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Sky Heist

Looting the Dirigible Bank!

In a Steam Punk universe, you want to rob a Dirigible Bank together with some shady accomplices, but beware - the Sheriff can appear at any time or an accomplice can start a shooting for the loot. You are dealt six cards, then the sheriff cards are shuffled into the stack. In your turn, you can put a loot card on the stack or play an event card or begin a shooting; then you draw cards. Event cards are Substitution - you swap two cards with an opponent; The Indians - an opponent must give back a card from his gun; Assistant - you can have one more card in hand, usually there is a limit of six cards, including those in your gun.

You can load your gun anytime in the game by putting down a card face-down, but not when your hand is on the stack! You can also load the gun with a Joker or a Missed card.  

For a shooting - triggered by a player anytime after the appearance of the second or third sheriff or automatically by the appearance of the last sheriff - you put your hand quickly on the loot stack. The last player to do so does not get a share of the loot! Then you shoot - the winner is whoever has most cards of the same value in his gun; the winner takes half the loot cards for 1 point each, the player with the second-most cards takes half of the rest, and so on. The Joker copies any card in the gun, Missed cancels a card of the highest value! After six rounds, you win with most points.

This is cute, quick game with a very nice mix of reaction and use of cards, the mechanism of loot sharing is also very good. Keep an eye on hand-movements of your opponents, one might want to start shooting!

Players: 2-5

Age: 14+

Time: 30+

Designer: Igor Videnkov

Artist: Faina Khamidullina

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: GaGa Games 2016

Web: www.gaga-games.com

Genre: Use of cards, reaction

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Nice topic

Very well working mix of mechanisms

Card texts are explained in the rules

Compares to:

Reaction game with use of cards

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 2