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Innovation

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Rules: https://asmadigames.com/rules/Innovation_Rules.pdf 

Card list: https://innovation.isotropic.org/cardz Note that there may be some discrepancies in the text on the cards in the card list and the text on the cards in the images. Use the text on the cards in the card list.

Cards in the game images and the card list are arranged from left to right in the order of red, yellow, green, blue, purple.

In the middle of a game:

Captain’s board:

red cards: Combustion, below Explosives, below Coal, splayed right. yellow cards: Steam Engine, not splayed. green cards: Paper, below Banking, splayed left. blue cards: Translation, below Atomic Theory, splayed left. purple cards: Lighting, not splayed. hand: a 7, a 5, a 4. score: two 7s and three 5s. achievements: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Podomorph’s board:

red cards: Construction, below Oars, below The Pirate Code, below Flight, below Composites, splayed up. yellow cards: Fermenting, below Vaccination, below Sanitation, splayed left. green cards: Bicycle, not splayed. blue cards: Pottery, below Rocketry, splayed left. purple cards: Empiricism, not splayed. hand: two 2s. score pile: three 4s. achievements: Empire, Monument, 1, 2

Remaining achievements:

8 achievement9 achievementUniverseWorldWonder

Captain: Now that you no can longer use Vaccination, I will continue scoring. I’ll dogma Coal, and you don’t share because you only have 4 factories to my 7.

Captain: I draw and tuck Societies, which doesn’t change anything on my board. I’ll score my top two red cards, revealing Combustion and putting me up to 41 points.

Captain: I will dogma Atomic Theory. You share. I see you splayed your blue cards right, and I’ll do that too. Now you must meld this last 7.

Captain: Next turn, I will be able to get my 6th achievement, winning me the game.

Turn 1

Podomorph:

Captain: I have four clocks now, so I get to share.

Captain: Just so we’re clear, you’re using the word for "fragment" to mean "card", and “your place” is your way of saying “your score pile”, right?

Captain: Incidentally, I hadn't seen the signs for "return" or "be in" before, but I'm glad I know them now! The sign for “return” looks almost like the sign for “release”, but that one doesn’t have a dot.

Podomorph:

 

Captain: Right, take a card for sharing. I wouldn’t have guessed that that glyph meant the noun “number”, but go on.

Podomorph:

Captain: Darn, I can’t recover the 26 points with just one action. And you get to draw another 9 because your card doesn’t say “may” or “up to”, so I’m forced to share.

Captain: I'll dogma Lighting, and you get to share.

Podomorph:

Captain: I’ll tuck some cards too. I’ll tuck these three yellow cards and get 22 points back.

Captain: Now I can dogma Quantum Theory with that card you let me draw. You get to share again.

Podomorph:

Turn 2

Podomorph:

Captain: My cards? Oh, you mean the two cards in my hand... Oh come on!

Captain: Oh well, you won’t want to dogma that 10 I gave you. It’ll make you lose since we both have way more factories than leaves.

Podomorph:

Captain: I see that you aren’t going for the numbered achievements, since you let me empty your score pile again.

Captain: None of my cards score enough since I have only 1 card in my hand.

Captain: I'll draw an 8 and dogma Quantum Theory again. You get to share - or as you say, like-take, again.

Podomorph:

Captain: Ah, returning a 10 to draw another 10 and score a 10. I bet I can guess what that 10 you returned is.

Turn 3

Podomorph:

Podomorph:

Captain: Ok, I’ll return the two 10s from your score pile. I don’t get to see what they are, but I’ll shuffle them so you don’t know what order I return them in.

Captain: I only have 15 points left, and I can't score any faster than you taking my score away, so I'll meld Robotics and dogma it. You share.

Captain: Your 10 does nothing, that’s good for me.

Captain: Good thing we haven't melded Software yet, or I would have just lost.

Podomorph:

Captain: Oh, you’ve seen B of the 10s now, huh! And you also know what these last three 10s are!

Podomorph:

Captain: Oh, that’s how you say “self-service” and “bioengineering”. I’m not sure if scoring a card is exactly the same as eating, but fair enough.

Captain: So you will need to win this turn before I attempt to draw an 11 and end the game.

Turn 4

[static]

Captain: Sorry, I lost you for a moment. Ah, I see, you melded and dogma’d Computers.

Podomorph:

Captain: Good game. I guess it makes sense that “achievement” looks kind of like the noun version of “win”.

Captain: Wow. If you had actually executed that card you just melded from Computers, I would have won. I would have 30 points, beating the C points you would have ended up with. We have a total of what, A factories to D leaves? It’s actually interesting that you only have 1 more crown than me, and only half as many lightbulbs.

Captain: I was about to say that you have a different number of cards of each color, but I forgot that you tucked that card with Lighting a couple turns ago.

Captain: The last two 10s in the deck are Stem Cells and The Internet. I think these were the two cards I shuffled, so if you hadn’t returned that card earlier, you would have had a 50-50 shot at winning.