also from all the games that I've played since 2004(I own 146 games and have played over 4,000 games since 2004). Everyone that I've taught it to and played it with has really loved it tbh. The replayability of this game is HUGE in all honesty because of the randomization of the royal card placement, your starting cards from the 8, the roll of the dice, the map tiles, and the destination cards(I've played this game a good 75x time and have yet to play the same game twice). The complaints that I've frequently seen over the years since this game came out have been that the map/travelling strategy is too strong and there's no way to combat it(INCORRECT). The way to combat it is to take a few of the green cards(At least 4) and the green/white die every round. You can also combat the map stategy by taking both the white and green die every round using the white as either the greeen or purple track and taking green/purple cards every round. In all of my play throughs of this game with my roommate and other board game friends(Whose played it just as much as myself and frequently uses the map travelling strategy) she's only won 12 of the 75 games with it and in those 12 games I travelled the map quite a bit myself whereas the other ones that I've either won or have been 2nd in I've only gone to 5-8 of the 14 destinations(At most).

Where can I send you clips for the fart-o-meter? :)

Played this a bunch when it came out and everyone i played with enjoyed it. Fun game that probably needs an expansion to keep it relevant.

It’s absolutely fantastic. One of my top three medium weight games. Same designers as Grand Austria Hotel. Elegant with plenty of depth and variability, enjoyable tableau building. Can’t say enough good things about this one.

What is there not to like in Coimbra? 💚

Bought it because of the initial hype behind the game. Played it ONCE. Looking forward to hearing your review AFTER you've played. Maybe it's time to give it a second look?

It's a solid game But isn't quite as good as Grand Austrian Hotel

This game is a masterpiece. It has dice drafting that are multi use (which is amazing). The engine building is satisfying and it is nice to see a euro game with some color. This game is my number one of all time and gets better with every play.

Coimbra has my favorite 2 player scoring rule. Need to be within 3 spaces of the leader to gain 2nd place points. No easy lazy 2nd place claims!

I just bought this one on sale and looking forward to trying it out, I've heard good things from This Game is Broken!:))

Coimbra is a great game! I'm sure you will enjoy it!

Love this freaking game.

I've played this game on cafe and bought it months later. It's a great game but i've never played mine :'D.

I have box farts on my unboxing videos on my channel. Some pretty big ones too. 🤣

Very good game (maybe not GREAT) - problem is there are SO MANY good games these days that lots seem to come and go but it doesn't mean that they're still not great...

I love that game.

20 dollars . that is cheap. The year it came up was all over the place and for some it was the best game of that year. I have not seen any neg reviews and i still have it on my basket waiting for the price to drop.

Why the clickbait title though? Sheesh

What's so bad about Coimbra is its replayability. I've played the game five times, and then I sold my copy. If you're going to play this game frequently, like three times a week, great! But if you play it infrequently, the iconography is such that you have to learn the game over again every time you play it. (Even if you taught it before) You'll be looking at the rulebook to figure out what each card in a row means. It slows the game down considerably and adds to the AP of players. Because each of your decisions in this game really matter, knowing what that card means is the difference between winning and losing. The other downside is its complexity. There is too much to juggle for some players who have never played a game with a 3.0 complexity rating on BGG. That makes it hard to get to the table again. While I love these designers, this is a definite pass for me. It's not worth the effort you put in.

Congrats on the fart!

If you don't like the game, you're welcome to send it to my house for free!! I've wanted to get this game for a long time, too!

It came out in 2018, so I guess you can accurately say you've been interested in it for "years" but its kind of silly to put it that way. I would avoid the clickbait titles. If you haven't even played the game yet, don't imply you have an opinion about it. The fact that you have not heard people talking about it is utterly meaningless at this stage with the sheer volume of games that come out constantly.

Clickbait?! wth