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Death Wish

#177921BGG ↗

2017 · 2-8 players · 45min · weight 2.00 · 180 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
177921
Name
Death Wish
Year
2017
Rank
18612
Min players
2
Max players
8
Playing time
45
Min playtime
20
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
2
Num weights
1
Bayes avg
5.52221
Average
6.42161
Users rated
180
Num owned
564
Wanting
5
Wishing
34
Num comments
54
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:35:01 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (4)
Hand ManagementSet CollectionStorytellingTake That
Categories (1)
Card Game
Description (1069 chars)

Death Wish is a light-hearted party card game where the goal is to be the first player to die from fictional diseases. Truly a game you're dying to win. Players take turns to collect matching symptoms and afflicters with the aim of contracting the diseases displayed on the table. Diseases are always changing on the table so it’s a race before they’re snapped up by other players. The colours play a part in the game with white strains the most common, less harmful types contrasted with the rare and deadly reds. Share your weird diagnosis! Contract a disease and declare the the disease you caught, how you caught it and the terrible combination of symptoms you are suffering from. With over 240 different diseases, afflicters and symptoms, the combinations are vast. Does your disease have an outbreak? Read out an outbreak card to the group. Outbreaks allow events such as mutating diseases, puking on players or even de-fibrillating someone back to life. These cards have an array of random creative effects that change the dynamic of every game.

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.