Game Info
Year
1974
Players
2-4
Age
8+
Playtime
60 min
Complexity
1.5/5
Collection
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Description
The game is based upon the movie Planet of the Apes.
The object is trap all of your opponents in a cage in the center of the board. On each turn, you roll two dice and move yourself with one and an opponent with the other. If you land on a space that matches your pawn's color, that pawn is considered safe and cannot be moved by an opponent. If an opponent moves one of your pawns to a "Captured" space your pawn is placed on top of the cage and the trigger knob is spun and pressed. If the top of the cage opens, your pawn falls into the cage and is out of the game. If the cage remains closed, your pawn may be rescued if you can move one of your pawns to a "Captured" space.
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Video EdoiEgM-6M8
3 Minute Board Games Top List at 1:34 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Nails the theme
- Good for solo play if you like dice chuckers
Cons
- A little dated and kitsch
- Feels like a solo experience rather than cooperative
Thematic elements
- Movie theme
Comparison games
- Elder Sign
- Arkham Horror
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative — The game is cooperative.
- Dice Rolling — It's a dice rolling game.
- Push Your Luck — It has a push your luck element.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- the best thing I can say about the game is it's trying to do something different and I love that about it
- the tricky thing is you can't communicate with your teammate unless you're in the same space as them and that is a really bizarre dynamic to explore it a game
- while I think the ideas and far away are really cool added something a little different I think it might have been too complex again to try that isolation mechanic out on thirst
- Flipology is a very clever little game and it works by you dealt out a hand of cards and you arrange them facedown and then you flip one over each turn and then it will have an effect that will take place
- that simplicity works so well for a friendly lunchtime or family game
- amazingly they made a damn good game
- this is better than half the games on the market it's actually pretty good
- my inspirations were Lords of Waterdeep and viticulture so I took concepts from those games and blended them together
- it turned out to be one of my favorite games I played last year
- if you do or if you don't let me know in the comments
- these videos are only made possible with the support of my patreon
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Video dg3_Ka35M2c
3 Minute Board Games Discussion at 9:32:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Really reasonably good solo game
- Quite thematic
Cons
- Have played that one
Thematic elements
- Desperate co-op survival
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
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Quotes (from this video)
- Anacrony is a cooperative game for one to four players. So it's a cooperative game where you're working together to stop that end game timer.
- You're constantly making choices about how you're gonna spend your next X turns, and you've got to have enough resources.
- You've got to plan for months ahead. You've got to plan how you're gonna spend your next X turns.
- This is a really good cooperative game. I've played it a couple of times.
- It's a very thinky game. So you've got all these different tracks and your different workers and your different ways to score points.
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