Game profile

Kernel Panic

A Puzzle and Real-time game for 1–4 players, of 10–20 min and light on rules. It plays with multi-use cards, cooperative game and real-time. Recommended from age 13. The BoardGameGeek community likes it best with 4 players.

Race the clock as a team of processors in a digital device! In this real-time puzzle game, you have 10 minutes to complete as many Tasks as possible. Satisfy your Task’s requirements using your hand of multi-purpose Action cards: Play an Action as a Statement to perform math operations and reach your target numbers or as an Access to copy numbers between your local storage counters and the shared storage counters. Everyone plays simultaneously in Kernel Panic, drawing from a shared Action deck and playing cards as quickly as they can. Collaboration is all but mandatory: Many Tasks are too complex for one processor to solve alone, requiring you to compute useful numbers for teammates to use or work together on shared requirements. Just be careful—most Tasks have conflicting conditions and storage space is limited, so helping one teammate with their Task might accidentally clobber another’s hard work. The game ends the moment the 10-minute timer expires. The more Tasks you complete, the higher your score. Once you get the hang of things, add Bugs and Outages to the deck for a greater challenge. Every game is a race to optimize your performance, conquer the chaos, and set a new high score! — Description from the designer

Designed by Michael Patashnik

Published by Red Pup Games

No Spanish edition. Only available imported and in another language.