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Cosmic Encounter (2008)

Average Rating: 7.51/10
Board Game Rank: 89
Thematic Rank: 23
Strategy Game Rank: 73
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Artist
Publisher
Year Published
2008
# of Players
3 − 5
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 5 players
Recommended with 3, 4, 5, more than 5 players
(160 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
10 and up
(37 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable
(58 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain
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Mechanic
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Primary Name
Cosmic Encounter
Alternate Names
Rencontre Cosmique
コズミック・エンカウンター
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In Cosmic Encounter, each player is the leader of an alien race. The object of the game is to establish colonies in other players' planetary systems. Players take turns trying to establish colonies. The winner(s) are the first player(s) to have five colonies on any planets outside his or her home system. A player does not need to have colonies in all of the systems, just colonies on five planets outside his or her home system. These colonies may all be in one system or scattered over multiple systems. The players must use force, cunning, and diplomacy to ensure their victory.

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Cosmic Encounter
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Fantasy Flight English Edition 2011
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
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Year: 2011
Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)
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Spanish first edition
Publisher: Edge Entertainment
Artist: Felicia Cano, Sabe Lewellen, Andrew Navaro, Brian Schomburg, WiL Springermore»
Year: 2009
Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)
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Rencontre Cosmique
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French first edition
Publisher: Edge Entertainment
Artist: Ryan Barger, Felicia Cano, Sabe Lewellen, Andrew Navaro, Brian Schomburg, WiL Springermore»
Year: 2009
Product Code: 9781589944961
Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)
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Cosmic Encounter
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Fantasy Flight Games English Edition
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
Artist: Ryan Barger, Felicia Cano, Sabe Lewellen, Andrew Navaro, Brian Schomburg, WiL Springermore»
Year: 2008
Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)
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1 Moon and Lucre Variant
Included in this ZIP are a couple home-brewed variants I came up with for playing with Moons and/or Lucre in Cosmic Encounter. They have been somewhat playtested, but they are not perfect. Our group has really enjoyed them, but feel free to post your thoughts.
2011-12-28
11 New Warp & Scoretracker
I finally got so fed up with bumping the Warp and sending our score markers all over. To replace this circular board, I created a square board with the same functionality, but without the headaches! Please enjoy!
2011-10-18
1 Etiqueta para corregir error en Fulgor del Disforme
Etiqueta para corregir el error de la acción de Supernova de la carta de Fulgor del Disforme. Para la versión en español del juego base.
2011-10-17
4 German powers of the base-game
This is a translation of the base-games's powers into German. If you find some flaws, just write in the post (http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/600616/translating-the-powers-into-german) :-).
2011-07-02
2 Summary Rules for Moons and Daggers
Player aid for using the Moons or Daggers expansions for Cosmic. I pasted mine back to back, trimmed and then laminated them for quick reference.
2011-05-30
6 Blank Flare Templates
Here are some approximations of the layout of the Flare cards (for homebrews and playtesting). You can add your own text to these and print, or write on them with pen or pencil in true homebrew fashion!
2011-05-06
5 Cosmic Encounter Deck Reference + Statistics
This 1 page file includes 6 small player references which contains the contents of both the Cosmic Deck from the base game and Reward Deck from the Cosmic Incursion expansion. The statistics for rate of drawing a card type are based on the 5 player game with 10 flares in the Cosmic Deck. The statistics for the Cosmic Deck are wrong with more than 5 players as more than 10 flares would be included in the Cosmic Deck, but will give you a rough estimate. The statistics for the Reward Deck won't change based on number of players.
2011-04-05
4 Lucre Asteroids
This PDF is a sheet of Asteroids for the Lucre variant.
2011-02-19
5 CE Phases of Encounter and Results
A corrected printable excel document. Correction is in the start turn/regroup phase. The printed pages fit in a 3.5"x5.5" laminator pouch, back to back. I left the file as an excel document so if you have any house rules/changes, they can be made.
2010-12-09
12 Russian translation of Cosmic Encounter Flare Cards
Описание карт способностей (flare cards) настольной игры Космическое противостояние (Cosmic Encounter). Перевод на русский Владимир 'Seagull' Максимов.
2010-06-25
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 89
Thematic Rank: 23
Strategy Game Rank: 73
Num Ratings: 5520
Average Rating: 7.51
Standard Deviation: 1.66
Num Views: 384008
GeekBuddy Analysis: Analyze
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Avg. Game Weight: 2.4
Fans: 428
Personal Comments: 1534
Users Owning: 5618
Users Wanting: 481
Users Trading: 105 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade: 1
Want Parts In Trade: 4
Price History: View
Total Plays: 14652
Plays This Month: 89
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