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Food Chain

#41890BGG ↗

2009 · 2-4 players · 30min · weight 1.23 · 159 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

BGG raw

ID
41890
Name
Food Chain
Year
2009
Rank
27575
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
30
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
30
Avg weight
1.2308
Num weights
13
Bayes avg
5.49113
Average
5.44214
Users rated
159
Num owned
284
Wanting
4
Wishing
37
Num comments
53
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:46:21 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Hand ManagementOpen Drafting
Categories (4)
AnimalsCard GameEducationalEnvironmental
Description (1089 chars)

By playing cards in Food Chain, players create natural food chains, hunting and eating in the forest and competing against one another for the best dishes. In game terms, each player holds four cards in hand, and four cards are placed in the middle of the table, which represents the forest. The card deck has twelve different types of animals/objects, in addition to special cards like the hunter, who can hunt any other card, and angry bees, which scare cards out of the forest. Players take turns in clockwise order and can choose one of five actions each turn: Hunt the food to create natural food chains Eat the food Leave the food Swap one card in hand for one in the forest Pass by discarding a card and drawing a new one The game ends when the deck runs out, and passing is the only option available to all players; alternatively, the game ends when one player has lost all of his tokens to opponents. All players then add up their points from the top-left corner of each card, and also each token scores one point. The player with the most points wins.

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.