The Shipwreck Arcana BGG ↗

The Shipwreck Arcana · First edition, second printing · (2019)

Your rating: 7.5

My BGG Comment

A mathy deduction game. On your turn draw two „fates“ (numbers from 1-7) from a bag. Now look at the four „clue“ cards and place one of your fates below one of them according to the rules on the cards. Cards include „place a fate here if the sum of your fates is even“ or „place a 1, 2 or 3 here if your other fate is not a 1,2 or 3“… there are all kinds of fun clues you can give. However you can only give a single clue. And cards might fade when you place your fate there (there are moons on each card and markers on the fates, if ever the sum of the markers on the fates placed there reaches the number of moons on a card it fades and unless there was a correct guess from the other player(s) that round the card will fade and cause doom. We have played a few games on the easiest mode and reaching 7 correct guesses before doom reaches 7 is possible but not trivial. Also sometimes the configuration of the clue cards makes it almost impossible to give clues that have enough information for the players to guess. So games can be easy or really hard depending on that. A very unique and fun game that I would probably prefer to play with just 2 players. Also very portable because all the materials fit in the bag for the fates!