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2018 Ranked #7,616

War Of The Buttons

A dice game has rival childhood gangs use personal and neutral dice to build their own huts. Help from an older sibling and school trouble can shift the race for materials.

Family Games Dice Movies / TV / Radio theme Worker Placement Dice Rolling

Players

2-4

Play time

45-70 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2.36/5

Rating

6.48

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

In War of the Buttons, 2-4 players lead a "gang" of kids who try to build their own hut. To do this, they use both their own dice and "neutral" dice, while hoping for help from their "big brother" and for no one to tattle on them at school.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Dice Rolling

Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Worker Placement

Commit limited workers to action spaces before opponents occupy them.
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In War of the Buttons, 2-4 players lead a "gang" of kids who try to build their own hut. To do this, they use both their own dice and "neutral" dice, while hoping for help from their "big brother" and for no one to tattle on them at school. War of the Buttons uses themes of the 1912 novel La Guerre des Boutons by Louis Pergaud.

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Type

1
Family Games

Category

3
Dice Movies / TV / Radio theme Novel-based

Mechanism

2
Dice Rolling Worker Placement

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
3–4
Play time
45–70 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.4/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Andreas Steding

Artists

1
Harald Lieske

Publishers

1
ADC Blackfire Entertainment GmbH

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