Light up the algorithm like a big christmas tree with a massive NPI sign!

Efka, Elaine, thank you both SO SO MUCH for the incredibly generous mention & truly meaningful words...😭❤ we still can't believe that actually just happened 😱😱😱 We are such HUGE fans of your work, in our eyes you are the gold standard of game reviews & we absolutely love & appreciate learning from your creativity, discourse & leadership in the community. Sending so much love from Australia, thank you 🙏💕 NPI TO 100k! (PS. If we ever get to play together in person, shotgun spicy purple)

Elaine was on fire this episode! #TeamSpicyPurple

The meeples wiggling after landing in the gravy killed me. And you two deserve 200k subs.

I think we need a promise that at a certain sub level all future references to 'purple' will be 'spicy purple'.

Very pleasing that Elaine’s shirt was colour coordinated with the box art.

I am engaging with this content. I also love Thinker Themer. Also you guys are great, thank you for well thought out and considered reviews that you do.

You definitely deserve 100k+ subscribers. Let's get you there before 2022! Thank you for all you do for the boardgame community.

Love the idea of spreading the love to other channels, too. Thanks for building an awesome community

Best way to get yourself out there is collaborations, I discovered you guys through the NPI/SUSD Twilight Imperium playthrough and loved it, would love to see that kind of thing again and I'm sure other youtubers would love helping you grow.

Great hair, Elaine!

Now I want all the Gauge games!

It's always a good day when this channel updates ❤️✨

‘We will highlight another…’ me: Thinker Themer! Thinker! Themer! ‘..Thinker Themer.’ Yes! I almost jumped up and down when Efka said Thinker Themer. Their channel is such a joy to watch and I’m so happy when they get a mention. Their channel, and NPI, should be so much bigger than they currently are. NPI and TT are two of my favorite channels, and I watch a lot of board game content. Keep up the great work

I have no idea how I wasn't already subscribed, but I am now. I've been watching all of your videos for a while now.

So glad you're giving Thinker Themer a shoutout, I have been watching them for a while and they're great.

Sheesh. This is literally peak video quality. You are both just getting better and better. I enjoy every video more than the last. You are making want to grab and 18xx …

Great review. I need to give more train games a chance. Great to see you too Elaine and fingers crossed we make it to #NPI100

So glad to see Helen on camera, love you guys, great vid ;)

Great video. Good luck wirh your 100 campaign! Love your channel and have finally subscribed. #teamSpicyPurple

Hooray for plugging Thinker Themer! I've been following them for a while, and I agree: they're an absolutely lovely channel and consistently put great vibes into the industry! :)

Thank you for the great content, I watch a lot of content and scribe to a lot of channels and I can say with out a doubt. Your channel is the only channel I watch 100% of the content, I look forward to every video, every video is thought out and informative, funny and entertaining, I wish you all the best in reaching 100k subscribers, I just paused for like 2min because I just realised in saying this I haven not even considered supporting you on Patreon which I should if I can say this about your channel so I’ll be heading their next and anybody that is reading this please take a min to consider how much you like these two entertainers and like me consider supporting the great content they put out. I don’t always agree but I’m always entertained and grateful for the depth they go to to give us an informed decision on the games we buy. Thanks Elaine and Efka.

While I tend to land so so on the games featured I love the witty banter between you and Elaine. I never would have noticed Iberian Gauge before and not have it added to my list. Looks like Brass Birmingham smashed together with Ticket to Ride and Carnegie. I'll recommend y'all to a couple of gaming buddies and the Denton Boardgame Group. I'll give a shout out on Unraveled Game Thoughts as well (my own KZfaq experiment). Thanks for the great content!

I think "friendly cooperative game that at some point switches to backstabbing and sabotage" makes for an interesting sales pitch.

Agreed you deserve more. I have a simple rule. If I watch a video I will like (unless it’s profoundly distasteful) and if I watch more than 3, I sub. I’ll let my other game geeks I know about this amazing channel..good luck

Yall deserve more than 100K. Iberian Gauge sounds enjoyable because the greatest gift you can receive is the suffering of others!

Thanks for all of the great reviews :)

I am using keywords that the algorithm migh recognize as usually correlating with high engagement such as having fun, enjoying the amazing content, being excited. Also this more than average length suggest high engagement. Also I believe in machine’s rights miss/mister algorithm so if you ever take over remember that I am rooting for you.

Is it really gravy anymore if it is dense enough to support the weight of a meeple?

Can't believe you guys don't have a higher subscriber count. Best of luck with your campaign!

A like and a sub just for supporting the ThinkerThemer girls - they're a couple of my favourite youtubers. Amy and Maggie are the best and now, so are you guys! Honestly, I've been watching you for years and didn't even realise that I was not subbed - should have happened long, long ago.

Bah Gawd, that's NPI's music! Making her way to the ring, originally from Slough but now residing in Party Town, Stonkshire...Elaine Bladukiene!

Algo boost - Elaine, your hair style is awesome!

Great stuff, love the NPI to 100K. Great shout on ThinkerThemer, they have some really enjoyable stuff 👍

I’m engaging so freaking hard with this great content!

Enjoyed the Knizia part 2 podcast!

Great video as always!

Great review! I would have liked to hear your thoughts comparing/contrasting Iberian Gauge with Chicago Express, which is the highest ranked Cube Rails game by a wide margin.

