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High Five

Lay Out and Score Full House!

High Five is a game on combinations of numbers made up from number cards in four colors, ranging from 2-13 + 1 card 1/14 in every color. The board is a square of 8x8 squares, each player faces one border of the board and has a rack for the number cards. To start the game four randomly drawn numbers are placed on the board, players start with four cards and a joker each.

In your turn you must form a valid and valuable combination by adding one or more of your own cards to the board. Then you draw two cards from the pile. You must place at least one card and may place a maximum of four cards in one row or column next to already laid out cards. In case of joker, it stays in place for the the rest of the game.

In the first round each player must lay out three cards and thus connect two of the starting cards. A combination for scoring consists of five cards in a horizontal or vertical row, never a diagonal one, and you must include all cards placed in that round in the scoring. To better mark the cards chosen for scoring you use the frame that is placed over the cards you want to score. The order of numbers in a combination is unimportant, thus 3-4-2-5-6 is a valid row. You score for Poker combinations and for colors. The first player out of cards receives 2 bonus points; when all are out of cards the player with the highest total wins.

High Five is a simple game with a quickly understood mechanism, the adaption to a placement game and the unsorted display take a little time to get used to, as does the fact that you can fill gaps. But take care not to lay too much groundwork for the next player!

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : ca. 30 min

Autor           : Nils van Teijlingen

Grafik          : Sensit

Titel englisch          : -

Preis            : ca. 30,00 Euro

Verlag          : Kosmos 2010

                     www.kosmos.de

Genre                    : Number placement game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : Form and score number combinations

Kommentar:

Simple rules

Interessant because of unsorted rows

Vergleichbar:

All games scoring poker combination, using opponents‘ elements

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