I'm still trying to fill out my international sets - it seems near impossible, many are out of print and seem to have disappeared.
I also maintain a comprehensive list of all versions of Cosmic Encounter.
Here's a photo of the collection at it's peak before I sold off a big chunk of the extras. And here's an older photo of the whole collection (and without captions). Here it is in 2019
If I have more than two sets then I am likely to be willing to sell/trade, but only if you're trying to find something hard to get - not if you're thinking you'll get a cheaper price than ebay.
| MIB/ New/ Used |
Year | Manufacturer | Component | Images | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0/1/0 | 1972 | Eon | Prototype Powers Prototype Covers |
Powers: Anti-Matter, Calculator, Diplomat, Filch, Gambler, Insect, Miser, Sorcerer Black background powers: Chronos, Void, Trader, Virus, Plant, Amoeba, Philanthropist, Dictator, Oracle, Vulch, Worm Renamed Powers: Fixer/Dictator, Forger Covers: "M. Carroll: Oracle in Ring Nebula" and others.. |
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| 1/2/0 | 1977 | Eon | Cosmic Encounter [landscape box] | front contents | Two sets are unplayed, cards are shrinkwrapped, powers and disks are connected |
| 2/3/2 | 1978 | Eon | Cosmic Encounter [oracle box] | front back | Two sets are mint in shrinkwrap, one set is unpunched, one set very used but with exp 1-9 |
| 1/0/1 | 1979 | Avalon Hill | Dune | Dune themed variation of Cosmic. There were two boxes, one cover had the sand worm, and a 1984 reprint with the worm and Sting on the cover (due to the movie) (and there were actually two prints of the Sting cover with a very slight variation in the small text) | |
| 0/1/5 | 1982 | Eon | Cosmic Encounter [big box] | front | One set unpunched, one set tokens unpunched, one set missing a Compromise card |
| 1/1/6 | 1977 | Eon | Expansion #1 | Silver (0/0/2) and Purple (2) tokens | |
| 1/1/6 | 1977 | Eon | Expansion #2 | Gold (0/0/3) and Orange (2) tokens | |
| 1/2/5 | 1978 | Eon | Expansion #3 | ||
| 1/2/5 | 1979 | Eon | Expansion #4 | ||
| 2/0/3 | 1980 | Eon | Expansion #5 | ||
| 1/0/5 | 1981 | Eon | Expansion #6 | Lucre unpunched in open set | |
| 1/1/5 | 1981 | Eon | Expansion #7 | ||
| 0/35/0 | 1981? | Eon | Blank Cards | I have 35. I'd like more, not less. | |
| 1/1/3.5 | 1982 | Eon | Expansion #8 | The '.5' is an open set that's missing 24 of the cards (non-flares) | |
| 2/1/3 | 1983 | Eon | Expansion #9 | 2 in Mint condition, stickers unused! | |
| 1/0/2 | 1984 | Tsukuda Hobbies | コズミツク エンカウンタ | front | After 20 years, I finally managed to not only find a photo of this, but actually got a copy, and it's in shrinkwrap. |
| 0/0/1 | 198? | Eon | T-Shirt | front (back empty) | Verified (by photo) by Olotka and Kittredge and Eberle, only about 500 of these were made! |
| 0/1/0 | 198? | Eon | Cosmic Guarantee (flyer) | flyer | A promo ad - not sure where it came from. "Cosmic Guarantee. Your money back if you don't agree with the following..." |
| 0/0/1 | 1983 | Grow Jogos e Brinquedos | Contatos Cósmicos (Brazil rip off) | Very used, and seems to be missing one card (anyone have a components list?). Note that this game was bootlet (not licensed by Eon) | |
| 1/1/0 | 1985 | Altenburg-Stralsunder (ASS) | König der Sterne [German/West End] | front 2 | I have two different printings of this - not sure which came first |
| 2/1/0 | 1986 | West End | Cosmic Encounter | front | Two sets are mint in shrinkwrap, one set is unpunched |
| 0/1/1 | 1986 | Games Workshop | Cosmic Encounter [British/West End] | front | |
| 0/1/0 | 1986 | Descartes | Rencontre Cosmique [French/West End] | front | (JD/L003: single set) |
| 0/0/1 | 1986 | VIP Of Gaming | Dune Variant | ||
| 1/0/0 | 1987 | Alga/Brio | Universums Härskare [Swedish/West End] | This took years to track down! Set is in shrinkwrap | |
| 1/2/1 | 1991 | Mayfair | Cosmic Encounter | front | One in shrinkwrap! |
