Cover art for BOOM: The Atomic War Card Game

BOOM: The Atomic War Card Game

2025 · BGG
Avg rating
8.00
Bayes rating
0.00
Weight
0.00 (Light)
Players
2-8
Playtime
1 hr
Ratings count
1

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Description

BOOM is a retro ’50s - early ’60s, Politically Incorrect, Insensitive, Irreverent, Totally Outrageous, Obnoxious, Nostalgic, tongue-in-cheek, "Beer and Pretzels," "Gotcha!" Atomic War Card Game for 2 - 8 players. It takes about 30 minutes to play. While deceptively easy, quick, and fun to play, BOOM is a biting satire of one of our biggest fears. Although an anti-war game, BOOM recaptures the Espionage, Propaganda, Pacifist versus Hawk Ideologies, rumors of a Doomsday Machine, Assassinations, and many other Cold War Atomic Age tactics in a nostalgic, darkly humorous, but also very deadly way. The game's winner is often a loser, thus proving that war — especially one involving Weapons of Mass Destruction — is not very nice! Even the buck-tooth cow, standing alone in an empty field, a zero-value City Card that has just been BOOMed, agrees with that! Moof! —description from the designer

Play mode

Competitive

How it plays

Area control & tactical conflict Card play & hand management Deduction & hidden information

Game type

Card game Party game Wargame
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What it’s about

Mystery, crime & investigation

Publishers

(Self-Published)

Designers

Steve LeShay