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1986 Ranked #19,037

Grand Master

This martial-arts card game has players train days, master six disciplines, defeat rivals, and become Grand Master. Battles and wars can strip hard-won Master cards, making attack and defense as important as training.

Card Game Fighting Open Drafting Paper-and-Pencil

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

1.25/5

Rating

6.22

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 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?

In this Mille Bornes-like game, players seek to become the Grand Master by training for 22,000 days, mastering six martial arts, such as Judo, Tae Kwon Do, Boxing, or Karate, and defeating other players in battles and wars.

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In this Mille Bornes-like game, players seek to become the Grand Master by training for 22,000 days, mastering six martial arts, such as Judo, Tae Kwon Do, Boxing, or Karate, and defeating other players in battles and wars. Beginning the game as the master of one martial art (holding one Master card), players play Days cards in denominations of 500, 1000, or 2000 days, a total of 3000 days being necessary to gain mastery of a new martial art (an additional Master card). Players also, with the appropriate cards, attack opponents, the loser forfeiting one (in a battle) or two (in a war) Master cards. Attacks and defenses can be enhanced with cards representing such things as weapons and ki. Shorter variants can be played.

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Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
2
Play time
90 min
Age
12+
Complexity
1.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Chris Goedecke

Publishers

2
(Self-Published) Hoyle Products

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