Aiye ►►► the most hidden gem from the greatest year ever in boardgaming!

[@GrokGames]

Thank you so much for featuring Aiye and giving the game visibility outside of Brazil, Rahdo! By the way, we heard your feedback and added how to pronounce on the BGG page ;)

[@anactualcloud]

If you have a video with more details and link it here I'll surely watch it (in English because, to my great shame, that's all I know)

[@randito2387]

Thanks for highlighting these overlooked games. Some real gems hiding in plain view out there.

[@ChrysalisUganda]

We definitely need to get a copy of this one! The Ugandan kids have loved FIve Tribes and need more "Mancala" games. Thanks for the "heads up".

[@sautee7598]

Just popped over from the DT w/ Vasel-looking forward to your runthru on this

[@Japasujoo]

Jogaço!! Arte impecável Also, greetings from Brazil!

[@belaozen]

Great game! From great Designers!

[@chrisborges4958]

Awesome game!

[@andyreynolds6473]

It's pronounced Ah-ee-EH, according to the BGG description

[@rahdo]

yup i believe they added that to the description after i made my comments because it wasn't there when i filmed this a few weeks ago :)

[@foyoGames]

Ay! ...or should I say Aiye

[@Anarchosyn]

My only criticism of this video is I'm walking away with a decent understanding of the flow and macro scale mechanisms of play, but not a lot of appreciation for what the individual card powers actually do. For a game like this, knowing that is a the kicker (where the dopamine kick comes from). Interesting framework, though. In short, how cool are the average powers?

[@rahdo]

a fair criticism. my patreon backers vote on what i'm going to cover, and so far they've been giving this one the skip unfortunately :( however, i think all the card effects are listed in the rulebook, which you can find here: boardgamegeek.com/filepage/262573/aiye-rulebook-english-version :)

[@anactualcloud]

This is doing very poorly in your survey. I feel like we have a market failure here as there are about 6 videos in English on nova Roma but 0 on this game. Certainly a nova Roma video from you would be great as I like your style, but does the world really need a 7th in depth look at nova Roma more than a first look at aiye (in English). I doubt many others took this into consideration in their vote.

[@rahdo]

yeah. i suspect folks would rather see nova roma because that's a game they can actually buy from their preferred game store, while aiye is very difficult to get hands on outside of brazil. but NR isn't doing that much better in the vote as it stands, since folks really want to see what the big essen games are going to be...

[@pabloschulman4726]

@@rahdo As far as I know, Portland Game Collective carried it and is in the process of importing some more copies of this game. They have a partnership with the Brazilian publisher, which has released several small card games.