Tzolkin: The Mayan Calendar Rundown

[@d5rmantis]

Thanks for the really helpful video. The instructions were very long and confusing. Here's a summary of how to pronounce all the names: Tzolk'in: tsol-keen (the ts is like in the word "cats") Chichen Itza: chee-chen eet-sa Palenque: pah-lane-kay Yaxchilan: yash-chee-lawn Tikal: tee-call Uxmal: oosh-mall Quetzalcoatl (yellow god): ket-sall-ko-aw-tull Chaac (brown god): chak (pretty much like "chalk") Kukulkan (green god): coo-cool-kawn

[@rinaldodelucca8073]

I did buy my copy yesterday and all wheels are working perfectly, no components missing, no defects, no problems at all. Thank you for this video.

[@cgrisetti87]

I finally figured it out! Your voice and speech cadence is VERY similar to Jeff Goldblum!

[@NicholasLA1]

Woah yeah it is. I will not be able to watch these without thinking he may be eaten by dinosaurs.

[@Timberella3003]

That's what makes them so enjoyable for me...well, that AND the helpful nature of the videos.

[@aarondovauo1471]

My wife and I really enjoy this one, the gears are a great twist on worker placement. Just today I saw some gears that people had painted up to make the game livelier, definitely looks cool painted to theme!

[@rahdo]

my older videos (like this one) were filmed with an iphone... these days i'm using a camera with image stabilization built in, so it helps a fair bit :)

[@framebrain]

Fantastic video Richard. You have confirmed my suspicion that this will be an excellent worker placement game to pick up!

[@chtulurr]

And umm when you place the dummy at Tikal 3, it should have been place to TIkal 4 coz one round has passed and if that dummy was there on tikal 3 on the previous turn then it would be on 4th place now. Sry for broken english. Amazing game by the way, I've bought it today. Watching your videos helped me a lot on deciding what to get.

[@kosterix123]

6:30 thematically each spot stands for 10 years. The zero spot means you’re sending off a little kid. Anything over 80 dies from old age, mechanically the worker goes to the bank. As your worker ages while being on a single wheel of time, he becomes more skilled which is represented by better end of employment benefits. A full game therefore lasts for 2.6 centuries!

[@inchnamoink]

Have just discovered these game vids. Love it! Great conversational presentation.

[@JoachimErdtman]

Thanks for another fun and informative video Richard. The game looks very good. I'm very happy that you showed how the board comes apart.

[@johnbaker9290]

Very perceptive of you, welcome to 'sticktion'. A mech eng jargon for unreasonable amounts of intertia in trying to get a set of gears to budge from stasis. Best part of the game :) We walk away wiser but we're not quite sure why.

[@AlexandreOliveiraMCZ]

Brilliant from the start, thank you sir for this great video and for keeping up with the fabulous work.

[@Physiology-E-Paathshala]

On a scale of 1 to 10 how complex do you think this game looks? It's 10 for me🙄

[@Wyldfae28]

Love your vids. Was glad you added this game as well as Among the Stars. Your vids make reading rules after so much easier.

[@4theteam2006]

Another great run through video thank you :-). I like the fact that you do your videos very fluid in the sense that you do a move, think about it and explain why you have changed to a different move selection. It actually does a really good job of showing pros and cons. My wife and I have visited Chichen Itza or Chicken Pizza if you aren't vegan :-P, this is actually what made us decide on this game ( of course after being wowed by the gears!). BTW... if you ever make it down to New Zealand, please get in touch if you like as we would LOVE to game with you!

[@nickhayes1626]

I thought that I remembered there being a rule that if you cut down the forest in the green track to get to the corn , that it would anger the gods and lose you points or some such. Did I totally read a rule wron or misunderstand something?

[@rahdo]

+Nicholas Hayes nope, you're remembering correctly that's true

[@PauloRenato23]

+Nicholas Hayes do you have the timestamp please?

