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Mad Scientist University

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2005 · 3-7 players · 45min · weight 1.05 · 173 ratings

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ID
21666
Name
Mad Scientist University
Year
2005
Rank
19843
Min players
3
Max players
7
Playing time
45
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
1.0526
Num weights
19
Bayes avg
5.5182
Average
5.7578
Users rated
173
Num owned
412
Wanting
3
Wishing
41
Num comments
63
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:36:51 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Player JudgeStorytelling
Categories (3)
Card GameParty GameScience Fiction
Description (1356 chars)

A party game originally from Raiding Party Games, and republished by Atlas Games in 2007, Mad Scientist University is a storytelling game where each player in turn takes on the role of an evil genius Teacher's Assistant (TA) at the Mad Scientist University. Each TA holds a class challenging the students (everyone else) to come up with a way to meet a goal given certain elements listed on distributed cards (Create Perpetual Motion with Lawn Gnomes, for example). Each student brainstorms and then gives a short presentation detailing their plan, and the TA awards the card with the goal to the 'best' plan by whatever criteria the TA wishes (evil geniuses get to be snarky, after all). The winner is the student with the most won goal cards after everyone has led a course. Expanded by: Mad Scientist University Course Packet: Home Economics Mad Scientist University Course Packet: Independent Study Mad Scientist University Course Packet: Medicine Mad Scientist University Course Packet: Physical Education Mad Scientist University Course Packet: Physics Mad Scientist University Course Packet: PSI PHI Mad Scientist University Course Packet: Spring Break Mad Scientist University Course Packet: Theater Mad Scientist University Course Packet: Winter Break Mad Scientist University Course Packet: Zoology

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.