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Clacks: A Discworld Board Game

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Category: Base game

Clacks: A Discworld Board Game is based on the "Clacks" semaphore messaging system — the fastest (non-magical) messaging system on the Discworld — featured in Sir Terry Pratchett's novel Going Postal.

Using a semaphore system of shuttered lamps on top of high towers, the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company has revolutionized long-distance communications on the Discworld. Their network of towers covers most of the Unnamed Continent, but now the old postal service is fighting back. Driven by the determination of newly "volunteered" Post Master Moist Von Lipwig, the Ankh-Morpork Post Office has challenged the Clacks operators to a race from Ankh-Morpork to Genua.

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Harper K. ★★★★★

I've never played a board game that made a fictional messaging system feel this tense — routing your clacks towers before your opponent shuts yours down is genuinely nerve-wracking. Reading Going Postal years ago didn't prepare me for how satisfying it is to actually send a message across the Disc.

Robert B. ★★★★★

The semaphore mechanics really click once you see how the clacks towers chain across the board, and it captures that Going Postal scramble perfectly. Took one round to teach, and now it's our default weeknight game.

Thomas H. ★★★★★

Played this with three friends who've never read Pratchett and they still got hooked on the tower-building mechanics. The way the semaphore cards chain together makes every turn feel tense, and it plays in about an hour.