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Wizard Extreme

Seals for tricks you announced

Announcing tricks in a new way! You receive 15 cards and must announce the number of tricks that you will take with these cards. New? No, but here you must also announce the color in which you will take the tricks. The Red Magician Suit is the only trump color in the game. The starting player announces his tricks first and takes the corresponding seals. When seals of a color are already gone you take them from other players and give them a white joker seal instead. One player in the round can play “Black Magician” and try to hinder players, but nobody must choose the Black Magician. It is also allowed to take no seals and thus announce that you will not take a trick.

Then all tricks are played, red is always trump. For a trick announced and taken you discard the corresponding seal. If you take an unannounced trick you take a black penalty seal. If you take a trick with red you can either discard a red seal or a seal in the trick color. White seals can be discarded for any trick. When all tricks are played each remaining seal scores -2, each joker -4 and each black seal -3. Being Black Magician is always worth -4 points, each black seal for another player improves this by one, so that he can achieve zero as his best result.

After a number of rounds equal to the number of players the winner is the player with the fewest negative points.

With this wizard topic this re-edition of Die Sieben Siegel still is a wonderful trick-taking game, joker and penalty seals make it especially challenging and the Black Magician is an interesting alternative of you have a not-so-good hand of cards.

Spieler         : 3-5

Alter            : ages 10 and up

Dauer           : ca. 45 min

Autor           : Stefan Dorra

Grafik          : Franz Vohwinkel

Titel            : Ident

Preis            : ca. 8 Euro

Verlag          : Amigo 2010

                     www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre                    : Trick-taking card game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Language                        : de

Rules                              : de

In-game use of language   : no

Kommentar:

New edition of Die Sieben Siegel

New topic fits the mechanism very well

Very attractive design

Simple rules

Vergleichbar:

Canyon, Mü and other games with predicting the number of tricks taken

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