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Price: £15 book, $12 .pdf / Players: 3-5 / Time: 90 minutesThere are two things you should know about Fiasco (and you should know about Fiasco). The first is that it's the funniest game I've ever played.
As "a game of powerful ambition and poor impulse control," it sets out to simulate disastrous crime capers. If you've ever witnessed the downward spiral of films like Burn After Reading, In Bruges or Bottle Rocket, you'll know what to expect. My own games of Fiasco have seen me fretting over such miserable tasks as (i) trying to rob Holdenby Falconry Centre, with no knowledge of birds or, indeed, robbery and (ii) discovering my getaway car is a stick shift, which I couldn't drive, then fleeing the police in 1st gear.
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