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Freaky

Characteristics on cards

108 cards show - on a colored background - a number in a circle in all four corners and, in the middle, the same number, bigger, in a big circle of another color. Those three elements - background color, color of the big circle and number - are the three important characteristics in the game. All cards are shuffled and each player is dealt three cards; three more cards are placed as start of three rows. The remaining cards are stacked for a draw pile.

All players are active in turn and have three actions in their move: At the start, you must add one, two or three cards from your hand to rows already on the table or use a card or cards to begin a new row or rows. You can add a card to a row, when one of the three card characteristics corresponds to one characteristic on the last card in the row. When a card does not fit into any of the rows, you begin a new one. Then you check all rows if a characteristic is identical at least for times in it, the respective cards need not be adjacent for this condition. When there is such a row, you take all cards in the row and stack them face-down. You may take several cards in a turn, when the condition of four identical characteristics is met. Finally, you must refill your hand to three cards. If someone can not refill his hand correctly, you win with most collected cards, card in hand are not counted.

A lovely filler or a game for holidays, simple and fun, with quickly explained rules for lots of fun. Nothing very new, but nicely done, a good family game always posing the dilemma of adding a characteristic and thereby opening possibilities for opponents.

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Leo Colovini

Artist: Oliver Freudenreich

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2016

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Place card, collect characteristics

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Good mix of standard mechanisms

Cute graphics

Simple rule

Nice filler game

Compares to:

Card placement with taking note of characteristics

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): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0