Primordial Soup Board Game at Games in a Box

Primordial Soup
designed by Doris Matthäus & Frank Nestel, published by Z-Man Games

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for 3 to 4 players ages 12 to adult Availability Info
Condition: New

Awards
Second place in 1998’s Deutscher Spielepreis.

Game Contents
220 wooden Foodstuff cubes, 28 wooden amoebas in 4 different shapes, 37 wooden Biological Points, 4 wooden Score markers, 25 wooden damage beads, 44 cards (Gene and Environment cards), 1 Game Board, 1 color rule booklet, 4 reference booklets, 2 dice, all in a box approximately 14" x 10" x 2.3"

Box Description
Eat, move, divide... life is simple when you're an amoeba!

Approximately 1 billion years ago, the Primordial Soup was home to a new life form - amoebas! These amoebas led boring lives of drifting, eating, and occasionally, dividing. But now you control a tribe of these organisms and by acquiring Genes, you can influence the development of your amoebas. Do you develop sophisticated movement to swim against the current? Maybe faster cell division or economical cell division? Or how about Aggression, to allow the eating of other amoebas?

20 different Genes allow for numerous combinations. The player with the most successful species reigns in the Soup!

Games in a Box Notes
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You control a tribe of amoebas living in Earth's past trying to survive in the Primordial Soup. At first, your amoebas drift along, eating the nutrients that are available, but soon you'll have to figure out how to get to the rapidly depleting supply of nutrients before your opponent's amoebas beat you to it. You will purchase rule-breaking Gene cards to give your amoeba capabilities to be the top dog in the Soup. Some of these capabilities include more coordinated movement, longevity, aggression, etc. The player who keeps his amoebas alive and balances the use of his or her Gene cards will reign in the Soup.