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The Big Cheese

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1998 · 3-6 players · 30min · weight 1.35 · 515 ratings

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ID
506
Name
The Big Cheese
Year
1998
Rank
11971
Min players
3
Max players
6
Playing time
30
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
30
Avg weight
1.3455
Num weights
55
Bayes avg
5.56189
Average
5.89318
Users rated
515
Num owned
1043
Wanting
4
Wishing
44
Num comments
191
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Auction / BiddingDice Rolling
Categories (3)
AnimalsCard GamePrint & Play
Description (691 chars)

An auction game in which players bid from their pool of "worker rats" to gain control of corporate projects. The workers from the winning bid are then are assigned to the project. Each turn, one worker is removed from each project. A project is complete once all workers have been removed. The value of a numbered project is only determined at completion by a die roll. Two other projects, Veto and The Big Cheese, allow special actions during the game. The game has two different scoring schemes, depending on whether players use a single six-sided die or a set of seven polyhedral dice. This is part of the Hip Pocket Games series. Awards 1999 Listed in GAMES Magazine's GAMES 100

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