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Kachina

#30024BGG ↗

2009 · 2-5 players · 45min · weight 2.06 · 364 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
30024
Name
Kachina
Year
2009
Rank
8353
Min players
2
Max players
5
Playing time
45
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
2.0571
Num weights
35
Bayes avg
5.62252
Average
6.60124
Users rated
364
Num owned
471
Wanting
12
Wishing
88
Num comments
155
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Hand ManagementTile Placement
Categories (2)
American WestMythology
Description (1015 chars)

Kachina is a tactical tile game based on the traditions of the Hopi Native American tribe. Each round you place one of your limited number of Kachina tiles, trying to dominate the largest possible area of the board. In the Hopi tradition, the world is ruled by kachinas (or spirits) of many different types. Children of the tribe learn about these different spirits through the use of Kachina dolls. To illustrate the tension of different spirits in the world, the tribal elders create games of kachinas vying for dominance. Will the Eagle soar above the Ogre? Will the Clown humiliate the Chief to nothingness? Or maybe the Sun God outshines all in its radiance? You'll have to plan ahead and use your Kachina tiles to best effect to outscore your opponents in this very strategic tile game. You build the board as you go, so no two games are alike. Each type of tile has a different ability. Can you predict what your fellow players will do and guide your Kachina to dominance? Reimplemented as Völuspá

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.