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2004 · 2-5 players · 60min · weight 2.83 · 377 ratings
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ID
10869
Name
Heart of Africa
Year
2004
Rank
28210
Min players
2
Max players
5
Playing time
60
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
2.8298
Num weights
47
Bayes avg
5.48662
Average
5.4695
Users rated
377
Num owned
1011
Wanting
8
Wishing
47
Num comments
206
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:44:27 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Area Majority / InfluenceArea MovementTurn Order: Auction
Categories (1)
Economic
Description (431 chars)
From the Mayfair Catalog: Heart of Africa is a meaty trading game where the players each lead a trading company which tries to make profits in Africa. Although Africa had been circumnavigated by the start of the 19th century, the continent remained largely undiscovered. One of the great mysteries was the source of the Nile, and explorers like Burton, Speke, Baker and Livingstone became immortal in their attempts to find it.
LLM v2 (wide)
Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).
LLM v3 (deep)
Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).
LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)
Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).
LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)
Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.