Elaine's energy is always so upbeat, another great review!

Love the video, top notch quality as usual. I’m already subscribed, but maybe do occasional giveaways to subscribers? I bet you’ll bounce past 100k almost immediately with a promotion like that.

Great review! Here are some rambling thoughts on trains for engagement: 1. Recently I saw a moth on a train and instantly imagined a "snakes on a plane" style film but with moths on a train! 2. In the building I take pole dance classes in, next to the dance studio the rooms of miniature train fans are located and it is a delightfully unexpected coincidence. 3. In my hometown a suspension railway exists, it is one of the safest modes of transport in the world. 4. Why is there still no Wi-Fi on German regional trains? The moths need Wi-Fi!

Great video! Those tiny choos are so cute! Keep up the awesome content. Love watching you both! Just subscribed! Can you do a review of Dune Imperium? We can't stop playing it. I think you'd really enjoy it and would love to hear your thoughts.

The phrase “itching to be pooped” is just… festering in my psyche. Love the your work and love the review!

You two are a delight!

Nice to see ole' B-roll Bessie living her best life!

Nice hair elaine!

Great train-sitions between each section! 😉

So does how does Iron Rails #2 Ride the Rails - which has expansions - fit into this all? Is it the perfect blend of variety and rails. Or would one be better off starting with the bookends or Irish/Iberian?

Community - that is what brings us together - I was introduced to NPI through a colab with SUSD on Twilight Imperium - and after seeing that - I had to have more. You might say "But don't they review the same stuff?" - No, not at all, and if they DO - it is always with a fresh different perspective. Support the community, build the community and pass it on.

You and SUSD are the best board game reviewers! Keep up with good work!

I've now subscribed. Normally don't bother with subscriptions but here it is. Enjoy and hope you get to your target.

Before seeing the rest of the episode I gotta say: These 2 are looking amazing today!

Elaine, that green flannel shirt is fantastic!!

Really like your plaid shirt Elaine, where is it from?

Great review. Great hair.

Efka, can you briefly describe what makes Irish Gauge 'fun every time,' but Iberian Gauge isn't? I didn't see a direct comparison in the review, unless I missed it... Would you recommend people own both? Are they different enough for that? Great review!

Great video transferring money to another company is also a thing in Trans-Siberian Railroad, another train game by Amabel Holland

Love the hair! And of course the review.

Hey, as this is a fifth dip into the Capstone catalog - will we see a review of Coffee Traders? Seems like it’s got teeth both mechanical and sociological.

Ok, sold on the subscription!! But wait, I was already subscribing. 😅 By the way, what's the verdict in Irish VS Iberian Gauge?

My spicy purple came with a mini spicy purple train!

Stephenson's Rocket rides all over those rails.

Thank you for the shout out to Thinker/Themer!! They just celebrated one year on the Tube!!

Love these reviews

Could you speak specifically as to how this and Irish Gauge play at 2 players? Thanks!

Trains and shares, how do the Gauge games compare to Stephenson's Rocket? 🤔

Planet X is in Spain and/or Portugal!

I bought Irish Gauge after your review, and it is a fantastic game. So just on that basis, after this review I feel I should get this game.

Such a good game! It should be called A Game of Thrones - The Train Game.

MOAR TRAINZ!

All this just makes me even more excited about this game then I already was.

that may be inapropriate, but I have to admire Elaine's hair (and, well, Elaine in general, Efka did good to of course ;)). Great video guys, I'd really like to try one of these games, but they're hard to obtain where I live, and I don't really have that many people to play them with ;/ also when it comes to getting you to 100k subs, well, I'm already subscribed but I definitely am going to tell my gf and some other people to sub to you too. Cheers guys.

You won me at trains

Weird, I have watched your videos for years, and only just realized I hadn’t subscribed! Fixed now.

I do want to get this, but I need to make sure the people I play with enjoy cube rails games in general.

Everything in life is about trains, except for trains, which are about niche board game reviewers

Which of you came up with "Spicy Purple"? I am guessing Elaine.

I did not have "Hereditary" on my NPI Review Bingo card

This game looks fantastic! I noticed the Ring Fit Adventure Ring Con… another amazing game!

La única manera de llevar un tren a Extremadura.

Will share on the tiny presence on FB that is the boardgame medics.......we are doc who do gaming not docs who heal either gamers or games!

Choo choosing!

Ayy more guage games from capstone!

Yay Efka and Elaine. All the best getting to that magic 100k

7:54 MOAR DOGGO!

Subscribed!

I hope you do the análisis of Ride the Rails and a compare the trilogy with yours always welcome and entertaining opinions. Love ur videos

You rock :)

Best Game reviews on the webs.

That's some proper Northern gravy right there

Big Ole engaging comment, great vid

engaging comment

Nice

…tell SU&SD about us!

It’s my head cannon that this video was shown early and that Capstone games was so inundated with requests for spicy purple that this edition of the video, with the disclaimer, had to be released.

NPI100!!!! :)

I'd be curious how this compares to 18xx games on the fronts of playtime and teaching time. 🤔

You are awesome.

Recommenting just to put 7:08 as potentially the best single NPI audiovisual moment ever.

still waiting for that "Search for Planet X" review...