Cryptid Review and Playthrough | GLH5 Board Games

Find the monster by guessing your friends’ secret clues while not giving away your own! A colorful, unique, abstract game - Cryptid will challenge your deductive reasoning and ability to throw your buddies off the scent! A super fun game with really interesting mechanics. Check out our playthrough!
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[@mikesied]

cryptid can be on structure spaces

[@GLHFBoardGames]

Indeed! This was a mistake on my (Nicholas') part.

[@vyttieri]

I love inside jokes. I'd like to be a part of one some day

[@Reggie1408]

The "will he come out?" joke got stale fast.

[@vyttieri]

agreed

[@autumndryden4040]

I’m late to the party here, but I just watched BGG’s Game Night play through of Cryptid, and you both randomly chose the exact same map and rules! What are the chances? It meant I knew the answer from the start, unfortunately.

[@fedelanci]

Wow, you gotta stop showing games I never heard of and now I want to have. jk, don't stop pls

[@romeopendonjr.1318]

Cool I just bought and played this with my daughter!

[@ankoku_sensei893]

Liked just because girly there thought the goal was to find and eat the cryptid lol

[@mattydins]

Thanks! I got this game for Christmas, so this was a big help!

[@GLHFBoardGames]

Happy to help, and thanks for choosing us!

[@mikesied]

also, u can guess on spots that have discs. But not ones that have cubes.

[@jacforswear18]

Okay, that is good to know! Was so confused about how you would guess the correct spot is someone used it as a clue already!

[@SGFlicksify]

Very clear & entertaining easy to follow run through of a VERY smart game. Well done. Guess the designers must have used some sort of computer app to work out the board setups & all the clues. Impressive.

[@wojciechgizynski1486]

I liked the video, thank you for showing a playthrough. I was trying to guess your clues along the way so would have been nice to hear a warning before you displayed them on the screen before the actual game ;) also, there are cards in the box, so sleeve question is absolutely applicable here.

[@GLHFBoardGames]

Sorry about the lack of warning- we were young and impulsive then. We've learned so much.

[@emmamartin863]

Am I wrong, or did teal place every single one of her wrong?? Wth

[@SGFlicksify]

No, her clue was within 3 spaces of 1 of the 2 green structures - so pretty narrowed down to just a few poss spaces for any of her discs.

[@truenorth2615]

FLGS - is also referred to as Favorite Local Game Store

[@IosifStalin2]

Very nice

[@ghebert1111]

How does he say it might be there when it is within a space of a swamp

[@GLHFBoardGames]

Hey Fwosty- Got a timestamp I can look at for you?

[@johnnyd.marconi3286]

@@GLHFBoardGames 9:04

[@TheMadjai]

OMG THAT BALLOOOOOON

[@santaismycandy]

will he come out?

[@jorenheit]

I don't think it's necessarily true that the solution is unique. As long as the space conforms to all players' rules, you find the monster.

[@GLHFBoardGames]

The rules and board construction are constructed so that there's only one spot that "works."

[@jorenheit]

@@GLHFBoardGames Hm, that's odd. I recall the first time we played this, I dismissed certain clues belonging to a player because that would result in a non-unique location. As a result, I got stuck. Another player had the same issue and we ended up concluding that this wasn't the case and there were multiple valid locations. Of course, this was our very first game so who knows what might have gone wrong.

[@GLHFBoardGames]

Hmm. Maybe I'm getting confused by "non-unique" location. What do you mean by that? I just pulled out my copy and ran through two setups, and each time there was only one spot on the board that "Worked."

[@jorenheit]

@@GLHFBoardGames I did the same, same results. So I guess you were right and we made a rookie mistake that first time :)