[@JonaBullets]

Probs a question for the rulebook or BGG threads, but I thought I would throw it out here for the time being (until I get this game) @ 21:00 you mentioned you could have gotten an extra wood... you had 1 stone in play already, could you have paid that to move your tech up one (on the resource track), then taken you guy back off the resource wheel, to obtain 2 wood, then paid 1 of the wood you obtained to make your second move on the tech track? or do you have to perform 1 "wheel action" at a time? i love your reviews they are the ones i watch religiously (apart from your goofs, you do an awesome job! considering you don't cut/edit your play-through like others do)

[@rahdo]

that's a good question, and tbh i'm not scholar enough to say for certain. but i'd bet that you can't split up actions like that (at least, i'd be surprised if you could)

[@herrsteppsch29]

Got this game for birthday. Cant wait to give it a test. Great video btw. I hope you are doing fine. Thanks for the video

[@Panquernic]

This game looks awesome

[@kosterix123]

Finally today I got Tzolk’in! Indeed manual says copyright 2012.

[@Halfkid]

can i know the reason why that are other workers , aka yellow n red workers , placed on the field while obv the green n blue players r playing?

[@rahdo]

Kinglune Lau with fewer than 4 players, you block off some of the spaces using pieces from the non-player colors :)

[@joshuahale239]

Rahdo- I've been curious how many points can be accumulated? I watched a video talking about different strategies and he mentions you could get possibly 180 points?? The most we have seen is 108 and 94 and that was very difficult to pull off. But we have been averaging around 40-60 most games. What have you seen? Thanks!

[@rahdo]

+WHB18 Football sorry to say we never keep track of our scores, so i literally have no idea. we haven't played the game for like 9 months :)

[@heartfeltgiftideas8559]

180 is a bit much it requires the other person to help you. I score about 100 - 130 consistently.

[@manos2495]

While i know they are different games, if you were to pick only one between Tzolkin and Teotihuacan, which one would be? Thank you!

[@rahdo]

tzolkin. my wife LOOOVES those gears :)

[@manos2495]

@@rahdo Which one do you think is better or at least closer to a family game, at least for a family which like to play games such as Concordia, Ice Age, Orleans, CoB etc? Thank you :)

[@pakman4321]

When you have the board set up at the beginning of the video with the red and yellow players, are those "dummy" players that the rules say to put there, or were they there just because you were setting the game up earlier?

[@Wyldfae28]

Oh, also wondered if you had any problems with your board? I was talking with Ken and some of the other guys from Rio Grande at Origins, and one of them mentioned that there was a board issue in which they break?

[@FMD-FullMetalDragon]

I have a query... Why do you always choose green and blue for player colors, and why do you always go first? :)

[@whit3fox]

I am new to this game, I hope someone could answer me. What do i do with the Corn tiles and Lumber tiles harvested from the Green Gear? Do they act up in the end game scoring? Can I use them as normal corn/resources?

[@rahdo]

Sin Voon Chin well, you collect those tiles and use them to feed your people at various points in the game, and also to build buildings. it's all demonstrated in the runthrough video :)

[@whit3fox]

***** Thank you for your quick reply! What I meant was the square corn tiles and the square lumber tiles...Are they serving the same purpose as the lumber block and the normal corns?

[@rahdo]

Sin Voon Chin sorry, i'm not sure what the lumber block and normal corns are? in my copy of the game, there are only corn and lumber tokens (the square tiles)

[@whit3fox]

***** sorry, maybe its because of my english... let me try again. When you harvest corns (the currency)/the wood on Palenque Gear, you also took the square corn tile/ square wood harvest tile from it (meaning you emptying the plot). I know the roundish corn tile (which indicated 1 & 5 are like the currency in the game, while the brown cube block is the wood resource) My question is, what do you do with the square corn tiles and the square wood harvest tiles that are removed from the plot and jungle.

[@rahdo]

Sin Voon Chin OH! okay, i understand. yeah, you just take the tiles and hold on to them, because they might be worth points at the end of the game. i talk about this a bit at 30:25 :)

[@kosterix123]

11:00 it’s not a day but a decade. Instead of dummy workers you can also use counters.

[@MisanthropyMatt]

Fun game, but sticky wheels are a problem ... and I did the suggested fix prior to assembly ... still, not a major issue in the scheme of things.

[@bryanbarton77]

Hi Richard. I noticed you kept saying Chicken Itza, (like BBQ Chicken) but i think it's pronounced: "Chee-Chen" ('Chee' as in Tai Chi) It's spelled Chichen Itza..without the 'k'. Not a big deal, but as a fan of the mysteries of the ancient Mayan civilization, I thought I'd mention it...keep up the excellent work. I appreciate your wealth of video output (especially with the new camera you've been using).

