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Karma

Play cards or take cards

This is a card game where one player loses the game and thereby causes all other players in the game to win together.

60 cards comprise 48 number cards and 12 Karma cards; all cards are shuffled together and each player is dealt three cards face-down, which he places face-down on the table, in a row, he must not look at them. Then all are dealt six cards in hand, choose three of them and place one of them on each of their face-down cards, the remaining three cards are your hand.

The first player discards card and draws a card, then – as active player – you put one or several cards on the discard pile or take the discard pile. To play cards you can only play number cards that are equal to or higher than the top card on the stack. As an alternative you can play a Karma card for actions or rule changes.

When three identical cards are played consecutively, regardless if by one or several players, the discard pile is taken out of play. You can only play cards from the table when no other cards are available, that is, you are out of cards in hand and the draw pile is empty. An open table card is discarded openly; a face-down table card is played, without checking it first, onto the discard pile; if it does not correspond to the discard rule, you take the discard pile. At the end of your turn you replenish your hand to three cards. If you are the last player to have cards on the table you lose the game, all others win together.

If you like unusual card games, you should take a look at Karma, the game is cute, offers tactic despite a hefty chance element and sometimes having to take card is not too bad!

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 35+

Designer: Marsha J. Falco

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2015

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Card shedding

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en pl

In-game text:

Comments:

Pretty design

Simple rules

Nice family game

Of interest for fans of card games

Compares to:

All card shedding games featuring cards for rule changes

Other editions:

Set Enterprises (en), G3 (pl),

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

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