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Madame Ching
Head-to-Head Duel

Madame Ching

Designed by Bruno Cathala, Ludovic Maublanc

Published by Hurrican

Casual Flow: 15 Min Teach

Players

2-4

Community Snapshot

Best with 2
Medium-Light complexity
30–45 min
6.4 on BGG (1.3K)
No text needed

Language Editions

DutchEnglishFrenchGermanItalianSpanish

Categories

Card Game
Cards are the primary component — may involve hand management, drafting, or deck building.
Nautical
Life at sea — sailing, naval battles, pirates, or ocean exploration.
Pirates
Swashbuckling adventure on the high seas — treasure, ships, and plunder.

How It Plays

Hand Management

You have a hand of cards and deciding which to play, save, or discard is the core puzzle.

Set Collection

You're gathering matching groups of cards or tokens to score points — the more complete your sets, the better you do.

About This Game

Madame Ching is a hand-management game in which 2-4 players try to put together voyages that take their ships far across the waters, possibly all the way to Hong Kong. Each player starts the game with four cards in hand, each card having a number from 1 to 50-something; the cards have a colored bar across the top, often with a symbol in them. In the first round, each player lays down a card, drafts one of the available cards, then moves one of her ships to the right on the ocean.…

Source: BoardGameGeek

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Play Time

30-45 min

Complexity

2.2 / 5

Rating

6.4

Year

2014