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Ark

#5006BGG ↗

2005 · 3-5 players · 45min · weight 2.21 · 1,413 ratings

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Bayes
5.78
Users rated
1,413
Owned
1,932
Wishing
142

At a glance — v4 wide

Controlled-vocabulary primitives + 8-axis MDA aesthetic vector. Vocab v1.

Core loop (micro)

Draft animal and provision cards; place animal tokens on the ark matching species constraints; score at end for most tokens.

MDA aesthetic vector (0–3)
Sensation
0
Fantasy
1
Narrative
1
Challenge
2
Fellowship
1
Discovery
1
Expression
1
Submission
1
Mechanic-interaction primitives (3)
  • [3]card_drafting— “players need to help load animals and provisions; each player takes turns either placing cards”
  • [3]attribute_alignment_scoring— “meat eaters boarded with plant eaters; animals from cold and warm climates need to be bunked separately”
  • [2]_other:weight_balance_constraint— “worry about the weight of the animals; load too many on one side and you'll all be treading water”
discovery_score: -0.461

Sources (2)

Inputs to rules-card synthesis. Click any pill with ↗ to open the original source.

Wikipedia0.70LLM memory0.10

BGG tags

Categories (2)
AnimalsReligious