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The Very Clever Pipe Game

#279BGG ↗

1996 · 2-4 players · 20min · weight 1.59 · 828 ratings

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ID
279
Name
The Very Clever Pipe Game
Year
1996
Rank
6833
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
20
Min playtime
20
Max playtime
20
Avg weight
1.5854
Num weights
82
Bayes avg
5.67577
Average
6.21777
Users rated
828
Num owned
1405
Wanting
27
Wishing
99
Num comments
345
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (6)
Hand ManagementMove Through DeckPattern BuildingSquare GridTake ThatTile Placement
Categories (2)
Abstract StrategyCard Game
Description (641 chars)

The game consists of a set of cards. The cards have white and black pipes in various six-outlet configurations, and players take turns placing them onto the table. When a player constructs a completely closed-off section of pipe in their color, he takes all the cards from that section. After all cards have been played, the player with the most scored cards wins. Additionally, the cards also have two different floors (which appear underneath the pipes) that can be used to expand the game to a four-player affair. The game was re-released in 2002 with a reduced deck (48 cards instead of 120) as part of the Hip Pocket Games series.

LLM v2 (wide)

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LLM v3 (deep)

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