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Gizmos
Year
2018
Players
24
Play time
50min
Min age
14+
Weight
2.06
BGG rating
7.36
BGG rank
#417
Best with
3

MeepleMates notes for Gizmos

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  • Gizmos is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
  • Best with 3 player according to player poll data.
  • BoardGameGeek average rating 7.36 and BGG rank #417.
  • Groups use this page to connect Card Game, Science Fiction metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
  • Recommended player counts include 2, 4.
The smartest minds of our generation are gathering together at the Great Science Fair. Everyone's been working hard on their creations, but only one will be crowned champion. Contestants have to think on the fly to build their machines quickly and efficiently. Whose project will be the best? In Gizmos, you win the game by gaining victory points from building engines. And engines help you get things done faster. Whoever builds the greatest machine and collects the most victory points wins! At the beginning of the game, you have 4 actions: File : Put a card in the public to your Archive, allow you to build it later. Pick : Take one energy marble from the 3D marble dispenser, to your storage. Build : Build one machine and put it on action! You have to pay the marbles with colors corresponding to the card cost. Research : Draw some cards, and you can then File or Build one of the drawn cards. The rest go to the bottom of their deck. Machines give you victory points, and allow you to do more actions when conditions are met. As you build, new attachments can trigger chain reactions, letting you do even more on your turn.

Categories

Card GameScience Fiction

Mechanics

Open DraftingRaceAction QueueContracts

Best with how many players

1
Not rec.
2
Recommended
3
Best
4
Recommended
4+
Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

No necessary in-game text(21 of 26 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Family Game Rank#91
  • Strategy Game Rank#308

Learn to play

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External data

No Wikidata data is stored for this game yet. If the scheduled enrichment has run recently, Wikidata probably has no BGG mapping for it.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 07/09/2026.