2017 · Print & Play

The Shipwreck Arcana

Players are stranded in a drowned world and must cooperate to avoid doom by deducing each other’s hidden fate. Each round a player draws numbered fate tiles and silently chooses one to keep and one to play on a public card, using card rules to constrain which fates can be placed. Allies use those placements — and the placements that don’t happen — to infer the active player’s hidden tile during a group deduction phase. Cards have timing-based powers that fade as doom accumulates, so players must manage limited abilities, hinting, and card cycling. The active-player rotation changes who leads each turn and shapes group dynamics.

groupPlayers

2–5 best 4

schedulePlaying time

10–30 min

cakeAge

12+

psychologyComplexity

2.2 / 5