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RAINBOW 7

Collect all colors

The Queen of Sheba is visiting King Solomon, famous for his wisdom, and asks him for the source of this his wisdom. He answers her that after the Great Flood the first rainbow appeared and if she could find it she could acquire the same wisdom. This answer became known all over Jerusalem and many set out to find wisdom and the rainbow. But the clues on where to find the rainbow were strewn all over the land.

Each of the four cardinal directions - North, South, East and West - has its own seven hints corresponding to the seven colors of the rainbow - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Dark Blue and Purple. You choose a direction and complete the rainbow by collecting all colors for that chosen direction. Each player is given eight cards, the rest is stacked. Now each player lays out a card face-down. From now on you always hold seven cards; the card laid out determines the starting player - if you placed the first color in the rainbow sequence you are the starting player.

In your turn you play a card from your hand and draw a card, either from the draw pile or from the discard pile of another player. When the draw pile is empty you only draw from other players’ stacks. If you play an action card, you use its effect. Whoever plays his last but one card calls “it’s raining”, if you place your last card you call “Rainbow” and lay out the complete rainbow from your hand.

A version of Rummy, that is, collecting a pre-set sequence while using action cards similar to UNO, this best describes the mechanisms of Rainbow 7 - a pretty family game with an unusual topic.

Players: 3-5

Age: 7+

Time: 20+

Designer: Pascal Park

Art: not named

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Deinko 2012

Web: www-deinko.com

Genre: Set collecting game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: en kr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Set collecting game with mechanisms from UNO and Rummy

Nice background story

Simple mechanisms

Compares to:

Other set collecting games with draw card/discard card mechanisms

Other editions:

Currently none

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