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Gray Eminence

Players

3-5

Time

60-90

Age

15+

Weight

2

Rating

6.33

Fit

Teach 2.8

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.8

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.2

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.8

More strategic control

Table feel

Gray Eminence has a moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth. Players need to be aware of and react to each other's strategies frequently. However, there is less emphasis on cooperation in the game. Overall, it offers a good level of player interaction.

Replay value

Gray Eminence offers a high level of variability with its gameboard, expansions, and strategic depth. The game scales well with different player counts and has a moderate learning curve. Overall, it provides a fresh and engaging experience with a strong replayability score of 8.0.

Luck profile

Gray Eminence has a moderate level of randomness impact, with random elements having a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. However, players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role.

Overview

Gray Eminence is a 3-5 player game lasting 60-90 minutes, in which players take the roles of powerful puppet masters in the modern world, each working towards common goals as well as their own secret agenda. Each shadowy figure uses money, power and influence to steer the course of multiple factions toward their own inscrutable ends. Gray Eminence does not pretend to observe political correctness or historical accuracy but rather aims to induce discussion about the world we live in. We also claim that all events in the game are plausible and event resolution options are within the range of real-world possibilities. We do not, however, pretend that our event resolution options cover all possible eventualities - If you find that you end up discussing event resolution options we didn’t list, that would count as a success in terms of our game design. The person with most progress toward their winning conditions at the end of the game wins. An éminence grise (French pronunciation: ?[emin??s ??iz]) or grey eminence is a powerful decision-maker or adviser who operates "behind the scenes" in a non-public and unofficial capacity. In this game the players adopt roles of the gray eminences working toward their own victory conditions. It's a game about intrigue, politics, bluffing and (questionable) morality. —description from the publisher

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