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Designers | Emiliano Sciarra |
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Illustrators | Alex Pierangelini |
Publishers | DV Giochi Mayfair Games |
Players | 4–7 (3–8 with expansion sets) |
Setup time | approx. 5–10 min. |
Playing time | 20–90 minutes |
Chance | Card drawing |
Skills | Card playing |
Bang! is a Spaghetti Western-themed social deduction card game designed by Emiliano Sciarra and released by Italian publisher DV Giochi in 2002. In 2004, Bang! won the Origins Award for Best Traditional Card Game of 2003 and Best Graphic Design of a Card Game or Expansion. [1]
The game is known worldwide as Bang!, except in France, where it was known as Wanted! until September 2009.[ citation needed ]
The game is played by four to seven players (up to eight players with variants and expansions). Each player takes one of the following roles, which are dealt face-down to each player.
Each player also receives a unique character card with special abilities and a certain number of 'bullets', representing their lives.
The objective of the game is different for every role:
Each player is randomly dealt a character card and a role card: there is always a Sheriff, two Outlaws and a Renegade. The Sheriff role card is revealed; the player with that card receives an extra bullet, representing life point. Each character card also has a specified number of life points, indicated by the number of bullets on it. With the expansion, it is possible to play with only three players using a Deputy, an Outlaw and a Renegade.
The game is played in turns, in clockwise order, starting with the Sheriff. Each player's turn is divided into three phases:
Whenever a player's character loses their last bullet, they are considered dead, and they reveal their role card. Various penalties and rewards exist in the game to encourage the social deduction aspects of the game. For example, if the Sheriff eliminates a Deputy, the Sheriff must discard all the cards in hand and in play.
The game ends as soon as the Sheriff dies, after which the remaining players determine the winner(s). If there are at least two players still alive or the only player left is an Outlaw, the Outlaws win. If the only player left is a Renegade, the Renegade wins.
The game also ends when all the outlaws and renegade(s) are dead, in which case the Sheriff and all the Deputies win.
Players who are already dead when the game ends are still considered to have won if their team's win condition is met.
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As only the Sheriff is known, it is hard to know who has what role. Generally, a player's role is implied if they try to shoot, or otherwise harm, the Sheriff. Others' roles can be implied if they try to harm those who harmed the Sheriff. The advantage of keeping one's role hidden from enemies must be weighed against the need to accomplish one's goal.
Since the Renegade loses if the Sheriff dies when there are still others in the game, that player must defend the Sheriff to some extent. On the other hand, their ultimate goal is killing the Sheriff. This leads to a "two faced" nature of the Renegade, trying to weaken each side (Outlaws and Deputies) while keeping the Sheriff alive until the end. This also makes it harder to ascertain who is an Outlaw, who is a Deputy, and who is a Renegade, as their actions may be similar. [2]
There are 16 different characters in the base set, each with a different ability:
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Many expansions have been introduced since the release of Bang!:
High Noon contains a set of thirteen scenario cards that are given to the Sheriff, and revealed at the start of each of his turns – the card's scenario is effective until the next scenario card has been revealed. The name is inspired by the Western High Noon .
The cards include:
Dodge City has a set of fifteen new characters and 40 new play cards. There is also a set of 8 "role" cards (7 duplicates) allowing up to 8 people to play. It features also a new symbol, meaning "discard another card from your hand in order to play this card", and a new card type, the green-bordered cards: they are played like blue cards, but cannot be used until the next opponent's turn (in case of a Missed! effect) or the owner's next turn (in all other cases) and are discarded immediately after they are used. The name is inspired by the Western, Dodge City .
The box contains:
A set of fifteen new scenario cards, designed by players around the world selected by the original author, which can be mixed with the High Noon expansion. The name is inspired by the Western, A Fistful of Dollars .
The cards include:
Players must choose either High Noon or A Fistful of Cards as the last scenario card when the two expansions are mixed together.
Bang! Wild West Show! is an expansion released in August 2010 with characters that revolve not around historical figures but rather around actors iconic to the western movie genre. The expansion also includes cards and rules not seen in previous expansions.
