Scott Nicholson
United States
Fayetteville
New York
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As an episode of Board Games with Scott, I did a 13-minute video all about Portrayal.
You can see this video at
http://www.boardgameswithscott.com/?p=77
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Tommy Occhipinti
United States
Irvine
California
Magic Fanboy
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Let's find out what Scott scored! I did horribly though, I only got criterions 2, 3, and 5. Somehow I completely missed that there was a sun. I should have started closer to the bottom, I ran out of room for the ballerina's head (hence her pupils weren't visible). I drew my picture on one of those little dry erase boards that are a dollar at your local office supply store.
Also, another great episode Scott! I think the boyfriend would like this one a fair bit. How do you feel about there being only 120 cards? Does that seem like too few? That's only three hours of "drawing".
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I'm not able to view this video today. It is also appears to be missing from the "High Quality QuickTime" link of http://www.archive.org/download/bgws_044/bgws_044_hq.mov. Probably just a temporary problem... maybe it will fix itself? I tried several browsers.
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Scott Nicholson
United States
Fayetteville
New York
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tritone wrote:
Hmm. Looks like the host (Internet Archive) had a little too much egg nog for Christmas.  Looks OK now.
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Czech Mate
United States
Arvada
Colorado
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Great Review, Scott!
I played along (excellent idea, btw) and scored 3.
One thing I noticed is that all I could muster
were stick figures. The 90 second time limit
meant there was not much chance of drawing any
detail. Do you find that to be the case when
you play with other folks? Do people become
frustrated enough to stop playing?
Do you think another 30 secs would make this
a more (or less) enjoyable game?
Thanks again for the review!
mike.
ps. I notice this one isn't formatted to go
directly to my iPod. I only mention it because
the rest of the videos you have done went to
my iPod just fine. iTunes will convert the video
for my iPod, but its a step your other shows
didn't require. Thought you might be interested
in case you changed something on your end.
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William Jacobson
United States
Matthews
North Carolina
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delirimouse wrote: How do you feel about there being only 120 cards? Does that seem like too few? That's only three hours of "drawing".
DISCLAIMER: Answer from the game designer and I'm not biased at all! 
Assuming you play with six people total, you will go through six cards (maybe one more for practice or whatever) per game that will take about 30 minutes. So it is reasonable to expect that you will get about 17-20 "plays" out the game for a total of 8.5-10 hours before seeing a card you've already played.
That said, it is definitely true that once you play a card you won't likely want to play it again. Even after months and months, you will probably remember enough about the image and the criteria to get a couple extra points if you want to cheat. :-)
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Czech Mate
United States
Arvada
Colorado
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Braincog wrote: delirimouse wrote: How do you feel about there being only 120 cards? Does that seem like too few? That's only three hours of "drawing". DISCLAIMER: Answer from the game designer and I'm not biased at all! ...it is definitely true that once you play a card you won't likely want to play it again.
Sounds like an excellent opportunity to offer expansion sets of cards!
mike.
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Scott Nicholson
United States
Fayetteville
New York
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For some reason, the Internet Archive server where the files are kept are down.
I hope this is fixed soon, but if not, then I'll have to figure out something else.
EDIT - It looks OK now. Holiday issues, perhaps?
Also, I put up a new file which should go on to a video ipod just fine. I'm still hammering out the kinks on my new system.
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Aaron Gelb
United States
El Segundo
California
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I agree..this is a great, fun game perfect to play over dessert or coffee with family or friends.
I would LOVE to see an expansion set released, and/or maybe it could come with a little dry erase pen and placard so that players could draw their own picture and criteria to have players try out!
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Very good review. and fun too
Great example of play
I scored only two points, I've got some difficulties understanding some words at the start of the description of the picture. I was confused by meat understanding meet !
Hopefuly I clearly understood the rest of the video.
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Nurture Waratah
Australia
Gracemere
Qld
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Fun game. I got criteria numbers 1,2,5 & 6 so you got 4 points from me. I am concerned about replayability though, since you wouldn't want to play a card more than once. However, I agree with previous posts that an expansion could be a good solution.
I will certainly be buying this game to play with my kids.
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