Étoile Review - with Tom Vasel

Tom Vasel takes a look at Étoile!

00:00 - Introduction
01:06 - Overview
03:25 - Final Thoughts

[fingersmaster]

Great camera angle when right hand is in play !

[fingersmaster]

1:28 Do you have to start the distribution in a row adjacent to the one you took the marbles from?
Thanks.

[fingersmaster]

1:20 "I have 2 options" What is the second option? Is it not rather "I have 2 actions", as I don't see a choice in the actions?
1st action : you drop a marble of your colour in a row that already has at least a marble,
2nd action : then you pick all the marbles of that row and distribute them around.
Please, let me know.

Thanks.

[maxxinmatt]

I have a game board for this, any chance i could get a copy of the rules if you have?

[wroot_lt]

So you can connect 4 on all the rings? That makes it more complex to notice things. But i do agree - it's good there are no diagonals :D I also wonder if it is really good with 3. It seems it can lead to some unintentional king making.

[brianb]

Aye-twahl. (a as is fate, not ee as in feet) Etoile means star in French.

[arcplayer]

At 2:38 instead of dropping a marble you picked up a line. That is only legal when the line has four marbles. You picked up a line of three.

[btarb]

Anyone know of a place to buy this game?

[ericglimme]

I looked around for this game at my usual spots amazon, coolstuff, boardgamegeek etc. I eventually found it at Gerhards website for a decent price of 29 EUR. They want 50EUR more for shipping to the US! This game is for people in Europe.

[johnut]

I clicked on this video just to see how Tom was going to butcher the name. 😄

[teeeeeveeeee]

Nine Men's Morris meets Connect Four meets Mancala.

[eugenb.]

Made me laugh to hear Tom pronounce Étoile. Now he's ruining word pronunciation worldwide :-).

[martinlarouche]

Pronouned "eh-twahl". Means "star" in french.
... but nice try Tom ;)