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The Trash Travelers
2025
Rules assistance for The Trash Travelers
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
- 1–4 players
- 60–90 min
- 9+
- Complexity 3.0/5
Rules assistant for The Trash Travelers
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The Trash Travelers is a board game released in 2025 for 1–4 players, 60–90 minutes per game, and ages 9 and up. It was designed by Augusto Lima and Carolina Semrau and its main mechanics are Set Collection, Dice Rolling, and Cooperative Game.
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About the game
The Trash Travelers: A Cooperative Adventure to Save the Ocean! Based on a true story, you will embark on an extraordinary journey with "The Trash Traveler" to save the world's most important ecosystem: the ocean. The game takes you as a team on a thrilling adventure through picturesque landscapes that are flooded with trash. On your clean up journey, you save endangered animals, meet experts and scientists to understand the complexity of environmental issues, and use creativity to find solutions and inspire people. While trying to clean up the planet, we learn along the journey that it is not about cleaning but about working together and achieving common goals. The Trash Travelers invites you to dive deep into ocean and climate issues, making every play an educational and impactful experience. Work together, make strategic decisions, and see our world become a better place, one step at a time. Your mission: Raise awareness and inspire as many people as possible to save our base to life - a healthy ocean. Highlights: Cooperative Gameplay: Work as a team to find solutions and achieve common goals. Educational Fun: Learn about plastic pollution and environmental issues. Dynamic Challenges: Face unique obstacles and save animals. Creative Outcomes: Deliver trash to artists and witness art come to life. Impactful Story: Raise awareness and contribute to a better planet.
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Publishers
- The Trash Traveler Games
Questions and answers
The Trash Travelers supports 1–4 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.
The listed playing time for The Trash Travelers is 60–90 minutes. This is the publisher’s estimate for a full game. The actual duration depends on the group, the player count and familiarity with the rules: first sessions usually run longer, while experienced groups often finish faster. Setup and teaching time are not included in this estimate.
The catalogue lists The Trash Travelers for ages 9 and up. This is the publisher’s recommendation and reflects reading demands, rule complexity and small components rather than theme alone. Younger players can often join with help from an adult, so check the age guidance on your edition and consider your group’s experience with board games.
The Trash Travelers has a complexity rating of 3.0 out of 5 from BoardGameGeek players, which makes it a medium-weight game. The rating reflects how much rules knowledge, planning and decision-making a typical game demands. Expect a longer first teach for heavier games, and use a preparation guide before game night.
The Trash Travelers belongs to these categories: Animals, Travel, and Adventure. Its main mechanics are Set Collection, Dice Rolling, and Cooperative Game. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of The Trash Travelers are: Augusto Lima and Carolina Semrau. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists The Trash Travelers as a base game. It can be played on its own with the components in the box and does not require any other title. Expansions, if any exist, add new content or rules on top of it and are listed separately in the catalogue with a link back to this base game.