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2020 Ranked #1,231

Skulls Of Sedlec

Card-drafting puzzle game where novice monks arrange exhumed skulls inside a crowded ossuary. Each skull type scores through its placement, so building the best crypt means fitting competing patterns into a tight shared space.

Family Games Card Game Print & Play Open Drafting Pattern Building

Players

2-3

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.28/5

Rating

7.41

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.1/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

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?

Sedlec Ossuary, 16th Century AD. The Black Plague and Hussite Wars have overcrowded the graveyard.

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Sedlec Ossuary, 16th Century AD. The Black Plague and Hussite Wars have overcrowded the graveyard. Help the Bone Collector, a half-blind monk, by exhuming graves and arranging the skulls inside the crypt. You are novice monks, competing to create the best arrangement of skulls. Dig up graves from the graveyard to reveal cards, take cards into your hand to collect skulls, and arrange the cards from your hand into a stack. Whoever better honors the deceased’s last wishes will score more points. The Bone Collector will then judge each player’s completed stack and declare one as the most exceptional. —description from the publisher Released in the June 2020 Board Game of the Month Club $20+ package. Finalist (top 3) of Button Shy's 18 Card Challenge: Design a game about a real life location.

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Play and group

Players
2–3
Best with
1–3
Play time
20 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Dustin Dobson

Artists

2
Marty Cobb Marianne Waage

Publishers

1
Button Shy

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