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After watching this, I not only insta-bought Xi'an, but I also became a proud Patreon backer. Keep up all the great videos!

Thanks for comvincing me with Monasterium. It seems right down my alley... I'm also attracted by Mammut (love the designer) and Tumble Town... You are on fire lately with so many videos! Awesome job!!!

Borrowed Mammut from my game club on your recommendation and played it over the weekend. A little tricky to grasp on the first few turns but after that it was a lot of fun. Not one i need to own, but I'm glad i played it.

This is one of your best videos so far, you are now in my top 3 of youtubers I just have to watch ❤️😄

I am 1 of those X'ian Owners. I love the game. Don't get it to the table as often as possible unfortunately. However I do think the rules needed some work.I will play this game anytime. Thanks for the great video.

Very interesting subject ! The only one that i have heard is Monasterium. It looks like a really good game and thank you to let us know about Xian ! I’m looking forward for this one as well 👍

Very interesting choices so far! I hadn’t heard of #10 & #9 before.

I'm a big fan of Reiner Knizia. I haven't played Chartae but glad to hear you like it! Also enjoyed bloating his credentials to hundreds of classics and thousands of games designed!

Great video! I love the game suggestions. It is always fun to find a hidden gem. Looking forward to checking out Chartae & Xi'an.

Excellent list!, Now the difficult part will be to try to get them...

Wow! I haven’t heard of any of these. Here you go again Dan, adding more to my list. Great list!

Thanks for the great video with some really unique games. Just ordered a few games thanks to your descriptions and reviews.

Monasterium hasn't been released in the US. That will definitely affect the number of owners on BGG. Mammut sounds like its drafting mechanism is the same as Thiefs Market. I like the mechanism but probably don't need two lighter weight games that use it. I own and love Pyramids. I don't see it around much though. There's a couple of others you mentioned I'll take a closer look at, so thanks for the list!

Xian is on sale at funagain for $11.99. I just bought it there. Thanks for the heads up. As soon as I seen it I remembered this video. Otherwise I may have just passed by it.

Thanks for the video, I've made a late pladge to Tumble Town, seems very fun!

I won Masque of the Red Death on a Facebook giveaway. I need to get this played! Also, John Clowdus games are interesting but I only own his small game The North.

great titles. I will check a few of those for sure!

I’d hate to be the first one knocked out of a 6 player game of Masque of the red death. Perhaps that takes it down a notch. I’ve been searching for a copy of Merchants of Muziris for a long time here in Canada. It’s not common to see it on the secondary market. Super rare. Jaipur on the other hand is everywhere. Every store has it in stock and it’s bought and sold on the secondhand market regularly. I own Jaipur but would gladly flip it for a copy of Merchants as I do agree with your assessment that it’s a more interesting game and offers more interesting choices with the special powers on the cards. Cheers!

BGG comment: "Excessive randomness in gameplay (you draw cards to find out which resource-gathering actions you can take and whether you will be screwed in player order on the actions that convert resources to points) covering for the fact that the base point-collection and area-majority game isn't very interesting."

I actually own The Big Score. I had backed it on Kickstarter. That is the only one that I have from this list. I should look into these...

I love Counterfeiters, I don't see anyone talking about it. Also love The Duke.

Great video! Really interesting games! I've bought Xi'an a while ago because i thought it was really interesting. Now i see it discounted a lot but when I looked for it, it was really hard to get. Very good different kind of game. I think Monasterium suffers a bit because of it's price point. It's the reason why I haven't bought it, even if it seems to be right up my alley. I have a lot of similar games in my collection so I hesitate paying €50/60 for it. If it was €35/40 I would have bought it instantly. It may be a bit nitpicky but this is an expensive hobby :p

I own Xi,an. I own it because you mentioned it in a top 50 a year or two ago. Glad I bought it! Very good, fun and aesthetically pleasing game. I also picked up Mexica because of that same review. That one is a hidden gem too.

+1 Tumble Town

How strange, two days I suddenly tried to find the name of the game (Xi'an) and now you recommended it! Big thanks. I had a interesting situation where two kids, one with special needs suddenly got interested in Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small I had in the country. I hade forgotten the rules but improvised. It was a bit too difficult. But we hade great fun. But love to give them something simialar. Euro farming game for kids. Do you have a tip?

Have you played rajas of the ganges? Although it is very different kind of games from tumble town, do u have a preference between these two?

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Masque of the red death sounded really interesting until it was a player elimination game. I sold Bang! and made sure to never ever buy a game again, where people have to wait for the rest to finish.