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Big Badaboom

Testing Bombs for Gold

Big Badaboom is a new “big” edition of Badaboom, packed in a bomb-shaped casing; and again we find ourselves in chaotic fantasy regions: The High Necromancer is very furious: The Alliance of the Obnoxiously Good Races bombards the Army of Darkness with exploding devices and he has nothing to repay them in kind because he lacks this technology of explosives. We players are Goblins and prisoners of this angry necromancer and must experiment in a research dungeon with explosive matters and find out what triggers the bombs and what damage they do. In case we survive those experiments and explosions or save mechanisms out of the remains of an explosion or master other tasks we earn gold.

In each round one player holds the bomb; it is represented by cards and is changed by exchanging cards. An explosion must be announced and can be mitigated by cards in order to survive. Each round consists of drawing cards, pre-experiment phase with announcement of a trick card, experimental phase with an experiment for the owner of the bomb by exchanging a card in the bomb, post-experiment phase in analogy to the pre-experiment phase, explosion phase and handing-on of the bomb to the next player. If you survive you receive gold, and if you have 10 gold you bribe the guard, flee the dungeon and win.

The mechanism is simple and isn’t very demanding; the topic is funny and wittily implemented and all depends a lot on luck of the draw and distribution of the cards - but it is fun to play, and dying is not too bad: you simply discard your cards and draw new ones; you are working for a Necromancer, after all!

Players: 3-5

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Team Gigantoskop

Art: Jesper Moberg, Peter Svärd

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Gigantoskop 2012

Web: www.gigantoskop.se

Genre: Card game

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: de en se

In-game text: yes

Comments:

New addition

Attractive Packaging

Funny topic

Good, albeit chance-driven, mechanism

Compares to:

Badaboom

Other editions:

Badaboom

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0