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Wise Wars

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Description

An exciting deckbuilding card game, where you will play the role of a cunning fortune teller who manipulates fate to shape his own fortune
He summons powerful commanders, masters ancient spells, and unleashes masterful tactics as you compete against other divination masters in your quest for absolute dominance.
In a game of Wise Wars, players must use their arcana cards to obtain one of the two conditions
of victory possible.

Reduce the opponent's health points to zero.
If the arcane recruitment deck runs out, the player with more Power points will be victorious.

—description from the designer

Description

An exciting deckbuilding card game, where you will play the role of a cunning fortune teller who manipulates fate to shape his own fortune
He summons powerful commanders, masters ancient spells, and unleashes masterful tactics as you compete against other divination masters in your quest for absolute dominance.
In a game of Wise Wars, players must use their arcana cards to obtain one of the two conditions
of victory possible.

Reduce the opponent's health points to zero.
If the arcane recruitment deck runs out, the player with more Power points will be victorious.

—description from the designer

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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Great artwork and colorful sea creature cards
  • Short playtime (about 15 minutes)
  • Good educational value for memory (visual, spatial, and working memory)
  • Supports 1-4 players
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Memory, matching by color and animal, working memory
  • Underwater/ocean environment with sea creatures
  • educational, instructional
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Card Replacement — If a match is not made, the chosen card goes to the bottom of the draw deck and a new card is dealt.
  • Deck Building — The colors/backgrounds used in the grid determine the game's difficulty.
  • Deck composition/difficulty — The colors/backgrounds used in the grid determine the game's difficulty.
  • Dual-match rules — A match can be made by either color background or animal on the card.
  • memory matching — Players flip cards to find pairs by background color or animal on the front.
  • Speed Matching — Players flip cards to find pairs by background color or animal on the front.
  • Turn-based with 1-4 players — The game supports solo play or multiplayer up to four players.
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  • great artwork I really like the drawings of these sea creatures on the cards
  • it's a quick little game
  • exercises those different kinds of memory visual memory and spatial memory and working memory as well
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