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RattleSnake

#8551BGG ↗

2007 · 2-4 players · 15min · weight 1.07 · 1,303 ratings

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Rating
5.62
Users rated
1,303
Owned
1,454
Wishing
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At a glance

What playing it feels like, broken down.

Core loop

Roll the special die, place your magnetic snake egg on the board in designated spot; if eggs clash magnetically, pick them all up.

What it gives you
How strongly each kind of experience comes through (0–3)
Sensation
3
Fantasy
1
Narrative
0
Challenge
1
Fellowship
2
Discovery
0
Expression
0
Submission
2
How it works (3 mechanics)
  • [3]_other:dexterity_magnetic_placement— “funny magnetic eggs will clash if you make the wrong move; then you pick them all up”
  • [1]dice_mitigation— “special die determines placement; dexterity and strategy combine in magnetic egg game”
  • [2]attrition_clock— “first to place all snake eggs on board wins; clash resets your progress”
Under-the-radar score: -0.85

Raw extraction payloads

The JSON rows behind this page, before analysis turns them into candidate ranking signals.

V4 wide feature rowgame_llm_features_v4.raw_json · v4-wide · vocab v1 · 2026-05-03
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    "Fantasy": 1,
    "Narrative": 0,
    "Challenge": 1,
    "Fellowship": 2,
    "Discovery": 0,
    "Expression": 0,
    "Submission": 2
  },
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      "strength_0_3": 3,
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    },
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    },
    {
      "primitive": "attrition_clock",
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BGG tags

Mechanisms (1)
Dice Rolling
Categories (4)
Action / DexterityAnimalsChildren's GameDice