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Nullern

Hupfer for your oppenents, if possible!

A version of a classic game using 80 cards, 1-20, in four colors. You play 20 rounds of a trick game, announcing trick numbers, and win with most points after 20 rounds.

Each round is played with a different number of cards, you start with one card in Round One, get one more in each round up to ten in Round Ten and then get one less again down to one card in Round 19. In Round 20 you receive one card face-down and announce 0 or 1 trick without knowing your card.

Remaining cards are stacked and the first one is turned up, it determines the trump color of the round. Now each player names the number of tricks he wants to take in this round, the number is noted. You can never announce more tricks than you have cards in this round! If you are first to name the highest number of tricks, you lead for the first trick, then the winner of a trick leads for the next one. A trick without a trump card in it is won by the highest card played, independent of color, in case of a tie the card that was played first wins the trick; otherwise, the highest trump card played wins the trick. If you meet your announced number of tricks you score 10 points + the number of tricks, if you announced trick(s) and did not take one, you score a "Hupfer". If you announced a trick and took more or less, you score a "Hupfer" + the number of tricks taken. Nullern, that is, announcing zero tricks and taking none, wins you 20 points! For each Hupfer you deduct 5 points at the end.

Familiar and yet different, reduced to a minimum - no special cards, no special rules, only fun and a teeny weeny bit of gloating when your own cards can ruin the predictions of an opponent!

Players: 2-7

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Lena Kappler

Artist: Johann Rüttinger

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne 2013

Web: www.hasehasehase.de

Genre: Cards, trick-taking

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard rules nicely varied

Good components

Minimalistic design

Dot-marking of red cards for players with red/green ablepsia

Compares to:

Other trick card games announcing number of tricks, for instance Wizard

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

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