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23

left out A Number? Take Penalty Chip!

How many times can you vary the mechanism of discarding cards and being the first to do so or to end up with the lowest number of penalty points? We will never really know, but 23 is offering us a new variant of this mechanism, and a basically very simple one: You want to discard the numbers from 1 to 23 in ascending order and accumulate the fewest possible penalty chips when doing so. You start with 15 cards on hand and return three of them to the box, but not a card with number 1. If you hold the number 1 card, you start the game and place it in the middle. Then you can decide in each turn if you discard one or more cards, pass or quit the round. If you discard you must discard one or more cards face up, the number on them must be equal to or higher than the number on the top card in the stack. If you place a card of the same number or higher by 1 you have made a correct turn and are done;  if you placed a card with a number higher by two or more you take a penalty chip for each number you left out, e.g. 3 chips if you go to 9 from 5. Three times in a game you can change the value of the top card up to 5 steps by using a bonus chip. If you pass you take a penalty chip. If you quit, you return your cards and take a penalty chip per card. If you discard your last card, you can return three penalty chips to the stock. After two such rounds you win if you have the fewest penalty chips.

23 is a fast little game, quickly explained and nicely done – the color of the chips corresponds to the colors used on the cards – and a good family game for a filler or when travelling.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 25+

Designer: Christoph Behre

Artist: Oliver Freudenreich

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2011

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Card discarding game 

Users: For families

Age: 8

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice design

Simple rules

Good as filler

Nice family game

Compares to:

All card discarding games related to number sequences

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0