Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Balance animals by weight and gender, shift Noah between boats, and empty your hand before the ark fleet sails.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Noah is a compact hand-management game about loading animals onto a fleet of boats without tipping the balance. On a turn, play an animal whose gender follows the current boat’s rule, then move Noah to another vessel according to that animal’s movement value. A boat launches when its total weight reaches exactly twenty-one, while an overload forces the active player to take the stack. Special animals twist those constraints, and keeping a varied hand makes it easier to avoid the penalty points left after three rounds.
