Kablamo
BGG rank
BGG #30,712
BGG rating
5.2

Kablamo

2004

Rules assistance for Kablamo

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2–5 players
  • 15 min
  • 12+
  • Complexity 1.9/5

Rules assistant for Kablamo

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Kablamo is a board game released in 2004 for 2–5 players, 15 minutes per game, and ages 12 and up. It was designed by Christoffer Krämer and its main mechanics are Simultaneous Action Selection, Memory, and Variable Phase Order.

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About the game

A game of "Russian Roulette". Each player is given a board depicting the (rotating) barrel of a gun with a space for each of the six chambers it has. The gun is loaded by playing counters (representing bullets) on the spaces. Bullets come is various types: some kill you when fired, others allow you to change the position of bullets (either in your gun or that of someone else), or modify the behavior of bullets. In addition, each bullet has a priority on it. Each turn, all players simultaneously fire their gun, rotating their barrel by one position and revealing the top bullet. The actions of the bullets fired are now resolved (order decided by priority of the bullets). Guns are reloaded by randomly drawing new counters and playing them on the empty spaces.

Questions and answers

Kablamo supports 2–5 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.