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Fzzzt! (2009)

Average Rating: 6.46/10
Board Game Rank: 1384
Family Game Rank: 361
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Designer
Artist
Publisher
Year Published
2009
# of Players
2 − 4
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 4 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players
(13 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
8 and up
User Suggested Ages
8 and up
(5 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(9 voters) [poll]
Honors
Subdomain
(16 voters) [vote]
Category
Mechanic
Expansion
Expands
Family
Primary Name
Fzzzt!
Alternate Names
Фзззт! 2.0 или Короткое Замыкание
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Fzzzt! "A futuristic robot auction game with some dodgy mechanics".

It's a new-fangled modern age, a brave new world, of extraordinary, strange and crazy robots; designed and built in a crackpot factory by the Master Central Processing Unit version D (or McPUD, for short).

McPUD has recently been suffering from a number of software bugs which affects the speed of robot production, the types of robots produced (each has one or more symbols) and, occasionally, their life-expectancy.

You are a mechanic, competing to buy robots as they become available on the factory's conveyor belt. Each game consists of five auction rounds; during each round, eight robot cards will be individually auctioned to the highest bidder though you won’t necessarily get to see all eight of the robots in advance - it all depends on how fast McPUD is running the conveyor belt!

Mechanics pay for these cards using the power allocations on cards in hand which include, as the game progresses, robots they have already purchased.

After each round, and at the end of the game, mechanics can also allocate some of their cards to Production Units (special cards requiring sets of robots with particular symbols) for bonus points.

The winner is the mechanic with the most points.

"Fzzzt! - Yesterday's men building tomorrow's world today".

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  • 2009 Reviewed in "Counter - Boardgames Reviewed & Discussed" by alan how, Issue 46 pp. 29-30

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Фзззт! 2.0 или Короткое Замыкание
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Russian Edition
Publisher: Lifestyle Ltd.
Artist: Tony Boydell, Charlie Paull, Vicki Paull
Year: 2011
Size: 9.45 x 6.30 x 3.15 inches
Russian
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Gryphon Games Tin Box
Publisher: Gryphon Games
Artist: Tony Boydell, Charlie Paull, Vicki Paull
Year: 2010
Product Code:  101270N
Size: 5.88 x 4.38 x 0.88 inches
0.40 pounds
English
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First edition
Publisher: Surprised Stare Games Ltd
Artist: Tony Boydell, Charlie Paull, Vicki Paull
Year: 2009
Size: 3.54 x 2.56 x 0.79 inches
0.22 pounds
English
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6 The First Edition Fzzzt! Robots - What do their names mean?
It's been a year, so here is a summary of where each of the robots in the First Edition of Fzzzt! get their names from. There are MORE robots in the 5/6 player expansion, but I'll leave those for you to explore a little longer!
2010-11-17
3 Dutch Rules
Rules for Fzzzt! in Dutch. Translation by Filip Santens.
2009-11-10
17 Special Peripheral Round Cards for Fzzzt! (Free Expansion!)
Cut these 8 cards out and sleeve them. At the start of a Round in the normal game, reveal one of these cards at random - it's effect lasts for the duration of the current round. At the end of the Round, discard it and draw a new card for the next Round etc
2009-11-02
15 English Rules
Rules for Fzzzt! in English
2009-10-06
5 Russian Rules
Rules for Fzzzt! in Russian. Translation by Yegor Sadoshenko.
2009-09-03
3 German Rules
Rules for Fzzzt! in German. Translation by Daniel Danzer.
2009-09-03
1 VERSUS Scoring Variant - German
German version of the VERSUS alternate scoring variant - many thanks to Daniel Danzer (duchamp) for his splendid efforts!
2009-06-26
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 1384
Family Game Rank: 361
Num Ratings: 523
Average Rating: 6.46
Standard Deviation: 1.13
Num Views: 33039
GeekBuddy Analysis: Analyze
Similarly Rated: View
Avg. Game Weight: 1.7
Fans: 10
Personal Comments: 210
Users Owning: 769
Users Wanting: 46
Users Trading: 29 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade: 0
Want Parts In Trade: 1
Price History: View
Total Plays: 1277
Plays This Month: 4
Linked Items Relationship: Expansions for this Game
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Rank N/A
Num Ratings 32
Average Rating 6.49
Average Weight 2.00
Num Owned 159
Prev. Owned 9
For Trade 4
Want in Trade 8
Wishlist 27
Comments 19
Year Published 2010
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