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Code Breaker

Players

2-4

Time

?-?

Age

10+

Weight

1.8

Rating

5.50

Fit

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.8

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.5

More strategic control

Table feel

Code Breaker has a moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth. Players need to pay attention to each other's actions frequently. However, there is less emphasis on cooperation in the game.

Replay value

Code Breaker offers a high level of variability with its gameboard, allowing for different experiences each time it is played. The presence of expansions adds additional content and gameplay elements, enhancing replay value. The game also provides deep strategic possibilities, allowing players to improve their strategy over time. The player interaction score is average, and the game scales well with different numbers of players. While it may take some time to learn, the depth it offers makes it worth the investment. Overall, Code Breaker has a strong replayability score of 7.9.

Luck profile

Code Breaker has a moderate level of randomness impact, with random elements having a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. However, players have substantial ability to mitigate the effects of randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game's outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role. Overall, Code Breaker strikes a good balance between luck and strategy.

Overview

A fairly simple and quick deduction game. Cards come in three types; Artists, Thinkers and Leaders, each with a picture and short biography of an appropriate historical character, and in two colors, red if born before 1700 and yellow if afterwards. The Code Master chooses a pattern for cards to be laid down in incorporating color, type or both, either from the Code cards supplied or by inventing his own. Players, including the Code Master, then take it in turns to play cards from their hands and are told whether the cards are correct or not. If a player deduces the pattern before running out of cards he scores; otherwise the Code Master scores. Based, according to the rule leaflet, on a game by the same author called Eleusis published in 1963.

Category

2
Card Game Deduction

Mechanism

1
Hand Management

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Credits

Designers

2
Robert Abbott Alex Randolph

Publishers

2
Winning Moves Germany Winning Moves UK Ltd.

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