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SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
#14BGG8.4RATINGHOT #19
Updated Jul 27
1–4
PLAYERS
40–160
MINUTES
3
BEST WITH
3.8
HEAVY
ERRATA1
Tech tile corner notch printed in wrong position on tech boardpublisher
- RULING
- "Unfortunately, this is a tiny mistake that we've overlooked (and we had a lot of people checking the final cardboard 😊)—the spaces are indeed printed with a wrong position of the upper corner "notch". The tiles should be places with the bonus side up, as per the rulebook."
AUTHOR: thesunshineraven (Regi, publisher — Czech Games Edition)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(15 replies, 18 thumbs on ruling post)DATE: 2024-10-23
DESIGNER CLARIFICATIONS3
Card effects must be resolved in left-to-right orderpublisher
- CONTEXT
- Players asked whether card effects must be resolved in a specific order. The rulebook does not state this explicitly.
- RULING
- "Do I need to resolve the effects from left to right? Yes. The order is not strictly determined by the rules but we intended the effects to be resolved from left to right."
AUTHOR: CzechGamesEdition (Czech Games Edition, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(125 replies)DATE: 2024-10-24Unresolvable card effects are skipped; other effects still resolvepublisher
- CONTEXT
- Players asked what happens when a card effect cannot be executed (e.g., no card available to tuck for income, probe limit already reached, all four techs of one color already owned).
- RULING
- "In that case you just skip that effect. You still resolve the other effects (so for example rotate the Solar system even if you were not able to take the tech)."
AUTHOR: CzechGamesEdition (Czech Games Edition, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(125 replies)DATE: 2024-10-24Card row refill timing differs for free-action draws vs scan-action discardsdesigner
- CONTEXT
- Players were uncertain whether a card taken as a free action immediately opens a new face-up card, or whether the refill only happens after the turn's main action concludes.
- RULING
- "When you take a card with a free action, a new card is immediately reffil. If you use a card as a search signal, new cards are reffiled after the telescope action is complete."
Q&A3
Alien card icon draws only from that species' deckcommunity high-engagementlinked official source
- QUESTION
- Does the alien "draw an alien card" icon allow drawing from any alien species' deck, or only the deck of the species associated with that icon?
- ANSWER
- Only from that specific species' deck. The rulebook (p.20) states each species has its own deck and its cards "may be gained only from the alien species." The icon on an alien board space refers to that board's species, not a free choice across all alien decks.
AUTHOR: multiple community members; ruling anchored in Rulebook p.20SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(32 posts)DATE: 2024-12-06Tech tiles can be researched in any ordercommunity high-engagement
- QUESTION
- Must orange and purple tech tiles be researched in the numbered sequence (1–4), or can a player freely choose any available tech?
- ANSWER
- Any order. The numbered positions (1–4) on orange and purple tech tiles indicate which board slot the tile occupies after it is researched — they are not an acquisition sequence. Blue tech tiles are unnumbered because they can be placed in any blue slot.
Multi-space sector scoring: first winner vs subsequent winnerscommunity high-engagement
- QUESTION
- For sectors that show two reward spaces (a small separate space and a large area), which reward does the first winner claim and which do subsequent winners claim?
- ANSWER
- The first winner claims the small separate reward space. Each subsequent winner claims the large reward space. For sectors with only a single reward space, all winners including the first claim that space.
Last researched: 2026-06-10
CATEGORIES
Science Fiction·Space Exploration
MECHANICS
Area Majority / InfluenceEnd Game BonusesIncomeMulti-Use CardsResource to MoveSolo / Solitaire GameTurn Order: ProgressiveVariable Set-up
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