Unconscious Mind Board Game

In the early 1900s, the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud established arevolutionary theory called psychoanalysis, related to the study of theunconscious mind. As his work took hold, supporters met at Freud's apartmentevery Wednesday to discuss psychology and dream symbolism. This group—theWednesday Psychological Society—marked the beginning of the worldwidepsychoanalytic movement.

As a member of this society, you aim to formulate new therapeutic techniques,establish a practice, grow your clientele, and become Freud’s mostdistinguished contemporary. To best accomplish this, you’ll need to shareinsights, discuss ideas with peers, and publish theories. And to stayinvigorated, you’ll likely need some coffee—lots of coffee.

Unconscious Mind is a euro-style game featuring worker placement, enginebuilding, multiple rondels, and cascading effects. On your turn, you may placeone or two Ideas (workers) on a central Meeting Table to access a variety ofactions, such as adding tiles to your player board, drafting and playing cards,and moving around the city of Vienna. Where you place your Ideas also determineshow far to advance your rondel’s inkpot, activating a row or column of tileeffects on your player board.

To treat your clients and interpret their dreams, you must work with a supplyof Insight resources, which you’ll manage on a multi-level dial. As you workthrough surface-level Manifest dreams into deep-seated Latent dreams, theseInsights will help your clients reach catharsis. This is represented by liftingtransparent layers from the client cards—unlocking their ongoing specialabilities and end-game scoring opportunities.

Once the group has solidified its reputation, the end of the game issignaled, and the member with the most points wins.

Contents:

• 1 Meeting Board
• 1 Map Board
• 4 Insight Dials
• 4 Clientele Dials
• 4 Player Boards
• 7 Goal Tiles
• 9 Treatise Dials
• 60 Technique Tiles
• 6 City Recall Overlay Tiles
• 5 Professor Meeples
• 1 First Player Token
• 4 Inkpot Markers
• 4 Coffee Markers
• 5 Reputation Markers
• 8 Treatment Markers
• 52 Insight Tokens
• 4 Scoring Markers
• 24 Idea Tokens
• 16 Bright Idea Tokens
• 1 Fireworks Standee
• 1 Grief Layer Dispenser Box
• 24 Grief Layer Cards
• 2 Rulebooks (Core & Solo)
• 12 General Client Cards
• 12 Advanced Client Cards
• 24 Manifest Dream Cards
• 24 Latent Dream Cards
• 4 Letter Cards
• 24 Map Tokens
• 36 Research Cards
• 4 Reference Booklets
• 6 Solo Row Cards
• 6 Solo Column Cards
• 9 Solo Technique Tiles