There is although deadend situations, where there are for instance 3 players left and all ready to coup, anyone killing the other will cause the 3rd person to win.
Just discovered this channel, and I am a huge fan already. Practically instant sub. Your review, and the special episode where you played two rounds, got me to buy Coup and the Reformation expansion from the Starlit Citadel site just yesterday! Looking forward to that, and saving up for Cosmic Encounter, because that review was really intriguing too. Anyway, keep up the great work!
I prefer it to Love Letter, because it gives you a lot more strategic options than just "play one of the two cards you've been dealt", and there's more risk and reward to the deduction element. I love bluffing games, and this one is a perfect example of the genre. Mascarade is great with a bigger group (it supports far more people) and is a bit "gentler", in that player elimination doesn't happen as quickly, and the uncertainty of not knowing your own cards cuts down on the amount of bluffing, challenging, and ruthless elimination you get with Coup. The choice between those two really comes down to your group's size and preferences. -Kaja
This game is selling out everywhere I look right now and the $50 Kickstarter edition is taking its place. If you havnt bought it yet, it will probably sell out by the time you read this post.
Thank you for the video! I just bought the Polish version of this game in Warsaw, since I come from Ukraine and the Polish version is loosely based on the Euromaidan events that have been happening in Ukraine for the last year. But my Polish is not that good so I was struggling with grasping the concept of the game! this video has now cleared it all for me!
StarlitCitadel Just in case: the Polish version is named Swiatowy Konflict (Global Conflict) and basically, the cards/actions are redesigned and renamed. But what they do is exactly the same as in your video. So the Duke is Russia, the Assassin is the Mass Protest, the Captain is the Police, the European Union is the Contessa and the Ambassador is the Media. There is also an extension: the United Nation, which is essentially the same card the Inquisitor. boardgamegeek.com/boardgameversion/242682/polish-first-edition
what me and my friends like is when we play each player also gets 2 shots (their choice) and when they lose an influence they take a shot. also the last man standing they can make anyone playing take their remaining shots. it gets crazy but really fun
Hi Kaja and Joanna. I am a recent subscriber and I am really loving all of your videos. They are really informative. I just purchased MAGE KNIGHT and I love it. I would like to buy some cloth for my table like you are using in all your videos. Could you please tell me what type of cloth it is please so I can buy the same. Thankyou and keep up the good work, you are bringing a lot of happiness to people around the world!
mackstertube I don't have the cloth that they do, but I found very good fabric at a crafts store for $10 that works fine. I added a dining table padding (think that was it basically thin padding for my old wood table) to help things out. It all cost $15. That was for a really big table too. Mage Knight is awesome!
Scott Smart has the right idea -- the cloth we bought is actually just a synthetic (polyester, I think) curtain fabric we bought from a local fabric store. I'd recommend just going to the nearest craft/fabric store, choosing a material you like the look and weight of, and buying a few metres. Thanks for watching!
I've played this before and it's similar to Mascarade but with player elimination. However, unlike Mascarade, if your face down card(s) ever become known to the table for whatever reason, you can be boned for the rest of the game-- stuck with those cards with no ability to bluff or do anything besides take your one coin per round. Some might call that a mechanic, but I find it to be a rather ugly flaw in the design.
Is it possible that maybe when you played Coup it was played wrong?, because according to this video, I believe when a player has lost both of their Influence cards (or have both of their hidden cards face up) that they are then eliminated from the game. Thankfully this doesn't appear to be a long game.
Rules say if you have to reveal your card due to a challenge, you shuffle that card back into the pile of remaining cards and get a new card. So you don't lose that advantage you were concerned about.
The game has elements of deduction. Whenever characters get eliminated, their cards get reveled and certain players who have swapped know more about the deck, so bluffing gets increasingly risky. If you have the Captain, for example, and chatter suggests everybody thinks that's what you have, you're pinned down. Your power will get blocked, you can't get away with bluffing, and you can't swap your card to throw them off your trail. I don't know, that was just my experience with the last game I played.
hugesinker played several games of this and has never happened to anyone in my gaming group. If it does, the game goes by so quickly that a new game begins with new cards and strategies for every players.
