Board game
Dumb Ways to Die
Dumb Ways to Die: A játék
Designed by Erica Bouyouris, Kyle Hussa-Lietz
MeepleMates notes for Dumb Ways to Die
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- Best with 4 player according to player poll data.
- BoardGameGeek average rating 5.75 and BGG rank #26102.
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- Recommended player counts include 3, 5.
WIN OR DIE TRYING
Your only goal is to make sure that your Beans don't die.
Fair warning, these bumbling Beans will ALWAYS find dumb ways to die. Their survival depends on a deck of cards that MIGHT help (but mostly won't).
In Dumb Ways to Die, each player starts the game with 3 Beans and a handful of cards. On your turn you roll a die to determine how many actions you must take. Actions consist of Drawing a card from the deck or playing a card from your hand and following the actions.
Playing cards may result in forcing other players to draw cards, peeking at other player's cards, swapping hands with a player, attacking an individual player or forcing every player to take extra actions.
When drawing you may draw a card that will instantly kill one of your Beans.
If a player is attacked or if you draw a Kill card, you may defend against that attack or death by playing an accident card with a corresponding icon. If you're able to play the matching card type, you have cheated death and live another round. If you can't play the required card, one of your Beans is killed.
Once all three of your Beans are killed, you are out of the game. Play continues until only one player has Beans (or Bean) remaining and that player walks away victorious.
Includes: 54 Cards, 15 Animated Bean Death Cards, 1 XL Die, Rules Booklet
Categories
Card GameHumorVideo Game Theme
Mechanics
Hand ManagementTake ThatPlayer EliminationPush Your Luck
Best with how many players
1
Not rec.
2
Not rec.
3
Recommended
4
Best
5
Recommended
5+
Not rec.
Community votes from BoardGameGeek
Language dependence
Some necessary text - easily memorized(1 of 1 votes)
Videos
BoardGameGeek4
Review1
Session1
Instructional2
External data
No Wikidata data is stored for this game yet. If the scheduled enrichment has run recently, Wikidata probably has no BGG mapping for it.
Latest Wikidata run: ok · 09/12/2026.




