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DANGER: The High Voltage Game

Win tricks without trusting them: every new card can cancel a sequence, wreck a scoring band, or turn a safe collection into high voltage.

Card Game Trick-taking Set Collection

Players

2-4

Play time

15-30 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

6.86

Easier to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 4.5/5

Easier to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 4.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.0/5

Deep strategy

Player control 4.3/5

More strategic control

Setup time About 4 min
Teach time About 8 min
Table footprint Small
Recommended edition DANGER: The High Voltage Game – Brain Picnic multilingual edition
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How it plays

How does it play?

Draft a hand, win the right tricks, and avoid dangerous consecutive cards that can erase the points you thought were secure.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

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DANGER: The High Voltage Game is a compact trick-taking game in which captured cards keep changing one another’s value. Players draft from several piles, play through a round of tricks, then score only the lowest surviving card in each number band. Consecutive values cancel, so a card forced on an opponent can destroy an apparently safe set. A two-player variant and four-player team mode extend the same sharp hand-management puzzle, while the number-driven multilingual edition remains easy to use across language groups.

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Editions

Language and publisher variants currently recorded in the catalog.

Edition Year Language Publisher / Region
DANGER: The High Voltage Game – Brain Picnic multilingual edition 2024 English / Spanish / French Brain Picnic / La Boîte de Jeu / International

Game and edition data

All specifications (21)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Play time
15–30 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.0/5
Language dependence
None
App
None app

Practicalities

Setup time
About 4 min
Teach time
About 8 min
Teardown time
About 4 min
Table footprint
Small

Campaign and continuity

Group continuity
Flexible
Resettable
Fully Resettable

Edition and product

Recommended edition
DANGER: The High Voltage Game – Brain Picnic multilingual edition
Language
English / Spanish / French
Region
International
Availability
Current
Edition type
Standard Edition
Current edition
Yes
Components
51
Consumable components
None.
Compatibility
Verified Physical Brain Picnic / La Boîte De Jeu Multilingual Edition Containing English Instructions, Product Code Zac Brp034 / Ean 8437012332591, Exact Retailer Record, And Publisher Linked Tutorial.
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Ignasi Ferré

Artists

1
Manu Palau

Publishers

1
Brain Picnic

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