Oracle of Delphi Gameplay Runthrough

A video outlining gameplay for the boardgame The Oracle of Delphi.

Part I: Gameplay Runthrough

Part II: Extended Gameplay

Part III: Final Thoughts
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Hey Everybody! Today Paulo Runs Through "Rahdo's Goofs"

If you find Goofs I didn’t notice Please leave Timestamps :)

Thank You

11:29 Richard was playing the Shrine part of the game wrong...
Basically, to build a shrine The tile has to have the same Image as the one you have on your Zeus Tile (it's your color) and secondly the Greek letter tells you which of the three shrines to build.
When you discover a shrine site, if it's not your color, you just get the Greek letter benefit and not build a shrine.
The player whose color it is moves that shrine onto the their Zeus tile, then when they move to that shrine site they then get to build their shrine on the previously discovered site and can complete their Zeus tile.
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24:01 When the Titan rolls a 6 each player draws 2 Damage cards!

[ArMikael]

My thoughts today: "Hmmm, I have somehow to learn rules for Oracle of Delphi. It is a pity that the box is just lying on the shelf. The Essen Spiel ended, maybe Rahdo came back to the reviews? Go check it out. Hooooly xxxx, look on this, he is reading my thoughts! Oracle of Delphy review is already here!" ))

I was glad to see you in Essen and thank for great new review!

[boardgamesandwhiskyuk]

Hi, This game is really growing on me with multiple plays. Can I point out an error at 12.15 when you place one of your shrines on the blue island tile, I'm sure that is incorrect, the shrine tile where you place one of your shrines has to match your player colour (and Image), which is green in your case. Hope I'm correct :-) thanks.

[aweso]

At around 11:25 you claim you can build your temple since the Greek letters match, but the background pictures on the tiles don't seem to actually match and the rulebook says "if the image matches one of your Zeus tiles" (operative word 'image') not just if the Greek letter matches. So are you allowed to build there and I've misunderstood the rules, or are you not since the images don't match? If you look at the example on page 11 of the rulebook, they show the tile images actually matching. They appear to be based on player colors. You appear to be playing green, the phi tile you flipped appears to be blue, and the omega tile you use as an example appears to be yellow. If I am right, I wonder how much this would affect the feel of the game.

Edit: Also, at 20:57 you claim that you can raise any three statues, but on page 6 of the rulebook it says that any time a goal is for a color of your choice, you still can't duplicate colors. This is I guess obvious for monsters and offerings since there are only as many of each color as there are players, and all players have the same color goals, so if you could do say two blue monsters in this game for example then your opponent could never win.

[kennyb]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who struggles remembering which one is psi and which one is phi. As a mathematician, you'd think I'd remember. Then there was the day I accidently made all my lower case phi's into rho's...

[ericaschaidt]

At 22:42 Jen wouldn't be able to move where she did as she only had 2 moves left if I'm understanding the rules correctly.

[trdi]

Am I correct to conclude that first player has a decent advantage in this game? Is it possible for player 2 to start somewhere else on the map?

[Waz-]

I'm pretty sure a 0 on a d10 is a 10, not a 0. how else would you roll a 10. so that should have been a success at 15:15ish

[ArMikael]

What next? Great Western Trail? Colonists? Martians: A Story of Civilization? So many good games this year! ))

[Judge]

21:00 you have to deliver different coloured statues

[Xrenegoznaet]

Only a single goof and even that was fixed at the start of extended gameplay?! WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH RAHDO?!

[ThePortalito]

Φ= fi and pronounced as "fee" and Ψ=psi and pronounsed as .... ehm psee (like fee but with ps in place of f) ;)

[Nicochan]

Psi is pronounced like PSI in pePSI
Phi is pronounced like PHY in philosoPHY