Week 8: BANG!

Most people know “Legends of the Three Kingdoms” (三國殺), but do you know that this game is totally adapted from another game called “BANG!”?

BANG! is a card game about killing others continually.

The Sheriff and the Deputies want to kill all Outlaws and the Renegade.

The Outlaws want to kill the Sheriff, and they may win even they are all dead.

The Renegade want to kill all the other players and the Sheriff must be the last one killed or the Outlaws would win.

Before the game begins, each player would be dealt 1 role card.

Only the Sheriff can and must show his role card.

Then each player would be dealt 2 character cards.

He must choose 1 as his character and reveal the other one and use the bullets on the back to count his life points.

There are various playing cards.

The most 2 of them are BANG! and MISSED!.

A BANG! can be used to attack a player beside him( distance of 1) and that player would lost 1 life points if he does not play a MISSED!.

The other cards may heal players, block others’ action, attack all the other players, change the attack ability or the distance limit of BANG! as weapons, change the distance counted between players as horses, etc.

Each turn the player draws 2 cards and uses the cards in hand as his will.

However, he cannot use 2 or more BANG! in one turn without special concessions.

In the end of the turn, the number of his playing card “in” hand cannot be bigger than the number of his life points current.

LTK is very similar to BANG! but with some different rules and great quantity of character.
LTK is often compared with The Message, because they are both popular in Asia and have some similarities.

Both of them include various character abilities, guessing others’ identities, and killing others.

One of the notable differences is that one is always killing others and killed by others in LTK while one often killing himself and is easy to protect himself by not receiving message and the victory condition is not often someone’s death in The Message.

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The source of the information:

http://www.charleston.k12.il.us/cms/Teachers/TeamRed/games/Bang.PDF