 So this other game we played Vol Fostin. Well, I don't yeah, sorry about the German pronunciation. It's vol VOLL PFO STEN It's all one word. What does it mean in German? It means it pulled someone said some someone said it means idiot Paul they tweeted at us anyway, so I saw them playing this at packs They have these turn in tabletop. They have these tournaments at night You usually like like Saturday night showdown stuff like that where you sign up for this tournament and you show up Not knowing what games are about to be played and you just sometimes you're even playing different games and other people in the Same round of the tournament and you know you play and you play and you try to just it's just who's good at games Who knows what these games are gonna be only the people who run table top know what those games are gonna have It's a good time And I saw in a later a very late round possibly a final round of one of these tournaments People were playing this game and I remember what the box looked like So I went and got it from the library and this game is vol Fauston idiot pole or something whatever It's basically advanced jungle speed. It's advanced. It's sort of advanced sort of not advanced jungle speed So the way it works Is there are five poles or six poles three four five six There are six sticks and each stick has a lot of different factors They each contain on the top of the stick their square rectangular like Tall sticks like I don't you know, whatever Um a die face Is a die face from one to six then on the side There is a picture of animal a letter of the alphabet A number of sticks a number of just sticks like like hash marks like someone was scratching out the date because they were in prison Yep a shape and a polygon Right a polygon of some kind and then you got a whole bunch of dice and you choose which dice you're gonna use When you play the game, right? So we chose we decided to use the simple dice because of just the situation we were in And you we roll the dice and the dice tell you Which totem to grab What to do depending on which dice you use right? Yeah, some dice tell you which totem to grab the white one I think yep Some tell you how to grab it how to grab the totem and some tell you what to do before you grab the totem Right. Yep. Uh, so you could end up a situation where it's like, okay You got a clap Then you got to grab a totem You got to grab it in between like your index in your ring You're like your two hands the backs of your two hands. That's the worst one and then You win if you get the totem with like the What the biggest animal on it or something so it depends on the animal with the most legs Yeah, so the factors are like you're shooting for the highest number of one of the attributes Which might be either the dive or low as it could be sometimes the ranking gets reversed You might be going for animal with the least legs So one die says the factor so like you're looking for your by default the factor is the die face You're looking for the highest die phase The factor is the polygon you're looking for the polygon with the most sides If the factor is the animal you're going for the animal with the most legs But the orange die might modify that and say no, you're looking for the opposite of that Yep, now I need the animal with the least legs the snake the snake has one leg Right, so obviously all the all the sticks are mixed up right zero legs Right, so like the stick with the letter a on it Which should be the the best stick if you had alphabet ranking reversed Right has the number two on top of it So if you were right so when you're any octopus with the second most legs Yep, so the hexagon. Yep So it's like every there are situations based on the dice that come up Where every stick basically has an equal chance of being the best stick for any given diro So you don't know until seeing the die which stick you want to grab not only that But you know, you might be too slow You might not have grabbed the best stick because you were a little slower than the person who did grab the best stick And in that case the second best stick is now the best stick. There's actually ranking involved It's not just like so whoever grabs it wins and everyone else loses So everybody grabs and then you evaluate did you grab it the right way anyone who grabbed it the wrong way? That they're just eliminated right so there are actually a lot of cases where it's like, okay Maybe it was you know clap and grab it with your wrong hand And you grab the worst possible stick But everyone else either forgot to clap or grabbed it with their normal hand And you're sitting there with the shittiest stick, but in your you did everything else, right? You win you get the most points Yeah, so you get first place second place third place right So the the scorekeeping is actually pretty clever Basically, if you win around you get three points If you come in second you get two points if you come in last you get one point But you can only score points if you actually Successfully grab something right so there could be situations where someone gets three and everyone else gets zero The way the scoring works is you get a long stick a medium stick or a short stick At the end of the game you make your idiot pole from all the sticks Whoever has the longest pole wins It's really just a really clever score sheet to have these little wooden sticks that are Length one two and three except the gray sticks are about a millimeter Ran is complaining about the manufacturing precision of the sticks in a board game They were consistently so and if I was losing by a millimeter I would say that I had lost They're one two and three Stop being pedantic the rules say you follow the length stop being that guy Stop making up your own rules for games stop being that guy complaining about the manufacturing precision of a board game Who says I complained? I said that that is part of the design. That is no it is not three Clearly one two and three Two a second is obvious a second place in a third place is not as long as a first place I would say the first place breaks that tie No, it doesn't buy the written rules of this game. The point is it's it's cool So you save a lot of time adding up your score with apps or calculators or anything like that Because you can just lay out all your