Reap
BGG rank
BGG #17,485
BGG rating
6.9

Reap

2022

Rules assistance for Reap

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

  • 2–4 players
  • 15–30 min
  • 14+
  • Complexity 1.5/5

For 2 players

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Reap is a board game released in 2022 for 2–4 players, 15–30 minutes per game, and ages 14 and up. It was designed by Jason Anarchy and its main mechanics are Grid Movement and Constrained Bidding.

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About the game

Become death and play as a new Reaper each turn, trying to seize more souls than your fellow Reapers. Players will each draw a new Reaper Card, Place 1-3 skull tokens on either the Reap, sweep and keep located on their reaper card, behind a small Screen. Reveal their cards and take turns Reaping (moving their Reaper Meeple around the board), Sweeping (removing the less desirable souls off the board) or Keeping (attempting to out bid other players for souls of the same type that their meeple is standing on) The Player who successfully claims 9 souls by succesfully outbidding the others is the winner!

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  • Jason Anarchy Games

Questions and answers

Reap supports 2–4 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.