Boom-O is a
card game
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific.
Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). A small number of card ga ...
from the Ninety-Nine family of games. Boom-O is from the makers of
Uno,
Mattel
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. The aim is to keep the timer below 60 seconds. Otherwise, the player may "blow up".
Gameplay
Each player is dealt 7 cards and three time bomb cards called "lives". Most of the cards in the deck either increase or decrease the timer total of points in the game. Other cards in the pack include similar
Uno commands such as Skip, Reverse, Draw 1 or 2 and Trade Hands. Players put down one card per turn attempting to decrease the number of cards in their hand while keeping the timer total under 60 seconds. If a player can't play a card, they must turn over one of their three time bombs, losing a life. If a player clears all cards in their hand, all other players flip one of their time bombs rendering them the winner. Whoever has all three of their time bomb cards flipped over is out of the game. The survivor wins.
See also
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Ninety-nine (addition card game)
Ninety-nine is a simple card game based on addition and reportedly popular among the Romani people.Oxford Dictionary Of Card Games, David Parlett pg. 173 Oxford University Press (1996) It uses one or more standard decks of Anglo-American play ...
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