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The Big Book of Madness

#171233BGG ↗

2015 · 2-5 players · 90min · weight 2.69 · 7,222 ratings

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ID
171233
Name
The Big Book of Madness
Year
2015
Rank
721
Min players
2
Max players
5
Playing time
90
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
90
Avg weight
2.6943
Num weights
193
Bayes avg
6.49383
Average
6.86496
Users rated
7222
Num owned
12527
Wanting
162
Wishing
1792
Num comments
1433
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:16:17 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (5)
Cooperative GameDeck, Bag, and Pool BuildingHand ManagementPlayer EliminationVariable Player Powers
Categories (2)
Card GameFantasy
Description (1583 chars)

So far your first year at the Elementary College has been slightly disappointing. They taught you to light a flickering flame at the tip of your finger, but other than that you've spent much more time reading books than learning powerful spells as future great wizards like you should. So when you heard about the Big Book of Madness hidden in the great school library, you couldn't help but to sneak in and peek in this intriguing tome in spite of your professors' warnings. When you slowly lift the cover of the terrible book, dozens of dreadful creatures rush out, threatening to destroy the world itself! This was your mistake, and only you can fix it now! Learn from the library to fight back against the monsters, and try not to sink into insanity... The Big Book of Madness is a challenging co-operative game in which the players are magic students who must act as a team to turn all the pages of the book, then shut it by defeating the terrible monsters they've just freed. Each player has their own element deck that they build during the game and use for several purposes, such as learning or casting a spell, adding a new element to their deck, destroy or healing a curse. Spells allow you to support your playmates, improve your deck, draw cards, etc. — but the monsters from the book fight back. Each comes with terrible curses that are triggered every turn unless you dispel them in time. They will make you discard elements, add madness cards to your deck, or lose spells... If you manage to turn six pages and defeat all of the monsters, you win the game!

LLM v2 (wide)

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LLM v3 (deep)

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