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Year Published
2007
# of Players:
2 − 5
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 4 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5 players
(18 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
8 and up
(7 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(9 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
It's Alive!
Alternate Names
Its Alive
Its Alive!
Expanded By
Families
Description Edit | History

It is the turn of the nineteenth century, and mad scientists throughout Europe are competing for the infamy of being the first to create life through the power of alchemy. Using only the raw materials provided by some dubious 'Suppliers to the Anatomical Trade,' harnessed lightning, and the services of a motley crew of unattractive servants, you race to collect the eight body parts needed to create your monster and bring it to life. Unfortunately, the local peasants are particularly clumsy and tend to die in freak farming accidents, so the dubious gentlemen rarely find a whole cadaver in sufficiently good condition. Instead, they offer the parts they have managed to salvage. Each turn, you may buy the offered part, sell it to an anatomist for a meager profit, or auction it, trying to get a better deal or rip off your opponents. You might be lucky and get a coffin with a weakling clerk's cadaver in it, which can be used in lieu of any strapping villager's body part, or your involvement in the macabre trade might invoke the villagers' wrath.

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More Information Edit | History

Graphic artist: R H Aidley

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http://files.boardgamegeek.com/images/microbadges/mb_ItsAlive.gif It's Alive! fan - leg
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1 It's Alive! - Portuguese Rules
Regras completas em Português
2009-09-18
2 Reglas en español - Rules in Spanish
Traducción al español de las reglas en inglés. Spanish traslation of the English rules.
2008-12-26
0 Magyar játékszabály
It's Alive! rules in Hungarian, Version 1.0, (posted with permission from the publisher)
2008-10-31
3 1st Edition It's Alive! Tuckbox
This is a tuckbox designed for the cards in the first edition of the game. It's possible that these will work with the second edition, but I don't know for certain. The box was created using graphics from here on BGG and the generator at http://tuckbox.gameupdates.com/.
2008-09-29
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 771
Num Ratings: 446
Average Rating: 6.72
Standard Deviation: 1.15
Num Views: 35260
GeekBuddy Analysis: Analyze
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Avg. Game Weight: 1.6 moreinfo
Fans: 7
Personal Comments: 210
Users Owning: 473
Users Wanting: 73
Users Trading: 18
Has Parts For Trade: 0
Want Parts In Trade: 0
Price History: View
Total Plays: 1486
Plays This Month: 12
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