Table feel
Moderate level of direct and strategic confrontation with high interaction frequency, but low emphasis on cooperation.
Zen Master
Players
3-5
Time
?-?
Age
8+
Weight
1.3
Rating
6.37
Fit
Teach
2.4
Teaching signal
Replay
4.0
High replayability
Interaction
3.8
Highly interactive
Scaling
3.8
Scales well
Strategy
4.6
Deep strategy
Control
3.8
More strategic control
Replay value
Zen Master offers a high level of variability with its gameboard, allowing for different experiences each time it is played. The presence of expansions adds new content and gameplay elements, enhancing replay value. The game also provides deep strategic possibilities and room for improvement over time. While the player interaction score is average, the scalability of the game is good, adapting well to different player counts. The easiness to learn score falls within the range of 2.5 and 7.8, indicating a moderate level of complexity. Overall, Zen Master has a solid replayability score of 7.9, making it a game worth playing multiple times.
Luck profile
The final luck score for Zen Master is 7.67, indicating a game with minimal randomness impact and substantial ability for players to mitigate luck through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role.
Overview
Each round in Yin Yang, a.k.a. Fifty-Fifty or Zen Master, players play a card from their hand. The highest card played on a turn receives light tokens, the lowest card dark, with the exact number of tokens determined by a scoring card revealed for that turn. Once the round ends, players eliminate pairs of light and dark tokens from their holdings, and their score for the round equals however many tokens remain. After a certain number of rounds, whoever has the lowest score wins. Yin Yang differs from its predecessor Relationship Tightrope in that only nine of the ten cards in hand are played each round — giving players some wiggle room when deciding what to play — and the scoring cards have differing numbers for the light and dark tokens received on a turn (whereas in the previous game the scoring cards were parallel — such as 9/9 or 8/8).
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Designers
1
Reiner Knizia
Artists
3
Charlie Bink
Marek Bláha
Lucas Guidetti Perez
Publishers
4
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