REVIEW 18Cash and 18Shares prototypes, Deluxe Chips to improve your 18XX games and other train games

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A review of the 18Cash and 18Shares train game upgrades from Mercury Games which are currently live on Kickstarter. These are deluxe ceramic grade chips for 18XX style train games. 18Cash are 39mm 9.5g chips meant to replace the paper money in your games (while perfect for 18XX games these could be great for any board game with cash). 18Shares are larger 47mm and 12.5g chips that replace the paper/cardboard stocks in your 18XX games. There are both 10% shares and 20% President share chips. Correction: I say that the 18Cash coins are 3.5g they are actually 9.5 and I also apologize for the frequent but minor audio glitches. We are looking into that now but probably won't re-upload a new video. This review is one segment from The Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Episode 131: Trainspotting. You can watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/cgwtgWl6jrs If you dig our content be sure to subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/tabletopbellhop?sub_confirmation=1 and consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tabletopbellhop. ******************** Description from the publisher: Any 18XX train game fan knows that poker chips make counting money easier, faster, and are just more fun. But no publisher has ever made a laser-focused set of chips with only 18XX in mind. That's why we're making 18Cash - the first and best ceramic-grade money chip set for all 18XX train games (and others too!). And for the first time ever, we extended the notion that "chips are better than cards" to the share certificates. We noticed that nobody had ever attempted such an ambitious project for 18XX and after nearly a full year of research and testing, we unveiled 18Shares - a 47mm ceramic-grade chip meant to replace the flat paper shares found in most 18XX train games. Now your share certificates can be more efficient, more fun, and more beautiful than ever before! 18Cash and 18Shares are not some composite clay/plastic chips with metal slugs for weight. They are a high-quality ceramic-grade chip that looks and feels great. And forget about poker chips with stickers or inlays - these are custom manufactured chips with printed-on graphics and will last a lifetime. While more expensive to produce than a composite clay/plastic chip, ceramic-grade chips offer so many advantages that we knew we had found the correct material for this important project. We've partnered with the world's #1 supplier of casino-grade chips to make this project happen, and you will not be disappointed with the results. ******************** Links: Head over to the Tabletop Bellhop blog where you'll find more tabletop gaming content, including game and game night advice, reviews, and more: https://tabletopbellhop.com Back 18Cash and 18Shares on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1280624810/18cash-and-18shares-make-your-18xx-even-better Sign up for our newsletter to get a heads up about all of the content we release each week: https://newsletter.tabletopbellhop.com Find us all over the web: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tabletopbellhop/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tabletopbellhop Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabletopbellhop/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/tabletopbellhop