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The Perfect Wave

The Perfect Wave 2023

7.0 /10
BGG rating
#11406
BGG rank
2.0
Weight
2–4
Players
2
Best at
30–60
Minutes
8
Age

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About the Game

Grab your board, paddle out, and try to put together the most impressive sequence of tricks on some of the most iconic waves in the world. Show your skills better than your rivals, and you’ll ride the perfect wave to victory!

The Perfect Wave presents a very fun and unique challenge. You’ll need to successfully create a wave by drafting Wave cards to construct a sequence, earning points for runs and sets of numbers. Play Trick cards to show off and score bonuses. But you’ll also need to simultaneously focus on paddling far enough out in the water to actually catch, surf, and score the very wave you're creating!

And here’s the twist...the more time spent creating your wave, the less you’ll be able to paddle out...and the more you paddle out, the trickier it becomes to create your wave! You’ll need careful planning and expert timing to balance these goals and win the game!

The Perfect Wave was the winner of the 2021 Cardboard Edison Award.

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Mechanics
BGG ratings
135 · geek rating 5.57
BGG data
refreshed Sep 7, 2026

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