Every Asian Board Game I Brought Back from Essen Spiel 2024 & MORE!

[@The.FrozenGamer]

Petal Plotters is a game where you put point cards face down in front of you or you use their power and discard. Powers let you manipulate face down cards in front of you or others. The last card in your hand will tell you what your scoring goal is. Then you go through scoring goals by their priority. If someone has the highest priority goal card and met their goal they win, otherwise you go to the next highest scoring priority card and see if anyone that has that scoring card has met their goal, if so they win, if not you go to the next scoring priority goal. So on and so on. Looks very fun for a tiny little game.

[@CardboardEast]

Fascinating! I’m always intrigued by how much game can be packed into a deck of cards! Thanks for the heads up 👍👍

[@vincentdujardin7322]

I was one of those people who said hi, we even played Xylotar together. Thanks for that! Also, I pre-ordered Magic Number Eleven solely based on your reviews! Can't wait to play it, keep up the good work! 😊

[@CardboardEast]

Thanks so much for the kind words and for stopping by! I love teaching Xylotar, so I hope you had a lot of fun & I hope you enjoy MNE as much as I do! 👟⚽️🥅💥

[@shockwavemasta]

Magic Number Eleven! Thanks for showing off your haul and look forward to your detailed reviews

[@CardboardEast]

Thanks for the encouragement!! Working on those reviews!

[@sylvainbaudet]

I wanted to say hi but you were busy at Bézier booth at that time. Anyway, great job thanks a lot ❤ I am also playing a lot of games from Asia thanks to you

[@CardboardEast]

No worries! Next time don’t hesitate to say hi 😁 Thanks for watching! I’m glad you’re finding games from Asia that resonate with you 👍👍

[@Naru-Maki]

Love the look of venice connections! Looking forward to you bringing it to the table and sharing it with all of us 😊

[@CardboardEast]

It looks sooo nice, right?! I’ve been really impressed with Playte!

[@joss-2290]

Can't wait to see you play BLOT and see what you think about it ;)

[@CardboardEast]

Me too!! I’m thinking tricktakers from Essen 🤔

[@adhilpatel440]

Thanks for sharing your haul!

[@CardboardEast]

Thanks for watching 👍👍

[@stopbotheringme]

We picked up Haniwa at the Tokyo Games Market last year! So glad the game got picked up by a publisher, the designer was a nice guy!

[@CardboardEast]

Haniwa is one of the few games that got to keep its insert! It looks absolutely adorable! Good to know the publisher/designer is a solid person!

[@stopbotheringme]

@@CardboardEast Oh good! I had to open my game to take look at the insert. It's definitely a good insert to keep!

[@naomiooooo]

"Because ants don't have as discerning pallets as you and I do; unless you eat garbage, why are you doing that?". 😂🤣 Seriously great videos... I didn't make it to Essen, or even out of Alaska, but really enjoying your content (but I keep buying Asian board games and the money....)❤

[@CardboardEast]

Thanks for the kind words and for watching!!!

[@petraw9792]

I also picked up Trick'n Treat but didn't have a chance to play it yet. I'm looking forward to your video on it!

[@CardboardEast]

Should get to it sooner than later! I’ll be setting up my content schedule today!

[@ourfamilytogether]

Butterfly Garden is a reimplementation of Indigo. Nice haul! A friend picked up several games for me and shipped them back - Trick N Treat was one. I hope it’s good!

[@CardboardEast]

Looking forward to playing it as well!

[@The.FrozenGamer]

Fixer seems super cool. It’s like a bunch of individual battles of War happening at the same time mixed with Rock Paper Scissors mixed with trick taking.

[@CardboardEast]

It did indeed! I have a game scheduled later this week. Can’t wait!

[@akoho9558]

I’d be happy to see a video about all of Geonil’s games!

[@CardboardEast]

Done and done! Let's do it!

[@jonathanfranklin461]

Yes, we do watch every minute - just at 1.75x, so your minute is my 35 seconds. :)

[@CardboardEast]

You brilliant man. You’re why cavemen painted on walls 🥹

[@boardgamehubby]

Def interested in that top 10. Also, what are the BGG links for Seven Grave and Bloc? Can't find them

[@CardboardEast]

Seven Grave does not have a BGG page yet, but Chock-a-Block does 👍

[@boardgamehubby]

Thanks! ​@@CardboardEast I see that I read it wrong. BLOT was the game I meant, but I see it has a BGG page, so all good 😄

[@Giacomo-ns6zs]

@@CardboardEast does it have an official website?

[@FallenRaven]

I live in Germany and never been to Spiel, but I've seen people's hauls. Do you have to pay customs taxes for the games you get from there?

[@CardboardEast]

Excellent question. I believe the answer is no for the consumer but yes for the vendor. Please remember that I’m not an EU tax specialist, so please take what I say regarding this matter with a grain of salt.

[@Flip5ide]

You got Shallow Sea!!

[@CardboardEast]

Review coming soon!!

[@Flip5ide]

@@CardboardEast nice, I also have Overparked but not played yet.

[@CardboardEast]

@@Flip5ide Played it! It's super smooth & I'm so thankful I've played it and picked it up. You definitely got a winner!

[@Flip5ide]

@@CardboardEast awesome, I backed on KS, luckily I had a friend go to Essen so she picked it up for me whilst there. Not paying VAT and postage is a win 😅

[@shawns3911]

No preview for Pride of Ninja from ninja star games?

[@CardboardEast]

I wasn’t aware they were at Spiel, but I did miss a handful of publishers. PoN does look good though!

[@noizeemama3697]

I love Journey to the West movies!

[@CardboardEast]

That ending was sooooo hilarious!! I watch it all the time!

[@The.FrozenGamer]

Overparked is cool. I played on TTS. Games are never as good on there than in person, so I think it would be even more fun in person.

[@CardboardEast]

It’s soooooo smoooooth. The game has a really clean look to it and the advanced game is sublime. Definitely looking forward to more big box games from Origame!

[@hor151]

wanna see your keep or cull old games

[@CardboardEast]

I do cull games. A good portion of them go to my patreons. I do board game giveaways every month ;)

[@andrewstewart7078]

And I was worried that I'd bought too many games at Spiel haha

[@CardboardEast]

LOL. We both probably did, but the games bring out the passion and passion causes us to do wild things from time to time!

[@LeslieRogers-g6s]

What is a baby shark game?

[@CardboardEast]

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[@DeJogoemJogo]

thanks a lot for covering so many boardgames from Asia :) , we bought some at Essen thanks to you! The one we are most excited about is Formosa tea, sadly our copy came without tea farmers 🥲, I sent an emai to TBD , let's see if the customer service is as good as the game now 😂

[@CardboardEast]

There was an error on behalf of the manufacturer. I had that issue as well. Some members of TBD are still on holiday in the EU, but a link was posted on the BGG forums. Here's the link down below. Fill it out and they'll send out your farmers. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefsMZgWbgePIWJy3wBRYXSyPsC2MAc9LSspJTaCYXdW0cVPw/viewform Until then, just be sure you don't have more than 3 bowler cap dudes processing tea (or in the double sale global market spot) and you should be fine.