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Designed By
Art By
Published By
Year Published
1977
# of Players:
3 − 6
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 4, 5 players
Recommended with 4, 5, 6 players
(50 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
10 and up
(7 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups
(11 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Cosmic Encounter
Alternate Names
Contatos Cósmicos
König der Sterne
Rencontre cosmique
Universumin valtiaat
Universums härskare
Expanded By
Families
Description Edit | History

Highly regarded by many people, this game definitely deserves a place in the Gaming Hall of Fame, if only because it was so original for its time. This is the original version, produced by Eon in the seventies. Cosmic Encounter has since been produced by West End Games, Mayfair Games, and Avalon Hill (Hasbro) as well. A new edition has been released by Fantasy Flight Games in late 2008. Each version is slightly different, but all share a core set of features.

Players represent alien races that are seeking to spread themselves onto five foreign worlds. To accomplish this, they make challenges against other players and enlist the aid of interested parties. But alien powers, which are unique to each race, give players ways to bend or outright break some rule in the game.

Expanded By:
The original 1977 version had the following expansion sets available:

Re-Implemented by
The Mayfair Games version has its own entry here:

The Avalon Hill (Hasbro) edition has its own entry here:

The new version from Fantasy Flight Games has its own entry here:

Re-Implementations expanded by
The 1991 Mayfair Games also had the following expansion set available:

The 1986 Jeux Descartes / West End Games French version had the following expansion available:

