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2010 Ranked #15,463

Chaos

A card game has players assemble matching sets while avoiding cards that spoil their collections and threaten their round score. Trading, battling, and a disruptive card that rotates everyone’s hands make timing and restraint crucial.

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Players

3-5

Play time

30-40 min

Age

8+

Complexity

2.08/5

Rating

5.93

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

From the Publisher “You must have Chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “In all Chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” – Carl Gustav Jung In this card game, you need to collect sets of 3 identical Spectrum cards and place them on the table. Or collect the set of 3 Order cards and keep it in your hand until the end of the round.

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From the Publisher “You must have Chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “In all Chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” – Carl Gustav Jung In this card game, you need to collect sets of 3 identical Spectrum cards and place them on the table. Or collect the set of 3 Order cards and keep it in your hand until the end of the round. You need to avoid the 4th Spectrum card that matches a set you have placed on the table or the 4th Order card if you have the other 3. Also, avoid holding a Chaos card at the end of the round. On your turn you can seek a card, trade a card or declare a battle. You can't hold Order cards while holding a Chaos card. If you discard a Chaos card, all hands are rotated among players until the discarding player calls Stop! Well, the title does say "Chaos".

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Play and group

Players
3–5
Best with
3–5
Play time
30–40 min
Age
8+
Complexity
2.1/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

4
Pietro Valentyne François Valentyne Sly Valentyne Rant Valentyne

Publishers

1
Z-Man Games

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