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Baston (game)

boardgame

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ106813161 ↗
Source-derived summary

Baston is a 1985 board game published by Jeux Actuels.

Gameplay

Baston is a game in which a comedic skirmish board-wargame is set in a suburban French bar, where players control rowdy gangs battling with beer bottles and motorcycle chains.

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The public source identifies “Baston (game)” as boardgame. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Baston, game and boardgame.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Baston, game and boardgame providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q106813161. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985.

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This entry incorporates text from “Baston (game)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.