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St. Louis Public Library Board Games @ Central

Welcome to the Board Games @ Central LibGuide! This guide provides information about the board game collection at the St. Louis Public Library's Central Branch.

Back to the Future: The Card Game

From the Librarian: Back to the Future: The Card Game lets you become a time traveler working to protect pivotal events from being altered, using a unique time travel simulation mechanic. Fans of the Back to the Future franchise and strategic card games will enjoy manipulating the timeline and outsmarting opponents in this clever and thematic adventure.


 

From the Publisher: Now you can jump into the action of the Back to the Future movies, with this ingenious new time travel card game! Your mission is to make sure pivotal events are not changed by other time travelers before time travel itself gets un-invented. Using a unique, patented game mechanic for simulating time travel, Andrew Looney now puts you in the driver's seat of the famous DeLorean!

Game Play

In this game you are a time traveler, a descendant of one of the characters in the Back to the Future movies. Unfortunately, other time travelers have been tampering with events in your past, endangering your very existence. You must put things back in the ways that seem right to you, then stop Doc Brown from ever inventing time travel, which will freeze reality the way you need it to be, once and for all. The game is played entirely with cards, but has the feel of a board game since important events are represented by a special grid of 24 cards called the TimeLine.

Game Details

Players 2-6
Playtime 20-60Min
Complexity 1.75/5
Skills/Mechanics Thematic