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2020 Ranked #10,501

Emboscados

A hidden-role animal game has players manipulate herbivores beneath predators to score for secret species. Fighting, mating, and feeding alter each column, while competing predator and prey incentives make every move ambiguous.

Animals Card Game Open Drafting Take That

Players

2-5

Play time

15-25 min

Age

14+

Complexity

1.67/5

Rating

7.53

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 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

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?

Players play animals in a forest. Five predator cards are lined up a row; above them three random herbivore cards are placed.

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Players play animals in a forest. Five predator cards are lined up a row; above them three random herbivore cards are placed. Each player is secretly assigned one predator and one kind of herbivore. During a turn, a player can move an open herbivore below a predator card. When two of the same herbivores are adjacent, they will either fight (if they are of the same gender) or mate (if they are of different genders). Fighting removes a card, mating adds a cub token on one of the parents. The predators eat the top four size points of herbivores in their column. Each eaten herbivore counts a point for the owner of the predator. Each surviving herbivore card or cub of the kind you control also scores a point. When a player has reached nine points, they win the game.

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Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
2–5
Play time
15–25 min
Age
14+
Complexity
1.7/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Rodrigo Rego

Artists

1
Guilherme Cavalcante

Publishers

2
Rocket Lemon Games TGM Editora

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