This is a wonderful, rather challenging game. I didn‘t understand all the subtle details of the instructions (e.g. the monasteries) - you helped me a lot. Thank you very much!

This video is super helpful. Just picked the game up myself and always play solo. This video helped clarify the flow of gameplay and some of the ambiguity in the rules. Great job!

Thank you for making the video! Really helps me to be clear on how solo play works. Very helpfull that you added some text, to explain the steps you overlooked while playing. Very impressed how you juggled both playing ànd explaining/ narrating ànd filming both angles. Looking forward to my next solo play.

Thanks for the solo play through! It’s really great!

Once the first glance, the game board looks a bit dry, but the more you look at it, the more you are drawn into it. The artwork is truly 'charming'. Thanks, Colin! You always bring interesting games to the table. The other day I found your old video of 'Victoriana'; I really enjoyed watching it as well.

Very nice playthrough! Thanks

Hey Colin - it's great to see you playing "hardcore" point-salads :-) This one is one of my favorite games (especially by Stefan Feld)! Good you enjoyed it!

Thanks for the video. Was looking for a rules explanation, because I didn't understand what the manual wanted me to do with the white die. I am glad you enjoyed this game as a non-euro person! ☺️

Great playthrough! It looks like you had to cut the video when you reset the board between rounds because that process can be really time consuming. I've found that you can speed the game up a lot if you prepare the board for round-changes ahead of time. There are enough tiles in the box that you can put stacks on each space in the central board - 4 facedown and then one faceup at the top. When the round ends, you just throw away any faceup tiles that happen to linger, and flip the facedown tiles that're already in position.

What a coincidence! Today I just finished my first playthrough of Burgundy on Yucata (2nd/3p) and you released the video. I didn't know this game had a solo mode. Nice to know.

Thanks for the run through!

This is my favourite game all time :D

Hi Colin. I only play games solo and also would always want to play a physical game rather than an App version. " Missing things" though as in your video, is the only advantage an App version of a game has. Yourself, together with Ricky Royal are the best board game channels out there, (especially for a solo or solo/co-op player like me). I always appreciate your work so thank you. I've watched this through twice now. Really tempted to buy.

More solo Euro games please!

Very good job. Very clear, and as short as could be.

Thanks for the Solo play through, Colin. I had my eye on this. It does play well solo, looks like. This also looks like the Anniversary Edition, correct?

Thanks for the vid 😊 Great to see you play some dry euros. I’ve recently started getting into euros as well. Just got my copy 2 days ago. Will try doing solo.

Actually the duck is really good. It doesn't care about what live stock it takes the shape of any. If you put 3 cows next to it you'll get 5 VP. ;)

Not a fan of euros or worker placement games, but this one seems like it was made for me. And because you feel your land with building, it's almost like playing a hexcrawl/adventure game. ;)

Which version / edition / printing started including solo rules? Do more recent printings of the original version include them?

Thank for the video! Really interesting and it convinced me to buy this game! My wallet isn't thanking you lol

Great video Colin. I do appreciate a good Euro once in a while to break from the high narrative games I normally play. I have been wanting to try Castles of Burgundy for a while, but the bland original version was always a turn off. Have you tried the iOS app? I have been considering getting the app in order to try out the game for a more reasonable price tag.

In my top 20 all time

Thank you for doing this one. With the new campaign, I was wondering how it worked. Not a big fan of BYOS so really happy to see it's a win/loose condition!

Great playthrough! I am new in the game and i've just lost my first solo. I see that you did not use inns. Do you know if they are excluded from solo mode? Or could i take it as a reward from the black market when i complete a color?

"For some reason it's so fun to play". Probably because game mechanics are more important than theme and aesthetics?

In the 1st round when you complete a color you take victory points. According to the rulebook (p.14) you won't gain the victory point bonus when you complete a color in solo mode. Instead you take a hex tile from the black depot and directly place it on your duchy. (Or am I missing something? )

I was just about to go to bed and this video popped up. Why or why do you tease us so with your awesome content? Just kidding...keep it up! You are helping everyone in these trying times.

