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Hamsterbacke

Laying out red does Block red

Hoarding is on the agenda, balancing greed and securing of points!

120 cards come in seven colors, each color has the same value, between 1 and 4, and a different number of cards in each color. All cards are shuffled; then you deal two cards to each player and lay out eight cards in a circle to begin eight rows. In your turn you have two actions, chosen from three options, to collect sets of cards. A set is always comprising a number of cards of the same color, equal to the value of the color.

Options for actions are: Hoarding - you take on of the rows of cards on display up into your hand and then draw three cards from the stack and place them, beginning with the row you just emptied, one by one into the next three rows, in clock-wise direction; Blocking - you place a set of cards openly onto your own blockade stack. You can only place a set in a color that is currently not visible. By laying out a set you block this color until it is scored. To Score you turn over your blockade stack to form your points stack and then, in addition, you take a number of cards equal to the value of the top card in your stack that you just turned over, from the hand of the player with currently most cards in hand, and add it to your scoring stack. When only three rows are left in the circle you win with most cards from scoring stack minus cards still in hand.

Hamsterbacke is yet another of those small, neat and basically simple card games in which Amigo specializes - providing a bit of gloating, a bit annoying and a bit of luck in drawing cards which should be countermanded with some tactic in taking, displaying and scoring of cards.

Players: 3-5

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Francesco Beardy

Artist: Oliver Freudenreich

Price: ca. 9 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2014

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Cards, set collecting

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple rules

Enchanting drawings

Gut mixture of tactic and luck

Compares to:

All set collecting games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0