Race for the Galaxy
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Oct 29, 2026
Clay GableHOST
Nice.
Clay GableHOST
And then Race for the Galaxy has Jump Drive.
Travis SmithHOST
Oh, yeah.
Travis SmithHOST
I forgot about that
Brendan RileyHOST
People are like, oh, this action selection mechanism, it's from Civilization A New Dawn.
Brendan RileyHOST
So as far as I know, people weren't, this isn't a mechanism that we've seen a bunch of other places but choosing a card as Your first action as the one of the types of action selection Next up we have the choose and follow mechanism The game I know this best from is race for the galaxy.
Brendan RileyHOST
Although I I think that San Juan used it earlier and Puerto Rico also has that.
Brendan RileyHOST
In Puerto Rico, you choose a role from a market, and when you use it, the other people around the table can also do that action, but you do it a little more powerfully than they do.
Brendan RileyHOST
Race for the Galaxy takes that idea and amplifies it a little bit.
Brendan RileyHOST
Each player has all five action choices and simultaneously you all secretly choose one of the five actions you're going to do and you play it and you get to do the more powerful version of that action but everybody gets to do that action now the actions activate in order so the real sweet sauce of race for the galaxy is picking the action that you want to do when you think other people don't want to do it, and ideally doing that at the same time that somebody else chooses an action that you wanted to do anyway.
Brendan RileyHOST
It's a clever mechanism that works really well.
Brendan RileyHOST
It also happens in Roll for the Galaxy.
MandyHOST
Great, great example.
SuzanneHOST
For me, a game that I find a little rough in the teach, but after that, smooth sailing, Race for the Galaxy.
SuzanneHOST
Yep.
SuzanneHOST
And this one may be a little controversial for this list.
Paul GroganHOST
I've played 48 games of Ark Nova but a lot of them were online and at least 20 of them are me playing the solo bot on Board Game Arena.
Paul GroganHOST
43 plays of Just One, 42 plays of Lord of the Rings Journeys on Middle Earth, 39 plays of Race for the Galaxy, 38 plays of Warchest, 37 plays of Ra, it's all there on BoardGameGeek.
Paul GroganHOST
I think, and if somebody in the chat wants to confirm this, if you go to BoardGameGeek and look up my user ID of Paul Grogan, no space, You might be able to find my collection and you might be able to find all of the games that I've played.
Paul GroganHOST
But like I said, there's hundreds of games of Magic the Gathering that are not on there.
Andy BarnettHOST
I'm not sure why it fell off the radar as quickly as it did, but it's really fun.
Andy BarnettHOST
It's from Tom Lehmann, no stranger to good games, with Race for the Galaxy and Roll for the Galaxy among his creations.
Andy BarnettHOST
Uh, he's the designer, and there are a lot of things to like about this game.
Andy BarnettHOST
But first, let's get a quick overview.
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Andy BarnettHOST
I'll get to mine now, the top three tableau builders.
Andy BarnettHOST
And I gotta go back to one of the older games that I was first introduced to when I first got into the hobby, and it is also by Tom Lehmann.
Andy BarnettHOST
And it is Race for the Galaxy.
John TheismannHOST
Ooh.
KatieHOST
This is all tech tracks.
KatieHOST
On your turn, kind of like Race for the Galaxy but you don't have the simultaneous action like Race for the Galaxy.
KatieHOST
You chose so many actions based on your workers and – or you rolled your dice.
KatieHOST
That's what it was.
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GregHOST
Raising
KatieHOST
robots.
GregHOST
But this has a Race for the Galaxy aspect to it at the beginning where you are going to pick the actions that you want to go on.
KatieHOST
Yeah.