The Top 100 Board Games of All Time: Race/Roll for the Galaxy
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We’re joined once again by the inimitable Philippa Warr for an extra large edition of The Top 100, and this time we’ve got two different board games being potentially added onto the list: Race for the Galaxy AND Roll for the Galaxy. Cups VS Cards? It’s a tale as old as time!
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06.09.2024
You're supposed to draw new tiles before returning your old tiles to the bag, by the way.
I own Jump Drive and Roll for the Galaxy but not Race. Haven't played Race in a long time, though.
Good placement. I would have gone on rip and tear if Agricola was to be outdone by yes EXELLENT Race for The Galaxy… but Agricola, come on, top 3 best games of all time! Id argue top 1.
Surprised that nobody suggested combining two entries in the list to form Roll for the Galaxy Trucker (or RAce for the galaxy (OR, in a three way tie for first, El DoRAce for the Galaxy))
It is very funny to me that in Pip's Quiz, Tom thought the card game with no dice had a symbol that asked you to roll dice.
Ra for the Galaxy Trucker
Where is Emily?
It’s been so long since we’ve seen a review from her. :c
I'm almost disappointed these two games got lumped together in the same video. Don't get me wrong, I like both of them and both of them are fixtures in my collection, but I think Race is just so much better of a design than Roll. It's one of those games that really got rid of all the chaff and kept only the solid core of the design. It's really just a class apart from Roll. I'm glad to see Tom appears to feel the same.
Hi. This is SanJuan. Did you ask if you could date my daughter?
One of Pip's friends' friends just got a LOT of context for a bad pub interaction and is now feeling pretty salty
Jiggle ForThe Galaxy… The new dexterity version.
It's cards, all the way down.
No mention of the game Jump Drive? Which basically is a third version of this game, with the same art! and cards as resources. That could totally still fit in the Roll for the Galaxy box being a stack of cards and uses the same victory tokens.
Give Pip a stamp card and on the 10th appearance she gets like…a pizza or something?
49:07 isn't it actually written in the rules that you wait to put the tiles that you're throwing away back into the bag until after you draw your new tiles? I feel like that's actually a written rule… someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if I'm not… sorry Pip 😅
I actually have never played Race, but I absolutely adore Roll. There's a pretty good chance I would actually quite enjoy Race, but what's keeping me away from it is just all the generally negative stuff I hear about it. That it's confusing (particularly the iconography), that it's just kind of.. old and isn't particularly well made (to cite Matt's issues with the art and consistent things like text boxes and drop shadows), and the fact that it's just kinda hard to find these days without buying a severely used copy from someone. So.. I'm not really in any kind of rush (race?) to play Race. But I'm fully and completely happy to continue playing Roll because it very well may be in my Top 5 of all time. If it's not, it's almost certainly Top 10. I really love it
It would be interesting to see how you all feel about New Frontiers
I definitely prefer race, but in big groups, I find roll a lot smoother.
Needs less guest stars and more funnies. ❤️
I've played Race for the Galaxy like 600+ times on Board Game Arena, so I'm fairly fluent in all the ridiculous iconography. Even still, Pip's quiz was humbling. I think the Contact Specialist icon is actually pretty good, especially considering how much of a specific rule-breaker it is. But the gambling world icon is nonsense (partly b/c the gambling world minigame is also nonsense). The "bonus if you produced the most brown goods" caught me off guard. I did know exactly what the symbol meant, but it comes up so rarely that even with my experience I still had to pause and think "shoot which one is that, again?"
I wish I had the golden sunshine charisma that pip has. Super awesome to join her for a top 100 episode
I think the 2-dimensional ranking ain't working. There are now 3 axis: fun, better game, ranking. ….I want to see them try to rank in a 3dimensional axis.
The best part of Roll is its tactility. It feels very nice, and the movement of it makes it easier to teach. I think it is a little simpler, and with the feel and colour and noise of the dice, Roll is nicer to teach.
I do like Race for the Galaxy, and it being small is fantastic.
Always an interesting discussion 🙂 so wonderful to have Pip join again 😀 thank you for sharing <3
More Pip!
Race for the Galaxy is my favourite game ❤
@46:15 Rap for the Galaxy
YYYYAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
We are so back!!!!
About a half hour in, I just kept staring at Matt and Tom's orange and green dice cups with the white piece of paper between them and I could not stop seeing the Irish flag.
Played Roll first a few years ago and sold it after two tries. I really didn't like it. Took me four years after that to try Race for the first time with the second edition and regret not getting it earlier.
Love the editing on this video–cutting in short clips of gameplay highlights is so much nicer than a long chunk of watching the whole game (which I'd inevitably get bored and skip).
I absolutely love both Roll and Race, but I've almost never played the base versions of either. I especially forgot how much Ambition improves Roll across the board. Which is definitely a negative that it needs an expansion for that, but I love it so much, even more than Race, because of it.
The point I think was missed around the 20 minute mark during the discussion of the action selection mechanisms in both games. Is that in RftG, it’s not just about choosing the action you want to do most and it’s nice if other players chose other actions you want to do as well.
In RftG you gain advantage by sussing out if another player is surely going to choose the thing you want to do most, if so, you can choose the second thing you want to do the most.
With caution though, if it looks like you need said action more than the other player, they might be “sure” you’ll choose it and not choose it themselves.
Love that opening graphic.
My issue with Race was that win or lose it always felt like the outcome was mostly down to which player the card gods decided got to draw the cards that fit with their strategy, rather than who played the best.
With Roll I found having a focused strategy was less necessary and so I was free to make the best of whatever I drew out of the bag, rather than being annoyed that I still didn't draw any of the green planets I need to trigger all my green abilities.
Watching this video gave me a craving for a Sherbert Double Dip.