Primordial Soup (board game)
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Primordial Soup | |
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Close-up of a game in progress |
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Designer | Doris Matthaus & Frank Nestel |
Players | 3 to 4 |
Age range | 12 years and up |
Setup time | approx. 10 minutes |
Playing time | 90+ minutes |
Random chance | Medium |
Skills required | Dice rolling, Bidding, Capture |
BoardGameGeek entry |
Primordial Soup is a board game created by Doris Matthaus & Frank Nestel, first published in 1997 in Germany by Doris & Frank Z-Man Games under the name Ursuppe. The game won 2nd prize in the 1998 Deutscher Spiele Preis.
[edit] Equipment
- A game board with spaces representing the primordial soup, a scoring track, and a compass diagram.
- Two dice
- 28 pegged discs representing amoebas, in four sets distinguishable by color and shape.
- 37 tokens for scoring "biological points"
- 25 beads for marking damage to amoebas.
- 55 cubes of each of the 4 amoeba colors, variously representing potential food and extretia of different amoeba types.
- 4 score markers.
- 33 cards representing available genetic mutations.
- A deck of 11 cards showing direction of current and ozone layer thickness.
- Game rules and reference sheets.