Hi: I have come to love games like this since I played "Junta" years ago. I was very glad that, unlike so many other reviewers, you two decided to give potential players a caveat and warn them that this game is NOT for everyone lol. I will definetly put this one on my list. Thanks.
Although the mayhem usually leads to comical situations the biggest draw back from excessive bluffing and very short games is that winning or losing pretty much rides on pure luck alone. No real strategy involved - everything rides on the immediate choice and the consequences of people accusing of a lie or not (random events). Very similar to liar's dice. Love letter has more deduction/strategy than Coup. Coup is all about posturing (looking credible) and guessing based on 50/50 odds (player statement is true or false).
Aquilius25, is correct. There will never be a time when your face down cards become known to the table. If someone thinks you are lying about a card you have you will then show it and either put it back into the deck or draw a new card depending if you were telling the truth or not. It is an amazing game
Yeah, that game is really hard to find. When we did our review of Bunny Bunny Moose Moose, we discovered that it didn't have a North American distributor at all, and have been bringing in copies directly from the publisher in the Czech Republic ever since.
I quick Google search should sate your curiosity about the other versions. I suspect they weren't shown because they are out of print. Even this most recent Coup version was a Kickstarter game, and I'm not sure where they stand on a reprint. The current print is all but sold out.
There is although deadend situations, where there are for instance 3 players left and all ready to coup, anyone killing the other will cause the 3rd person to win.
Games where you can lie to your friends and then kill them. I have to buy this one.
Just discovered this channel, and I am a huge fan already. Practically instant sub.
Your review, and the special episode where you played two rounds, got me to buy Coup and the Reformation expansion from the Starlit Citadel site just yesterday! Looking forward to that, and saving up for Cosmic Encounter, because that review was really intriguing too.
Anyway, keep up the great work!
how does this compare to Love Letter fun/strategy wise?
A little faster, and more strategy. I would recommend Masquerade over this though. It is the same basic game, but with a little more.
I prefer it to Love Letter, because it gives you a lot more strategic options than just "play one of the two cards you've been dealt", and there's more risk and reward to the deduction element. I love bluffing games, and this one is a perfect example of the genre.
Mascarade is great with a bigger group (it supports far more people) and is a bit "gentler", in that player elimination doesn't happen as quickly, and the uncertainty of not knowing your own cards cuts down on the amount of bluffing, challenging, and ruthless elimination you get with Coup. The choice between those two really comes down to your group's size and preferences.
-Kaja
This game is selling out everywhere I look right now and the $50 Kickstarter edition is taking its place.
If you havnt bought it yet, it will probably sell out by the time you read this post.
You can play this game with regular playing cards (assigning 10JQKA to each rule) and poker chips or something to keep track of money
Thank you for the video! I just bought the Polish version of this game in Warsaw, since I come from Ukraine and the Polish version is loosely based on the Euromaidan events that have been happening in Ukraine for the last year. But my Polish is not that good so I was struggling with grasping the concept of the game! this video has now cleared it all for me!
I'm glad it helped! The Polish version sounds really interesting, and I think I'm going to try to get my hands on a copy.
- Kaja
StarlitCitadel Just in case: the Polish version is named Swiatowy Konflict (Global Conflict) and basically, the cards/actions are redesigned and renamed. But what they do is exactly the same as in your video. So the Duke is Russia, the Assassin is the Mass Protest, the Captain is the Police, the European Union is the Contessa and the Ambassador is the Media. There is also an extension: the United Nation, which is essentially the same card the Inquisitor. boardgamegeek.com/boardgameversion/242682/polish-first-edition
what me and my friends like is when we play each player also gets 2 shots (their choice) and when they lose an influence they take a shot. also the last man standing they can make anyone playing take their remaining shots. it gets crazy but really fun
Hi Kaja and Joanna. I am a recent subscriber and I am really loving all of your videos. They are really informative. I just purchased MAGE KNIGHT and I love it. I would like to buy some cloth for my table like you are using in all your videos. Could you please tell me what type of cloth it is please so I can buy the same. Thankyou and keep up the good work, you are bringing a lot of happiness to people around the world!
