Cascadia - GameNight! Se9 Ep52 - How to Play and Playthrough

Intro: 0:00
How to play: 1:22
Game play: 14:37
End discussion: 57:49
Tonight on GameNight! Nikki, Aaron & Lincoln teach and show you how to play "Cascadia" designed by Randy Flynn and published by AEG & Flatout Games.
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[@stewiedarkinvisibleid]

You know, after watching so many of your gaming vids over the years, of specifically the three of you (with Dave rounding off the perfect group), there's a certain feeling of comfort you guys give off that is so friendly, that I wish we were all neighbors and I could join in on the fun! Cheers!

[@improg]

Don't deny who you are Lincoln. One of my favorite parts of these videos is all the off-the-wall, humorous, and obscure references.

[@GrrrRawrCookies]

I really do love how calming this game is, and it's super easy to teach to a non-game group! It helps that the solo is also really fun in my experience. Glad to see it being shown off!

[@JorWat25]

100% agree. Really calm game, and a strong solo game (even with the beat your score element). And hope your statement about being easy to teach to non-gamers is true, as I'm going to try get my 60-year-old parents to play this tomorrow. Though I have played a bunch of stuff with them over the past two years, and they've coped (sometimes barely. Looking at you, Istanbul...), so I've got faith in them.

[@olivierjodoin2283]

I've played this game over 30 times and know the rules inside out and just wanted to see what you guys thought about it. The explanation was so good and thorough that I just couldn't skip that part. This will help me when explaining the game to others. Everything was explained in just the right order.

[@RickKoeppen]

Aaron has the best intros. I don't know whether I like this one or the one for My Farm Shop more. 🤣

[@anikation382]

„Space hawk! Space hawk!“ love it! 🤣 We love this game. Thanks for the great episode! ♥️

[@georgeloveday9674]

I don’t have anyone to play board games with, but I still enjoy your “Game Nights”.

[@kirafin6881]

Thanks for the playthrough, Aaron as always an excellent teacher. For me this game seems like a mash up between Carcassonne, Kingdom Buider and Calico, which all are my go to games. Definitely on my list of board games to buy.

[@msmilder25]

When I first saw this game, my initial thoughts were, "oh great, another tile placement game", it has a little Carcassonne feel, or you could say it's Planet all flattened out (since Planet also is a terrain and animal game). But I know the Brothers Murph love this game, and I've seen them play it a few times, now you guys are featuring it...it's starting to grow on me. I think the fact it has a relatively small footprint (as opposed to the table filling Carcassonne, which is a game I love) gives it a big selling point. Each player has their own little mini-board to work on and the fixed number of rounds keeps the game from overstaying its welcome. Scoring wise, it's a lot like a plethora of roll/flip and write style games. I might have to pick this one up at some point.

[@nachtegeller]

It's just a great tight/simple game. Me and my wife's currently most played game, simply addictive. If you love puzzling get it and plays pretty fast with only 2.

[@philnaegely]

i love this game because you can play the a's, bs, cs or d scenario scoring or vary it up

[@saraann8140]

Love this show and everyone in it :) I have played games right out of the box due to the great and clear explanations given on this show. Ty ty so much for an awesome show :)

[@redpacifier]

Hey, give Lincoln another point! I think his salmon placement at 38:15 should agave awarded him another pine cone token! 😆

[@ChristopherWalrath]

Drinking game: The Puns of Lincoln! Great playthrough guys. Fun asalmonalways. Thank you, all.

[@Flip5ide]

Just got this for my birthday, played two games, really like it, it's a relaxing puzzle on a puzzle, really nice to play with a glass of wine and some chillhop with my wife.

[@dandurkin9735]

Thank you for this wonderful play-through and the excellent teach (and introduction) by Aaron. For me, it confirmed my suspicion that Cascadia is a very low interaction, highly solitaire game. It's too bad that either the drafting were more interesting or the that the players were interacting in a single terrain (à la Carcassonne). [One little note, Nikki's first tile placement could have been rotated 60 degrees to create more opportunities - I know, easy for me to coach from the other side of KZbin.] Thank you all!

[@jeffradiane]

This seems like a really fun tile placement game! I enjoy tile placement games a lot! :)

[@Candyflames123]

I love this game very calming and also very addictive, I also love the solo play. 💕

[@danieltaylor3755]

Such a fantastic game . I am addicted to it.

[@starcloak]

Like the animal theme of the game and the scoring of the tile placement and token placement is interesting. Great video guys 😁❤️

[@dp2573]

Fantastic intro and teach! Great game.

[@ShaibuskinJr15]

i love the thumbnail for this video!

[@Chazzmasterful]

Great video teach. Thank you so much.

