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Abducktion

Rearrange ducks on your stream board to match formations and abduct them into a UFO in a quarter of an hour.

Abducktion is a fifteen-minute puzzle-card game for adults about interns on an alien UFO whose one job is abducting ducks (for research purposes, obviously). You score by lining up ducks in specific formations. Each player has a stream board that holds ten ducks, and you use action cards to rearrange them, moving your own ducks or your opponent's. When all the ducks of one colour match a pattern on one of the shared formation cards, you take the card and abduct the ducks into the UFO. Then you grab more ducks from the UFO and try for another pattern before the cards run out. It plays one to four people, takes a quarter of an hour and is very silly in the right way.

Ten-duck stream board per playerAction cards move your ducks or your opponent'sMatch colour patterns to abduct ducks

Who it's for

You want a very short pattern puzzle with some cheeky interference, perfect for two players or a solo try.

Not for you if…

You want depth or a long session. Abducktion is a fifteen-minute duck-shuffling puzzle.

Vibe's take

Quick, silly and puzzly: you rearrange your row with a good card, then watch an opponent mess it up. Each game is over before the joke gets old.

#2,944 on BGG

of over 30,000 ranked board games

Published 2023 · 3 years ago

newer than 71% of games

In 5,779 collections

collected more than 63% of games

1–4 players · ages 8+

Best with 2 · publisher: 12+

about 15 min

shorter than 93% of games · typical 30–90 min

Complexity: light

Explained in 5 minutes · 1.4 out of 5 · lighter than 76%

Opinions: divided

Some love it, others really don’t

Language: some text

Text on cards or in the rules

Play style: competitive · solo too

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