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Spicy

Bluff with chili and wasabi

Some game mechanisms, like the core mechanism of this bluff game, Mogeln, seem to have been around forever and a day. The mechanism has now been picked up with a cute background story, amazing design, and well-working rule detail changes:

Three cats fight for dominance by eating spices. There are number cards for chili, wasabi, and pepper as well as spice and number joker cards, you are dealt six cards; trophy cards are displayed and the “Verbrannt” card is inserted into the stack, suiting the number of players.

The first player names and plays a card of value 1-3 and draws a card. The next player names the same spice and a higher number, after 10 you go back to 1, 2 or 3. The top card can be challenged any time, even when a player passed after it was played. If you challenge a card, you touch the card and say exactly what you challenge, for instance “not 9” or “not wasabi”. In case of an inexact challenge, you have lost the challenge automatically. Whoever is correct, takes all cards that were played, the loser draws two cards and begins a new stack. If you play your last card, you announce this; if the card is not challenged or you win the challenge, you take a trophy card and win the game with two trophy cards. If someone takes the last trophy card or if the “Verbrannt” card appears, the game ends and you score your collected cards with one point each, each card in hand is a penalty point. For more challenging variants there are Extrascharf cards that change the rules, you can use one or two for a game.

Known, yes, but well varied, beautiful, and luxurious, plays quickly and a poker face is an advantage - an enjoyable renaissance.

Players: 2-6

Age: 10+

Time: 15-20+

Designer: Zoltán Györi

Artist: Jimin Kim

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Heidelbär Games 2020

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Bluff, cards

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de en hu nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Familiar core mechanism

Cute and nice details

Luxurious components

Fantastic graphic design

Compares to:

Bluff, Mogeln, Kakerlakenpoker ...

Other editions:

999 Games (nl), Gém Klub Knt. (hu)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

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