Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
In Cloudmine, players alternate being visionaries and cloud hunters in order to catch the largest number of clouds.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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In Cloudmine, players alternate being visionaries and cloud hunters in order to catch the largest number of clouds. During a turn, one player takes the role of being a visionary by choosing a particular cloud card from a number of cards drawn from the top of the deck corresponding to the number of players. They then attempt to mislead the greatest number of other players, who are cloud hunters, in an effort to gain points. To do this, after choosing a card, the visionary makes up a story of at most five words, then splays the cards on the table, and the cloud hunters in turn attempt to guess the visionary's chosen cloud. If the hunters choose a card that's not correct, the chosen card is given to the visionary, and play passes to the next hunter. If the chosen card is correct, the visionary earns points for every card they've already gathered. After a set amount of turns, where each player gets a chance to be a visionary, play concludes, and the player with the most points wins!