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2000 Ranked #3,132

Chrononauts

Time-travel card game where players alter history, collect artifacts, and pursue secret missions across past and future. Changing one event can rewrite the timeline, so every card must create the history you need before another traveler changes it again.

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Players

1-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

11+

Complexity

1.85/5

Rating

6.19

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

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?

In Chrononauts, each player becomes a time traveler, with a unique identity and a secret mission.

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In Chrononauts, each player becomes a time traveler, with a unique identity and a secret mission. During the game, players travel backwards and forwards through history, doing all those things people have always dreamed of using a time machine to do: Visiting the great moments of the past, peeking into the future, collecting up impossible artifacts and priceless works of art (at the moment just before history records their destruction), coming to grips with the paradoxes of time travel, and of course, changing pivotal events and altering the course of history itself. How would the timeline be different if Lincoln and JFK had not been assassinated? And is that the version of reality that you came from originally...the one you must return to in order to win? It's all packed into a fast and easy Fluxx-style card game that will take you to the beginning of time and back again.

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Play and group

Players
1–6
Best with
1–5
Play time
30 min
Age
11+
Complexity
1.9/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Andrew Looney

Artists

2
Alison Frane Derek Ring

Publishers

1
Looney Labs

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