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Black Friday (2010)

Average Rating: 6.60/10
Board Game Rank: 1180
Strategy Game Rank: 536
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Year Published
2010
# of Players
2 − 5
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 3, 4 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5 players
(9 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
55 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
12 and up
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Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
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Subdomain
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Primary Name
Black Friday
Alternate Names
Schwarzer Freitag
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Schwarzer Freitag is a stock trading game with a build-in bubble to explode. The players are buying share on a growing stock market, but at one time in the game the prices will crash. The players try to find out the right time to sell their shares and buy gold and silver (These are the victory points), before the market crashes.

The actions of all players change the probability of the crash. When they start selling, the probabilty of the crash will get higher. If they only buy shares the crash will come later.

To win the game, you have to have a close look on what the others do to be in the position to sell the highest share at the right time, to get the most money, but the silver/gold price will raise, too and you can also winn by buying silver/gold early in the game.

This game is the first game in the Freitag-Projekt:

Freitag(Friday) is a game project started on Friday 24th of October in Essen. I, Friedemann Friese, will work on that project for the next Five years on every Friday. I will work Five, Fifteen,... minutes (In German twenty-five, thirty-five,.. starts with an F, too) up to Fifteen hours on that project, but only Fridays.

The game will be published in Five years on the Friday of Spiel '13 in Essen. It will not be shown on Wednesday or Thursday.

I have a blog (by now only in German) on my website www.2f-spiele.de, where I show my work on that project.

By now I really don't know what will happen, but I have a lot of time......

Now it happened that the first game is ready and I found a company for publishing (the company is very interested, but it is not totally sure by now)

I will add the new second game to the database.

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Black Friday
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English Edition
Publisher: Rio Grande Games
Artist: Christian Fiore
Year: 2011
Product Code: RIO 432
Size: 11.42 x 11.42 x 2.76 inches
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German first edition
Publisher: Kosmos
Artist: Christian Fiore
Year: 2010
Size: 11.42 x 11.42 x 2.76 inches
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3 Black Friday Rules Rewrite
There have been many notes about the difficulty of learning Black Friday through the English rules. I took and rewrote the rules in an easier to reference and play through manner. Version 1.1 Change Log: Added starting stock count Added note about moving the silver cost for each black briefcase drawn. Typos Please post any errors you may find or places that are hard to understand, and I will do my best to get fixes up.
2011-12-26
2 Black Friday: Turn Order Teaching Aid
With all the various rules that tweak the market and pricing, I wanted to create a single-sheet teaching aid that the "games explainer" could reference throughout the game to avoid dropping any rules. The 2nd sheet also contains the basic setup instructions.
2011-10-24
1 Regelzusammenfassung / Rules Summary German
Die Regeln von Schwarzer Freitag auf einer DinA4 Seite komplett zusammengefasst! (Im Acrobat Reader muss "In Druckbereich einpassen" eingestellt werden).
2011-07-13
21 Black Friday Quick Reference
1-page, 2-sided quick reference in English, a la Liumas. Version 1.2 Added 2-player rule (thanks to rodspade) and added clarification of purple tables up front.
2011-02-14
32 Black Friday Flow Chart of Play
A Flow chart of the play for Black Friday designed to help players remember every step in the game. This is the edited version to clarify one of the boxes on page 2
2011-01-26
3 Einige Klarstellungen Schwarzer Freitag
Einige Klarstellungen zu der, meiner Meinung nach, undurchsichtigen Regel.
2010-12-12
16 Black Friday English Rules.pdf
Black Friday English Rules.pdf
2010-11-18
14 Short rules for Black Friday
Rules summary: V1.1
2010-11-11
9 Black Friday -- RGG English Rules Errata
Errata, mistakes, and oversights in the Black Friday English RGG rules.
2010-10-31
8 Kurzspielregel für Schwarzer Freitag
Rules summary: V1.1
2010-10-29
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 1180
Strategy Game Rank: 536
Num Ratings: 529
Average Rating: 6.60
Standard Deviation: 1.56
Num Views: 48717
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Avg. Game Weight: 2.8
Fans: 20
Personal Comments: 217
Users Owning: 579
Users Wanting: 64
Users Trading: 27 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade: 0
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