The 8 new characters are:
The 10 special cards that come with Wild West Show! play similarly as the scenario cards in High Noon and A Fistful of Cards. A special card is revealed every time a "Stagecoach" or "Wells Fargo" is played.
The 10 new special cards are:
Bang! Gold Rush was released in 2011. It introduced a new gameplay mechanic called the shadow-gunslinger. Players who are the shadow-gunslingers may re-enter the game as if they were still alive. In addition, this expansion introduced a new resource: Gold nuggets, which are mainly used to purchase Equipment cards, which in turn help enhance players.
The box contains:
This expansion consists of 20 cards, mostly playing cards and several new character cards. First unofficial version was released in September 2011[ needs update ] in Czechia and Slovakia. It was officially released on October 16, 2014 by the Czech editor ALBI check ALBI webpage. [3]
8 new characters:
5 new blue border cards:
10 new brown border cards:
New game mechanic in this expansion includes a new type of resource called Load.
Bang! Great Train Robbery was released in 2021. It introduces Station, Railcar, and Locomotive cards to the game.
The box contains:
BANG! Legends contains “Legendary” versions of the classic BANG! characters with new lethal abilities that can be used by completing feats. This expansion includes:
A deluxe version of BANG!, called BANG! The Bullet!, was released in 2007. [4] [5]
This set included three of the official expansions, High Noon (second edition), Dodge City, and A Fistful of Cards (second edition), along with several extras:
The 2007 release of BANG! The Bullet! game follows the 3rd edition rules of the basic game and the 2nd edition rules of Dodge City.
The 2009 reprint of BANG! The Bullet! game follows the 4th edition rules of the basic game and the 3rd edition rules of Dodge City. Does not include player boards or wooden bullets as found in the boxed version of BANG! 4th edition.
This edition was released in 2012. It comes in a metal tin, and contains the complete most recent version of the base game with the original 16 characters. It also contains 30 wooden bullet markers for keeping track of health, 7 player boards with different artwork, and 10 extra characters.[ citation needed ]
The 10 extra characters are as follows:
This product was released in 2023 to celebrate the game's 20th Anniversary. It contains a storage box designed to store the BANG! base game as well as all its expansions. It also contains a Stick of Dynamite used in a new game variant, 34 wooden bullet markers for keeping track of health, and 8 premium dual-layer player boards with different artwork and recessed slots to house cards and wooden bullets.
The "BANG! Dynamite Box Collector's Edition" contains all the contents from the Standard Edition as well as the following:
This is a standalone game, without any need for prior possession of Bang! Expansions. It is for 2 players only. One player controls a team of law enforcers, while another player controls a team of bandits.
12 enforcer characters:
12 bandit characters:
On October 29, 2009, Palzoun Entertainment (which acquired the official license from DaVinci Games) announced the development of a Bang! video game. The game was developed in partnership with SpinVector. [7] It was published on the iTunes App Store on December 18, 2010. A console version was also expected to arrive in March 2011 but has been delayed.[ needs update ]
A live action trailer of the game was released on November 2, 2010.
On May 14, 2012, Christopher Gordon Carr's Software Developer Portfolio [8] released Kraplow!, an open source online Bang! clone, which can be played in-browser with chatbot or with other players. Kraplow! features all the rules from version 4.0 of Bang! and is open source.
The Starcraft II mod Barcraft [9] is a copy of Bang! which replaces the wild west theme with themes and characters from the Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo franchises.
Some other online versions of Bang! have been released during the years, however they have received DMCA takedown notices as they were using copyrighted assets. Some online versions have managed to provide a playable experience by replacing the images such as PewPew! [10] which has been available online since Q1 2021.
BoardGameArena (BGA) is a real time board game online game system that allows to play Bang! along with some of its expansions. It was published on the 23 February 2022. [11]
In 2014, DaVinci Editrice initiated a lawsuit against Ziko Games, the Chinese manufacturer that had published Legends of the Three Kingdoms, a game that DaVinci claimed was a clone of Bang!, simply changing the Wild West theme and art to that of ancient China. While the court found there was potential for copyright infringement on its initial hearing, [12] [13] it ultimately ruled in favor of Ziko Games and dismissed the case in 2016. [14] [15]
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