Table feel
Moderate interaction with a good balance between direct confrontation and strategic depth.
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Carnival
Think Ferris wheels, roller-coasters, carousels, flying swings, and bumper cars! Open your Carnival for business before the other carnies do by building four of the five available rides along your Midway. Then cue the Carnival music and watch the crowd rush in! Carnival is a card...
Players
2-4
Time
?-?
Age
13+
Weight
1.52
Rating
5.68
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Moderate interaction with a good balance between direct confrontation and strategic depth.
Teach
2.4
Teaching signal
Replay
4.0
High replayability
Interaction
3.7
Highly interactive
Scaling
4.0
Scales well
Strategy
4.5
Deep strategy
Control
2.8
Luck-sensitive
Replay value
The game Carnival has a high replayability score of 7.9, indicating a great degree of variability, strategic depth, and adaptability to different player counts. The game offers different experiences each time it is played, with expansions available to add new content and gameplay elements. Players have room to improve their strategy over time, and the game scales well with different numbers of players. While it may not be the easiest game to learn, it still offers a good balance between easiness and depth.
Luck profile
The final luck score for Carnival is 5.67. The game has a balanced mix of luck and strategy, with random elements having a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. Players have some ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. Overall, the game relies on a combination of luck and player decisions.
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Think Ferris wheels, roller-coasters, carousels, flying swings, and bumper cars! Open your Carnival for business before the other carnies do by building four of the five available rides along your Midway. Then cue the Carnival music and watch the crowd rush in! Carnival is a card game of set collection for 2-4 players, ages 12+, that utilizes dice to determine actions. Each turn, a player rolls three dice and chooses two of them to perform actions which can allow them to gain and discard cards from their hand and/or Midway. Each player also has three tickets that may be discarded to affect the dice rolls or block other players' actions.
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Designers
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Cherilyn Joy Lee Kirkman
Artists
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Christopher Kirkman
Publishers
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Dice Hate Me Games
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