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My game of the year.

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28 Feb 2013 21:20 #145759 by Juniper
My game of the year. was created by Juniper

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I have never seen it or played it, and I know nothing about it, but do I need to?
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28 Feb 2013 21:44 #145762 by Schweig!
Replied by Schweig! on topic Re: My game of the year.
One just has to love the various potato references. Potato Man carries a peeling fork to which the O in form of a potato is attached.

The subtitle reads "a waxy trick-taking game", whereas festkochend is a category of potatoes - those who maintain a certain thickness when cooked - and "Stich" is a double entendre, referring to both a "trick" and also a method to check whether a potato is well done.

This is going to be a strong 7.
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01 Mar 2013 02:58 #145789 by Juniper
Replied by Juniper on topic Re: My game of the year.
Apart from the awesome illustration, I love the following things:

1. the root (sorry) idea for the whole game seems to be a silly pun based on the fact that the German word for trick is the same as the German word for potato-stabbing
2. there is a German word for potato-stabbing
3. the German language has an adjective whose specific purpose is to describe the waxiness of a potato
4. the potato joke makes absolutely no sense when removed from the context of the German language, but Zoch decided to go with it anyway

I guess Zoch can do this because they publish the international editions of their own games.

Humor doesn't translate well. Lots of (non-Zoch) games nowadays are co-productions involving several publishers, and spanning many countries and languages, so there's a kind of Esperanto homogeneity to them. National character (and just plain goofiness) have been eradicated in order to achieve larger scales of economy. It's a shame.

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01 Mar 2013 06:47 #145813 by Schweig!
Replied by Schweig! on topic Re: My game of the year.

Juniper wrote: 2. there is a German word for potato-stabbing

To be a little more precise, "Kartoffel stechen" refers to the process of stabbing a potato (with a knife or similar item), while they are cooking to check if they're done. "Stechen" also means taking a trick.

3. the German language has an adjective whose specific purpose is to describe the waxiness of a potato

There are in fact three terms:
- festkochend: potatoes which remain solid when cooked
- mehligkochend: potatoes which become mushy when cooked
- vorwiegend festkochend: a sort of cross between the two types above

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01 Mar 2013 10:33 #145819 by Erik Twice
Replied by Erik Twice on topic Re: My game of the year.
To be frank, the English language is in dire need of adjectives and nouns. Specially the latter.

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