Coyote Review - with Tom and Melody Vasel

We look at this re-release of a party game.

Buy it at http://tinyurl.com/coyotegame

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Gaming

Tags:

• coyote
• party game
• card game
• board game
• boardgame
• game
• game review
• review
• reviews
• dice
• dice game
• dice tower
• indians
• bluff
• bluffing

[galathonredd]

@ThePurpleSeahorse For the love of all that is holy, get off the pedestal! If I complained every time I heard a reference to "Drunken Irishmen" or saw a Bugs Bunny cartoon with a Scot in a kilt blowing bagpipes, or saw Snow White's dwarfs and thought, "That's not funny to real midgets," I'd hardly have time to do anything positive with my life. Grow a sense of humor - it makes better people out of everyone.

Everyone on trial over what might offend what pansy is why our country's gone to shit.

[sparrtac]

@RhinoBarbarian

Thank you. It's important for me to know that the opinion of Purpleseahorse doesn't represent a common idea in the American Indian community. Coyote is just a game, nothing else.

[RhinoBarbarian]

@auntiesash

Sounds like another winner to me. I would totally play that game.

By the way, I am also a Christian, just not a religious person that would get offended by stuff like that.

Again to Sparrtac, do not worry about what other people say. You are never gong to please everyone so I say don't even bother trying. Put out a game you are happy with and let the chips fall where they may.

[auntiesash]

@sparrtac Not sure you have enough data to validate OR ignore either viewpoint. I found the idea totally distasteful. I would think, as a business person, you would want to know that - whether other viewers agree or think I'm a pansy. Would you have marketed the game with a crown of thorns, fish symbols, and crosses? 3 wrong guesses and you're crucified?? Some might think that was hysterical, some might be offended, but it would definitely impact your sales!

[RhinoBarbarian]

@sparrtac

Don't you worry about him, Mr. Albertarelli. He does not speak for American Indians at large. He speaks only for himself. And that being the case, he should simply not play the game and allow the rest of us toenjoy it in peace.

So I am sure you(or ThePurpleSeahorse) will ask how I know he does not speak for American Indians at large when he says this is offensive. Simple, I am an American Indian and I know several who I told about this game and they think it sounds like fun.So there.

[sparrtac]

@ThePurpleSeahorse

I'm really sorry if something in my game Coyote can be offensive to anybody. Very likely it depends on a lack in my knowledge of the native american's culture (I'm Italian). In any case it wasn't done intentionally.

Hope you have an opportunity to play the game and discover that it's based on simple math calculations and clever bluff. Nothing else.

[sparrtac]

Thank you Tom for the great review of the Game.

For what concerns the game concept, Coyote is only similar to the public domain card game. In Coyote there are some special cards that can change the final outcome, doubling some values, transorming a positive number in a negative number and so on and this is where the fun comes from. You have so many ways to bluff your opponents and so many weird combinations of cards that every game is different.

Spartaco Albertarelli (designer of Coyote)

[windscar18]

@ThePurpleSeahorse In fact, let me make this clear. Your attempting to defend a relatively harmless joke tells me that you don't have enough pride in your heritage to let it stand for itself. You should be ashamed of yourself, because you just mocked your own heritage more than these reviewers here, and gave it a worse name. The true racists out there can now use you as an example of Celtic bigotry, as completely unjustified as that is. Is that what you want? No? Then be more responsible, jerk.

[windscar18]

@ThePurpleSeahorse There's a difference between being sensitive to stereotypes and being assholish about stereotypes. Look, if something offends you, there is no reason that you have to come out and announce your intentions. It's not like the reviewer here or the game here are like "This is how all Irish people act" and it's obviously not the intended message. Yes, I do think that people like you are just as bad as real racists, and I have met far more racism than you ever will. Now, get out.