Cutthroat Caverns (2007)

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Designer	Curt Covert
Artist	Paul Adam Justin Brunetto Curt Covert Ian Field-Richards Henri Härkönen Noel Hill Mats Holmgren Mark Jernstrom Bruno Krippahl Loïc Muzy Eric R. Martin Steve Messenger Morgan Rashand Chad Savage William Teo Adam Vehige Tim Wollweber Show More »
Publisher	IELLO Smirk & Dagger Games
Year Published	2007
# of Players	3 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 5, 6 players Recommended with 3, 4, 5, 6 players (32 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (7 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups (11 voters) [poll]
Honors	2008 Golden Geek Best Card Game Nominee 2008 Golden Geek Best Party Board Game Nominee
Subdomain	Thematic Games (29 voters) [vote]
Category	Adventure Card Game Fantasy Fighting Humor Show More »
Mechanic	Hand Management Role Playing Simultaneous Action Selection
Expansion	Cutthroat Caverns Adventures: B1 - Savage Arena / B2 - Errand of Evil Cutthroat Caverns: Deeper & Darker Cutthroat Caverns: Fresh Meat Cutthroat Caverns: Hex Room Promo Card Cutthroat Caverns: Relics & Ruin Cutthroat Caverns: Tombs & Tomes Show More »
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Primary Name	Cutthroat Caverns
Alternate Names	Sang Rancune 割喉探險隊
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"Without teamwork, you will never survive. Without betrayal, you’ll never win."

Cutthroat Caverns is played over 9 rounds, each with a random encounter. Essentially a game of 'kill stealing'. Each round, any monster encountered will have a prestige value of 1 through 6. The player that successfully jockeys for position and lands the killing blow gets the prestige value for the encounter. Some encounters will not have a specific monster, such as a trap room for the heroes to pass through (and in this case, earning no prestige). The surviving player with the most prestige after the 9 encounters is the winner. If the players do not survive all 9 encounters, no one wins the game.

A unique combination of cooperative game play and opportunistic backstabbing.

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Awards

2007 Dice Tower Awards: Most Innovative Game, Winner
2007 Dice Tower Awards: Best Small Publisher Game, Winner
2007 Origins Awards: Best Card Game, Nominee
2007 The Platinum Pawn Awards: Best Game of the Year, Winner
2007 About.Com Top 10 Card Games of 2007: Number 6

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Publisher: Smirk & Dagger Games

Artist: Justin Brunetto

Year: 2007

Product Code: 0040

Size: 9.50 x 6.50 x 2.00 inches

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2	Cutthroat Caverns Cutthroar Cavers (NL)	Dutch	Dharquen	0
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0	Rules Trading	2012-04-29	strongfruit	1
13	News Cutthroat Caverns: the APP. Sound off on the features!	2012-04-16	Smirky	21
9	News Cutthroat Caverns Create an Encounter Contest: WINNERS!!!!	2012-04-11	Smirky	4
0	News Fresh Meat contest results? Part_2	2012-04-10	Eric_Ande...	0
0	News Fresh Meat contest results?	2012-04-03	Eric_Ande...	4
0	Rules Need Bugaboo explained please	2012-03-10	kzatu	3
0	General questions and advice for the future first play?	2012-03-04	moses beard	6
0	Rules 7 cards limit: timing	2012-02-26	Friman	3
0	Rules When can you play action cards?	2012-02-23	stormseek...	4
0	General Can this game be played solo?	2012-02-02	Boardgame...	2

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0	Cutthroat Caverns: Relics & Ruin Rules Wereboar - Dead Player?	2012-05-03	dotjones	1
3	Cutthroat Caverns: Fresh Meat General Still on target for August?	2012-04-15	Vetinari	1
0	Cutthroat Caverns: Deeper & Darker General Where to find?	2012-03-03	draco143	3
0	Cutthroat Caverns: Hex Room Promo Card General Who do I have to sleep with around here to get a copy of this card?	2011-09-22	Zadok13	4
3	Cutthroat Caverns: Fresh Meat General Release Date?	2011-08-03	KarungGuni	8
1	Cutthroat Caverns: Tombs & Tomes Rules Gloves Of Striking	2011-07-23	Dingleberry	3
0	Cutthroat Caverns: Relics & Ruin Rules Spike Pod Damage	2011-02-19	JimmyWolf	1
0	Cutthroat Caverns: Relics & Ruin Rules Wereboar	2011-01-18	Dingleberry	1
2	Cutthroat Caverns: Hex Room Promo Card General Any other promo cards for this game?	2011-01-01	Alex...	5
1	Cutthroat Caverns Adventures: B1 - Savage Arena / B2 - Errand of Evil General So, Where Can I Pick This Up?	2010-08-12	tsilver33	14

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Wolck

2011-06-21

Genero - 7th character, editable

Here is a character card for Cutthroat you can customize with your own character art. It is a layered photoshop file. if you don't have photoshop, a pdf is also available.

