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F3
For Fame and Fortune
After Diver! Dive! Die! and before Murder! Mystery! Mastermind! (announced for 2012) comes For Fame & Fortune, a set collecting game. There are five suits or colors, each featuring 13 cards, as well as 13 Wild Fortune cards, multiplier cards and modification cards, all of which are used to make up the best possible combination of cards: Complete Fulfillment, a sequence of cards 10-14 of the same color - 5 Fortunes, five cards of the same value - Partial Fulfillment, a sequence of any 5 consecutive numbers in one color - Rainbow Fulfillment, a sequence of any 5 consecutive numbers, each card in a different color - 4 Fortunes, 4 cards of the same value, and finally 3˝ Fortunes, three identical numbers + 2 other identical numbers, equal to Full House in Poker. Ties in combinations are resolved by higher numbers and then by card rank – Dove, Sword, Heart, Clover and Diamond. First you place cards for a bid, adhering to exact rules, and hand other cards on to your neighbor. Then you draw cards and discard cards, in this phase other players can steal a card from the discard piles. After five turns you make up the best possible combination with cards from your hand, bid cards and “stolen cards”. The basic game can be played by up to five players, for a game of six or a variant you use the Wild Fortune Cards; they can replace any card of the same number; when ranking combinations those with Wild Fortune Cards are always considered to be the lowest.
F3 offers a very nice mix of well-known standard mechanisms, if you like Rummy and all other set collecting games with cards, you will like F3, too.
Players: 2-6
Age: 14+
Time: 30+
Designer: Terence Lei, Mark Tham, Edwin Ng,
Artist: Tianyun
Price: ca. 5 Euro
Publisher: Black Dove Games 2011
Genre: Set collecting with cards
Users: With friends
Version: en
Rules: en
In-game text: no
Comments:
Mix of well-known standard mechanisms for set collecting
Wild Fortune cards used in game for six or as a variant
Multiplier cards are a nice detail
Compares to:
Rummy and other set collection games
Other editions:
Currently none
Chance (pink): 2
Tactic (turquoise): 2
Strategy (blue): 0
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 2
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0