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"People have spent 20 hours solving" City of Six Moons, the board game you must learn an alien language to play (www.gamesradar.com)

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For many people, learning the rules of any unfamiliar board game can feel as alien as learning a brand new language. Yet few games make that experience quite as literal as City of Six Moons. Its rulebook arrives written in a mysterious series of symbols that players must translate before they can play the game itself – and may never know if they’ve got everything right.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've never seen anything like this - cryptic board games, akin to cryptic crosswords. Anyone else know of games in a similar vein or genre?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Not a board game, but the concept reminds me of the video game Tunic