Minden Playing Card Cricket

Fit

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 3.9

High replayability

Interaction 3.2

Low interaction

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 2.5

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Moderate level of interaction with a mix of direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to pay attention to others' actions frequently, but there is limited emphasis on cooperation.

Replay value

The Minden Playing Card Cricket board game has a high replayability score of 7.8. With its high variability in gameplay, strategic depth, and adaptability to different player counts, players can enjoy fresh and engaging experiences each time they play. The game also offers expansions that add new content and gameplay elements, further enhancing its replay value.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Minden Playing Card Cricket is 5, indicating a balanced mix of luck and strategy. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. 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

Minden Playing Card Cricket has been around since the early 1980s and is one of the best of the stats-based cricket games. Each ‘turn’ of the game simulates an over of Test or One Day Cricket. Turns are resolved by using a regular deck of playing cards instead of rolling dice, although six sided dice are used to resolve some plays. The device of replicating a single over per turn is perfect, as full test matches can be played over several hours, while one day games can be played out in a single session. The system ingeniously allows for hat tricks, batting collapses, batsmen playing themselves in, and batsman playing with confidence. There are two forms of the game. Basic, which only include some rules and in which players are not individually carded (although they do have individual stats) and the Advanced Game, in which each player has a unique card. It produces a very convincing range of scores and excitement (perhaps rather more than the real game does). Extremely clever. The 5th Edition of this game is now available from mindencricket.com

Mechanism

2

Dice Rolling Hand Management

Family

2

Players: Games with Solitaire Rules Sports: Cricket

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