The Ravens Of Thri Sahashri

Should this hit the table?

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Moderate level of interaction with a good balance between direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to frequently pay attention to others' strategies and turns, but cooperation is not a major focus in the game.

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.8

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.5

More strategic control

Table feel

Moderate level of interaction with a good balance between direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to frequently pay attention to others' strategies and turns, but cooperation is not a major focus in the game.

Replay value

The Ravens of Thri Sahashri has a high replayability score due to its variability in gameplay, strategic depth, and adaptability to different player counts. The game offers different experiences each time it is played, with the presence of expansions adding new content and gameplay elements. Players have room to improve their strategy over time, and the game scales well with different numbers of players. While it may not be the easiest game to learn, it offers a rewarding and engaging experience for those willing to invest the time.

Luck profile

The Ravens of Thri Sahashri has a moderate influence of luck. While random elements like card draws play a notable role in the game outcome, players have substantial ability to mitigate luck through strategic decisions and planning. The game strikes a balanced mix of luck and strategy, with player decisions being the primary determinant of the outcome.

Overview

What ABG knows about this game

The Ravens of Thri Sahashri is a two-player cooperative card game. One player is playing the girl Ren who has lost her memory; the other is the detective trying to repair it. The game is about trying to communicate as well as possible by simply the choice of cards. (Note: "Thri Sahashri" is the buddhist term for a trillion worlds combined, which in this case means "the other plane".) Of a deck consisting of cards of five colors and numbered 1–5, the Ren player draws four cards and keeps them face down. The goal for both players is to ensure that when the hand ends, the playing field has cards of these colors and these colors only. Each round, the detective draws as many cards as he wishes from the shuffled deck, putting them on the playing field according to the marks on the cards. The deck also contains ravens, which when drawn will "eat" any discarded cards of that color and threaten to take them out of the game. When the detective player is done, the Ren player picks one of the cards in the playing field and puts on the leftmost still "incomplete" hidden card. A hidden card is complete when that card plus the cards placed on it total 7. (The fourth pile, however, should total only 5, according to the Japanese poem metric "dodoitsu" that goes 7-7-7-5.) Once all four hidden cards are completed, the round ends and unless the playing field has exactly the colors represented among the hidden cards, the players have failed. The game is played for three hands, but in the final hand, one hidden card must be completed per round, lest the players fail. Players also fail if the deck runs out or if all five Ravens are drawn.

Mechanism

6

Communication Limits Cooperative Game Deduction Pattern Building Push Your Luck Tile Placement

Family

3

Country: Japan Players: Two Player Only Games Theme: Anime / Manga

Type

1

Thematic

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