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Card Game of Kings

This card game with the round cards originates from India, it is a trick-taking game called the Game of Kings. There are 8 suits with symbols, in each suit/color there are 2 picture cards, the Raja and his Minister, and 10 number cards. The mechanism how tricks are taken is very unusual: The non-active players must assist the active player to take tricks. A round is started by the owner of a certain Raja card. He lays out this Raja and his highest number card; the other players must place a card of lower value first next to the Raja card, then to the number card. Then the round proper starts with the starting player, he must in Phase 1 place one or more of his highest cards, and the others again place lower cards. Then in Phase 2 he must place one or more of his lowest cards; who now takes the trick is the new active player and begins with Phase 1. If in Phase 1 another player must top the card of the active player, he takes over as active player and starts again with Phase 1. If the active player places one or more cards of different suits, there is no rule for card placement, should he play only one card or cards of the same suit, the other players must follow suit. If you cannot do so you must discard the same number of any cards, but can never take trick in this way. When all cards a played you win with most tricks. If after a pre-set number of rounds you scored most tricks, you win the game. In this edition within the Series Edition SOS –Kinderdörfer Spiele aus aller Welt historic rule expansion and variants are given. An unusual game, an interesting game, a very beautiful game!

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 6+

Dauer           : ca. 45 min

Autor           : not stated

Grafik          : not stated

Preis            : ca. 15 Euro

Verlag          : Grubbe Media 2011

www.grubbemedia.de

Genre                    : Trick-taking card game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Version                           : de

Rules                              : de

In-game use of language   : no

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