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Waka Waka

#118025BGG ↗

2012 · 2-4 players · 45min · weight 1.86 · 347 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
118025
Name
Waka Waka
Year
2012
Rank
12292
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
45
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
1.8571
Num weights
28
Bayes avg
5.55851
Average
5.99046
Users rated
347
Num owned
793
Wanting
26
Wishing
89
Num comments
93
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (7)
Action PointsContractsHand ManagementMarketMemorySet CollectionTrack Movement
Categories (2)
Card GameEconomic
Description (770 chars)

"Waka Waka" means "Do it" in Swahili, and what players are doing in this game as African traders is buying goods – hides, salt, tea, textiles, jewelry and fruit from faraway lands – as cheaply as possible. The goods on offer, however, are mostly obscured, so whoever doesn't want to buy a pig in a poke, so to speak, might want to send out his chimpanzee for a closer look at the goods before laying out any money. The players want to keep the village shaman fulfilled for as long as the fire illuminates the shaman, he'll help you in your trading efforts. The other villagers have special skills of their own that you can call on for support. Waka Waka is set in the same thematic world as Rüdiger Dorn's Jambo, which Kosmos first released in 2004.

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.