Brasky
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 Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:02 pm Post subject: Unexploded Cow |
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When we were thinking about starting this website about five or six years ago, I bought a bunch of different "budget" games to see what kind of products other company's were making. One of them was Unexploded Cow. At the time, I think I paid $7 USD at my local gamestore. Knowing that it was a closed-bank monetary card game, and my oldest at the time was only six, I knew I wasn't going to get to play it with my kids or anyone, but I just wanted to see what the game was like. I immediately loved it. The premise was great:
| Cheap Ass Games wrote: | Europe. Summer. 1997.
You and your friends have discovered two problems with a common solution: Mad Cows in England and Unexploded Bombs in France.
You've decided to bring these two powderkegs together just to see what happens. And you wouldn't say "no" to a little money on the side.
So round up your herd, march them through France, and set them loose behind the Cordon Rouge. If you're lucky you'll come home rich before Greenpeace gets hold of you.
Either way, there's something magical about blowing up cows. |
I couldn't wait for my kids to age four years or more so we could play this. Then I promptly put it on my game shelf and forgot about it.
Then last week my 12 year old went to my office to get Infernal Contraption (which we love and play all the time-- make sure to add the sabotage deck) and came back into the living room with it, wide-eyed. He said: "Daddio. I don't know what Unexploded Cow is. But I know I want to play it." I told him we'd try it out the next weekend.
Well the next weekend was tonight and the four oldest and I sat around and tried it out tonight. How do I put this simply? Oh I know:
We loved it.
There's actually a lot of depth to making sure your field is placed properly and then trying to screw over other people's cow fields by putting spies or contaminated cows in theirs. And at the end of each person's turn, you blow up a cow. Who could ask for anything more?
The money flies fast, and it's hard to tell who's winning. By the end of the game, I thought I was either first or second place. Instead I was last. I lost $650 over the course of the game, by far the worst of all five players. The game took about an hour and a half, but I think next time we'll shave fifteen to twenty minutes off that because we now know all the rules. The learning curve is shallow and figuring out how gameplay runs smoothly was easy-- even for my seven year old. That being said, there's a ton of strategy involved in the cow placement, which we all learned very quickly.
It was a hell of a lot of fun and I highly recommend it. |
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