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Cosmic Encounter
By request of Fantasy Flight Games, Board Game Geek lists the various editions of Cosmic Encounter in separate entries. Each edition is the same game at its core, but the features, compatible expansions, and production differ among them. This entry is for the original 1977 Eon version.
What is Cosmic Encounter
By request of Fantasy Flight Games, Board Game Geek lists the various editions of Cosmic Encounter in separate entries. Each edition is the same game at its core, but the features, compatible expansions, and production differ among them. This entry is for the original 1977 Eon version.
Players represent alien races that are seeking to spread themselves onto five foreign worlds. To accomplish this, they make challenges against other players and enlist the aid of interested parties. But alien powers, which are unique to each race, give players ways to bend or outright break some rule in the game.
The game continues until one player occupies five planets in other systems to win. Shared victories are possible and a player need not occupy one's own system to win.
Game details
- Players
- 2–6
- Age
- +12
- Duration
- 90 min
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Type
- Board game
- Year
- 1977
- Mechanics
- Alliances · Hand Management · Negotiation
- Categories
- Bluffing · Negotiation · Science Fiction
- Designer
- Bill Eberle · Jack Kittredge · Bill Norton
- Publisher
- Eon · Alga · ASS Altenburger Spielkarten · Games Workshop Ltd.
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Brilliant game. If you have the Mayfair edition, play kickers when you'd play reinforcements. More fun. Use the Kicker x1 like the Butler flare from the EON set. It allows you to put one token per challenge into the warp. If you're caught, it comes out, and the person you were doing it to flooshes two of your tokens, and you lose the flare.
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How many players is Cosmic Encounter for?
Cosmic Encounter plays with 2–6 players.
How long does a game take?
A game takes about 90 minutes.
What age is it suitable for?
It is recommended from age 12.
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