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Piranhas

BIG FISH EAT SMALL FISH

Piranhas eat fish, in this special case all fish of another color. Bigger fish eat smaller fish of the same color. You place one card face-down for a target card, the rest is dealt evenly to all players, who take their stacks in hand.

Then the target card is turned up and upon a starting signal all now play simultaneously; they turn up the top card in their stack and check if it fits the target card in the middle. If the card fits, you place your card on the target card, where it instantly becomes the new target card. If the card does not fit the target card you place it on your own open discard pile, or you keep it in hand until it fits, but you cannot play another card and can only hold one open card.

A card fits the target if it shows a fish of the same color and if that fish is bigger than the fish on the target card; there are fish in eight colors and four sizes, the biggest and third-biggest fish always swim to the left, the second-biggest fish and the smallest fish swim always to the right. A piranha can be placed on any fish card that does not show a fish in the piranha color. A piranha on a piranha must be of a different color! And you can place a fish card on a piranha, when no fish has the color of the piranha, this is announced with “fresh fish!”.

When a player has used up his stack, he turns over his discard pile for a new stack of cards in hand. When you can discard your last card, you win.

Piranhas is a nice re-implementation of standard mechanisms and needs very good observation and quick reactions; the four sizes are not always easy to distinguish! Quick, cute and nice for your holidays!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Reiner Knizia

Art: Michael Menzel, Michaela Kienle

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2012

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Card shedding game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nicely varied standard mechanisms

Trains observation and assessing of size relations

Gut for holidays or a quick game in between

Compares to:

Ligretto and other card shedding games

Other editions:

Currently none

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