2020 · Card Game
Mars Operation
Players act as engineers equipping a spaceship for a Mars terraforming mission by supplying five resources: crew, water, food, energy and oxygen. Each round begins by rolling five colored dice and placing them on the matching resource cards; the die faces show the exact counts required. Players manipulate six personal cards—turning, flipping and covering icons—until their card layout matches the required amounts exactly. The first player to match all five dice scores a Mars token (10 points); others who meet at least three dice score a star (5 points). Play proceeds for four missions, and the highest total wins.
- Players
- 1–6 best 4
- Playing time
- 10–15 min
- Age
- 8+
- Complexity
- 1 / 5
About the game
- Design
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Full stats in Ludoya- 149
- Plays logged
- 136
- Players
- 12m 22s
- Average play
- 57
- In collections
- 2
- On wishlists
6.3/10
from 23 Ludoya reviews
A fast and simple game asking you to think in an interesting way. PROS - Extremely easy to teach and learn, and quick to play: it knows what it is and does not overstay its welcome. - Asks for a very specific task which kinda feels new and refreshing, it is an interesting take in the genre making your brain do something it is not used to. CONS - People who are good at this will keep stomping people who have less talent for it. It will probably not be very fun when played between widely different levels of skill (though this could be addressed by tweaking the victory point system).
Free, on web, Android and iOS
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