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2015 Ranked #18,921

Balloon Challenge

This card game has players balance played cards against cards left in hand to inflate balloons and score over five rounds. Leaving too little or too much creates an imperfect balloon, so every drop decision changes the payoff.

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Players

2-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

6.08

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.5/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.6/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Try to blow up the balloon perfectly! Baaaan!

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Try to blow up the balloon perfectly! Baaaan! Let's fly the balloons in the sky! The prince say that. The people tries to blow up a ballon, but sometimes break it, and sometimes it is not enough, still be small. However the people continues to blow up the balloons! The prince also try to blow up a ballon. Because, in his eyes, the people enjoys very well. Until the colorful balloons decorate the sky, it is a little more at that time ! The players have 5 and more cards with the numbers in the hand. The turn player can play one card in the table, or drop from the round. When all players drop the round, now scoring. The number of the played cards is the balloon size. The sum of the remained cards in the hand is the number of blowing up a balloon. For example, the 8 cards are played on the table. The cards in the hand are the three cards with 0, 2 and 4. The size is 8, and the number of blowing up is 6 (0 + 2 + 4). It is not full! The scoring is 6 points. In the game, we have the simple bonus points with the fish discs. But it is not small points. After the fifth round, the winner is the highest player!

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Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
2–3
Play time
30 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Kenichi Tanabe

Artists

1
Kawasaki Mina

Publishers

1
COLON ARC

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