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Great Scott!

#177099BGG ↗

2016 · 3-5 players · 45min · weight 1.00 · 121 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
177099
Name
Great Scott!
Year
2016
Rank
13113
Min players
3
Max players
5
Playing time
45
Min playtime
20
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
1
Num weights
3
Bayes avg
5.55058
Average
6.61631
Users rated
121
Num owned
352
Wanting
2
Wishing
37
Num comments
55
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Open DraftingSet CollectionStorytelling
Categories (3)
Card GameHumorIndustry / Manufacturing
Description (1155 chars)

Great Scott! - The Game of Mad Invention is a Victorian themed card game of rival mad inventors. In Great Scott!, the whimsical 19th century parlour game that never was, 3-5 players build five card inventions with an eye to victory in the inventor’s contest at the Great Exhibition. Combine Animal, Mineral, and Vegetable assets with Destructive, Productive, and Transportive concepts to create one of the greatest inventions not known to mankind! In a game of Great Scott!, players draft cards & add components to their invention. Matching sets of asset & concept cards give bonus points, but the biggest prizes are awarded for alliteration. Then, when your invention is finished, explain what it does and how it works to get extra points from the other inventors. Great Scott! is easy to learn, fast to play, and is guaranteed to amuse! Will your Bedazzling Bat Borne Brass Balloon outdo your rival’s Diabolical Dynamite Driven Duck Dispatcher? Perhaps, if you play your cards right… Consider carefully; clever card combinations and amusing alliterative amalgamations bring bountiful bonuses! For Her Majesty, and for science!

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.