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Game Entry

Big Idea, the

(2000)
User Rating: 6.4 / 10 (481 Ratings)
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GameID: 696
Rank: 934
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Information

Designed By: James Ernest
Published By: Cheapass
Mfg suggested # of Players: 3 - 6 players
User suggested # of Players:
Best with 6 players
Recommended with 3, 4, 5, 6, more than 6 players
(2 voters) [poll]
Playing Time: 45 Minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages: 10 and up
User Suggested Ages: (no votes yet)
[poll]
Language Dependence: Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable
(2 voters) [poll]
Category: Card Game
Party Game
Mechanics: Voting
Stock Holding
Other Names:
The Big Idea

Description

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Quick and easy card game (Cheapass style) where the players represent venture capitalists creating companies (from a noun card and an adjective card - "Erotic Pants") to take through the process of an IPO. You automatically gain a share in companies you create, and later you have opportunities to secretly invest in a company and publicly buy a share in a company. Finally, you roll a die to see what companies go public in a round: equal to or lessor than the shares issued in the company. And the pay out: based on the number of shares issued and the number of cards used in forming the company times the die roll. The game is fairly simplistic, but it's lots of fun to create names of products like "Erotic Pants", while agonizing over helping your opponent because their product will net you the biggest gain.

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User Rank: 934
Num Ratings: 481
Average Rating: 6.42
Standard Deviation: 1.48
Num Views: 19079
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Avg. Game Weight: 1.31 moreinfo
Personal Comments: 245
Users Owning: 772
Users Wanting: 34
Users Trading: 27
Has Parts For Trade: 1
Want Parts In Trade: 0
Price History: View
Total Plays: 294
Plays This Month: 2
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0 Big Idea French Cards Translation
BigIdea_French_Cards_Translation.doc
This is a document containing French translations for the cards of the Deluxe Edition of The Big Idea.
0 Th Big Idea, Play money
BigIdea_Money.zip
This is simple home made play money that you can print and cut yourself for the game. You just need color paper, a printer and something to cut.
0 Big Idea Money Tracker
bigidea_moneytracker.pdf
six small sheets to track money earned in Big Idea (but usable in many other games). just use a pair of counters to mark tens and units.
0 Big Idea (semidelux edition): Card List (2004)(Cheapass Games)[en].txt
Big Idea (semidelux edition): Card List ...
Card list for semideluxe edition.
2 BIexpansion.doc
BIexpansion.doc
My little expansion, 60 cards in Word document business card format
0 Big Idea: Card List (2000)(Cheapass Games)[en].txt
0 bigid_rg.pdf
bigid_rg.pdf
Traduction française par François Haffner

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