Thanks @angelique6846! My very busy semester is just wrapping up, and I will be working on a combined October/November vlog soon. If all goes well, it will be available in a week or so. 🙂

Awww, you just made my day! Thanks! I'm nearly finished with this unexpectedly busy semester, just a couple more days, and then I will get back to filming. 🙂 I've seen Ecosfera but haven't taken the time to look closely. Judging by the box though, it looks perfect for the channel! I will take a closer look at it, thanks!

Wingspan and Isle of Cats are both fantastic games! For the patrons in The Fox Experiment, I think the key is to approach them like a puzzle bonus for your player board. 🙂 I hope you have fun exploring the channel! I have playthroughs for both Genotype and Atiwa. It's been a while since I played Evolution - it's a great game, I enjoy playing it, but it can sometimes be a little punishing.

Well said! I can't possibly "heart" this comment enough! I also love Liz Davidson's content - she's fantastic. 😊

You corrected it later 😂

Thanks Steve! That's so exciting you have the opportunity to see Elizabeth Hargrave speak! I just received a copy of Undergrove from my BGG Secret Santa, and am looking forward to getting it to the table! I love that she incorporates biology into her games, and that the theme is not just an afterthought for her. 🙂

My current rating is 8.5 out of 10, but keep in mind that I have only played this game solo. I very much enjoy it as a solo game, and I think it would be very good at 2 players as well. I think higher player counts would very much depend on the people playing - if anybody is particularly prone to overthinking their turns, it might not be as much fun. I have a review at the end of my solo playthrough video for this game. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3KUd2egedCdb6M Thanks for watching and commenting! 🙂

Yay! I made this video because I found the rulebook to be a bit challenging to learn from, and figured I am probably not the only one. 🙂 Thanks for watching and commenting!

I'm really enjoying it! I think you might like it because of how puzzly it is. 🙂 I'm curious what games you saw on Dicepen that caught your eye? I haven't taken the time to look around yet.

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it! When you activate a card, you usually have to exhaust it (turn it on its side), which makes it easier to keep track of what you have used. When you play with other people, you are limited to activating one or two cards on your turn. This game works like Terraforming Mars, in that players take turns each round until everybody passes. When playing solo, your turns are one after the other, so you just keep taking actions until you pass. You are still limited to one "special action" per round. 🙂

I'm glad you enjoyed it! This has become one of my favorite games as well, for the same reasons. 🙂 Thanks for watching and commenting!

I'm so glad to help you find a game you enjoy - thanks for letting me know! I've always enjoyed playing Verdant with my family, and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it solo. 😊 Thanks for watching and commenting!

I know I am often in the minority for enjoying many beat your own score games; I like them when they are puzzly and at least have some sort of a scale to rate your score against. But I definitely prefer win/loss conditions. I'm curious about your solo mode for Harmonies - do you have it posted somewhere? Thanks for watching and commenting!

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I also love how it is different every time, so much fun!

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it! To answer your question, you can risk that the clock will be the most common scoring method in the Shared Hand, but you risk not being able to score at all in that case. Otherwise, yes, you will need to have the clock in your hand. 🙂

​@@bitsandbiology thank you so much! keep making pnp games videos!!!thankss ...

@@adeleg7627 Thanks! I have videos in the works right now for two PnP games - HYVE (how to play & playthrough) and Koala Rescue Club (playthrough). Work has been super busy, but hoping I can get these up on the channel over the next two weeks. 🙂

thanks for the work you do!! good luck with everything! hope to see the videos soon!

