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Alien Wars

#175742BGG ↗

2015 · 2-6 players · 10min · weight 1.20 · 160 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
175742
Name
Alien Wars
Year
2015
Rank
21318
Min players
2
Max players
6
Playing time
10
Min playtime
10
Max playtime
10
Avg weight
1.2
Num weights
5
Bayes avg
5.51378
Average
5.73421
Users rated
160
Num owned
402
Wanting
1
Wishing
12
Num comments
53
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:38:17 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (1)
Memory
Categories (3)
Action / DexterityCard GameScience Fiction
Description (1351 chars)

Alien Wars is a fast, card-tossing game in which your goal is to become Master of the Galaxy, and to do this you need to eliminate everyone else from the galaxy. Then you can do whatever you want with the place. To set up, place the three Nano Minefield cards face down about ten inches apart. Then each player simultaneously places their nine cards face down in the playing area, keeping space between all other cards, while also packing them in as tightly as possible. On a turn, you choose one card in play and reveal it. If it's... A Nano Minefield, flip it face down again. A player's card, that player takes the action on the card with the possible actions being: Planet: Return one of your eliminated non-planet cards to play. Scanner: Look at three face-down cards, then remove the scanner from play. Blaster: Shoot once. Double Blaster: Shoot twice. Retro Blaster: Shoot once; also, if this is card is eliminated, shoot once before removing it from play. To shoot, you place your pinky on the active card, then toss your shooting disc with your thumb and forefinger. When the disc lands, you can remove one card it touches from play, revealing it and returning it to its owner. If a player has no cards in play, they're out of the game. The final player with cards in play wins!

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.