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OMG

All gods fighting Zeus

After many attempts by his god colleagues to dethrone him, Zeus has announced a last contest for all twelve gods and allows them to use all their abilities against him. The cards in the game show a god, a colored Number and a symbol for one of four colors.

All cards are shuffled, each player is dealt seven cards, and the rest is stacked and one card is turned over to begin the discard pile.

You play a card from your hand on the top card of the stack; to score a hit the card you play must show the same number or the same god as the card on top. When neither god nor number correspond, you draw penalty cards depending on both the card you played and the top card: When the card you played has the same color as the top card, you draw cards equal to the difference of both card values. When the colors were different, too you draw cards equal to the difference plus one. When this drawing of cards has been resolved you can use the special ability of the card you played, if the card shows one. If this ability allows you to discard cards and one of those has a special ability, too, you cannot use it. Cards discarded in this way also go on the discard pile, the active player always plays his card in relation to the top card on the stack. Whoever plays the last card from his hand first, wins.

Basically, OMG is a game of “play a card suiting the previous card”, but offers nice detail; the solution for playing an unsuitable card is attractive and the abilities of the gods introduce variation. With a bit of card memory you can counter luck of the draw with a bit of strategy. A very nice filler with lots of fun to play.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: George Christofidis

Artist: Tony Tzanoukakis

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Desyllas Games 2015

Web: www.desyllasgames.gr

Genre: Card shedding

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: en gr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Topic rather forced

Simple rules

Pretty design

Nice filler game

Compares to:

Card shedding games

Other editions:

Greek edition, Desyllas

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

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