[@CasaldosJogos]

I really liked the game and it arrives in Brazil this year. I'm looking forward to it

[@JonTripp115]

"Elk on the Shelk" killed me, for no good reason. :-D

[@hiho8084]

Nikki would love my neighbor's tree. It's a giant sycamore and I see hawks perched in it all the time. This is going to be the perfect game for my newer gaming friends. They don't like heavy playing games and this one is a quick teach, and easy to set up. I'm posting a year later, because I just purchased this game. I find it to be a similar play to Shake That City, which just came out, if you have a mind to try that. Thanks for the fun!

[@jameskirk4692]

Nice video. Thank you!

[@b67us]

beautiful , best wonderful game

[@gaffercat]

Oh boy, love the t-shirts!

[@deanandtavonplumb7059]

Just got this game, great video explanation and playthrough to get me started

[@boardgamegeek]

Awesome! We are happy to help. Thanks for the note and for watching.-Lincoln

[@machineFa8]

Love this game..

[@DysonTony]

This is a fantastic game and it plays REALLY well 2 player for anybody looking for a wonderful date night game.

[@WetWhoops]

Was that a Nikki "Mitch Headburg" Joke? Haha. Thanks for showing off the game! I'm gonna have to pick it up soon.

[@alessandra1982giochidatavolo]

I love Cascadia ❤

[@simonmansell914]

Reminds me of Calico, very similar play and varying complexity.

[@do_hickey]

Chemistry on point.

[@christinehaslam9480]

With the hawks - do they have to be surrounded by the other animals or can it just be alone to score the point. Thanks:)

[@pfefferle74]

There are more bears in this game than in Bärenpark.

[@TorSverre]

Pretty sure Nikki should have scored 4 for mountains, not 5, but didn't really make a difference. Cute little game! Thanks for a great video as always :)

[@marcinc1528]

My favourite abstract game:)

[@jonathanwork7070]

Was the tile placed at 48:05 not allowed by the rules? Unless I am mistaken, none of the terrain matches

[@boardgamegeek]

You don't have to match terrain. -WEM

[@improg]

When Nikki said, "I'm for em," Was that a Mitch Hedberg reference or am I just hearing things?

[@boardgamegeek]

Thomas, frilly toothpicks?-Lincoln

[@improg]

@@boardgamegeek I knew it. It was the way she said it.

[@morgan-jadeironworks8313]

FYI. Growing up hunting elk in Montana. Plural or singular was pronounced "elk". The only time elks was used was in reference to the fraternal organization "Elks"....."Elks club" was down the street. That's said I can not find anything from a literary source that indicates saying elks in refrence to several animals is improper. However in outdoor circles you may suffer some ridicule and jesting. I apologize now for any grammatical errors, and as always thanks for the video.

[@xfoolsgoldx]

Does the game play well with 4 players?

[@boardgamegeek]

Yes, very well. There is a little more change with your choices but it still is fun to play. Thanks for the note and for watching. -Lincoln

[@skyblazeeterno]

Isnt that photo of the bear the same as the bear in Adultswims Unedited Footage Of A Bear? - This looks an interesting game

[@robertbouley7697]

I like that clip. Fairly misleading title, though. 😏

[@christophermoyes5688]

I think you guys should play the next game night called horrified or horrified American monsters mostly I think it to be cool to see you guys play horrified American monsters. It have bears and other animals

[@boardgamegeek]

Christopher, thanks for the suggestions. We have played both of those games on our Twitch livestreams around Halloween. We enjoyed them both. Thanks for the note and for watching.-Lincoln

[@christophermoyes5688]

@@boardgamegeek well I don't have the twitch account so I didn't even watch it it'd be cool if you do it on KZbin or put it on KZbin so I could be able to watch it because you can take twitch videos and put on KZbin as well

[@nickambe8256]

Drinking game : drink whenever someone says bear

[@sak5601]

WHAT DOES THE DICTATOR DO IN DEMOCRACY: THE BOARD GAME FROM 2009 I NEED TO KNOW 😭😭😭

[@sak5601]

I’ve had the game for years nvr played it but lost the instructions 😭😭

[@spaceman_256]

Im pretty sure all three players failed to collect a pinecone token at least once

[@SmoothGummi]

Game of the Year 2021. Fight me.

[@pnutbutrncrackers]

Still waiting for this very popular game to bite me. It seems ok, but I know many feel it's fantastic. Great teach, and I enjoyed the video, but I didn't see much excitement or suspense or deduction, etc. Maybe I've got a blind spot. I'll keep an open mind.

[@letartean]

Half the way in the video and still no "owner of a lonely hawk" song sung. Disappointed…

[@ashwinkamath4598]

RANDY FLYNN IS A SERIOUSLY SEXY BEAST!

[@robertbouley7697]

This was unbearable. 🐻

[@boardgamegeek]

I think it was almost all bears :-) -Lincoln

[@ryanhascode2206]

I bearly noticed

[@wd-4039]

This looks like a nightmare for colourblind people.