Watch “Tsuro & Nikka Yoichi - Board Game Whisky Pairing - Sip & Play,” a board game review for Tsuro from Tabletop Tastings on BoardGameVideo.
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In episode 53 of Sip & Play, Steve and Les are joined by Scott and Simon of @scotchandponder . They play the 2-8 player game Tsuro designed by Tom McMurchi with Nikka's Single Malt Japanese Whisky, Yiochi.
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Tsuro Overview (00:00)
Tsuro Thoughts (01:01)
Nikka Yiochi Single Malt Thoughts (02:10)
Which is better? The Game or the Whisky? (04:46)
Final Pairing and Outtakes (07:40)
The Game
"Create your own journey with the all-time classic Tsuro: the Game of the Path™. Place a tile and slide your stone along the path created, but take care! Other players’ paths can lead you in the wrong direction… or off the board entirely! Find your way wisely to succeed. Stay the path – your journey begins here." - Calliope Games
https://calliopegames.com/shop/tsuro-the-game-of-the-path/
Board Game Geek (BGG) Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16992/tsuro
The Whisky
"Yoichi Single Malt is a range of single malt expressions from the Yoichi Distillery, Nikka's first distillery built in 1934. The founder Masataka Taketsuru chose the town of Yoichi in Hokkaido because of the similar environmental conditions to Scotland, where he learned whisky-making.
Yoichi malts are described as bold and strong with refined peaty notes and smokiness brought by the traditional direct coal-fired distillation. Sea breeze from the Ishikari Bay delivers a briny hint to the whisky during maturation." - Nikka
https://www.nikka.com/eng/brands/singlemalt-yoichi/
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And a special thank you to Dane Von Hardenberg for scoring the music to our outro. Dane is a piano teacher and can be found at https://www.vonhardenbergpiano.ca/
Mostly reviews and how-to-play. Tsuro is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 30 reviews, 17 how-to-play guides, 10 recorded sessions, 7 unboxings, and 6 other videos.
2 - 8 players
15 - 20 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About Tsuro, from BoardGameGeek:
Tsuro is a beautifully simple game of laying a tile before your own token to continue its path on each turn. The goal is to keep your token on the board longer than anyone else's, but as the board fills up this becomes harder because there are fewer empty spaces left and another player's tile may also extend your own path in a direction you'd rather not go. Easy to introduce to new players, lasts a mere 15 minutes.
Tsuro has an Asian spiritual theme - the lines representing the "many roads that lead to divine wisdom", and the game as a whole representing "the classic quest for enlightenment". This theme is very light and the game essentially plays as an abstract strategy game.
The game consists of tiles with twisting lines on them, a 6x6 grid on which to lay these tiles and a token for each player. Each player has a hand of tiles. On your turn you do two things: place a tile from your hand onto the board next to your token and move your token as far as it can go along the line it is currently on, until it is stopped by an empty space with no tile in (yet), the edge of the board or colliding with another player's token. If your token reaches the edge of the board or collides with another player's token, you are out of the game. The aim of the game is to be the last player left with a token on the board. Strategy therefore consists of trying to drive your opponents either into each other or off the board whilst extending your own route in directions that will make it difficult for your opponents to do the same.
--description from publisher
Designer
Tom McMurchie
Artists
Cathy Brigg, Andrew Hepworth, Shane Small, Imelda Vohwinkel, Franz Vohwinkel
