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The Great Space Race

#19727BGG ↗

2006 · 3-6 players · 180min · weight 2.34 · 328 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
19727
Name
The Great Space Race
Year
2006
Rank
9336
Min players
3
Max players
6
Playing time
180
Min playtime
120
Max playtime
180
Avg weight
2.3396
Num weights
53
Bayes avg
5.60078
Average
6.47402
Users rated
328
Num owned
493
Wanting
35
Wishing
108
Num comments
147
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Action QueueSimultaneous Action SelectionVariable Player Powers
Categories (2)
RacingScience Fiction
Description (1191 chars)

From the publisher: The Great Galactic Emperor has decreed the Great Space Race is on! Can you, as representative of your ill-fated species, pilot your starship to victory? You must, for those who fail to win doom their species to total annihilation. Keep your tentacles to the floor and your eyestalks on the finish line as you navigate your way through minefields, asteroids and wormholes, but just don't forget - stay away from the Space Amoeba! The Great Space Race is a board game for 3-6 players. The game consists of the track, ships, counters and 3 separate decks of cards. Players pilot their spaceship around the hex-based track, dodging all sorts of obstacles (mines, black holes, the other players' ships, etc) in an attempt to be the first to complete 3 laps. Movement is handled by simultaneous selection of movement cards, but unlike in RoboRally these cards are much more varied, combining forward movement, sliding movement, and turning into neat moves such as the Barrel Roll, the Dragons Tail, and the Broken Arrow. An average 3-lap game can last 3 hours, but the number of laps can be varied to adjust the game length. Re-implements The Great Space Drag Race

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.