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The Thing - 2 Players

The Thing is an unauthorized non-collectible, non-profit game for two to six players, based on the 1982 horror movie masterpiece "John Carpenter's The Thing", and simulates the paranoid members of an American Antarctic research facility (Outpost 31) being overrun by - or conquering - a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. One player begins as the Thing - all the other players *start* as human.

The game is primarily played out using six asymmetrical card decks - three decks for each side (each deck corresponds to a different section of the narrative). Managing your hand of cards, and when to use each deck, is key to winning the game.

An award-winning Print-And-Play card game from Mark Chaplin, with updated art by Viktor Csete.

Includes 'The Things' expansion.



Director's cut: http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/59029/thing-card-game-rules-v3

Illustrated: http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/108834/thing-fully-illustrated-rulebook-rules-v3

Alternate-Revised, Outdated but may serve to explain some rules in a better way. http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/78608/mark-chaplins-thing-card-game-revised-rules-20

3-6 player variant also available in the workshop.