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Montgolfière

#704BGG ↗

1992 · 2-6 players · 45min · weight 1.23 · 615 ratings

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ID
704
Name
Montgolfière
Year
1992
Rank
11974
Min players
2
Max players
6
Playing time
45
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
1.2319
Num weights
69
Bayes avg
5.56187
Average
5.84479
Users rated
615
Num owned
851
Wanting
18
Wishing
58
Num comments
256
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Auction / BiddingHand ManagementSimultaneous Action Selection
Categories (2)
Aviation / FlightRacing
Description (828 chars)

Each player tries to fly his balloon as high as possible. For this, he is equipped with ballast which can be dumped at the right opportunity, grappling hooks for linking to other balloons, soporific gas for knocking out balloons below, and a super motor. Players can also use tempest cards to reverse the game play. Extrapolated From Balloning Games: Each player starts with an identical set of cards, chooses a random subset and adds one card each turn. The higher the card played, the more likely one is to move up, but there are other interesting plays such as grappling onto another balloon, using soporific gas on lower balloons or storms which defeat the leaders. It can be especially interesting to compete against the non-player Black Baron who has been known to win the game from time to time, even playing randomly.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).