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Designed By	Wolfgang Kramer
Art By
Published By	Kosmos (Franckh-Kosmos)
Year Published	1994
# of Players:	2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 3, 4, 5 players (8 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (3 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (3 voters) [poll]
Category	Economic
Mechanic	Stock Holding
Primary Name	Big Boss
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Big Boss is a game of founding companies, expanding existing companies, taking over smaller companies and share buying. The game is explicitly based on the Sid Sackson classic Acquire and shares many similarities to that game though mergers are not as prevalent or crucial in Big Boss. The main differences between the two games include the three dimensional aspect of Big Boss, and the existence of a strong monetary incentive to expand companies that you do not control.

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2	News To Be Reimplemented as Alcazar	2009-06-29	cbrua	3
11	Reviews The Man of my Dreams	2008-06-02	Neendy	1
0	News New Version of Big Boss	2006-09-13	Forza	13
2	Variants Big Boss: Who knows these 2 variants?	2006-07-08	schnapp	5
0	Sessions Big Boss with 6, no real surprises	2006-02-06	i7dealer	0
1	Reviews Big Boss: The Quick and Dirty	2005-12-03	CortexBomb	0
1	Reviews Tao of Gaming Review	2005-08-29	Bankler	0
0	General Stock: Public or Private?	2005-08-07	CortexBomb	1
0	General Etage Card Distribution	2004-08-31	rschmucker	3
1	Reviews User Review	2004-07-09	b0ardgamer	0

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Big Boss English Rules

Updated English rules. Originally downloaded from The Game Cabinet. I have made clarifications and filled in holes.

Stephen Glenn

2009-05-29

Big Boss Rules Clarifications.doc

Big Boss rules clarifications by Ivan Hanley (MS Word)

Ivan

2003-06-25

bigboss_proto_german.pdf

Prototype rules (in German) discovered in Sid Sackson's collection. The name was originally BIG MAC with a restaurant theme.

engelstein

2003-05-06

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User Rank:	686
Num Ratings:	214
Average Rating:	7.20
Standard Deviation:	1.38
Num Views:	23933
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Avg. Game Weight:	2.5
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Personal Comments:	95
Users Owning:	147
Users Wanting:	87
Users Trading:	0
Has Parts For Trade:	0
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Total Plays:	342
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Review from the Game Report Online Website	http://www.gamereport.com/tgr15/bigboss.html	2001-11-02
Review from Ken Tidwell's Game Cabinet	http://www.gamecabinet.com/sumo/Issue19/BigBoss.ht...	2001-11-02
Rules in HTML (Game Cabinet)	http://gamecabinet.com/rules/BigBoss.html	2001-11-21

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