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| Year Published |
2000
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| # of Players: |
3 − 6
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| User Suggested # of Players |
(Not best with any number) Recommended with 3, 4, 5, 6, more than 6 players (6 voters) [ poll]
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| Playing Time |
45 minutes
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| Mfg Suggested Ages |
10 and up
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| Language Dependence |
Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable (4 voters) [ poll]
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Families
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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 "Mentholated Chicken", while agonizing over helping your opponent because their product will net you the biggest gain.
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Components: (semi-deluxe edition)
- 1 double-sided rules sheet
- 96 interesting noun cards (2 are blank)
- 96 interesting adjective cards (2 are blank)
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Recommendations
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Even more homebrew add-on cards for Big Idea
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A one-page PDF containing 6 new nouns and 6 new adjectives with accompanying images and text at the bottom. Nouns: ink, chopsticks, map, goat, alarm, spaghetti. Adjectives: vegetarian, moon-, left-handed, autographed, hover-, fuzzy.
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2009-03-26
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12 more cards in PDF format
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12 more cards for Big Idea (original edition): 6 nifty nouns and 6 outrageous adjectives, complete with artwork. This is a one-page PDF file, so no special program is required to print.
Nouns: rocket, DNA, polish, egg, pants, soap.
Adjectives: absorbent, doomsday, foul-mouthed, Japanese, remote-controlled, swirly.
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2009-03-22
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Big Idea French Cards Translation
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This is a document containing French translations for the cards of the Deluxe Edition of The Big Idea.
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2007-12-18
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Th Big Idea, Play money
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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.
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2007-11-30
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Big Idea Money Tracker
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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.
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2007-11-18
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Big Idea (semidelux edition): Card List (2004)(Cheapass Games)[en].txt
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Card list for semideluxe edition.
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2007-01-15
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BIexpansion.doc
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My little expansion, 60 cards in Word document business card format
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2007-01-08
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Big Idea: Card List (2000)(Cheapass Games)[en].txt
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Card List for the 1st Edition
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2007-01-08
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bigid_rg.pdf
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Traduction française par François Haffner
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2001-06-29
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N/A
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| Num Ratings |
75 |
| Average Rating |
6.96 |
| Average Weight |
1.25 |
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| Owned |
200 |
| Prev. Owned |
6 |
| For Trade |
12 |
| Wanted in Trade |
8 |
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| Wishlist |
14 |
| Comments |
40 |
| Year Pub. |
2004 |
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