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Eight Gods

Game ID: GID0110574
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2022
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Description

Eight Gods is a quick 2-6 player card game played in taverns and homes throughout the Wandering Sea (i.e. the Sleeping Gods world). Rules are also included for a solitaire game commonly played in the Wandering Sea.

In more detail, Eight Gods can be played by 2 - 6 players in about 20 minutes. Each round, players are dealt a 6 card hand. Then, they give two cards away, play their hand, and score their hand. Scoring also happens in the gift and play phases, so there are many opportunities to score points and various strategies are viable. The game has a variable ending, once enough Gods are asleep. It is a morphed form of cribbage that very loosely tells the story of putting the Gods to sleep.

—description from the designer

Description

Eight Gods is a quick 2-6 player card game played in taverns and homes throughout the Wandering Sea (i.e. the Sleeping Gods world). Rules are also included for a solitaire game commonly played in the Wandering Sea.

In more detail, Eight Gods can be played by 2 - 6 players in about 20 minutes. Each round, players are dealt a 6 card hand. Then, they give two cards away, play their hand, and score their hand. Scoring also happens in the gift and play phases, so there are many opportunities to score points and various strategies are viable. The game has a variable ending, once enough Gods are asleep. It is a morphed form of cribbage that very loosely tells the story of putting the Gods to sleep.

—description from the designer

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Pros
  • thematic integration with Sleeping Gods World
  • interesting cribbage-inspired twist
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Thematic elements
  • mythic gods and cribbage-like scoring
  • Sleeping Gods World
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • card-based play — deck of cards with variable ending and cribbage-inspired scoring
  • variable ending — ends depend on how many gods are asleep
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  • "it's heavy but it only has one resource and that's money"
  • "it's fully cooperative and you all play as robots that are trying to essentially take down the human corporations"
  • "this is now a multiplayer experience it's not just two players"
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