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Avocado Smash

Shed cards! Survive smashes!

70 cards show some avocados and the corresponding number, or say Smash or Guacamole or demand change of direction. All players are dealt the same number of cards and stack them.

In turn, you reveal a card - if two consecutive cards show the same number, a Smash occurs and all players hit the cards in the middle quickly; the slowest player takes all those cards under his stack. Parallel to revealing of cards, you count upturned cards - the first player says 1 avocado, the next 2 avocados ... up to 15 avocados and then back to 1 avocado etc. If the current count equals the number on the newly revealed card, a Smash occurs. A Smash also happens when two change direction cards appear one after the other. A Smash card causes a Smash, and for a card saying Guacamole you shout Guacamole - the slowest player takes all cards. If, however, you hit the cards in the middle for a Guacamole card, you lose the round and take all cards, regardless of who was slowest to shout Guacamole.

Advanced rules say that in case of a change of direction you must immediately count backwards, and when there are conditions for a double Smash - for instance, two identical numbers on two cards equal the current counting number - nothing happens. Should several players hit the table by mistake, cards from the middle are distributed evenly to them. If you had to take cards, you restart play by revealing a card. If you are out of cards, you win if you are still out of cards after the next smash.

Well, I am tempted to say nothing new but the box in the shape of an Avocado, but the details are different enough to provide a nice version of a standard mechanism.

Players: 2+

Age: 6+

Time: 10+

Designer: not named

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Game Factory 2019

Web: www.gamefactory-spiele.com

Genre: Card shedding

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de fr + en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Cute box

Familiar standard mechanisms

Nice details

Compares to:

Uno and other card shedding games

Other editions:

Ridley’s Games (en)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 1