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Shoutout to the 3 people on BBG who say it's best with two players

Hey Jack, these are awesome. What kind of paper did you use, I assume a certain type of card stock, if so what type? Also, wondering how you laminated them if at all, they look shiny. But I know you can print on shiny card stock.

Finally gets around to saying the title over 2 minutes in.

Looks like fun, seems a similar playstyle to Conan but with less dice-luck required.

Lovely flares! Hey Jack, what is the/is there a difference between the 42nd anniversary and the 4th edition of the game? Over here in Europe, getting a hold of any copy is currently tricky. Cheers!

Hi Jack - can we get a favourite Halloween / horror themed Cosmic Encounter load out for this time of year? (i.e. aliens, expansions). Cheers!

This game falls flat every time I play with my family. They want to use hand signals or tapping on the table. Anything but following the rules of the game.

any way to access dune abomination?

Make them stay advisors til the following turn when left alone

Yeah 2-6 players is misleading, it's obviously a 12+ player game.

I found this was just a game of your group deciding, before the start, how to cheat by prearranging ways to passively communicate like counting a beat in their heads like a music time signature.

I have 2 questions. 1. If Moritani use their advanced ability and then draw the traitor from their own faction (effectively blocking them), can they use their traitor to assassinate duke vidal in fight vs Ecaz? If not, would you consider the ability for them to redraw / draw more cards to select a traitor? 2. If a faction transports into a stronghold where moritani have both forces and a terror token and they decide to forge an alliance, what happens? Allies can not have their forces in the same stronghold. I could not quite make it out from the video

Attendes vs Harkonnen: it was humiliating 😅

Marketing will always dictate that you show the widest player count range possible.

My first game was actually two player with my roommate. Classic Atreides vs Harkonnen, but we were mainly just checking out the mechanics and working out the rules.

I played with two players with each player having two factions as if they were allies more than a few times. It isn't as fun as a 6 player game. It was still more fun than Dune Conquest. It was a nice way to play through a few games and learn how the rules work.

I hate “The Mind” too, but I hate even more that you took two minutes and 10 seconds to get around to saying the title of the game.

I am always a man that prefers to wait for better quality than rush to get worse quality. Also, that is nice to see the wounded and set aside areas. Still so excited to get this.

Just curious to know, if CHOAM calls traitor on someone do they earn half that person's spice dialed anyway? The faction sheet shows "None of the spice goes to you if a Traitor is revealed." Though I assume it's not meant to apply if CHOAM gets to call traitor, that's not how it's written, but would seem a bit of a self-nerf for CHOAM to call traitor then

Had fun playing it at a friend's house once or twice, but not something I'd want to see again. Hanabi is the same concept but you have to choose what clues to give, giving it some actual strategy and decision making. Still not my favorite genre of game, but way better than The Mind.

Also another point... I'm a tee-total-er.... but it's a drinking game!

We played it once, it was ok as it was short, I wasn't bored. Reminded my of the part in poker where you need to find the tells in people, we also got pretty far in that game, I think it was level 10 out of 12. But there are better filler/party games, Dixit/Codenames, I don't like them that much, but it is similar concept and marginally better. I guess The Mind is preferable for people that want to play a game but can't really make a lot of noise, maybe kids are sleeping in the same room. Game I really loathe as much as you loathe The Mind is the Exploding Kittens - it was short and I was bored, the only game I gave 1 star on the BGG.

@7:00 "There is no strategy. There is no real reading of the other people. There's just a lot of sitting around waiting and oh either we lost or oh we didn't lose". *You are missing something.* There is more to this game. There is a strategy. There is a way to win. There is a twist! By your explanation of the game, I don't think you have experienced it yet. There seem to be spoilers in the other comments which I won't repeat. But you're missing out! @10:20 "You could probably play the mind solo by flipping over random cards..." *You are definitely missing something.*

I don't like this game either. Hanabi is another similarly frustrating and empty experience, although at least Hanabi has *some* amount of clue-giving, so it's marginally more palatable than The Mind. That's not saying much, though.

I love that the video says "Episode 1". Bring on some more haha. I also would enjoy more videos where you talk about games you love. Also, would love more videos where you talk about CE aliens, I can never get enough of those. In short, more videos! haha

I don't even need to read any rules, I will personally never buy any boardgame that says you can't talk to each other. I just think it defeats the purpose of getting people together to play a game. Maybe the game is good, but theres so many good games out there these days.

I was tempted to impulse buy this because of the price but thankfully read the rules and decided it sounded awful. More hated games please!

