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Paaranoia

taking cards at your risk

There are 55 cards in Paaranoia, numbered from1 to 10 - 1x1, 2x2, 3x3 etc. Five cards are set aside face-down, and you are dealt one open card to begin your display. The active player takes a card or passes; if you take a card you add it to your display in case of a new value. If the card has a value that is already in your display, you have formed a pair. In this case, or if you decided to pass, the round ends and you score penalty points: In case of a pair you take one of the two cards in the pair; in case of passing you receive the lowest card in all the other displays on the table. Cards thus received form your personal penalty stack. Then all players discard their display and are dealt a new open-faced card. If you exceed the limit of penalty points in relation to the number of players, you lose - in case of 31 points with two players, 21 with three, 16 with four, 13 with five and 11 with six or more players.

In the version Viel hilft viel you try to achieve the highest possible total in your display before you form a pair and must quit the game. Eine Runde ausgeben is played over only one round; in case of pair or pass - for which you select a card from the display - only you discard your display; the others continue, and you receive a new card in your next turn. In Gib Acht, you can, in case of an Eight in your display, decide to discard it and to receive two cards. In Fiese Sieben, you are given one more card if you receive a Seven.

Cute, funny, irritating, thrilling and of course rather chance-driven; card memory is of limited help only, as you do not know which cards were set aside.

Players: 2-8

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: James Ernest, Paul Peterson

Artist: Markus Wagner

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2017

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Risk or stop

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de en fr jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition of Pairs, Truant Verlag

Includes four variants

Some of the variants can be combined

Lots of fun with a bit of irritation

Compares to:

Pairs and Risk-or-Stop games

Other editions:

Cheapass Games (en), Superlude (fr), Ten Days Games (jp),

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0