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2023 Ranked #9,924

Pacific Ocean

A set-collection card game has sanctuary builders attract aquatic animals and score their best combinations. Each selection gives an opponent a choice between two cards, making every offer a strategic compromise.

Animals Bluffing Betting and Bluffing I Cut, You Choose

Players

1-3

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.67/5

Rating

7.11

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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Countries around the Pacific Basin are creating marine sanctuaries to preserve unique creatures and their habitat.

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Countries around the Pacific Basin are creating marine sanctuaries to preserve unique creatures and their habitat. All of these sanctuaries are being ranked on an overall leaderboard, and it’s time to find out whose sanctuary deserves the title of the Pacific Ocean’s Best Marine Sanctuary! Pacific Ocean is a quick set collection 18-card game where you aim to attract aquatic animals to your sanctuary. During the game, you’ll select new inhabitants not just for yourself but also for your opponent. As every animal you attract will uniquely affect your end game points, you’ll need to think strategically to prove that your sanctuary deserves the top rank. How To Play "I cut you choose" Select 2 Aquatic Animal cards from your hand and place 1 card face up and the other card face down. The other player chooses 1 of those cards to add to their sanctuary. The remaining card is added to your own sanctuary. Add icons or scoring condition You can add a card to your sanctuary in one of two ways: to add icons or a scoring condition. To add icons, place a card underneath and expose just the top of the card, showing the icons. To add a scoring condition, expose just the bottom of the card, showing the condition. Score points After 6 turns both players score all the points by satisfying scoring conditions in their sanctuaries. The player who has scored the most points wins. The Kickstater edition comes packaged with several Kickstarter exclusive content: Pacific Ocean: Solo Expansion (3 cards) - adding Bot Cards for a Solo game. Bot Cards: Moby (easy); Flipper, Thor, Ferdinand, Vasco (medium); Jacques, Willy, Amerigo (hard) Pacific Ocean: Tropical Fish (13 cards) - Adds new fish and the possibility to play with 3 players to the Pacific Ocean game. new cards: 9 fish, 1 double sided sanctuary card, 3 bot cards for solo play Pacific Ocean: Promo Pack - 4 fish, 1 double sided sanctuary card, 1 bot card for solo play —description from the publisher

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Play and group

Players
1–3
Best with
1–2
Play time
10 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.7/5
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Credits

Designers

2
Oleg Meleshin Yury Yamshchikov

Artists

3
Tati Bordiu Lana Elanor Ksenia Smakova

Publishers

1
Timashov Publishing

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