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Cards in Rows

Aim of the game in this card shedding is simply to correctly lay out in your turn as many number cards as you can, whereby it is also possible to relocate rows of cards already laid out.

Six placement cards are laid out in a row and one number card is placed on them; these number cards are the starting cards for a number row. All remaining cards – number cards and special cards – are shuffled and dealt evenly to all players. You take your cards as a face-down draw pile and set them down and then draw six cards for your first hand.

Then you play in clockwise direction – in your turn you can either swap as many cards from your hands for cards from your draw pile or play as many cards from your hand as you want. Number cards that you play are laid down in descending order and without gaps, in the basic game without any attention to colors. Before you place cards you can rearrange the display and place a complete row or the available part of a row on another row. Available parts of a row are always all cards in a row, starting with the bottom one, as far up as you want; you can never remove a card or cards from somewhere in a row.

A complete row of cards from 1 to 13 is removed and taken out of the game. On an empty placement card you can play any card from your hand and thus start a new row.

Special cards allow you to place cards at the top of the row or to force players to each take a card from a different row.  

A Kramer game for beginners with lots of fun all around, using part of a Rummy mechanism, cleverly adapted; the action cards introduce additional tension – all in all a very good family game.

Players: 2-6

Age: 7+

Time: 20+

Designer: Wolfgang Kramer

Art: Michael Menzel

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2013

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Card placement game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Mechanism similar to Rummy

Simple basic rules

Version with inclusion of colors

Compares to:

Rummy and other card placement games according to number sequences

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0