Smirky

2011-06-15

Genero - a 7th Character for Cutthroat Caverns

A fan asked for a blank character card so they could play with 7 players. Here is a pdf you can print and play.

Smirky

2011-06-15

Cutthroat Caverns Encounters

List of all Encounters for Cutthroat Caverns + expansions through the adventure module released at GenCon 2010.

dbriel

2010-08-24

tsilver33's Fan Module 1: Temptation's Gold

Cutthroat Cavern's first fan made free downloadable Adventure Module. This module requires the "Relics & Ruins" Expansion Pack to play. This is only version 1.1, so expect some small grammatical errors. Have fun! Please leave any feedback either in comments or in this thread: http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/539763/temptations-gold-fan-module

tsilver33

2010-06-30

Encounter: Dread Gazebo!

A unique encounter created for the 2009 Gamer's Reunion Cutthroat Cavern's tournament. The "Dread Gazebo" is based off of the infamous RPG story about a confused Player and a small decorated building in a quiet garden.

Siddy

2009-09-27

Universal Head CUTTHROAT CAVERNS Rules Summary & Reference

The Universal Head CUTTHROAT CAVERNS Rules Summary & Reference v1 (May09). Double-sided rules summary - second edition rules plus all 3 expansions; single-sided payer reference card.

UniversalHead

2009-05-27

2.0 Cards Edited Text

This is the current wording of all the important cards in the 2.0 printed version of the game. None of the rules have changed, but the cards and interactions should be far clearer.

Smirky

2009-05-23

Polish translation of card texts from the base game and the Deeper&Darker expansion

This file contains translation of all the card texts from the base game and the first expansion (Deeper and Darker) needed to play the game. I have included the additional monsters made available on the Web.

hobb3

2008-04-25

Tuckbox for large cards from Cutthroat Caverns and Expansion 1

Tuckbox for all of the large cards from Cutthroat Caverns and the first expansion, Deeper and Darker. This includes 40 Encounter cards and the 6 Character cards. This tuckbox has a glued bottom. Base tuckbox generated at http://tuckbox.gameupdates.com/.

slith

2008-04-06

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Num Ratings:	1929
Average Rating:	6.69
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Personal Comments:	674
Users Owning:	2230
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Cutthroat Caverns Adventures: B1 - Savage Arena / B2 - Errand of Evil

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Year Published	2010

Cutthroat Caverns: Deeper & Darker

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Num Ratings	399
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Year Published	2007

Cutthroat Caverns: Fresh Meat

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Average Rating	7.70
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Year Published	2012

Cutthroat Caverns: Hex Room Promo Card

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Average Rating	7.59
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Num Owned	60
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Wishlist	35
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Year Published	2009

Cutthroat Caverns: Relics & Ruin

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Num Ratings	225
Average Rating	7.52
Average Weight	2.31

Num Owned	713
Prev. Owned	24
For Trade	19
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Wishlist	90
Comments	66
Year Published	2008

Cutthroat Caverns: Tombs & Tomes

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Num Ratings	161
Average Rating	7.55
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Wishlist	93
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Year Published	2009

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Geekdad Review	http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/06/cutthroat-cav...	2011-06-03
Cutthroat Caverns Review by Board Game Reviews by Josh	http://jedwards14thegamer.blogspot.com/2010/11/cut...	2010-11-17
English Session Report on Boardgamecafe.net	http://blog.boardgamecafe.net/2010/07/04/boardgame...	2010-07-14
Interview with Designers	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRJwFpFW24s	2010-05-21
Cory Duplantis's Video Review	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG-GRseqf9Y	2010-05-04
Dicetower Video Review of Cutthroat Caverns	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdlPWY5-tPs	2010-02-18
French review at Jedisjeux	http://www.jedisjeux.net/cutthroat-caverns-t-2241....	2010-02-05
More photos on boardgamephotos.com	http://www.boardgamephotos.com/game_pages/game_cut...	2010-01-08
Blog entry at Beware the Gazebo	http://www.dreadedgazebo.com/2008/05/cutthroat-cav...	2009-10-15
GameShark Review by Michael Barnes	http://www.gameshark.com/entertainment/features/59...	2009-08-24