2001 A Space Odyssey

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• cooperative play — The other's kind of running around trying to fight fires in a co-opy type way.
• Hidden Movement — It's just one versus many with hidden movement.
• One vs Many — This is a one versus many game where Hal is trying to kill the astronauts and the astronauts are trying to kill Hal.
• tactics — This game has the most rudimentary tactics in it possible it's like once per game how can close each door and the humans can then play a card to open the door and then it's open forever

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• Pola... it's like one of the most beautiful games I've seen.
• Paperia... it can actually end up being a bit of a aggressive little game when the right scoring things are in certain places
• 2001: A Space Odyssey... Phil Harding's design it tends to be like simple like things don't need to be complicated and we love it in this one. It's just perfect complexity.
• The working title is called gumball machine... this one is more kind of like a family game.
• It's a really simple family level trick taking game.
• Flip Sevens for everyone.
• We played the bubble tea game. It was very fun.
• It's not a new game. Let us know if you have played this, if you enjoy it, what you think of pass.
• They're great uh convention fillers.
• The second one is the killer whale who actually worked with human in the past for killing other whales.
• The third one is the pool that is made from natural. So that's kind of like in area from the sea and they made a pool. So it's like a natural pool from the sea water.

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• 2001: A Space Odyssey is an asymmetrical one versus many game of movement and cards.
• HAL is always watching and listening.
• Any communication among the crew member players must be audible to and understandable by the HAL player.
• In the iconic moment in the movie, Howell closes the pod bay doors and refuses to open them.
• The howl player wins the game immediately upon terminating the life support system or the other three systems simultaneously.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• asymmetrical gameplay — One player acts as HAL to disrupt the crew while the others play as crew members cooperating to repair the ship and disable HAL.
• Communication rules — Open communication only; no whispering or secret signals to HAL; players may discuss openly but not reveal hidden cards.
• Deck Manipulation — Discard and draw rules, drawing from the appropriate deck, and shuffles when draw deck is empty.
• Doors and doors tokens — Players can play closed door cards to flip door tokens to the closed side, impeding crew movement.
• Drawing and deck shuffles — Discard and draw rules, drawing from the appropriate deck, and shuffles when draw deck is empty.
• End conditions — HAL wins by isolating life support or terminating three systems; crew wins by reaching HAL core and disconnecting with three sequences.
• Hand Management — HAL's hand is full and several cards are visible; crew hands have permissions not to reveal cards; cards can leave hand by play, trash, or discard with specific rules.
• Hand management and visibility — HAL's hand is full and several cards are visible; crew hands have permissions not to reveal cards; cards can leave hand by play, trash, or discard with specific rules.
• Limited Communication — Lipre is a status card; if lipre is visible among HAL's three face-up cards, crew cannot communicate.
• Lipre and communication restriction — Lipre is a status card; if lipre is visible among HAL's three face-up cards, crew cannot communicate.
• Logic cards and HAL core — Crew need to collect sequences of adjacent logic cards (1-12) to spend at the HAL core and eventually disconnect HAL.
• Malfunction cards and system termination — Malfunctions are played to terminate gravity, memory, and coms; life support requires seven malfunctions to terminate.
• Monolith mechanic and turn order — A monolith is given to a crew member; turn order alternates HAL, crew member with monolith, HAL, etc.
• Movement and board — Crew move around an eight-space board connected by doors; movement affected by system malfunctions and doors.
• Open doors and cancellation — Open doors require trashing an Open Door card; Cancel removes one of HAL's faced-up cards; Discard-cancel resets displays.
• Ordering — A monolith is given to a crew member; turn order alternates HAL, crew member with monolith, HAL, etc.
• Pod bay restrictions — Pod bay limits to one crew member at a time; only move and repair actions are possible there; you cannot take open door action from the pod.
• Repair actions — Crew can repair systems with matching or wild repair cards; specialized characters can heal more depending on their specialty; Jack of all trades treats all repairs as wild.
• Turn structure and phases — Crew turns have move, action, draw steps; each at most once per turn per type; movement triggers via doors; you can give cards to teammates in same space.
• two-deck system — HAL's deck and crew deck drive actions and determine available moves.

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Quotes (from this video)

• 2001: A Space Odyssey is an asymmetrical one versus many game of movement and cards.
• HAL is always watching and listening.
• Any communication among the crew member players must be audible to and understandable by the HAL player.
• In the iconic moment in the movie, Howell closes the pod bay doors and refuses to open them.
• The howl player wins the game immediately upon terminating the life support system or the other three systems simultaneously.

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