Solo Play Sunday: The Guild of Merchant Explorers! 🗺

[@MayaFee314]

This was a lot of fun to watch! While watching I was also always trying to figure out what could be the best option to do 😂 Seems like a very nice and interesting game. 😊 Thank you for playing this solo!

[@BoardGameDave]

Thank you for checking out the playthrough! And for trying to figure out the best moves with me! ☺️ I hope you get a chance to play it sometime, Yasmin! Seems like you’d like it!

[@emmafradd]

Thanks for the video Dave, great charity this week! Looking forward to next weeks Gateway video 🙂

[@BoardGameDave]

Thank you so much, Emma! ☺️ Think you’ll be able to catch the premier next week? (What would that be, 1:00am?) 🤣

[@emmafradd]

@@BoardGameDave​ Haha oh man, as good as the 1am Odin stream was last year, I might have to catch this one a few hours later! 🙂 I'm unsure what timezone you're going by, but 9am Ohio time is my 12 Midnight...My bro lives in Ohio so thats my anchor for beginning to figure out time differences! lol Looking forward to it!

[@BoardGameDave]

@@emmafradd Haha, I don’t blame you at all! (I couldn’t believe you were up for the Odin livestream!) 🤣 And Pennsylvania (where I live) and Ohio are in the same time zone so that’s a good reference! How often do you visit your brother? ✈️

[@emmafradd]

@@BoardGameDave Oh nice. Maybe every couple of years? 😬 but that’s where we’ll be moving mid next year 😎

[@BoardGameDave]

@@emmafradd Really!! That’s a huge move!! 😱 What brings you to the States??

[@terrytoriq]

Good game Dave (baby cheating aside 😝) I love this game. ❤

[@BoardGameDave]

Haha, yeah! 🙈 I’m typically a stickler for the rules, even when playing solo, but for such a silly oversight (and so early on) I figured I’d let that be a mulligan! I’m so glad you like this one so much, Terry! What would you score it out of 10?

[@terrytoriq]

@@BoardGameDave On BGG scale - 8. I am considering laminating the maps and using dry-erase markers. The cubes bug me a lot. In my country there is a saying - I am like an “elephant in a glass store”. I always “throw my games” on the floor or accidentally bumping the table. And after that this is a “big memory game”. 😅

[@BoardGameDave]

@@terrytoriq So you would just make it a flip-n-write? You’ll have to let me know how that goes! It would certainly make it less fiddly! 🖌️ We say a “bull in a china shop” but same idea! 🤣 That would certainly be catastrophic with this game!

[@Leilataj85]

Where did you get these fantastic coins and token bowls?

[@BoardGameDave]

Great question! ☺️ The coins are the upgraded coins from Clans of Caledonia and the bowls are from Amazon-here's a link: a.co/d/2Vqr4Yz I love them both! I made a whole video about my favorite coins if you're interested! kzbin.info/www/bejne/o56zn2iioLyea80si=eTJNns9sbjTE9TUz

[@Leilataj85]

@@BoardGameDave thank you so much! Purchasing the bowls immediately.

[@BoardGameDave]

@@Leilataj85 You won't regret it! I've bought two sets and I've used them hundreds of times! ☺

[@zmollon]

Heard a lot of good stuff about this. I've heard it's fiddly though how fiddly does it feel though?

[@BoardGameDave]

Haha, it’s pretty fiddly! I’ve called it a flip-n-fiddle game! 🤣 Hannah and I reviewed it just last week and we talked about the fiddliness a lot in the Cons portion of the video! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYfYlZ2ro7mhjKc

[@diamondmeeple]

AKA LuckyDave.

[@BoardGameDave]

That’s me! 😁