Mada
BGG rank
BGG #6,353
BGG rating
6.8

Mada

2022

Rules assistance for Mada

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

  • 2–5 players
  • 20 min
  • 6+
  • Complexity 1.1/5

For 2 players

Rules assistant for Mada

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Mada is a board game released in 2022 for 2–5 players, 20 minutes per game, and ages 6 and up. It was designed by Sophia Wagner and its main mechanics are Hand Management, Take That, and Push Your Luck.

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About the game

In this hand-management and risk-taking game, you are playing ring-tailed lemurs living on the island of Madagascar.
Your goal: collect as many prickly pears as possible. Each turn, players must choose 1 of 3 actions: play a card, draw or take a risk. The card played has to be equal or higher than the previous one. Playing high cards will bring you more points, but it will also end the round faster, to your advantage or the one of your opponents. If special cards can help you, they will definitely surprise the others and bring interaction.
 Players win prickly pears at the end of each round, unless they lost it. Game stops when a player has collected 5 cards. —description from the publisher

Designers

Publishers

  • Buró
  • Siam Board Games
  • Fractal Juegos
  • Helvetiq
  • Nasza Księgarnia
  • Sugorokuya

Questions and answers

Mada supports 2–5 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.