''Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond'' is a

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and published by

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. Players take the roles of supervillains in a

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, capturing superspies (including "

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") and taunting them. Other players can foil the taunts by playing another taunt with a letter that corresponds to the first taunt. If this happens, the superspy escapes and destroys the fortress of the player attempting to kill him. In 2000, following a

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order from

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, the game was taken out of print. It was reissued in 2004 as ''James Ernest's Totally Renamed Spy Game'' with a 110-card deck, double the size of the deck in the original game. In October 2015, Cheapass Games announced via Kickstarter that they would be releasing a new version of the game, titled ''Before I Kill You, Mister Spy''. It was released in 2016 and returned to the original 55-card deck size of the original game.

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