The constellations are out of alignment, and it’s up to you to set them right. Only your opponent knows how you’re really doing, so you’ll need to ask the right questions, and use your deduction skills to make sure your stars are set straight!

What Is It?

🥅 The Goal is to be the first player to align your star cards
⚙️ Deduction / Logic – Each turn, players can rearrange their facedown cards, then show 2 to their opponent, asking the various questions available to them (depending on game mode) to deduce where the cards need to be in order to be aligned
⚙️Variable Set-Up – There are 2 main modes, as well as additional variants to change gameplay / difficulty

Who Is It For?

👥2 Players – Strictly head-to-head
👥Ages 10 & Up – I think the basic “star light” game is a great light deduction for younger (and older) audiences, and you can gradually increase to “star bright” with the additional questions, and add in the black holes/other variants once you’re familiar with the game
👥Fans of 2 player games, logic/deduction, variable set-up, and stars!

PROS

🟢Aesthetics – GORGEOUS look across the cards
🟢Components – Nice quality cards, player tokens, and cardboard chits. I like the “drawer-like” box, that was unique
🟢Rules are overall well-written
🟢Turns are snappy
🟢Good replay value – Multiple ways to play
🟢I’m glad you have the option to take notes or use the tokens to track information

CONS

🔴We didn’t have enough tracking tokens (particularly “neighbors”). We actually thought it would have been better to give each card it’s own symbol on a token, and then take notes off that
🔴Luck of the shuffle can mean one player starts with more cards aligned than the other at times
🔴I wish there were more images in the rulebook, to show examples. There is only 1 picture of set-up.

Final Thoughts

This game is absolutely gorgeous, and I has fun playing it. It plays really smoothly, and I like the different game modes/variants to keep things fresh.

There’s definitely a bit of luck involved, as randomizing the star cards at the beginning means players will have uneven starting set-ups (for example, one game I played, one player had 3 cards aligned from the start, and happened to ask about them very early on, giving them quite a leg up). But, it’s a pretty quick game overall, so it’s not too bad, because you can always reshuffle and start again!

If you generally like logic/deduction games, it’s worth checking out!

Additional Information:
My Final Rating – 6.5/10

Designers – Jason Hager, Darren Reckner
Artist – Jason Hager
Publisher – Weird Giraffe Games
MSRP – $25.00 (base game)
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*I was provided a copy of this game to do this review*

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