El Grande - How to Play

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[crookedevolution]

I love how the short interval of Quinns checking the rulebook was left in. True to life! :)

[Semicolon]

I wish they kept doing How to Play videos. I appreciate all of their videos.

[sybrwookie]

Every time I play another area control game, I end up finishing the game and say, "OK, that was good/fine/bad/whatever, but why would I play this instead of El Grande." It's really the perfect area control game.

[avatterott]

love Matt!! "Why is the king's taboo zone surrounded by so many sad men?"
Sounds like the setup to an epic joke passed down through generations.

[AFriskyGamer]

Wow, even 7 years ago you were killing it in board game explanation. Thanks!

[samuelhelderman]

Thanks for the video. I had forgotten how to play and have to teach it in 20 min. I’m good to go again.

[s.l.r.]

Actually, "El Grande" in this context means "The Great (one)". As in "Alexander the Great" (Alejandro el Grande).

Cheers from Spain!

(P.S.: Do you actually have to put the black tower over Mallorca? Because that's hillarious - people from there always complain that the weather man covers their island during the forecast... and now this)

[thisjust]

Love that Quinn just checks the rule book and it's still in lol

[mjcathcart]

4:44 “The person with the most cubes scores this much, then the person with the next most cubes scores three...”
Today I learned Quinns can’t count to five.

[Atlas-FM]

If you guys haven't done a "how to play" for Cosmic Encounter, you definitely should.

[hobbitgillam]

Reminds me of Mission: Red Planet - I guess that's just an expanded/tweaked El Grande.

[tommessig]

one of the first games i've ever bought and still have yet to get it to the table.

[patrikjohansson]

I am reminded of that scene from Simon The Sorcerer, where the wizards are sitting around a table trying to figure out Mahjong rules.

[Roxfox]

Are you a sad enough dude to rescue the president?

[GreenGlassScarab]

Are you making a mistake with Portugal?
When we used to play this regularly, we had great fun sending people to Portugal since that would usually not be worth any points ... but then later on someone told me that you're not supposed to be able to do anything with Portugal since it's just there for one of the expansions. I've looked it up and that seems to be correct. Portugal should be ignored if you're playing the base game.

[KevinNguyen-ffnf]

Small but somewhat important detail. Don't you determine the turn order first, then each player, as the first move of their turn, moves their dudes from the provinces to the court.

[DANISS]

Dude you are brilliant! Congrats! I love your videos!

[chrislonghurst]

"The king's region is taboo!" deserves to be taken out of context forever. :D

[zottirgen]

I exactly feel the same about El Grande and I know many people who do. It's one of the best games ever made!

[a-blivvy-yus]

So... I was looking up stuff about The King is Dead, and kept coming across references to El Grande. Mostly in the context of "it's ok but El Grande is better" or "it's better for 3 players but otherwise you should get El Grande instead" but there's a few people who like it more, so that was refreshing.
And of course, back to the topic... I was like "ok I know I played that but it has to have been more than 20 years ago now" so I looked up this video to remind myself what El Grande actually is. Thanks for the flashbacks to all kinds of jokes that would get me removed from YouTube for sharing.