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2008 · 2-4 players · 30min · weight 1.43 · 1,289 ratings
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Rating
5.64
Users rated
1,289
Owned
2,260
Wishing
96
At a glance
What playing it feels like, broken down.
Core loop
Add one or two cards to any of three simultaneous poker hands; when all players fill a hand, winner takes the shared figurines.
What it gives you
How strongly each kind of experience comes through (0–3)
Sensation
1
Fantasy
1
Narrative
0
Challenge
1
Fellowship
2
Discovery
0
Expression
1
Submission
2
How it works (4 mechanics)
- [3]set_collection_concentrating— “players make poker hands from two shared figurines and three of their own cards; winner takes shared cards”
- [2]hand_management_under_draw— “players add one or two cards at a time to any hand on their turn”
- [1]simultaneous_action_selection— “three hands playing simultaneously with players adding cards to any hand”
- [2]attrition_clock— “when all players have played three cards onto a hand, winner is chosen based on poker ranks”
Under-the-radar score: -0.31
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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"Challenge": 1,
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"Discovery": 0,
"Expression": 1,
"Submission": 2
},
"mech_interaction_primitives": [
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"primitive": "set_collection_concentrating",
"strength_0_3": 3,
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},
{
"primitive": "hand_management_under_draw",
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},
{
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},
{
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}
],
"session_length_tolerance_min": 10,
"content_extensibility_score": 1,
"confidence": 0.6
}BGG tags
Mechanisms (2)
Categories (3)
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