Board Games with Scott 054 - Cosmic Encounter

Cosmic Encounter is a remake of a classic board game about aliens with super powers trying to populate the galaxy.

Cosmic Encounter Board Game

Cosmic Encounter
Toy (Fantasy Flight Games)
(Amazon.com)

List Price: $65.99
Price: $38.69
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Playing Time: 1-2 hrs
Featuring 50 alien races and 100 plastic ships
Number of Players: 3 - 5

Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Alliance Board Game
Toy (Fantasy Flight Games)
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List Price: $24.99
Price: $16.10
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Adds components for an additional player
The third expansion for cosmic encounter, the classic game of interstellar politics
Includes official rules for large games (up to eight players, if you own all three expansions)

Cosmic Encounter
Toy (Avalon Hill (Hasbro))
(Amazon.com)


Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Conflict Expansion
Toy (Fantasy Flight Games)
(Amazon.com)

List Price: $24.99
Price: $16.10
You Save: $8.89 (36%)

Features components for an additional player
Offers 20 exciting new aliens
Includes the new Hazard Deck, adding game-changing effects

Cosmic Incursion
Toy (Fantasy Flight Games)
(Amazon.com)

List Price: $27.99
Price: $16.10
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For Ages: 12+
20 new alien races
Add 6th player to your Cosmic Encounter games

Close Encounters: NASA Discovers Two New Earth-Sized Planets!

, Man! And there's so much out there! Like the two new planets that NASA just discovered , hanging out 1000 light-years outside of our solar system, looking suspiciously similar in size to our very own Earth.

The two planets, dubbed Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are orbiting around a star similar to our sun. Since they're so close to their own gaseous sun-star, the Keplers are too hot to harbor life, but they're still freaking awesome! "This is a most important milestone," said Francois Fressin , the lead author of the paper describing the planets . "It demonstrates for the first time that Earth-sized planets exist around other stars, and secondly that we are now able to detect them."

On top of that, the Keplers are blowing scientist's minds because they prove that there's more than one way to form a solar system. Ours, for example, features larger and more gaseous planets further away from the sun, but Kepler-20's system features five planets of alternating size. "Now we're realizing that there's a larger variety of solar systems out there," said Jason Rowe , a research scientist with NASA.

Cosmic Encounter Board Game- News


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