The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine

Description

In the co-operative trick-taking game The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine, the players set out as astronauts on an uncertain space adventure. What about the rumors about the unknown planet about? The eventful journey through space extends over 50 exciting missions. But this game can only be defeated by meeting common individual tasks of each player. In order to meet the varied challenges, communication is essential in the team. But this is more difficult than expected in space.

With each mission, the game becomes more difficult. After each mission, the game can be paused and continued later. During each mission, it is not the amount of tricks, but the right tricks at the right time that count.

The team completes a mission only if every single player is successful in fulfilling their tasks.

The game comes with 50 missions, with three additional missions published in spielbox 2/2020.

 

About KOSMOS Games

KOSMOS games build social skills, stimulate logical and strategic thinking, promote visual-spatial and math skills, cultivate physical coordination and manual dexterity, encourage family time, and inspire fairness, confidence, and honorable attitudes. Designed in Germany and beautifully crafted, these games become family favorites and game night classics. For all these reasons, the Kosmos games have gained worldwide recognition.

Crew

The Search for Planet Nine

The astronauts wanted! Scientists say that there is a mysterious ninth planet located on the edge of our solar system. Join this exciting space adventure to find out if the theories are true.

The crew encompasses 50 missions that tell an exciting story as you travel through the solar system. These missions can be played many times and take about 5 minutes each.

To achieve your mission, teamwork and communication will be essential, but in space, things can be more difficult than expected.

• From 10 years.
• For 3 to 5 players
• Play time: 20 minutes

About the designer

Thomas Sing is an economist who lives in the city of Constance, on Lake Constance. With his friends he bought a corner store that has given him time for his hobbies, which include math, Miss Lupun, and making up games.

His first game for KOSMOS, The Crew, has brought together the popular worlds of cheat games and cooperative games in a fascinating and totally original way.

Box contents:

• 40 large cards.
• 5 reminder cards.
• 36 small cards
• 1 commander token
• 10 task tokens
• 5 radio communication tokens
• 1 distress signal token
• Rule book / log book

Taking tricks A modern twist on the popular cheat card game genre. Players of euchre, hearts, spades or bridge will be familiar with the style of play, but The Crew offers a new way to play. Rather than playing against each other for points, The Crew is a cooperative game, where players win or lose together.	Limited communication Brilliant, The Crew doesn’t allow players to talk to each other, but players can communicate. Once per mission, each player can show the other players a card from their hand. But choose the card that shows the other players wisely! It is the only card that you can share during that mission.	Game attributes The Crew is a highly cooperative game where the entire team needs to work together to be successful. The crew is also very strategic. Teams will get better at this game the more they play.

Full color manual and log book Learning to play The Crew is easy with the 22 page manual. The logbook describes the 50 missions that you can take with your team. Along with a space to record your missions.	Variant for two players The crew can be easily played with different numbers of players (from 3 to 5). If you want to play with 2 players, there is a unique setting that will provide players with a completely new experience.	Color compatible with blinds. The colors of the cards are important to this game. But don’t worry if you or your friend are color blind because each color also has a unique symbol that is printed on the cards.	KOSMOS Helper App If you don’t feel like reading the manual, you can also learn to play The Crew in the KOSMOS Helper app that uses animation, text, and audio. You can download the Helper app on iOS or Android.