DOGE BOARD GAME Review + Tutorial How To Play (Leo Colovini, 2000) Episode 42: "Beige Blind Bidding"
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EPISODE 42: Beige Blind Bidding features a review and tutorial of an old-school Leo Colovini game from 2000 called Doge. This is a quirky blind bidding game where players cast secret votes in elections. If they win the elections, they get to manipulate things on the board. Ultimately, players are racing to build palaces faster than their opponents. They will bluff, bid, and shift their pieces around in an effort to gain the slightest edge over their opponents. It's a unique game worth discovering, even if only for its charm & personality.
ADVISORS: I wish I would have showcased the power of the advisors & how they affect the dynamic of the game. Getting that 1 extra vote somewhere is often a game changer, and the timing of when the elections happen is crucial because you can place an advisor somewhere an election has not yet happened. I wish I would've focused more on that part of the game. One of the best parts of Doge is how the elections are not settled until they actually score. The blind bids are 1 thing, but the constant maneuvering of advisors can drastically change the outcome of an election. If you take an advisor, there's a lot to consider: Should you shore up your votes somewhere, even though you have no idea what your opponents bid? That could be a waste, or maybe it's the one vote you need to secure the victory. Should you place the advisor in an empty region to get 2 free houses out? But what if the Quarantia winner sneaks 2 advisors in there before that region scores? Should you position the advisor in a district that will have 2 elections before your advisor changes hands? That would be like 2 votes for the price of 1. The shifting advisors make the game so dynamic and interesting, and I feel like I did not highlight that enough in the video review. Just play the game, and you'll see what I mean!
RULES CLARIFICATIONS: Not a rules error, but I failed to explain that a player bidding only a zero token cannot qualify for 1st or 2nd place in votes... unless that zero token is combined with another voting token or with an advisor. Remember, the advisors always grant 1 vote. So if a player bid a zero token, but then managed to move an advisor into that district before the election, that player would get 1 vote from the advisor. Therefore, they could qualify for 1st or 2nd place.
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
3:08 - Setup & Overview
5:16 - Goal of the Game
6:51 - Game Round Intro
7:09 - Voting Phase / Blind Bids
8:51 - Resolving District Elections
13:14 - District Ties for 2nd
14:05 - District Ties for 1st
15:26 - Resolving Quarantia Elections
16:54 - Quarantia Ties for 1st
17:19 - Quarantia Ties for 2nd
18:01 - Unclear or Wonky Rules
19:19 - End of Round
20:33 - End of Game & Winning
21:47 - Rules Recap
22:09 - Review & Discussion
26:18 - Rating & More Discussion
30:00 - Outro - Hry
That existential dread when Undiscovered Games drops a new episode on a game that I don't own.
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I share that feeling!😅
I LOVE games like this where the game IS the players, and the rules are all in the game rather than a myriad of icons to memorize. Thanks for your awesome coverage! My fave gaming channel!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that. I _completely_ agree with what you said. The game IS the players. Those are the best types of games, and I feel like now that I've realized that, I cannot go back to the other games. I still have a few of those that I love from years past, but I'm rarely in the mood to learn all the new ones with all those new rules & icons & such. These older games had elegantly simple rulesets with deep, interactive gameplay. Thanks again for the great comment!
I absolutely agree, so true with a lot of these older euro games. 😊
SAFE THIS TIME! I ALREADY HAVE IT! XD
And I like it a lot.
Thanks for the labor.
Haha whew!! 😅 A money-saving episode 😂 That’s good to know you enjoy it too. It confirms that my audience and I are on the same page. 👍
@@undiscovered_games Good idea. I'll classify your videos between "money-saving episodes" and "financially wrecking" ones (mainly because shipping to my country is not cheap 🫠).
Ooooooo I love blind bidding!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for sharing! I need to play this!!!!!
Thanks for the comment! Hope you get to try it soon!!
Fantastic new episode UDG! Straight into the wishlist! 👏👏
Thank you! I think you’ll love it! It’s a perfect use of blind bidding with fixed numbers. I love the interaction of trying to get inside your opponents’ heads & then being forced to get in each other’s way on the board. It’s a unique game for sure!
