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The Big Idea (2011)
3–6 players · 25 min · age 8+ · ★ 6.1 on BGG
- Players
- 3–6
- Play time
- 25 min
- Age
- 8+
- Complexity
- Light
- BGG rating
- 6.1/10
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About The Big Idea
Designer James Ernest released The Big Idea through his own Cheapass Games in 2000, with the game being a hybrid of party game and light strategy game. In that design, players would create crazy inventions from the adjective and noun cards in their hands, simultaneously choose one invention (other than their own) to invest in, pay to invest in other inventions (whether newly created that round or an earlier creation), then roll a die for each investment to see whether it pays…
Mechanics: Storytelling, Voting · Designer: James Ernest