Published card games
Balloon Cup
KOSMOS, 2003
Balloon Cup is a card game published by KOSMOS in 2003. It is played with 2 players, from age 8 and in about 30 minutes.
- players
- 2
- minutes
- 30
- years
- 8+
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The box
- Publishers
- KOSMOS, 999 Games, DiceTree Games, Korea Boardgames, Nasza Księgarnia, Paper Iyagi
- Designer
- Stephen Glenn
- Artwork
- Michaela Kienle, Tomasz Larek, Jurgen Zimmermann
- Year of release
- 2003
- Also known as
- Ballon Cup · Ballonrace · Głębia
About the game
Balloon Cup is a two-player card game designed by Stephen Glenn and published by Kosmos in 2003.
The object of the game is for a player to win three of the five available trophies for flying hot air balloons. To do so, the players take turns playing a card to the table in front of one of four terrain tiles. Depending on the terrain type, which can be either mountain or plains, players will want to have high or low cards in front of them respectively, in order to claim colored cubes. Since cards can be played in front of either player, a player can help themselves or try to foil their opponent with each play. Once enough cubes of a color have been claimed, the player may cash them in to win the associated color's trophy.More from KOSMOS
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