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The Big Book of Madness

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So far your first year at the Elementary College has been slightly disappointing. They taught you to light a flickering flame at the tip of your finger, but other than that you’ve spent much more time reading books than learning powerful spells as future great wizards like you should.

So when you heard about the Big Book of Madness hidden in the great school library, you couldn’t help but to sneak in and peek in this intriguing tome in spite of your professors’ warnings. When you slowly lift the cover of the terrible book, dozens of dreadful creatures rush out, threatening to destroy the world itself! This was your mistake, and only you can fix it now! Learn from the library to fight back against the monsters, and try not to sink into insanity…

The Big Book of Madness is a challenging co-operative game in which the players are magic students who must act as a team to turn all the pages of the book, then shut it by defeating the terrible monsters they’ve just freed.

Each player has their own element deck that they build during the game and use for several purposes, such as learning or casting a spell, adding a new element to their deck, destroy or healing a curse. Spells allow you to support your playmates, improve your deck, draw cards, etc. — but the monsters from the book fight back. Each comes with terrible curses that are triggered every turn unless you dispel them in time. They will make you discard elements, add madness cards to your deck, or lose spells…

If you manage to turn six pages and defeat all of the monsters, you win the game!

Additional information
Ages

12+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players
Play Time

60m – 90m
Designer

Maxime Rambourg
Mechanics

Cooperative Game, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Hand Management, Player Elimination, Variable Player Powers
Theme

Card Game, Fantasy
Publisher

2 Pionki, Bureau De Juegos, Devir, Hobby Japan, Redbox Editora (Redbox), REXhry, uplay.it edizioni, Broadway Toys LTD, Heidelberger Spieleverlag, IELLO, Portal Games, Reflexshop
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  1. [b]Editie:[/b] English second edition [b]Starea jocului:[/b] Foarte buna [b]Nivelul de dependenta lingvistica:[/b] Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups [b]Transport:[/b] Gratuit in tara prin Fan Curier. Predare personala Bucuresti.

  2. 4 out of 10

    The art is very pretty. However, the sessions are way too long for this kind of game and the mecanic is full of flows. For exemple, even in maximal difficulty with or without expansion, we usually dont need to kill any monster except the last one. You just have to build up your element deck then buy spells, heal some madness and be ready for the last boss in order to win. It felt quite frustrating that avoiding the core aspect of the game that is destroy curses is the simpliest way to win every single time.

  3. 10 out of 10

    Big Book of Madness is a highly cooperative game; you all succeed together or fail together. You need to resource manage individually and as a group as you try to defeat each monster by destroying curses and maintain a balance of madness. It's truly a game that requires strategic thought, a willingness to cooperate, and balance between attack, healing, and support. As the game progresses it can become stressful as players don't have the necessary resources or the wrong player has all the resources, etc. Definitely not a game for players looking to avoid stress. However, if you like being on the edge of your seat, your heart racing, and mind reeling with different possibilities; then this is the game for you. Plus, there are multiple levels of difficulty that can add to the game experience.

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