Nobel Run

About the game

What is Nobel Run?

Nobel Run is a deck-building game in which you’ll manage a research team, hire predocs, postdocs and seniors, publish articles and get funding through international projects. Top scientists and inventors will help you in your quest. Will you win the Nobel Prize? The goal of the game is to get 20 or more prestige points. These will allow you to win the Nobel Prize. You can get prestige points by: - Publishing scientific papers. - Getting research grants. - Hiring staff. - With the help of scientists and inventors. During the game, players will use the resources generated by their cards to pay the cost of the cards available in the common card pool. In this way, research grants, lab equipment, researchers, scientists and inventors will be added to their individual deck. Turn by turn, players will expand and improve their research team. But the research world is not easy! Along their way, players will face different situations that will make their run for the Nobel prize much harder.

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