Pyramid Pick: The Great Brain Robbery Board Game

Pyramid Pick

The Great Brain Robbery

Published by Cheapass Games

Designed by James Ernest, illustrated by Brian Snoddy

Boxed board game with eight board sections, 60 cards, and rules; $6.00

The Great Brain Robbery is another game from Cheapass Games, which from the outset has three things going for it. First off it has a title that just grabs the imagination; secondly, it's a Cheapass Game; and thirdly, it's a zombie game. In fact, it's a game about the same zombies from Friedy's Restaurant, who starred in Cheapass' previous titles, Give Me The Brain and Lord of the Fries. The problem is, as ever, that they're short of brains at Friedy's Restaurant and the only source of zombie fast food is a speeding passenger train full of Government Cheeses. More of the cheeses later.

The game, which is for three to seven players, comes in a sturdy envelope-style cardboard box; hopefully they will use more of these for their games in the future as the normal envelopes are not as sturdy. The box contains the necessary components for the game -- eight double-sided board sections depicting the various carriages of the train, sixty cards representing the brains found aboard the train (plus the Government Cheese) and the four-page rules leaflet. This being a Cheapass Game, you need to raid your other games for the basic bits. In this case they are two six-sided dice, a playing piece for each player, and approximately fifty counters, which mark the location of . . .

This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.



Article publication date: October 27, 2000

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