Introductory version:
Mayfair Games also made the simplified version:
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2 Dagger cards-with border
Print friendly version of cards to be used with the Daggers expansion. This version has a border around the cards for easy cut-out. Daggers are cards that give sinister effects and sometimes backfire or have great consequence for both sides in a battle. Daggers are used in a game with lucre. The degree of power that a dagger has is based on the amount of lucre that is spent on the dagger. There are three decks of daggers, Dagger Set 1 costs three lucre (one lucre EON) and performs a small effect. Dagger Set 2 costs seven lucre (two lucre EON) and performs a medium effect. Dagger Set 3 costs 13 lucre (four lucre EON) and performs a severe effect.
TheCruncher
2008-11-15
2 Dagger cards-no border
Print friendly version of cards to be used with the Daggers expansion. This version has no border around the cards. Daggers are cards that give sinister effects and sometimes backfire or have great consequence for both sides in a battle. Daggers are used in a game with lucre. The degree of power that a dagger has is based on the amount of lucre that is spent on the dagger. There are three decks of daggers, Dagger Set 1 costs three lucre (one lucre EON) and performs a small effect. Dagger Set 2 costs seven lucre (two lucre EON) and performs a medium effect. Dagger Set 3 costs 13 lucre (four lucre EON) and performs a severe effect.
TheCruncher
2008-11-15
2 Daggers Expansion
Daggers are cards that give sinister effects and sometimes backfire or have great consequence for both sides in a battle. Daggers are used in a game with lucre. The degree of power that a dagger has is based on the amount of lucre that is spent on the dagger. There are three decks of daggers, Dagger Set 1 costs three lucre (one lucre EON) and performs a small effect. Dagger Set 2 costs seven lucre (two lucre EON) and performs a medium effect. Dagger Set 3 costs 13 lucre (four lucre EON) and performs a severe effect.
TheCruncher
2008-11-12
3 Cosmic: The Encounter Rules
This file contains the rules for Cosmic: The Encounter (the card game version of CE).
The Warp
2008-07-07
5 Cosmic: The Encounter (Yellow deck)
This file contains nine pages of cards for the complete Yellow deck of Cosmic: The Encounter. Included are aliens and Flares of Clone, Flak, Scale, and Mirror. Also included are Artifacts, Encounter cards, home planets and Kickers.
The Warp
2008-07-06
7 Cosmic: The Encounter (Red deck)
This file contains 9 pages of cards for the complete Red deck of Cosmic: The Encounter. Included are aliens and Flares for Virus, Crystal, Swap, and Empath- as well as Artifacts, Planets, Kickers, and Encounter cards.
The Warp
2008-07-04
7 Cosmic: The Encounter (Green deck)
9 pages for the entire Green deck of Cosmic: The Encounter. Includes aliens and Flares for Anti-Matter, Converter, Mind, and Parasite- as well as Artifacts, Encounter cards, home planets.
The Warp
2008-07-02
7 Cosmic: The Encounter (Blue deck)
This is the Blue deck for the card game version of CE. Includes Encounter cards, Artifacts, Kickers, and Flares + Aliens (Laser, Pacifist, Link, and Busybody) and 4 home planets.
The Warp
2008-06-29
0 Baralho de destino mais bacana!
Baralho de destino com cores para 6 jogadores ! melhor que as fichas !
lucianomb
2008-02-19
0 Baralho de Confronto !
Todas as cartas do baralho de confronto em português!
lucianomb
2008-02-19
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 244
Num Ratings: 3081
Average Rating: 7.02
Standard Deviation: 1.76
Num Views: 171814
GeekBuddy Analysis: Analyze
Similarly Rated: View
Avg. Game Weight: 2.4 moreinfo
Fans: 29
Personal Comments: 1563
Users Owning: 3626
Users Wanting: 136
Users Trading: 240
Has Parts For Trade: 15
Want Parts In Trade: 14
Price History: View
Total Plays: 3446
Plays This Month: 1
Linked Items Relationship: Expansions for this Game
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Cosmic Encounter - Eon Expansion #1
Rank 0
Num Ratings 107
Average Rating 8.19
Average Weight 3.00
Owned 228
Prev. Owned 11
For Trade 7
Wanted in Trade 11
Wishlist 8
Comments 37
Year Pub. 1977
Cosmic Encounter - Eon Expansion #2
Rank 0
Num Ratings 99
Average Rating 8.19
Average Weight 2.67
Owned 213
Prev. Owned 13
For Trade 7
Wanted in Trade 11
Wishlist 7
Comments 33
Year Pub. 1977
Cosmic Encounter - Eon Expansion #3
Rank 0
Num Ratings 99
Average Rating 8.09
Average Weight 3.00
Owned 207
Prev. Owned 11
For Trade 6
Wanted in Trade 10
Wishlist 6
Comments 30
Year Pub. 1978
Cosmic Encounter - Eon Expansion #4
Rank 0
Num Ratings 90
Average Rating 7.94
Average Weight 2.75
Owned 181
Prev. Owned 9
For Trade 1
Wanted in Trade 22
Wishlist 11
Comments 32
Year Pub. 1979
Cosmic Encounter - Eon Expansion #5
Rank 0
Num Ratings 86
Average Rating 6.19
Average Weight 2.33
Owned 187
Prev. Owned 11
For Trade 2
Wanted in Trade 9
Wishlist 7
Comments 37
Year Pub. 1980
Cosmic Encounter - Eon Expansion #6
Rank 0
Num Ratings 84
Average Rating 6.88
Average Weight 3.00
Owned 171
Prev. Owned 8
For Trade 2
Wanted in Trade 12
Wishlist 8
Comments 34
Year Pub. 1980
Cosmic Encounter - Eon Expansion #7
Rank 0
Num Ratings 82
Average Rating 7.88
Average Weight 2.67
Owned 164
Prev. Owned 8
For Trade 2
Wanted in Trade 12
Wishlist 8
Comments 26
Year Pub. 1981
Cosmic Encounter - Eon Expansion #8
Rank 0
Num Ratings 80
Average Rating 8.10
Average Weight 2.75
Owned 143
Prev. Owned 8
For Trade 2
Wanted in Trade 20
Wishlist 13
Comments 29
Year Pub. 1982
Cosmic Encounter - Eon Expansion #9
Rank 0
Num Ratings 69
Average Rating 7.42
Average Weight 2.67
Owned 137
Prev. Owned 8
For Trade 1
Wanted in Trade 19
Wishlist 15
Comments 30
Year Pub. 1983
More Cosmic Encounter
Rank 0
Num Ratings 332
Average Rating 7.66
Average Weight 2.83
Owned 625
Prev. Owned 28
For Trade 34
Wanted in Trade 7
Wishlist 18
Comments 123
Year Pub. 1992
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