Cryptid: Urban Legends

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• end game bonuses — At the end of a round, outer spaces reset and are replaced with new cards; game ends via a 'best of five' or auto-win conditions.
• Evidence counters / presents — The cryptid uses 'presents' tokens to claim spaces; scientists collect tokens by sweeping counters off the board.
• Focus cubes / colors — Cubes representing sensor focus (white/black/pink) drive the core deduction and scoring.
• Line action — Line: pick a color of sensor and move all sensors of that color to the opposite side (left or right).
• movement cards — On your turn you can pick up two movement cards from your deck; there are three movement types and a wild card.
• Round end / outer spaces — At the end of a round, outer spaces reset and are replaced with new cards; game ends via a 'best of five' or auto-win conditions.
• Shuffle action — Shuffle: move a cube (and related placements) with diagonal components to create new arrangements.
• Split action — Split: split the cubes in a chosen area into two directions, making sure at least one cube goes to both directions.
• wild card — Wild card acts as a balancing mechanism within the actions deck.

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• it's a really neatly designed game
• one of the recommendations from us to try and play cryptid urban legends
• it's actually a different game it doesn't resemble the original cryptid at all
• the artwork also done by Quan Chi Moria
• this is a good compact travel game as well
• I reckon this is more fun than the original cryptid

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