[@rahdo]

thanks for the heads up! i'll get it right when i do a runthrough for the expansion! :)

[@theonlyblader]

Your video is great! I like your enthusiasm for the game. The problem is that halfway through the video I got motion sickness from all the camera movement.:/ You should find a solution for that...

[@MichaelJones-ti9fx]

I was looking at Tekhenu. This also looks good.

[@rahdo]

yup, she's real and has appeared in a couple of videos, but she's camera shy :)

[@SeuMadrugaRS]

Nice game's explanation! Thanks

[@MrVisionDoctor]

intresting game, I really enjoyed watching the runthrough, however, how won you or the other you (jen) : )

[@rahdo]

no idea! i filmed this a year ago! :)

[@Sholdcolder]

Nice video really helpful. I just bought the game.

[@deftoners]

There is no Jen, is there?

[@marcoschaub8978]

+fisher86 There is. You can see her in some of the videos.

[@carljpearson]

Tzalk'in Tzolk'in with Rahdo

[@carljpearson]

haha nice man

[@patrickrnickelson]

classic

[@OmegaViper]

ack, this isnt on amazon :<

[@mrs.ho-tsencooper-thornchu5689]

Where can I get this game and learn it ?

[@rahdo]

Elaine Chueh you can always check www.boardgameprices.com :)

[@marcoschaub8978]

+Elaine Chueh You can also play it online at boardgamearena.com

[@pattyluss]

Love your videos, keep em coming!

[@silverfang6668]

Rahdo, I was wondering if you had heard anything about the rumor of this game being broken? Apparently. I've been told, one is guaranteed victory if one chooses this path: Get to 6 workers in the first cycle, don't feed your people, get to Tech 2 level III, accumulate accumulate accumulate, then in cycle 4 buy everything.

[@rahdo]

+Silver Fang news to me, but i doubt it's unbeatable... :)

[@RafNen]

+Silver Fang I haven't played Tzolkin but i really doubt it would be ranked so high if it was broken. Besides, 'broken' posts on BGG are very popular, especially when made by people who played game only few times. :]

[@silverfang6668]

+RafNen Thanks, I suspected as much. Someone on Amazon gave the game a one star review saying it was broken. They probably got clobbered on BoardGameArena and reacted.

[@mewzor]

Great video man. Wish you had covered buildings a bit more.

[@heartfeltgiftideas8559]

starvation is a great strategy. - 15 points is ideal

[@TheMaxZakh]

Is Jan real? Great video but the second player commentary was a little weird.

[@fingolfin75]

Great video! I noticed you put 11 dummy workers while in the manual it says you should put 12 in a 2-player game :)

[@PauloRenato23]

noted... thanks

[@GCRokzZzZz]

Why would they not make gold yellow? Or at least orange?! AGH. But really it's not a huge deal. This game is gorgeous and it's definitely going on my wish list.

[@stevekrumpoch9676]

Priscilla Basilio Ask and ye shall receive. I just bought this game and my gold resource cubes are yellow.

[@BuddhaScribe]

great review. thanks.

[@OmegaViper]

Dungeon Petz sorta uses time too

[@AriadneJC]

Great video explaining the game but I'm disappointed at the lack of hobbits. What has happened to JRR?

[@MattCrawley_Music]

Ariadne Chance wow 5 years and no one else liked this comment. I laughed out loud

[@framebrain]

Good one!

[@spunx44]

Thanks for the vid!

[@Funkypanda87]

34:40 you missed your turn

[@PauloRenato23]

noted... thanks

[@MichaelTuohy]

Nice video dude. You've probably heard this a lot but you kind of sound like Seth Macfarlane (Family Guy)!

[@chtulurr]

4:38 I lolled hard xDDD

[@eduardoxenofonte4004]

thats counter clockwise

[@BuddytheRat]

So. Pretty. Must. Hide. Wallet!

[@kosterix123]

game needs a solo mode so bad.

[@rahdo]

i'm sure if it was being released these days for the first time, it would have come with one :)

[@OmegaViper]

Will Jen ever actually play with you in a vid? :trollface:

[@skeezaworkan]

Every English speaker pronounces Chichen Itza as "chicken" instead of "chee-chen".

[@rahdo]

i will work on that! :)

[@skeezaworkan]

@@rahdo Oh, that was just an observation, sorry XD

[@ChessDBA]

Less coffee, please!

[@jasoncessna]

Booo! More coffee!