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Sucking Vacuum

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2004 · 3-6 players · 45min · weight 1.76 · 451 ratings

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ID
4606
Name
Sucking Vacuum
Year
2004
Rank
25627
Min players
3
Max players
6
Playing time
45
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
1.7593
Num weights
54
Bayes avg
5.50019
Average
5.5836
Users rated
451
Num owned
773
Wanting
31
Wishing
155
Num comments
261
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:42:15 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (7)
Action PointsArea MovementHand ManagementMemorySecret Unit DeploymentTeam-Based GameTile Placement
Categories (8)
BluffingDeductionDiceHumorMazeMemoryNegotiationScience Fiction
Description (1702 chars)

"The six-man international crew has just dimmed the lights, bid each other a multi-lingual good night, and settled back to dream of gravity on board the International Space Station when the unthinkable happens. Siren blare, airlocks slam shut, emergency lights flash and it quickly dawns on the crew (not an IQ under 120 among'em) that something has gone horribly wrong. They quickly realize that the whole station is losing oxygen and that it isn't going to be long before they're all so much unrecoverable salvage." "The space station is a disaster. Equipment is strewn about after years of neglect. Nobody knows what to do. But then it dawns on them (sharp lads they are) - there is only one escape pod and six of them. It doesn't take an astrophysicist with a PhD from M.I.T. to figure out that only two of them are going home, and the rest are going to end up Sucking Vacuum." "Sucking Vacuum is an easy to learn, fast action strategy game for 3 to 6 players. Players assume the role of the doomed astronauts searching for equipment and struggling to escape the doomed space station. They must make their way through a randomly assembled map of the International Space Station while fighting off attacks of other players who are trying to escape themselves." Sucking Vacuum 2nd Edition (titled Ultimate Sucking Vacuum) is an updated version of the Origins Award-nominated game. Now in full color with a sturdy box, the game features new artwork on the 18 map tiles and 73 die-cut counters. Gameplay is similar to the original, but the rules have been re-written and revised in a number of areas. Additionally, the game now includes Tournament Rules and the Alien Incursion variant.

LLM v2 (wide)

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LLM v3 (deep)

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