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Circle of Life

#184730BGG ↗

2015 · 2-2 players · 40min · weight 2.00 · 220 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
184730
Name
Circle of Life
Year
2015
Rank
9694
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
40
Min playtime
20
Max playtime
40
Avg weight
2
Num weights
5
Bayes avg
5.59389
Average
6.705
Users rated
220
Num owned
59
Wanting
11
Wishing
101
Num comments
73
Fetched at
Sat May 02 2026 16:47:29 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Area Majority / InfluenceHexagon GridPattern Building
Categories (2)
Abstract StrategyPrint & Play
Description (777 chars)

Circle of Life, Winner of the Mind Sports Olympiad's Game of the Year award, and winner of the Best Combinatorial Game Award, is a strategy game where players evolve species to eat each other in a growing ecosystem. Despite 1-minute rules, the game recreates key aspects of real ecosystems: It starts with simple species, which evolve to become more diverse and complex. Species get more complex as you go up the food chain. Simple species reproduce, die, and evolve at higher rates than more complex ones. When a species' population is high, another species often evolves to eat it. When a critter at the top of the food chain dies, it feeds back into the bottom, to complete the Circle of Life. For more insight into the game, visit this link.

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.