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Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder box art
2014 Ranked #13,216

Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder

Grid-building card game has players pair ponies with relationship cards and complete scoring goals. Different pairings form patterns across the expanding grid, rewarding the most valuable combinations.

Fantasy Humor Pattern Building Set Collection

Players

2-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

13+

Complexity

1.6/5

Rating

7.36

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

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?

Set in the "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" universe, town librarian Twilight Sparkle secretly writes relationship (shortened to "ship") fan fiction about herself and everyone else. Nobody is safe from her overactive muse.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Pattern Building

Place elements to create arrangements that satisfy scoring or action patterns.
Set Collection

Gather related items that become more valuable when scored together.
Hand Management

Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
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Set in the "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" universe, town librarian Twilight Sparkle secretly writes relationship (shortened to "ship") fan fiction about herself and everyone else. Nobody is safe from her overactive muse. TSSSF uses three decks of cards: Ponies, Ships and Goals. Players use Ship cards to pair different Ponies together on an expanding grid, earning VP for completing Goal cards for different combinations formed on the grid.

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Category

3
Fantasy Humor Movies / TV / Radio theme

Mechanism

3
Hand Management Pattern Building Set Collection

Family

1
Toys: My Little Pony

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
2–5
Play time
30 min
Age
13+
Complexity
1.6/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

3
Allan Ecker Caytlin Vilbrandt Ryan Vilbrandt

Artists

1
Caytlin Vilbrandt

Publishers

1
(Web published)

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