Family                 

Alter                    8

Spezial                

Monsta

Three 2-Monsta für one 7-Monsta!

Monsters on offer – you collect, exchange or score monster cards. If you are the first to collect 15 points with your laid-out monster groups you win. In each round the active player can score points and auction cards. The game comprises 6 different monsters with values 2 to 7. The higher the value of a monster the more cards of this monster are there, each point value is assigned to a certain color. The cards are shuffled and each player is dealt 8 cards. At the start of a round the player with the fewest cards in hand receive one bonus card, in case of tie and at the start of the first round all players with the fewest card get one. Then the active player – and only he – can lay down monster groups, a group is a number of cards equal to the value of the monster. 4 orange card of value 4, e.g., are a group. One card of this laid-out group the player takes for a scoring card, the other cards are discarded. Then he offers one card from the draw pile plus one of his cards in hand. The other players bid for this offer with a number of face-down cards, the number of cards counts, not their value! The active player accepts the highest bid and takes up the cards, the highest bidder gets the auctioned cards and becomes the next active player- The other bids remain on the table for the next round. To reach or top a score of 15 the active player can only lay out one group.

An unusual card game with simple rules and interesting details: for instance the carrying-over of the bids to the next round and the lack of regular drawing of cards. Quickly learned, quickly played, nice filler game!

Spieler         : 3-5

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : ca. 30 min

Autor           : Tim Roediger

Grafik          : Marek Blaha

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 8 Euro

Verlag          : Amigo 2011

                     www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre                   : Card game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Language                        : de

Rules                              : de

In-game use of language   : no

Kommentar:

Well-known mechanisms nicely combined

Good family game

Carrying on of bid is an interesting detail

Vergleichbar:

First game in this combination; Rummy for set forming, Bohnanza for part of the set used for scoring

Zufall                            2

Taktik                  1

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Kreativität          

Wissen_

Gedächtnis          2

Kommunikation   2

Interaktion                   2

Geschicklichkeit 

Action