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Game Preview: Boom: Runaway, or I Was Made for Lovin' Bombs, Baby

Game Preview: Boom: Runaway, or I Was Made for Lovin' Bombs, Baby
Board Game: Boom: Runaway
I went through a big Dada phase in junior high, absorbing the oddball creations of Tristan Tzara, Schwitters, Duchamp, Grosz and many other artists, finding meaning in the non-meaning as kids in junior high often do. That appeal of the absurd has stayed with me, and I can still appreciate something like Duchamp's "Fountain", which is more about the drive and mindset of the artist than about whatever it is the artist has produced — or "produced", in this case. Sometimes you do something just to see what's possible, to find out whether you can convince the world to inhabit, even if only for a short time, from your point of view.

Thus, one thing that attracts me to games is an absurd theme that's fun to explain to others, whether I'm teaching them the rules prior to playing or just shooting the breeze about what's new on the market. And with that, I present Christwart Conrad's Boom: Runaway from Korea Boardgames, in which players attempt to help bombs escape their own destruction:

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