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Horned Heads UP FOR BIDDING!

The game features the horned oxen heads that we are all familiar with from the 6 nimmt! series of games; the cards are split into number cards from 1 to 100 with 1-7 blue horned oxen heads and 10 bull cards with 4-7 red horned oxen heads.

Each player is given a Zero card and five number cards, the rest of the cards is stacked face down for a draw pile. For each round you lay out a number of rows of two cards equal to to the number of players. Now you bid for those rows; you lay down a card from your hand, face-down. Then cards are revealed at the same time: If you played the lowest card, you discard the card, choose a row and take it in hand; others follow in ascending orders of their cards. If you played a Zero card you add a card from the draw pile to a row of your choice and take back the Zero card. When the fifth card is placed in a row, a bull card is instantly added. When all rows show five cards + bull card you must bid with a number card and take a row. When all rows have been taken you keep five number cards of your choice and the Zero card in hand and stack the other cards on the table; in ascending order, but not necessarily without gaps, in one or more stacks. At the end of the game the stack showing most horned oxen heads is your positive stack, the number of horned oxen heads in all other stacks is deducted from this number, if you then have the highest score you win.

Wolfgang Kramer has a way with oxen; this version of 6 Nimmt!, too, is funny and well-made; the secret bid including taking cards and the Zero card to expand rows result in an astute, sometimes very risky game.

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Wolfgang Kramer

Artist: Oliver Freudenreich

Price: ca. 9 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2012

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Bidding game on cards

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Cute, modern design

Well-working modification of the 6 nimmt! mechanism

Mechanisms go well together

Compares to:

All games in the 6 nimmt! Range; Coloretto for risky expanding of rows

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0