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Krass Kariert

YOu can’t sort your cards!

Get rid of your cards as fast as you can! There are four cards each for values 1 to 12, and two cards each of X-Card, Redraw Card and Stop card. Two open reserve cards are placed in front of each player and all receive three chips (two in case of five players) and ten cards from the stack (seven for five players).

Hand cards can NEVER be sorted, you can only pick them up and fan them out. The starting player plays one to three - adjacent - cards from his hand for a turn, all others must top this with a higher number in case of an identical combination or with a combination of higher value - Solo < 2-straigt > Pair > 3-straigt > Trips = three cards of the same value. Cards for a combination must be next to each other in your hand, the sequence of cards within the combination does not matter. X-Cards are number jokers and can be played alone or within a combination; Stop immediately wins the round and the Redraw replaces the mandatory topping of a combination.

If you cannot top the combination, you take up one of the cards of your reserve at any place in your hand. When all have played or picked up a card from reserve, the turn ends and the player with the highest combination begins the next turn. If only one player holds cards, or a player can neither top or pick up a reserve card, the round ends and this player must discard a chip. If he has none left, he has lost the game and all others have won!

Krass kariert / Checkered Combos uses standard mechanisms for a nice variant of card shedding, determining one loser instead of a winner! Well-made family entertainment for a filler.

Players: 2-5

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Katja Stremmel

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2018

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Card shedding

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard mechanisms, nicely varied

One loser, several winners

Nice filler game, or for beginners

Compares to:

Card shedding games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0