Thx for the great playthrough! While being german I'm also not that into cube-pushers... drab eurotrash games, but I love dice chucking for the extra bit of luck (midigation). But here I still don't see the appeal, so glad you helped deciding;o) Have you tried Troyes, Quantum or To court the King?

Maybe you would have won, had you taken the tiles for completing colours(?). The game makes for a rather tile-laying-heavy last round then. I'm very interested in the game though, especially with this added solo expansion in the new edition. Thank you very much for the clear explanation and play-through (as always really)!

Just got the game today and looking at the solo rules, you are _not_ supposed to take victory points when completing a color on your player board. Or am I misunderstanding something?...p. 14 "You won't gain a victory point bonus when you complete a color. Instead, choose a hex time from the black depot and place it directly on your duchy"

The ducks are a special tile and work a little bit differently. I Think they trigger with any other animal tile ;-)

Hey Colin, hows the replayability on this one for solo? Great playthrough btw!

Is the solo mode good?

15:18 hi! just a one point about your game. you was wrong here becase you didn't respect rules about tiles placement (in fact, your turn was over). I understand your confussion because rules says "this black tile helps you to complete areas" but rules too says that the black tile must be placed respecting common rules. Otherwise, your play was great and very well guieded. Greetings.

The best fun I had solo in a euro is with the Optimus automa on BGG for Trajan, another Feld game. You could check it out, it's a very fun and satisfying puzzle, as is Burgundy!

If the black market tiles always have to be flipped to the black side after you purchase them, what is the point of having them face-up before you take them?

This is a game I always wanted to try. How much of the expansion content in the anniversary edition is used in solo modes.

Such a crisp warm sound. Can i ask if it was recorded as you were playing or was it dubbed after?

Not sure if the map makes a difference as the old ones and the new are both 37 spaces, but I've been playing this same way with the original version and it's really, really hard to win.

What are those token holders you are using and where can I get them??? :O Ps. Castle of burgundy is a fantastic game. Me and the misses loves it to bits. Great for two players.

Just starting the vid and I already like it. But I have a question. In the non-solo game you can buy a black market tile for 2 silver, but in the solo it says you need to use a ship and trade 5 goods for 1 black tile. Or am I missing something?

fyi, ducks are special tiles with different rules

On mark 25:39 you inserted the comment: "I forgot to give myself victory points for the building area I completed". You actually did take points for the color area, so you probably meant that you forgot to take points for completing the area separated by water. But i didn't find in the rules a description of such a reward. May I ask what kind of bonus do you think you missed to take?

Hi! I see that you use a Coin to buy 2 workers,but I didn't read It in the instructions....Is it allowed?

What would happen if you set a building that allows you to sell any goods, would you get your coin and a 2 points? Or just one point? Or none

Hi, thanks for the explanation, I believe you made a few mistakes, correct me if I am wrong, but with the workers you can only add 1 or -1 to a dice, so you cannot convert a dice from a 1 to a 6 with only one worker, also in the marker , the hexes have to be flipped over so you don't know what you are purchasing when doing so, other than than thanks for explaining everything because it is really hard to learn this kinda game from reading, well for me anyways!

To think everyone hated the colour scheme on the old version. This one looks too busy, too garish for my taste. At least on your camera, it might look beautiful in real life... but solo play would almost make it worth it!

I still have soooo many questions. But I don’t know enough about the game to form the question in a way that would make sense. I own and play hundreds of games and this rule book the worst I’ve seen. It’s so abstract that nothing has any logic that I can lock on to and it assumes you know things about the iconography already (because it doesn’t explain some of it) Ugh. So frustrated. Your video is great and it cleared up some things for me but the rulebook, so far, is a lot of noise. I know I’ll love the game once I get all the nuance cleared up so I’ll stick with it, but I’ve never had so much trouble learning a game with such a small rulebook. Is it just me? It’s just me, right?