I'm glad you enjoyed it! The biggest rule change in the 2nd edition is that ecosystems no longer have to be in *consecutive* numerical order, they will just need to be in numerical order (a rule change you can implement in the 1st edition). Other than that, I don't think much is changing for the rules (but I could be wrong). The biggest change is that the 2nd edition will only contain enough cards for 2 players, instead of 4 players. They also made some other minor changes to components if I recall correctly. 🙂

Thanks for the hedgehog stories! I'm smiling thinking about a hedgehog eating an egg! 😁

The names are definitely a hold up at times! I was going mostly with book characters during the video. 😁 I'm so glad you enjoyed the history! It was fun to do the research for the video; I knew some of it from reading "How to Tame a Fox", but learned so much more. Thank you for your comments about what you find useful - it's quite helpful and much appreciated! That's exciting that you will get to see Elizabeth Hargrave speak! I love that she uses biology as a basis for her games, and would love to hear her talk about her inspiration. I hope you have a great time at PAX!

Thanks John! I'm glad you enjoyed the historical information! Let me know if you have any questions about the feeling of the gameplay. 🙂

Thanks Elaine! I'm glad you enjoyed the history! ❤

Thanks! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! ❤

Thanks for sticking with it! I kept looking for ways to shorten it, but I was just overambitious in how much I wanted to talk about! September is less than half as long. 😂 Lands of the Mesozoic was so good! Once this semester is over, I will definitely be getting it back to the table. I'm sad Tom Vasel gave it a poor review, because that will probably tank any chance it had to get in front of more people. But I think Tom must have got a rule wrong, because he described never having enough cards and seemed to base his whole review off of that. I think he might have been discarding cards from his board when he should have been exhausting them, but that is only a guess. Hope your school year is treating you well! I bet you're looking forward to the winter break as much as I am!

Thank you so much for your very kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for watching and commenting! 🙂

Hi Steve! I'm sorry to not respond sooner! I don't know why I wasn't notified of your comment. This just happened with somebody else on another video, so I decided to check a few others. To answer your question, it is not related to Verdant (different designer, different publisher). It is a fun puzzle game. I finally got a chance to play it at 2 players when our son had a Lego competition a couple of weeks ago. It's good at 2 players, though I probably wouldn't choose it as one of our 2 player games to play at home (too many others to choose from), but it's definitely a great 2 player game when you're on the go. 🙂 Thanks for watching and commenting!

@ Yes, when I looked deeper into it, realized that Verdant Arizona and Verdant were two different games. I very much appreciate your diligence in responding! :)

That is true; hopefully the only times I was taking from the display were when I was "snapping" on level 5 (which I do frequently in the solo game), from animal abilities, or after upgrading my card. If you saw a time when that wasn't the case, please let me know so I can pin a comment correction. Thanks! 🙂

@@bitsandbiology 18:50 , This is what I was thinking about. (if it is correct or not) (I am still learning the game) :)

@@dennisklang Ah, yes, I should have been more explicit in explaining what I was doing, especially that early in the video. In that case, my Cards action was on level 5, which allows you to snap a single card from anywhere in the display (even outside of reputation range) instead of drawing from the deck. I do this more frequently in the solo game than in the multiplayer game because turns are so limited in the solo game, leaving not much time for relying on "luck of the draw." I hope you enjoy the game! It's one of my all time favorites! Let me know if you have other questions. 🙂

@@bitsandbiology Oh ok, you snapped that card! Thanks. Keep posting! :)

For the Fox ability, it only applies to other players, so the owner of the Fox token could still look at the pile; if they decide to take the pile, the Fox token would come back to them in it's "used" state (grey side up). When other players decide to pass on the Fox pile, they do add a card to it. If they instead decide to take the Fox pile, they take the entire pile without looking. I hope that answers your Fox questions - let me know if it doesn't! I'm not sure about your last question, I don't recall a situation where you pay a food to take a card, but I'm happy to look it up if you clarify what you're asking. 🙂 I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for watching and commenting!

Thanks Steve! I should be able to finish editing The Fox Experiment sometime Friday. 🙂

Thanks! I'll have this be the next thing I record! 😃

Thanks Claire! ❤

Add on: RE Reviews - appreciate your honesty and “truthfulness”. I agree with you that I take a reviewer’s, even those I like very much, with a grain of salt. My process: listen to reviewer’s that I have found that I have some items in common; look at game through and/or rules; and think about those I will play with (even if solo). Thanks.

