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How to Play Hextraction

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I know videos aren't everyone's favorite format, but Zack (voidstarlab) has a great video on Hextraction and is just a fun person to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqz7ZDdP25A

Hah! He alliterates better than a baptist pastor!

> Zoomers: The chicken dinner thing is an outdated video-game reference.

That’s cute but also completely untrue, “winner winner chicken dinner” predates video-games by half a century at least.

It actually made me wonder if the video game call-out was tongue-in-cheek, as if to suggest that a member of Gen Z would not understand a game which isn't a video game. Looks like it's (probably) a reference to PUBG[0]:

> Winner winner chicken dinner became popular online after the release of the 2017 multiplayer shooter video game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). Game developer Brendan “PlayerUnkown” Greene is a fan of the phrase and included it in most of the battle-royale modes he has created. If a player manages to be the sole survivor of the notoriously difficult game of PUBG, they are greeted with the poultry praise upon victory.

[0] https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/winner-winner-chicken-din...

From your link:

> David Guzman, author of a book on craps lingo, has said that the term comes from back-alley gamblers during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

I'm pretty sure it's a Las Vegas reference to winning a free meal.

This sounds intriguing, but the images are oddly cropped so that it's really hard to tell what's going on. More images and bigger images please!

So, this is a free PvP version of Marble Circuit by MindWare[0], cool.

[0]: https://roadstoeverywhere.com/marble-circuit/

Another game with a similar idea - Meander ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1244/meander )

> Two players, seated on either side of a corner, fill up the board, creating routes to their respective opposite side. After the theory, the test. The board is tilted. A gentle touch releases the first player’s five balls, one by one, and gravity does the rest. Same procedure for the second player.

I'm a couple days into printing this game up to bring it to the next game night with my friends. I'm looking forward to it, because this looks like great fun.

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