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The Big Cheese
Players build a 1930s crime family called Topo, play cops-and robbers with them using standard playing cards. The goal is to figure out which card represents the rat in an organized criminal gang before being betrayed by its own member or getting caught and killed for attempting too much heat (killing off important members). The Big Cheese: Rat's Escape Summary of 10-sentence game, "Big Cheesy" with a brief overview on how it is played. The players are cops trying to catch an informant in the 1930s who has information about organized crime family Topo's rat operation but doesn't want them caught or killed for revenge reasons as he was betrayed by one member of their criminal organization and ended up dying from getting too much heat (killing off important members).
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