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COSMIC ENCOUNTER
In Brief In this classic game of colonization, negotiation, concilliation, and misrepresentation, players each taken on the role of an alien primed to colonize the galaxy.
Publisher Avalon Hill
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Date November 2000 (most recent edition)
Players 2 to 4
Ages 12 and up
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Comments Through force, will, guile, and a bit of tricky cardplay be the first to spread out beyond your home system. Add in the fact that every player plays an alien who can bend, break, mutilate or spindle one rule of the game and you can be sure no two games are ever alike.
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