13 Minutes: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
BGG rank
BGG #4,687
BGG rating
6.3

13 Minutes: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

2017

Rules assistance for 13 Minutes: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 13 min
  • 10+
  • Complexity 2.0/5

For 2 players

Rules assistant for 13 Minutes: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

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13 Minutes: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 is a board game released in 2017 for 2 players, 13 minutes per game, and ages 10 and up. It was designed by Asger Aleksandrov Granerud and Daniel Skjold Pedersen and its main mechanics are Hand Management, Area Majority / Influence, and Campaign / Battle Card Driven.

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About the game

Play the Cold War in 13 minutes. 13 Minutes: The Cuban Missile Crisis is a card-driven microgame with tough decisions. Playing as either Kennedy or Khrushchev, your aim is to exit the Cuban Missile Crisis as the most powerful superpower. During the game you play only five strategy cards that you use to place Influence on battlegrounds to score majorities or manipulate battlegrounds. Each card you play turns into a new battleground, so the "world map" is ever-changing. Be careful because each decision is important and you may trigger global nuclear war! 13 Minutes, a sequel of sorts or different take on 13 Days, builds on the classic microgame genre heralded by Love Letter, but 13M uses the card-driven game mechanism to ensure that the five cards you play each game all adds up to agonizing choices!

Publishers

  • Pegasus Spiele
  • Matagot
  • Frosted Games
  • Jolly Roger Games
  • Ludonova
  • Ultra PRO

Questions and answers

13 Minutes: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.