As a fellow hater of "the mind" I preciate this content

I literally played the mind the first time with a deck of cards that wasn't the minds cards (it was 6nimmit) and yea i felt a same way. Its got as much strategy as snakes and ladders. Playing the mind solo sounds like a lonely time hahahaha

The thumbnail is hilarious hahaha

I hear your problems with this, for sure. I only played this for the first time recently and had a blast playing 5 games in a row. Certainly at a point there's a codified "this is the correct thing to do" which really manifests in the worst way possible as "why did you do that? That's not how long you're supposed to wait for that card". I would still bring this out, as you say, as an experience to see what the medium can play with, with so little rules

The mind is really just a synchronization task. If you would put a metronome onto the table, every group would win every time by counting the beat. But simulating a metronome isn't really something I would call a game.

Love that thumbnail it's very cheeky. I have played the mind and for me and my group it's really not that remarkable. Having played social deduction games such as secret hitler and social gambling games like Skull, it doesn't really feel that unique to me, which I think it's the big appeal. We've played plenty of microexpression-reading games. But it could be like how I absolutely adore Mau, the card game that is different every time, even more than Cosmic, and yet some people hate Mau with a burning passion. So maybe the Mind is like a Mau for a different kind of person than me haha.

Question Jack, why should I buy Cosmic Encounter when I own and love Dune? My understanding is they are the very similar.

Flares are super cool my guy. I hope that FFG changes their mind and makes this expansion. Btw I noticed on the Hydra Flare, for the wild it says “main player only” in other text it says as an ally.

Hi, i got cosmic encoutner around a month ago and have been obsessed with the game and ive loved your videos about cosmic, may i asked how did you first get into cosmic

Very hard faction to play. The most of players afraid to loose the HMS. They sit in the HMS for the entire game seeking the opportunity to collect some spice during the movement of the HMS by their ability. But the opportunity to collect something is very rare. Since they are lack of spice income, they become very weak at mid game. Then, in our group, they loose their stack in the HMS to a traitor or to a facedancer. My guess is that the Ixians should fight for spice blows at the beginning of the game and do not focus on the HMS early. Maybe leaving it entirely. At the start, they have very powerful advantage by knowing all the cards and getting the most useful weapon to fight. Plus, their cyborgs are hard to beat at the beginning by almost all factions, because it requires a lot of spice to spend in a fight with the Ixians. Collecting spice is better than sitting in the HMS. Also, Homeworlds make the Ixians weaker, because they have to spread their forces (actually, 7 cyborgs) to protect HMS and their homeworld as well as to attack some stronghold (or contest spice blow).

Hey Jack! I got a quick question for you, does the Harkonnen collecting spice by occupying the Fremen's homeworld trigger the Harkonnen's High threshold spice bonus?

I think that the "Revealed tokens are removed from the game" rule breaks the principle of playing as Moritani a little. No-shield tokens of Riches are returned back, allowing repeated landings. Considering that the Moritani are not an economic faction, it is quite difficult for them to collect spice. Constant use of "Sneak attack" could make this faction more balanced. “Escort” and “Robbery” allow you to have a stable increase in spice and cards. Due to the one-time use of each token, it is easy for opponents to calculate which terror tokens Moritani has left in stock. I tried playing as Moritani several times against 5 players, and after round 6, I ran out of tokens, causing my influence on the field to become zero. After watching my game, my friends and I came to the conclusion that the Moritani are the weakest faction in the game. They could be fun if it weren't for the rule about removing tokens from the game. Since then, we have introduced a home rule that the used token is returned behind the screen after using another one (similar to the Richez's no-shield field), and Moritani has become much more interesting to play.

Is there going to be anymore cosmic DLC? If so, is there possibility of these aliens getting reworked and published?

New Dune is better.

I think spacing guild is very vanilla. Maybe if this game had a space element, they would be more interesting. Fremen and Harkonen are the only 2 mandatory factions in every game.

I've always wanted to find a way to make Obligatron play nice with dials but I sill don't know

Did you make that yourself? If so, I would love to learn how.

We've got a regular lunch time game at work going. We recently switched to using the spice dialing rules because our spice levels were getting out of control with the other advanced rules. We noticed in the faq that some special rules are karama-able and others as not possible (like fremen's victory condition). Someone tried to Karama Fremen's ability to not spice dial as it is a special Fremen ability. We ruled against it at the time because it wasn't mentioned in the faq. I wanted to get clarity on that rule and also as a general rule if its not mentioned as on option (in the faq karama section) to karama then that is also true of all the other factions.

I love the Moritani faction so so much. Ecaz as well but Moritani have a special place in my evil heart. Thank you for your hard work and for the great videos!

Hey Jack! Got a quick question for you on the Richese Special Karama, when Richese plays that, does the Emperor collect the spice paid if they are in the game (since the Emperor also collects spice when Richese normally buys one of their cards)?