The Looney Bin (2008)

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Board Game Rank: 4999

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Designer	Patrick Stevens
Artist	Mike Neumann Nick Bonamy
Publisher	Numbskull Games
Year Published	2008
# of Players	3 − 7
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 5 players Recommended with 3, 4, 5, 6 players (6 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	9 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (5 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable (2 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Party Games (6 voters) [vote]
Category	Card Game Horror Humor
Mechanic	Hand Management
Expansion	Looney Bin: The North Wing
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The Looney Bin is a deduction game with fast action - reaction card play that depicts the uproarious occurrences of an insane asylum. The object is to be the first to heal all the patients in your ward by treatment with various therapies. Non phasing player action ability keeps everyone involved for very little down time. Contains 35 patients, 90 staff and action cards, 35 symptom tiles and plenty of therapy chits.

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The Looney Bin is scheduled for release in October 2008 and will first be revealed at the Essen Spiel Fair. This is Numbskull Games' first release. and will be followed by Looney Bin The North Wing, an expansion set in print for release in January 2009.

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The Looney Bin

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First edition

Publisher: Numbskull Games

Artist: Mike Neumann

Year: 2008

Product Code: oo1

Size: 10.24 x 7.68 x 27.56 inches

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48	The Looney Bin Dice Tower Reviews: The Looney Bin	English	TomVasel	31
2	The Looney Bin Video Tutorial Looney Bin (thanks to Cliquenabend)	German	Ascarin	0

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11	Reviews Game Review	2011-01-22	flyboy16	1
7	Variants Retheming	2011-01-07	SamNzed	2
7	General Is the depiction of Mental Health issues in this game appropriate? [Page 1,2]	2009-07-21	jellynut	32
17	General High ratings	2009-07-17	8th Dwarf	8

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Chinese rule set

Chinese rule set by Swan-Panasia

patrick stevens

2011-01-19

Looney Bin Rules Korean

Korean translation by Jeon Yang-seop used with permission

patrick stevens

2010-12-27

Looney Bin rules in French

French Rule set translated by Stephane Maurel used with permission

patrick stevens

2010-12-01

Looney Bin rules in German

translation by Malte Stamm, used by permission

patrick stevens

2010-10-13

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1084	Games that FIRED other Games....	2010-01-04
713	Games with Inside Jokes for Gamers: A Definitive Pictorial List	2008-11-26
641	Interesting Games from Small Publishers and Less Prolific Designers	2009-02-22
387	The Dice Tower Video Reviews of 2011	2011-03-31
290	Game Designer's Shameless Shill Geeklist	2008-11-03
288	Games that won you over with one single image.	2010-07-18
256	2008 Biggest Sleeper Hits	2008-12-01
254	Games that are just plain FUN	2008-08-21
242	Board Games for Geekgold October 2010 - Wood and Sheep Edition	2010-09-20
204	Incredible underrated games for casual gamers	2011-08-13

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Board Game Rank:	4999
Party Game Rank:	160
Num Ratings:	60
Average Rating:	6.86
Standard Deviation:	2.63
Num Views:	18615
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Avg. Game Weight:	1.5
Fans:	22

Personal Comments:	38
Users Owning:	84
Users Wanting:	5
Users Trading:	4 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade:	0
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Total Plays:	130
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Looney Bin: The North Wing

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Num Ratings	20
Average Rating	8.42
Average Weight	1.33

Num Owned	33
Prev. Owned	1
For Trade	3
Want in Trade	1

Wishlist	7
Comments	13
Year Published	2009

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Looney Bin FAQ's	http://numbskullgames.com/shop/page/25?shop_param=	2012-01-22
French Rules	http://numbskullgames.com/shop/page/96?shop_param=	2011-09-19
Chinese Rules	http://numbskullgames.com/shop/page/75?shop_param=	2011-09-19
Rules (German) from Numbskull Games	http://numbskullgames.com/shop/page/60?shop_param=	2011-09-19
Rules (English) from Numbskull Games	http://numbskullgames.com/shop/page/4?shop_param=	2011-09-19
The Looney Bin Reviewed on The Gaming Gang Podcast	http://thegaminggang.com/2010/10/the-tgg-show-epis...	2011-08-17
Looney Bin on Facebook	https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Looney-Bin/1592...	2011-08-15
Dutch review on Spelcarrousel	http://www.spelcarrousel.be/spelbesprekingen-l/129...	2011-06-19
German review at spieletest.at	http://spieletest.at/spiel.php?The_Looney_Bin&ID=2...	2011-04-20
the looney bin	http://numbskullgames.com/	2009-04-02