Unconscious Mind is a richly thematic and deeply strategic euro-style board game from Lucky Duck Games, designed for 1 to 4 players aged 12 and up. Step into the role of early 20th-century psychoanalysts working alongside Sigmund Freud to unlock the mysteries of the unconscious. With its elegant blend of worker placement, engine building, multi-rondel action selection, and combo chaining, this game delivers a truly immersive and intellectually stimulating gameplay experience.
🎮 How Do You Play Unconscious Mind?
In Unconscious Mind, players place "Idea" tokens (workers) on a central action board to perform actions such as:
- Adding tiles to their player board
- Drawing and playing cards
- Moving around a shared city map
Each Idea placed advances an inkpot along a rondel on your player board, activating rows or columns of effects. The game’s core also revolves around treating clients and interpreting dreams by managing “Insight” resources using a multi-layered rotating wheel system.
Players progress from surface-level manifest dreams to deeply rooted latent dreams, ultimately helping clients reach catharsis. This is represented by removing transparent overlays from client cards, unlocking powerful abilities and scoring potential.
Every decision counts, and chaining actions efficiently is key to success.
📦 What’s in the Box
- 1 Meeting board
- 1 City board
- 4 Insight dials
- 4 Client dials
- 4 Player boards
- 7 Goal tiles
- 9 Treatise dials
- 60 Technique tiles
- 6 Memory overlay tiles
- 5 Professor meeples
- 1 Starting player token
- 4 Inkpot markers
- 4 Coffee cup markers
- 5 Reputation markers
- 8 Treatment tokens
- 52 Insight tokens
- 4 Score markers
- 24 Idea tokens
- 16 Brilliant Idea tokens
- 1 Firework standee
- 1 Grief overlay dispenser box
- 24 Grief overlay cards
- 2 Rulebooks (Core & Solo mode)
- 12 General Client cards
- 12 Advanced Client cards
- 24 Manifest Dream cards
- 24 Latent Dream cards
- 4 Letter cards
- 24 City tokens
- 36 Research cards
- 4 Reference booklets
- 6 Solo row cards
- 6 Solo column cards
- 9 Solo Technique tiles
📊 Game Specifications
- Players: 1–4
- Age: 12+
- Play time: 60–120 minutes
- Language: English
- Publisher: Lucky Duck Games
- Mechanics: Worker placement, engine building, rondel, action programming, resource management
- Type: Strategic Euro board game
