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Ghooost!

chase away ghosts with ghosts

You must get rid of the ghosts in your haunted mansion by getting of all your cards. There are four ghosts each of values 1 to 14, plus for X ghosts and two "kitties". You begin with four ghosts in hand, and, depending on the number of players, 12-4 face-down cards, stacked for you mansion; the rest of the cards is stacked for the Crypt. You play a card open-faced to the cemetery = box lid - equaling or surpassing the value of the top card in the cemetery - or draw the top Crypt card. If you can play it you do so and the turn ends; if not, you take all ghosts from the cemetery in hand. You always replenish your hand to four cards from the Crypt, if you end up with less than four cards. When the Crypt is empty, it is past midnight and the rules change: you still play ghosts to the cemetery or take all cards from there, if you have no suitable cards in hand, but don't draw cards. If you have no card in hand, you play the top one from your mansion. Ghosts 1, 3, 9, 11, 12, X and Kitty have special abilities influencing the course of the game. You can also play two or three identical, suitable cards and earn a second turn; four cards can be played on any card, in doing so you discard all cards from the cemetery and have another turn. If you are out of cards, you leave the game; the last one in play has lost.

Ghooost! is a nice card game, but no sophisticated, typical Garfield game; it is basically simple, but not easy to access for beginners due to the special card abilities; in the second part it is very chance-driven due to the face-down cards in the mansion; multiple cards played and second turns introduce a bit of tactics.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Richard Garfield

Artist: Dimitri Chappuis, Igor Polouchine

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: iello 2013

Web: www.iello.info

Genre: Card shedding

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: cz de en it jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

Reminds one of Uno

Basically simple, but a bit confusing at the start

All in all nice family game, rather chance-driven

Compares to:

Uno and other card shedding games

Other editions:

Giochi Uniti, Heidelberger, Hobby Japan, Mindok

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0