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Zombie (Zombies!!!)

GamesUndeadShambles2000 to 2009

The plastic horde of Zombies!!!, a tile-laying board game by Todd Breitenstein. Each zombie is weak, but there are a hundred of them, and players push them into each other's way while racing for the helipad.1

Battle it
First appeared
2001
Origins Award for 2001; Wikipedia lists publication from 2002
Source work
Zombies!!! (2001)
Twilight Creations (Todd Breitenstein)
Age rating
12+
Made in
USA
What causes it
Never explained
The board game gives no cause.
How it moves
Shambles
Shambles one space per turn, slower than the players.
Intelligence
Mindless
Weak spots
  • dice combat
  • on the Helipad, escape

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2001

Origins Award for 2001; Wikipedia lists publication from 2002

field notes

What the sources say

1

The box holds 100 plastic zombies1

2

Players build the town tile by tile as they go1

3

A player wins by reaching the helicopter or by killing 25 zombies1

4

Conceived as a homage to the films of George A. Romero and Sam Raimi1

5

Won an Origins Award in 20011

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (shambles), not a measurement.

Zombie (Zombies!!!) about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
You, walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
You, jogging about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h (15 mph)
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sources

  1. Zombies!!! - Wikipedia

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Same era: 2000 to 2009