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Lixo?

Applecore goes into the grey container

Garbage recycling as a topic for a card game - 25 container cards with values between 1 and 5 are marked with different colors; yellow for plastic and metal, blue for paper and card board, green for glass, red for batteries and grey for organic matter and foodstuff. The garbage cards show one or two kinds of garbage and players need to recycle those cards into corresponding containers, cards not recycled score negative at the end of the game. Each player is dealt 5 garbage cards; the container cards are shuffled together with the stop cards and stacked, the first card of this stack is turned up. If it is a container card, all players in turn can bid garbage cards of this color to win the container; cards are laid out openly, you must at least raise the bid by one, but you can pass and re-enter the bid later. The highest bid wins the container, you take the container card, set it down before you and discard the cards you did bid for it; they are considered to be recycled. All other players must stack their bid as not recycled, each such card scores -1 at the end. When you draw a stop card from the container stack all players receive 5 new garbage cards. When all cards from the container stack have been used, you add the value of your container cards and distract the number of non-recycled garbage cards. If you achieved the highest score, you win.

Lixo is a very simple bidding game featuring a prevailing topic; you cannot really plan anything as all cards are dealt at random; sometimes you can try not to bid and to hope for a stop card and new garbage cards for a wider range.

Players: 2-6

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Gil d’Orey

Artist: Gil d’Orey

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Mebo Games 2011

Web: www.mesaboardgames.pt

Genre: Auction game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en pt

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Comments:

Very simple rules

Prevailing topic

Very much chance-driven

Compares to:

R-Öko as regards to topic

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

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