UPDATED! Death Valley Tutorial, Playthrough, & Review | Bits & Biology

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Welcome to Bits & Biology, a channel about board games from the perspective of a biologist gamer. In this video I show you how to play the 1-2 player card game Death Valley, followed by a solo playthrough, and concluding with my initial thoughts of the game. The solo game plays similarly to the 2-player game in terms of player turns, so even if you are wondering what the game is like at 2 players, this playthrough should give you a good idea. Death Valley is an 18-card pattern-building, push-your-luck game for 1-2 players published by Button Shy. Timestamps can be found below in case you want to skip around. Let me know you liked the video by giving it a thumbs up! What do you think of Death Valley? What other games would you like to see on the channel? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:23 Overview and some information about Death Valley National Park 1:32 How to play 7:50 Backseat Driver variant rules 8:53 Solo rules: How the AI makes decisions 10:08 Solo rules: Scoring the AI cards at the end of the game 11:00 Game start 39:09 End of game scoring 42:30 Initial thoughts Link to Death Valley on Board Game Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/322703/death-valley Physics Girl video about the rocks at Racetrack Playa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFFhD5HeByM ----------------------------- If you like what you see, please subscribe to be notified when new videos are uploaded! My focus is board games that feature anything having to do with biology (e.g., nature, wildlife, plants, ecology, environmental science, etc). Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/vFGpeT8hM4 Read the Bits & Biology Blog! https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/12551 Follow Bits & Biology on social media: Instagram: @bitsandbiology Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bitsandbiology.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bitsandbiology/ Support the channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BitsandBiology Email for collaborations and partnerships: bitsandbiology@gmail.com