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2019 Ranked #20,620

Mammalath

This abstract alignment game has players capture three animal-free squares in a row to win. Forming a row that includes an animal loses instead, so players must first free animals while carefully avoiding the usual winning pattern.

Abstract Abstract Strategy Animals Pattern Building Category: Combinatorial

Players

2

Play time

Not listed

Age

?+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

5.61

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

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?

Mammalath is an animal-themed board game inspired by the idea of having a winning condition and a losing condition that’s a subset of the winning condition, as seen in Yavalath (by Cameron Browne’s Ludi) and Manalath (by Dieter Stein and Néstor Romeral Andrés).

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Pattern Building

Place elements to create arrangements that satisfy scoring or action patterns.
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Mammalath is an animal-themed board game inspired by the idea of having a winning condition and a losing condition that’s a subset of the winning condition, as seen in Yavalath (by Cameron Browne’s Ludi) and Manalath (by Dieter Stein and Néstor Romeral Andrés). The goal is to capture three squares in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row which don’t contain animals. However, if you make three in a row and at least one animal is in those cells, you lose! (Think of the members of an animal activist group getting angry at you for capturing the animals.) To win, you must strategically free the animals while going for three in a row. —description from the designer

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Type

1
Abstract

Category

2
Abstract Strategy Animals

Mechanism

1
Pattern Building

Family

5
Category: Combinatorial Category: n in a row Digital Implementations: Ai Ai Digital Implementations: Board Game Arena Players: Two-Player Only Games

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Play and group

Players
2
Best with
2
Complexity
1.0/5
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Credits

Designers

1
Grant Fikes

Artists

2
Ryan Faley Néstor Romeral Andrés

Publishers

2
(Web published) nestorgames

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