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BOOM: The Atomic War Card Game

BOOM: The Atomic War Card Game 2025

Design Steve LeShay Publisher (Self-Published)
8.0 /10
BGG rating
2–8
Players
30–60
Minutes
14
Age
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About the Game

BOOM is a retro ’50s - early ’60s, Politically Incorrect, Insensitive, Irreverent, Totally Outrageous, Obnoxious, Nostalgic, tongue-in-cheek, "Beer and Pretzels," "Gotcha!" Atomic War Card Game for 2 - 8 players. It takes about 30 minutes to play.

While deceptively easy, quick, and fun to play, BOOM is a biting satire of one of our biggest fears.

Although an anti-war game, BOOM recaptures the Espionage, Propaganda, Pacifist versus Hawk Ideologies, rumors of a Doomsday Machine, Assassinations, and many other Cold War Atomic Age tactics in a nostalgic, darkly humorous, but also very deadly way.

The game's winner is often a loser, thus proving that war — especially one involving Weapons of Mass Destruction — is not very nice!

Even the buck-tooth cow, standing alone in an empty field, a zero-value City Card that has just been BOOMed, agrees with that! Moof!

—description from the designer

Filed Under

Categories
Bluffing Card Game Humor Party Game Spies / Secret Agents Wargame
Mechanics
Card Play Conflict Resolution Hand Management Interrupts Memory Move Through Deck Sudden Death Ending Take That
BGG ratings
1
BGG data
refreshed Sep 6, 2026