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2003 Ranked #16,406

X-machina

An invention party game has players combine component cards and explain how they satisfy an unreasonable customer’s request. The available parts are deliberately inadequate, rewarding imaginative arguments that make an impossible gadget seem plausible.

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Players

4-8

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

1.15/5

Rating

6.00

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 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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From the publisher: X-Machina is the fun party game where you make impossible inventions out of improbable components for unreasonable customers. Tons of fun for 4-8 players.

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From the publisher: X-Machina is the fun party game where you make impossible inventions out of improbable components for unreasonable customers. Tons of fun for 4-8 players. Use the components (Cogs) in your hand to try and build the gadget the customer wants (Reqs). Since they are never sufficient you might want to be ... inventive ... with your explanation of why it works. In addition to 240 Cog cards and 60 beautifully illustrated Req cards the production version of X-Machina comes with a glossary so you can look up Cogs you might not be completely familiar with. There are one hundred copies in the original "flagpole" edition and they are each numbered and signed by the game designer. The production version was published in 2004.

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Play and group

Players
4–8
Best with
4–8
Play time
60 min
Age
12+
Complexity
1.2/5
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Designers

1
Joan Wendland

Publishers

1
Blood & Cardstock Games

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