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Shark Alarm!!! box art
2008 Ranked #21,325

Shark Alarm!!!

A card game has players try to reveal five sharks and trigger an alarm, with dolphin totals offering another path to victory. The two opposing card types mean unwanted draws can still become a useful scoring plan.

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Players

2-5

Play time

10-15 min

Age

8+

Complexity

1.13/5

Rating

5.53

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

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?

With 64 cards, but only two motives - 32 sharks and 32 Dolphins - and without numbers and letters, each player first tries to release five sharks and set off the shark alarm. If not successful, the player with the most dolphins win.

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With 64 cards, but only two motives - 32 sharks and 32 Dolphins - and without numbers and letters, each player first tries to release five sharks and set off the shark alarm. If not successful, the player with the most dolphins win. One can win thus both with sharks and with dolphins - and make something good out of bad cards. Great illustrations by Rolf Vogt.

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Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
3–5
Play time
10–15 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.1/5
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Credits

Designers

2
Christoph Cantzler Anja Wrede

Artists

2
Johann Rüttinger Rolf Vogt

Publishers

2
Drei Magier Spiele Swan Panasia Co., Ltd.

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