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Gene Pool

#23931BGG ↗

2006 · 2-2 players · 30min · weight 1.57 · 198 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
23931
Name
Gene Pool
Year
2006
Rank
11681
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
30
Min playtime
15
Max playtime
30
Avg weight
1.5714
Num weights
28
Bayes avg
5.56502
Average
6.37525
Users rated
198
Num owned
291
Wanting
35
Wishing
100
Num comments
135
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (1)
Pattern Building
Categories (3)
Card GameEducationalPuzzle
Description (707 chars)

Join the fight against rare genetic diseases by becoming a DNA engineer in the fast-paced mind-bending card game Gene Pool! Use strategy and spatial thinking to mutate, invert, delete and insert your way to success! How do you play? You compete against your opponent to repair important genes of various length and difficulty with gene therapy. Make these repairs by modifying and rearranging a common DNA sequence with the cards you have in hand. Your current genetic research goals are private and are revealed only when they can be found within the DNA sequence. Continue repairing genes until one player completes enough research to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — and the game!

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.