Worms - The Board Game

Worms aren’t high up the list of dangerous creatures. But what happens when you hand a worm a bazooka? Chaos. Worms: The Board Game is a miniatures combat game for two to four players ages 10 and up that plays in about 45 minutes. It is all about Worms inching around the hexagonal map and blowing things up as much as possible. As befitting the Worms legacy, it’s anything but predictable. While some of the Weapons cards are straight forward (Uzi), most cards require players to roll dice to see if the shot lands on its intended target. And that’s where we get the chaos emblematic of the original Worms computer games (starting in 1995!). Because your carefully-aimed Bazooka shot may miss the intended target and instead hit one of your Worms. Or it may hit the Oil Barrel in the next hex over which leads to a spray of fire across the map. And if you’ve got multiple Oil Barrels in close proximity, you can turn what was a pristine battlefield into a raging inferno in one short turn. Then there are the Superweapons that can hit multiple hexes. This is chaos.