Big Boss (1994)

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Strategy Game Rank: 500

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Designer	Wolfgang Kramer
Artist	Wolfgang Kramer Franz Vohwinkel
Publisher	Kosmos
Year Published	1994
# of Players	2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 3, 4, 5 players (9 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (4 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (4 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Strategy Games (7 voters) [vote]
Category	Economic
Mechanic	Stock Holding
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Family	3D Games
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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Big Boss

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First Edition

Publisher: Kosmos

Artist: Wolfgang Kramer

Year: 1994

Size: 8.66 x 6.30 x 11.81 inches

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1	Rules Passing Because Unable to Perform an Action?	2011-02-27	Leppy	1
1	General Copy of Big Boss available in Vasel Fundraising Auction	2011-01-26	kneumann	0
1	Reviews Corporate bailout got you down. Stick it the man with the Big Boss and get back some of yours.	2010-03-04	Dimmthewi...	0
5	News To Be Reimplemented as Alcazar	2009-06-29	cbrua	6
20	Reviews The Man of my Dreams	2008-06-02	Neendy	1
0	News New Version of Big Boss	2006-09-13	Forza	13
3	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
2	Reviews Big Boss: The Quick and Dirty	2005-12-03	CortexBomb	1
3	Reviews Tao of Gaming Review	2005-08-29	Bankler	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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Strategy Game Rank:	500
Num Ratings:	281
Average Rating:	7.09
Standard Deviation:	1.45
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Personal Comments:	113
Users Owning:	200
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Dutch rules	http://www.forummortsel.be/spelregels/BigBoss.pdf	2012-04-09
German review - Hall9000	http://www.hall9000.de/html/spiel/bigboss	2011-08-12
German review - Spielphase	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/keirat/tx...	2011-08-12
Dutch review on Gamepack	http://www.gamepack.nl/gamepack/rec-bboss1.html	2010-04-29
English Review on Spotlight on Games	http://spotlightongames.com/list/nights/b.html#big...	2010-03-03
Rules in HTML (Game Cabinet)	http://gamecabinet.com/rules/BigBoss.html	2001-11-21
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