Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Buy eccentric cows, unleash them across bomb-strewn France, and convert chaotic dice rolls into cash, liberated cities, and the final pot.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Unexploded Cow is a comic card-and-dice money game about solving two improbable European problems at once. Players buy cows and special effects by feeding cash into a central pot, then roll to discover unexploded bombs with the animals in their fields. Successful explosions pull money back out; surviving cows and liberated city cards influence the final score. Card powers encourage temporary alliances, theft, and reversals, while the die keeps every carefully funded herd unstable. The modern color edition packages the full English game as a brisk, deliberately chaotic contest best enjoyed across several short rounds.
