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Papayoo

Avoid Payoo and PApayoo!

In this card game – a fairly new genre at games from Gigamic – there are neither Kings nor Queens nor Jacks, but there is a fifth color named Payoo and a special dice. Aim of the game is not to collect the highest score but to win with the fewest points.

The game comprises 40 cards in the usual suits for card games - Hearts, Diamonds, Spades and Clubs – with card values 1 to 10 in each suit plus 20 Payoo cards of values 1 to 20. One of the four Sevens in the game is turning into the Papayoo card for the round and has a value of 40 points. All other cards in the four suits have no value. The cards are dealt to players according to the rules and all players can then – again according to the rules in dependence of the number of players – hand a certain number of cards to their left neighbor. The die is rolled to determine the suit of the Papayoo card.

Then a trick-taking game is played: If you do not have the color that was led you play any color. The trick is taken by the highest card in the color led; if nobody plays this color the trick is one by the player who led the trick. At the end of the round each player adds the value of the Payoo cards in his tricks. After a pre-set number of rounds the player with the lowest total score wins the game.

Sounds easy, or? But the dilemma already starts with the handing-on of cards. Do I hand on all cards of a suit to be sure to get rid of Payoo cards? And what if I am then handed 1 single card of that suit? Should I take a trick of low value to keep enough low cards for later? A nice card game for the whole family, and even specialists will have fun with it.

Spieler         : 3-8

Alter            : ages 7 and up

Dauer           : ca. 30 min

Autor           : not cited

Grafik          : Design France

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 13 Euro

Verlag          : Gigamic 2010

www.gigamic.com

Genre                    : Card game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Language                        : uk de fr nl es

Rules                              : 24 languages

In-game use of language   : no

Kommentar:

Attractive design

Packed in a tin

Well-known mechanisms nicely varied

Vergleichbar:

Other trick-taking card games

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