mackstertube I don't have the cloth that they do, but I found very good fabric at a crafts store for $10 that works fine. I added a dining table padding (think that was it basically thin padding for my old wood table) to help things out. It all cost $15. That was for a really big table too. Mage Knight is awesome!
Scott Smart has the right idea -- the cloth we bought is actually just a synthetic (polyester, I think) curtain fabric we bought from a local fabric store. I'd recommend just going to the nearest craft/fabric store, choosing a material you like the look and weight of, and buying a few metres.
Thanks for watching!
Seems pretty fun :) Thanks for the review
I've played this before and it's similar to Mascarade but with player elimination. However, unlike Mascarade, if your face down card(s) ever become known to the table for whatever reason, you can be boned for the rest of the game-- stuck with those cards with no ability to bluff or do anything besides take your one coin per round. Some might call that a mechanic, but I find it to be a rather ugly flaw in the design.
Except that there is no mechanic that allows for your cards to be known to the table.
Is it possible that maybe when you played Coup it was played wrong?, because according to this video, I believe when a player has lost both of their Influence cards (or have both of their hidden cards face up) that they are then eliminated from the game. Thankfully this doesn't appear to be a long game.
Rules say if you have to reveal your card due to a challenge, you shuffle that card back into the pile of remaining cards and get a new card. So you don't lose that advantage you were concerned about.
The game has elements of deduction. Whenever characters get eliminated, their cards get reveled and certain players who have swapped know more about the deck, so bluffing gets increasingly risky. If you have the Captain, for example, and chatter suggests everybody thinks that's what you have, you're pinned down. Your power will get blocked, you can't get away with bluffing, and you can't swap your card to throw them off your trail.
I don't know, that was just my experience with the last game I played.
hugesinker played several games of this and has never happened to anyone in my gaming group. If it does, the game goes by so quickly that a new game begins with new cards and strategies for every players.
Hi: I have come to love games like this since I played "Junta" years ago. I was very glad that, unlike so many other reviewers, you two decided to give potential players a caveat and warn them that this game is NOT for everyone lol. I will definetly put this one on my list. Thanks.
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Although the mayhem usually leads to comical situations the biggest draw back from excessive bluffing and very short games is that winning or losing pretty much rides on pure luck alone. No real strategy involved - everything rides on the immediate choice and the consequences of people accusing of a lie or not (random events). Very similar to liar's dice. Love letter has more deduction/strategy than Coup. Coup is all about posturing (looking credible) and guessing based on 50/50 odds (player statement is true or false).
Aquilius25, is correct. There will never be a time when your face down cards become known to the table. If someone thinks you are lying about a card you have you will then show it and either put it back into the deck or draw a new card depending if you were telling the truth or not. It is an amazing game
omg I have been looking for Bunny Bunny Moose Moose forever, and randomly I watch this video and see a big stack of them on the shelf behind you.
Yeah, that game is really hard to find. When we did our review of Bunny Bunny Moose Moose, we discovered that it didn't have a North American distributor at all, and have been bringing in copies directly from the publisher in the Czech Republic ever since.
I have the kickstarter edition of the game. It's a very nice package. Especially with all the custom art not found in the normal edition.
I just purchased this game and it has an additional card named "Inquisitor" in it that is not included in the shown version here.
It would have been nice to Put up graphics of the other versions of Coup you have seen. Like the Polish or Russian version of coup.
I quick Google search should sate your curiosity about the other versions. I suspect they weren't shown because they are out of print.
Even this most recent Coup version was a Kickstarter game, and I'm not sure where they stand on a reprint. The current print is all but sold out.