| 2/1/2 | 1992 | Mayfair | More Cosmic Encounter | front | Two sets mint in shrinkwrap |
| 2/1/0 | 1995 | Mayfair | Simply Cosmic Encounter | front | One set is mint in shrinkwrap |
| 0/0/1 | 1995 | Avalon Hill | Dune Expansion: Ixians/Landsraad | (Article in AH's The General May 1995 magazine) | |
| + | ? | Mayfair | Parts: extra hexes, blank cards, etc.. | I have copies of all of these, most are in shrinkwrap | |
| 1/0/0 | 1991 | Hexagames / TST-Enterprises | Cosmic Encounter [German/Mayfair] | front | Mint in shrinkwrap |
| 1/1/0 | 2000 | Hasbro/Avalon Hill | Cosmic Encounter | front | One set is mint in shrinkwrap |
| 0/1/0 | 2008 | Fantasy Flight Games | Cosmic Encounter | "Text" Cover. Started playing this to get used to the new set | |
| 0/1/0 | 2008-... | Fantasy Flight Games | FFG Expansions | Incursion (2010), Conflict (2011), Alliance (2012), Storm (2013), Dominion (2014), Eons (2016), odyssey (2022) | |
| 1/0/0 | 2009 | Arclight/Fantasy Flight Games | CE コズミツク エンカウンタ[Japan] | Quasi-shrink wrapped - the box isn't shrink wrapped, but the contents are. | |
| 1/0/0 | 2009 | Arclight/Fantasy Flight Games | コズミツク エンカウンタ 銀河強襲 | Expansion "Galaxy Assault" | "Galaxy Assault" / 銀河強襲 (Incursion) expansion |
| 0/1/0 | 2011 | Fantasy Flight Games | Cosmic Encounter | "Parasite" Cover | |
| 1/0/0 | 2016 | Game of Thrones: The Iron Throne | Reskin of Cosmic Encounter - not to be confused with the other FFG Game Of Thrones board games "Edition 1" and "Edition 2" | ||
| 1/0/1 | 2017 | Fantasy Flight Games | Game of Thrones: The Wars to Come | Expansion for 2016 GoT | |
| 1/0/0 | 2018 | Fantasy Flight Games | Cosmic Encounter 42nd Anniversary | "Sorcerer" Cover. Basically a reprint of FFG with a few cosmetic changes | |
| 1/0/0 | 2019 | Gale Force Nine | Dune | ||
| 1/0/0 | 2019 | Gale Force Nine | Dune expansion: Ixians & Tleilaxu | ||
| 0/1/0 | 2020 | Fantasy Flight Games | Cosmic Encounter Duel | Two player Cosmic Encounter variation | |
| Miniatures | |||||
| 0/0/1 | 1980? | Archive Miniatures | #2101 Wrack | Wrack | |
| 0/1/0 | 1980? | Archive Miniatures | #2102 Oracle | Oracle | |
| 2/0/1 | 1980? | Archive Miniatures | #2103 Mind, Macron | Mind, Macron | 2 still in packaging! (and one extra Macron) |
| 0/0/1 | 1980? | Archive Miniatures | #2104 Zombie | Zombie | |
| 0/1/0 | 1980? | Archive Miniatures | #2104 Sorcerer | Sorcerer | |
| 0/2/0 | 1980? | Archive Miniatures | #2104 Healer | Healer | |
| 0/1/0 | 1995? | Avalon Hill | Demo pin | Pin | Supposedly these were given to demoers at Origins/Gen Con and ~50 were made |
| Magazines | |||||
| 1@ | 1983 | Encounter Magazine | Vol 1, Num 1-6 | Info | |
| 1@ | 1991 | Encounter Magazine | Vol 2, Num 1-3 (3 of 1), mint 2.1 (two of them),2.2 | cover | Info |
| 1 | 1981 | Space Gamer | Mar, #37 | cover | Review of Cosmic Encounter by Steve Jackson |
| 1 | 1981 | Space Gamer | Oct, #44 | cover | Exp 6+7 review |
| 1 | 1982 | Space Gamer | Nov, #57 | cover, txt | Steve Jackson's new powers: Apostle, Diplomat, Swarm, Twit, Angel, Fog, Berserker, Wizard, Teleport, Stone, Blade, Blivit |
| 1 | 1983 | Space Gamer | Apr, #62 | cover | Nova variation (not the card game) - each player has a token with a hidden mark '*' on the back. When it goes to the warp, the player can Nova and use any extra power that is not being used by any other player. |
| 1 | 1983 | Space Gamer | Nov, #66 | cover | Aberrations in Cosmic Encounter |
| 1984 | Space Gamer | Mar #73 | cover | Multiple-Power Aliens for Cosmic Encounter (Allen Varney) | |
| 1 | 1986 | White Dwarf | Jun #78 | cover, contents [pdf] | New power cards: Reincarnator, Changeling, Warrior, Grudge (contents page has a misprint claiming it's April) |
| 1 | 2001 | Moves | Apr,May #104 | cover | Featured: AH CE |
| 1978 | Spartan | ??? #12 | txt | Nick Sauer's power adaptations (Alloy, Empire) | |
| 1978 | Spartan | Nov/Dec #14? | Powers: Revolutionary, Initiative, Usurper, Vampire, Gods, Mercenary, Contract, Berserker, Phoenix | ||
| 1978 | Spartan | Nov/Dec #15 | cover | New powers? | |
