Skull & Roses The Biker Game

Each player has four cards, front side with a gang motive, backside three times a rose, one time a skull, and a playing mat, skull side up. Aim of the game is to win two challenges. In turn, players place one card face-down. Then in turn you can again play a card or challenge the others. If you challenge you name a number of cards that you will turn up from all cards on the table without turning up a skull. The other players in turn must either raise this bid or pass. The last player to raise the bid must now turn up the corresponding number of cards, starting with his own stack, from top to bottom, all cards. He need not turn up all cards in other players’ stacks. If you win the challenge you turn your playing mat to the rose side, if you win a second challenge you win the game. If you lose, you must discard one of your cards face down and the owner of the skull you turned up starts the next round. If you are out of cards you drop out of the game.

As d’Or Cannes 2011

A game of bid and bluff * 3-6 players, ages 10 and up * Designer: Hervé Marly * Art: Rose Kipik * 010685, Lui-Même, France, 2011 *** Éditions Lui-même