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Spring Fever

Flowers or snails

Players plant their flower beds in spring; if you score most points for your flower bed you win. All players start their flower bed with one flower card. The first active player draws four cards from the stack and can decide to keep them or to discard them. If he discards them he draws 4 more cards from the stack, shuffles the first 4 cards back into the stack and discards another four cards directly from the stack. If he keeps the first four cards, he discards another four cards directly from the stack. Then he chooses one card and places it openly into the flower bed, announcing that it is his lowest card, and hands his cards to the next player. He can bluff. The next player can accept this, take the three remaining cards and become active player. Or he calls the bluff and the three cards are revealed: Depending on the result the player in the wrong must take all negative cards from the three cards displayed and can take a flower card from the other player or give him a snail card. Cards received, whether positive or negative, must be placed into the flower bed. Then the next player becomes active player and draws card to result in a hand of four. When the active player cannot draw enough cards the game ends and the winner is the player with the highest score from his flower bed.

Spring Fever offers an attractive mix of well-known bluff mechanisms, the art is pretty, and the mixture of chance and a bit of tactics – how much bluffing and negative cards can I risk – is nice and well-working. The game is an ideal companion to take along on holidays or for the end of a games evening.

Players: 3-6

Age: 8+

Duration: 5+

Designer: Friedemann Friese

Artist: Olivier Fagnère

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Filosofia Éditions

Web: www.filosofiagames.com

Genre: Card placement and bluff

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: en fr de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Minimalistic package * easy to carry along * nice mixture of mechanisms

Compares to:

All bluff games incurring penalties for wrongly calling a bluff

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance: 2

Tactic: 2

Strategy: 0

Creativity: 0

Knowledge: 0

Memory: 0

Communication: 2

Interaction: 2

Dexterity: 0

Action: 0