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Sandcastles

#174049BGG ↗

2015 · 1-7 players · 40min · weight 1.60 · 117 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
174049
Name
Sandcastles
Year
2015
Rank
19458
Min players
1
Max players
7
Playing time
40
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
40
Avg weight
1.6
Num weights
5
Bayes avg
5.51942
Average
6.06496
Users rated
117
Num owned
241
Wanting
0
Wishing
13
Num comments
45
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:37:40 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (4)
Hand ManagementPush Your LuckRock-Paper-ScissorsTake That
Categories (2)
Card GameChildren's Game
Description (875 chars)

Grab your buckets and spades and build the best sandcastles on the beach. In this light and simple but strategic game, you can add to sandcastles with bucket, crab and seagull cards. You can steal sandcastle parts from other players. And when your sandcastle is complete, you can earn bonus points as well as the points for the sandcastle you have built — but be warned that others will be aiming to grab bits of your sandcastle and trying to steal your bonuses. Sandcastles plays 3-7 players as well as having a two-player variant and a solo game. Sandcastles is another of YAY Games '2 Turns to Learn' games. In April 2016 'Sandcastles' won the prestigious Griffie Award for Best Card Game 2016. This award is voted on by attendees at Scotland's longest running fantasy and gaming convention. Last year YAY Games won Best Board Game for 'Frankenstein's Bodies'.

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.