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Fossil
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Fossil

Designed by Klaus Palesch

Published by Goldsieber Spiele, Rio Grande Games

Casual Flow: 15 Min Teach

Players

2-6

Play Time

40 min

Complexity

1.8 / 5

Rating

5.4

Year

1998

Community Snapshot

Best with 3
Medium-Light complexity
~40 min
5.4 on BGG (689)
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Language Editions

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Abstract Strategy
Pure strategy with no hidden information or luck — think Chess or Go.
Ancient
Set in ancient civilizations — Rome, Greece, Egypt, or other pre-medieval eras.

How It Plays

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

On the hunt for petrified treasures, players are competing paleontologists trying to make as complete a set as possible of several fossils. The board is laid out with a random bunch of fossil pieces and players have to take turns moving a stone about the field to a location where they want to pick up a fossil piece. However, every movement costs them prestige points so they have to weigh carefully if the fossil is worth the effort.…

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