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Shallow Sea

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2025 · 1-4 players · 45min · weight 2.20 · 1,208 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
428440
Name
Shallow Sea
Year
2025
Rank
1903
Min players
1
Max players
4
Playing time
45
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
2.2045
Num weights
44
Bayes avg
6.28825
Average
7.91081
Users rated
1208
Num owned
2731
Wanting
163
Wishing
1215
Num comments
280
Fetched at
Sat May 02 2026 15:54:15 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (8)
End Game BonusesGrid CoverageOpen DraftingPattern BuildingSet CollectionSolo / Solitaire GameTile PlacementVariable Set-up
Categories (2)
AnimalsPuzzle
Description (1038 chars)

In Shallow Sea, a multi-layered puzzle board game inspired by the breathtaking beauty of the Great Barrier Reef, players create their own vivid ocean landscapes by strategically arranging an array of marine life, colorful fish, and corals. Unlike typical puzzle games in which pieces merely stack up, the elements in Shallow Sea can activate, deactivate, and even move, creating exciting combos and thought-provoking dilemmas that keep you on your toes. On your turn, choose tiles showing fish, coral, or sea life, and place them on an empty space on your board. When fish surround a coral of the same color, you flip over the completed coral, which becomes a home for fish. Choose which fish will inhabit the coral, keeping the puzzle and ecosystem cards in mind. Use seashells to lure fish and move them, ideally completing multiple coral at once if you build them strategically. Invite other creatures to enrich your ocean, trying to match the distinct scoring requirements of the ecosystem cards in order to score the most points.

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.