Blood Bowl (Third Edition)

#712BGG ↗

1994 · 2-2 players · 180min · weight 2.99 · 5,704 ratings

v2 ✓v3 —fit 0.293

BGG raw

712

Name

Blood Bowl (Third Edition)

Year

1994

Rank

302

Min players

Max players

Playing time

180

Min playtime

180

Max playtime

180

Avg weight

2.9896

Num weights

386

Bayes avg

6.89191

Average

7.55368

Users rated

5704

Num owned

6950

Wanting

129

Wishing

566

Num comments

1234

Fetched at

Sat Apr 25 2026 16:15:45 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Mechanisms (3)

Dice RollingGrid MovementVariable Player Powers

Categories (4)

FantasyFightingMiniaturesSports

Description (336 chars)

Blood Bowl is a game of Fantasy Football. The basic game features a match between a human team and an orc team. Ostensibly the teams are playing football. In fact each team takes turns moving, blocking and advancing the football down the field. The game comes with plastic miniatures. This game is a part of the Blood Bowl Series

LLM v2 (wide)

Core verb

move and block on grid

Decision shape

mixed:spatial+probabilistic

Reward schedule

mixed:immediate+delayed

Aesthetics

["Challenge", "Fellowship", "Narrative"]

Core loop pitch

Move players, block, and dodge with chained dice rolls until a turnover ends your activation.

Translation difficulty

Easy

Difficulty reason

Already heavily digitized through Cyanide's Blood Bowl 1/2/3 on Steam; turn-based grid combat is naturally suited to PC and mobile.

Direct digital port

Blood Bowl 2/3 (Steam, Cyanide Studio)

Port kind

first_party

Closest loop translation

none yet

Primitive tags

["chain_action_until_failure", "turnover_punishment", "grid_tackle_zones", "team_progression_league", "armor_injury_cascade"]

Confidence

0.7

Extracted at

Mon Apr 27 2026 11:40:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Raw v2 JSON (951 chars)

{
  "game_id": 712,
  "name": "Blood Bowl (Third Edition)",
  "core_verb": "move and block on grid",
  "decision_shape": "mixed:spatial+probabilistic",
  "reward_schedule": "mixed:immediate+delayed",
  "aesthetics": [
    "Challenge",
    "Fellowship",
    "Narrative"
  ],
  "core_loop_pitch": "Move players, block, and dodge with chained dice rolls until a turnover ends your activation.",
  "mobile_translation_difficulty": "Easy",
  "translation_difficulty_reason": "Already heavily digitized through Cyanide's Blood Bowl 1/2/3 on Steam; turn-based grid combat is naturally suited to PC and mobile.",
  "direct_digital_port": "Blood Bowl 2/3 (Steam, Cyanide Studio)",
  "direct_digital_port_kind": "first_party",
  "closest_loop_translation": "none yet",
  "primitive_tags": [
    "chain_action_until_failure",
    "turnover_punishment",
    "grid_tackle_zones",
    "team_progression_league",
    "armor_injury_cascade"
  ],
  "confidence": 0.7
}

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).