2020 · Card Game

Mars Operation

Players act as engineers equipping a spaceship for a Mars terraforming mission by supplying five resources: crew, water, food, energy and oxygen. Each round begins by rolling five colored dice and placing them on the matching resource cards; the die faces show the exact counts required. Players manipulate six personal cards—turning, flipping and covering icons—until their card layout matches the required amounts exactly. The first player to match all five dice scores a Mars token (10 points); others who meet at least three dice score a star (5 points). Play proceeds for four missions, and the highest total wins.

groupPlayers

1–6 best 4

schedulePlaying time

10–15 min

cakeAge

8+

psychologyComplexity

1 / 5