Dead Of Winter - How To Play

RULES UPDATE: When you wound a Survivor, you also take a card at random from the hand of the player that controls the survivor you wounded.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - The Setup
04:57 - Gameplay Overview
05:29 - A Game Round
05:40 - Player Turns Phase: Reveal Crisis
05:56 - Player Turns Phase: Roll Action Dice
06:22 - Player Turns Phase: Player Turns
06:28 - Using Crossroad Cards
07:45 - Actions: Playing Cards
08:30 - Actions: Add Cards To The Crisis
09:04 - Actions: Vote To Exile
09:33 - Locations And Item Types
09:45 - Actions: Move A Surivor
09:59 - Results Of The Exposure Die
10:30 - Survivor Deaths
11:08 - Bites Spreading
12:23 - Actions: Request
12:41 - Actions: Hand Off
13:00 - Actions: Spend Food Tokens
13:26 - Using Action Dice
13:55 - Actions: Clean Waste
14:12 - Actions: Barricade
14:36 - Actions: Attract (2 Zombies)
14:46 - Actions: Special Ability
15:14 - Actions: Searching
16:19 - Actions: Attacking
17:40 - Helpless Survivors
18:43 - Colony Phase: Pay Food
19:46 - Colony Phase: Check Waste
19:57 - Colony Phase: Resolve Crisis
21:07 - Colony Phase: Add Zombies
21:27 - Resolving Noise Tokens
21:42 - Overrun
22:36 - Colony Phase: Check Main Objective
22:42 - Colony Phase: Move Round Tracker
22:46 - Colony Phase: Pass First Player Token
22:50 - How The Game Ends
22:57 - Determining The Winners
23:33 - Adding New Survivors
23:55 - Card Effects
24:14 - Being Exiled
26:01 - Gameplay Variants (Co-Op, 2 Player, etc)
26:35 - Conclusion

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[moonkat]

It should just be required that every boardgame should have a how to play video made by watch it played upon it's release. Trying to explain all of this to my group, I'd lose a few players. This will make understanding and play quicker. Even a well written rule book can leave a person confused if they aren't familiar with a mechanic in a game. Love what you guys do ! Please keep it up. Your a life and game night saver.

[Elric]

Your videos always calm my OCD because they are so perfectly executed.

[IICubeII]

The video was much more helpful than the pfd of the rules.

[WatchItPlayed]

RULES UPDATE: When you wound a Survivor, you also take a card at random from the hand of the player that controls the survivor you wounded.

[ag]

Haven't played Dead of Winter in a while. This was a great refresher. Perfection, as always.

[EHAmos]

The most innovative mechanic about this entire game is putting a maturity marker on the cards. Sometimes I play with my nieces and nephews, sometimes with my brothers and sisters. I love the fact that I'll be able to play this with all of them. More games need to do this - tailor it to the adults but leave an option to play with kids as well. There really aren't many board games that have a serious, mature theme for fear of leaving out the younger players.

[ruckman]

There are lots of 'how to play' videos on YouTube but yours are always ALWAYS the most informative and instructive. Thank you for the time and effort of learning the games and then providing the how to play videos.

[shellyjiang]

this intruction video is really helpful, much more fun than reading the rule book. Now I send the link to everyone who plays the game for the first time and ask them to watch it, it saves us 20-30 min of explaining the game.

[ythbrigad]

This channel has the best explanation of game play hands down. Thanks for all your hard work!

[NerdySatyr]

Man guys your openings just get better and better, Kudos to the effects guy!

[nicholasbennett]

This is by far the best instructional video series for board games online. You are concise and through with your explanation and you make the content easy to understand with your tone and demeanor. Seriously. Keep it up.

[Karazaro]

It's an older video but I wanted to say, your presentation is very well done! And your smile is adorable. Thank you for teaching us!

[cubanbee]

My eyes started crossing reading the instructions last night. This video fixed said malady. Thanks!

[RobHarris]

Got this game for Christmas and tried playing it twice to great frustration. Gladly uncovered from your video that, as we suspected, each player has a turn within the round. I don't think the rule book made this very clear and wasn't sure whether you would have to draw multiple crisis cards. Thanks for clearing that up.

[anotherbooktubechannel]

I think it's kind of funny how living amongst smelly garbage decreases the same amount of morale as a survivor dying. I would think someone dying would decrease moral a bit more. 

Survivor: "Why are you crying in the corner?"
Crying Survivor 1: "Jeff died!"
Survivor: "Oh is that why YOU are crying, too?"
Crying Survivor 2: "No, there's just so many empty bean cans laying around!"

[estebancoestaocupado]

Congratulations! You're a master "game explainer". Clear, thorough, and give this warm friendly feeling when you speak. 11/10. 

[markussaarinen]

Hei! I ordered this game today and now watching your videos for some hints how to teach others to play this game. And also learn the game by myself =) I think this was a great video for this. Thanks for that. I will know later how it went. I am little suspicious how my friends handel the english, but I hope everything goes well.

[Kriterian]

We played this other night, but the owner of the game hadn't read the rules. It took an hour to get the rules down and another hour for first turn. We could haven't saved a lot of time by watching this perfect little video.

[djw]

Thank you for these crystal clear no nonsense well-paced explanations. You could be (if you aren't already) some sort of communications consultant!

[Londwar]

I finally got a chance to play this game for the first time last night.  I got the traitor card and I was one round away from completing my objective.  Had a great time and I made sure to watch this tutorial before playing.  Once again, great video Rodney.