Weird question: Did you mean to show the yellow piece with the rough edge when you said “rough edges?” 👀 If so, A+ for attention to detail!!! If not, that was an awesome video editing coincidence! I’m weird and I notice things like that 🫣 😂 Another great episode btw! My hubby (the world history teacher) really wants to play this now! 🤩
👏 👏 you win! 🏆 I _did_ put that in there on purpose. I try to throw in little things like that when I edit, so thank you for noticing! You’ll probably notice some other stuff if you look closely in my other vids. That’s so awesome you caught it!!! Thanks for watching!
Another excellent presentation of a totally unknown to me game. I would definitely be searching this one out if I already didn't have the game Ys. This has some interesting similarities with Ys in the "almost" blind bidding. Here you bid half of your tokens hidden and the other half revealed during a round. This is where I got the idea for the Stonehenge variant I offered on your last video. The extra that Ys has is set collection in the form of gems and commodity speculation of those gems. And, some variable player powers gained along the way. Another big similarity is the amount of time and minutiae around breaking ties. 😅 All in all it's an excellent game. If you are interested in Ys, check out the Chairman of the Board's CZcams review. He does an great job of explaining the game.
Thanks for the great comment as always! Ys is actually on my shelf of shame, so that's a start!! I have owned it for several years and never got around to playing it! I am vaguely familiar with how it plays, so I will definitely check out COTB's video. Your comment has given me some motivation to get Ys played soon!! I'll let you know how I like it. In Doge, I love how you reveal part of your blind bid (the district) but keep the total votes hidden. It sounds like Ys does something similar by bidding half your tokens hidden. Can't wait to check it out!!
Awesome video, this game looks right up my alley!! I enjoy Aladdin’s Dragons and kept wondering if Doge was at all similar… then when you compared it to that game I immediately said YES! I always wished Aladdin’s Dragons had a bit more depth. It’s fun but Doge looks like it could be deeper & more interactive. Thanks so much for putting this on my radar. I’ve never heard of it, but I’ll be searching for it now!!
That’s awesome you’ve played Aladdin’s Dragons. That’s a fun undiscovered game too, but I definitely like Doge better for blind bidding with fixed tokens. Aladdin’s Dragons feels like I’m reacting to the game more than my opponents (like 70% game and 30% opponents). It’s more about the resources, cards, & tiles that come out & how heavy I want to bid on certain spots. Doge feels like I’m reacting to my opponents more than game (like 70% opponents and 30% game). The only thing the game itself does is providing the order of scoring. The rest is entirely up to the players, which feels much deeper & crunchier & more interactive. Thanks for watching! Let me know how you like Doge!
Very interesting thanks again for sharing. It was funny, I've just visited your channel to see if I missed something and an hour after I got a notification about your new episode 😊
By the way, any chance for undiscovered games for kids?
Thanks for the comment and the suggestion! I actually have an episode planned for that exact topic. Maybe I’ll do that one next 🤔 If not, then definitely soon!!!
Another great one! So what if you tie with your number of houses as well? Sorry if i missed it I'm watching this at 4:30am 😊
Would love to try The Bridges of Shangri-La by Colovini as well.
Ah yes, the 4:30am board game binge watching: I've been there soo many times LOL!!! Good question! If you tie for most palaces & houses, it's just a shared victory at that point. You could probably come up with a house rule, though. I'm thinking something like whoever placed their final palace first, or something like that. The Bridges of Shangri La is my fav Colovini game. Absolutely brilliant. I never really considered that an undiscovered game, but it seems like I encounter a lot of people have never played it (or never even heard of it), so maybe I need to make a video on it! You _definitely_ need to play Bridges sometime soon. It's so good... sadly hard to find but keep your eyes open. Thanks for watching as always!!
I bought this one quite a while ago, but somehow it never made it to the table... I am motivated now!
Do it!!! It’s a surprisingly thinky game that gets even deeper the more you play. It’s so fun to try to outguess your opponents.