store sticks in a big long line and whoever Score stick total score stick is the longest is the winner. It's a really fun and clever scoring mechanism Mechanically speaking that doesn't involve math And matches the theme of the game of idiot poll because you're grabbing polls and also using an idiot poll to keep score And that's really clever and fun. The game is actually very difficult. Yes. It is way hard. We're like, oh, yeah We're advanced. Let's use some advanced dice. So if you think you're good at jungle speed and you'll be good at this No, so some of them involve like standing up turning around and so if your environment isn't good It's not really great for this game. You want to be in a situation where you add a table Where everyone can reach the whole table without getting up Yep, right with their arms. You need a small circular table relatively speaking Maybe like a cocktail situation But you want it low so everyone can sit in chairs and plus you need room because you'll be able to get up and run Around the chairs depending on which dice you use you can always use the simpler dice and avoid those scenarios If your table is suboptimal, which is what we did But I think if you really want to get the most out of this game You need that perfect environment where everyone's sitting around equidistant You can all grab the the sticks because you can't arrange the sticks all right in the middle of the table They need some space between them. So naturally speaking some sticks are going to be closer to some players that sometimes and sometimes not But if your table's small enough and everyone's sitting close enough That won't really matter because all the other stuff is really what's going to determine the winning and the losing And unlike jungle speed we're very like very often two people grab the totem at the same time And you needed to come up with a like specific way to resolve that situation That isn't just violence This game has the same problem But it happens less often because most of the time Someone does just figure out what to grab. Yes jungle speed has the problem so often So it puts in a bunch of rules for like, okay, whoever's lower on the totem We're just got more fingers on the totem wherever right? Whoever has the totem right by any means necessary right in this one They cut out a lot of those rules because it happens so rarely you don't really need those rules If you're a mature mature adult, it won't happen But you're better off grabbing a different right if you're gonna you would better off not fighting with the person For the top stick and just grabbing another stick before someone else grabs it Yeah, I would say no reason if you're fighting over a stick that is poor strategy Well, it does have a the problem is occasionally three times in our game Which is a small number compared to the number of like throws we do every single. Yeah three times Two people grabbed the same stick at the same time and there was no way to resolve it But if you just come up with a simple rule because the rules do say you cannot pry it out of someone else's hand So I think you could do the jungle speed rule of whoever's holding it lower wins Right. I just basically like you can tell like it's in your hand. You're trying to pry it. Therefore you don't get it Right. It's it's sort of obvious in most scenarios. There were two Who's the one who's the prior and who's the prior twice me and pat We're both holding it at the same time and we both had a grip on it with the right hand with the right hand the right manner After doing the right thing. Yep So that's the only thing I would add is just come up with a very simple rule If if two people hold it whoever's holding it Closer to the bottom gets it like something like that just in case and then you're good I mean you could also if you really want to just put your phone up and then If you set your phone nearby recording, you could see who grabbed it first with some instant replay Oh, we should do that for jungle speed. We should make an instant replay app. That's like Add is to replay to your whole life Just put this phone on the little tripod and turn this app on that is not a bad idea for an app Just keep continuously recording for like, you know a minute And then if you ever need an instant replay, you can just actually all my cameras like the cameras will do that They have a continuous mode for that purpose. Yeah, of course Maybe we should start doing that when we play dexterity games. Okay We'll see we'll slow it down as fast as at the highest frame rate and see who grabbed it first So I would say and both fawston is from 2018. They're both pretty recent games. Sorry german people. Yep, and german speakers Hansa Toy tonica anyway. Anyway, these games are both pretty good Both worth getting if you want like dexterity games on the table They are both like way above average for that genre They're neither one of them is great, but they are both very good and very fun Yeah, I don't know where you're gonna get a copy of volt fawston or or the Both these games might be hard to find. Yeah, they're the kind of games You're gonna have to either like import or trade someone or something like that. Yeah, dude Volt fawston, there are only four pictures of it in board game geek Like I have more pictures of this game on my cell phone that are on board game geek. Yeah So sorry your photos to board game geek. I think I should yeah, sorry We reviewed two games that are great that you probably can't play Well, I imagine the volt fawston might get an american release or not Who knows you couldn't make a volt fawston pretty easily You could just make a volt fawston You just need a wood shop to make the the wooden sticks and then you could just wood shop just buy squared squared dowels Yeah, you could you could buy a square like wooden stick and then just chop it you need a dremel And and one squared you go to the hardware store get one piece of wood That's the right shape and just cut it the right lengths Yep, you know six inch five inch four inch three inch whatever I guess I guess I do seven six five four three two Yeah, something like that eight seven six five four three one inch in between each and then get a bunch of dice and draw on them And then you're good and you're good to go and you get the rulebook from the internet