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1990 · 4-6 players · 30min · weight 1.84 · 170 ratings
v2 —v3 —v4 wide —v4 deep —
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ID
1160
Name
Boom Town
Year
1990
Rank
11184
Min players
4
Max players
6
Playing time
30
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
30
Avg weight
1.8421
Num weights
19
Bayes avg
5.57113
Average
6.54118
Users rated
170
Num owned
193
Wanting
13
Wishing
33
Num comments
66
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Categories (1)
City Building
Description (411 chars)
Famous rare game from Ian Livingstone's company, players construct a 1950s English new town by laying tiles to show housing, shops, factories etc. As parts of the suburbs are completed, scoring goes to the majority holder, but there are spoiler tiles, like the rubbish dump, which will reduce your score. There's a strong element of mutual caution until somebody steps over the brink and lays those bad tiles.
LLM v2 (wide)
Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).
LLM v3 (deep)
Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).
LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)
Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).
LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)
Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.