Thanks Steve! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

​@@stevemyers8588 Your process sounds similar to mine. And you can be assured I will always be honest! It's also nice to get to know people through these comments, so that over time I might have a sense of the types of games people tend to like and those they don't care for as much. 🙂

@@bitsandbiology :) And btw, I am liking what am I reading about Earth 2053: Tipping Point that you introduced me to! (Thanks!)

I hope it's good - I love the theme! I'm looking forward to learning more about it. 🙂

I find this so irritating! Because I'm not monetized yet (I'm too small), I have no way to stop the mid-roll adds. 😡I'm not a fan of them myself, and have sometimes stopped watching videos that keep getting interrupted. Please accept my apologies, I wish I could do something about it.🙁 The sooner I get to 1000 subscribers (seems far away at the moment, but I am hopeful), the sooner I will have access to to the controls that will let me remove the mid-roll ads.

@@bitsandbiology I saw it as a sign that you have enough views now where before they couldn't be bothered. So you're on your way!

​@@elainetygerThanks for your positive outlook on it! 😊

It's such a fun game! It's actually better than I thought it was going to be. I know people have been raving about it since it came out, but sometimes that fades so quickly once the newness has worn off. But this one seems to have persisted, and for good reason in my opinion. There should be some pretty good sales coming up with the holidays right around the corner. 🙂

Plants are definitely cool! I'm glad you found the channel! 🙂

If you remember what game it was, I'd love to know. I like the mechanism, and I'm looking forward to trying it at 2 players. For me it is just enough interaction to be interesting, but I like that your opponent can't mess with your garden or otherwise be too mean. 😁

I understand their choice of car for thematic reasons, but since the theme is pretty thin anyway, I think a jackrabbit would be pretty cool for aesthetic reasons. 😃

Go get a bunny out of your Dixit box... I have a small container with extra game pieces as well as miniature animals from toy stores for just this situation.

@@elainetyger What a great idea! I have some extra game pieces I use sometimes (mostly as reminders in solo games), but they're just boring generic pieces - I'm going to start keeping my eye out for more interesting options!

@@elainetyger One shouldn’t assume another person knows or owns something, but I don’t like mixing up my game pieces anyway. I made the mistake of doing that for an rpg game and even though I had a record of where everything was located and from what box they came from I still misplaced pieces. I mean, I can get a piece of paper and write “rabbit” on it with an arrow and I guess that will do the job more efficiently.

There are definitely similarities with Keystone: North America, though it's not nearly as much of a brain burner (while still being a nice puzzle). 🙂

Thanks, James!

I'm glad the video was helpful! 🙂

Sometimes it is desirable, but often you are wanting specific herbivores so you can bring in carnivores. Definitely in the last round it is inconsequential, but that's actually a bit thematic, since it is the end of the Mesozoic period. :)

@@bitsandbiology so maybe on the last round extinct some land cards so more herbivores can go extinct (and possibly more carnivores too)

@@gaillardlionel This might be a good strategy in the few rounds leading up to the last round (depending on cards you want to add to your ecosystem), but wouldn't really have an effect in the last round, because you also count cards in your ecosystem. 🙂 I can say there were definitely times in this game and others where I should have purposely let some cards go extinct, because I was struggling to create space on my board. Hopefully I will remember this in the future! 😁

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoy them! 😊

Nice catch! Not sure what I was thinking. But I did have a temporary knowledge token at the time, and still two left over at the end of the game, so I *could* have gone to that lens space. But it was still an incorrect move the way I did it - oops! Thanks for watching and commenting! 🙂

I'm glad you enjoyed it! This is one of my favorite roll & write games. 😃 I have Koala Rescue Club on my table, laminated and ready to play, I just have to find the time, lol.😆 Thanks for watching and commenting!