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Pi mal Pflaumen

a different kind of fruit basket

75 fruit 1-cards featuring eight kinds of fruit and also plums are divided into 25 cards 1-15 each for laps I, II and III. Other plum cards, Pi cards and the watch dog are set out, the cards for lap I are dealt evenly to all. For each round/trick in the lap you play one fruit card, maybe together with one or more Pi cards – each Pi card adds 3,14 to the value of the card you played. Whoever played the highest card of the round, is first to choose a card from those, it can be the one you played yourself, and sets it down. Then you may use the special action of the card you took – take the watch dog, steal a card or take Pi cards – and complete a mixture stated on a card in your display by letters in a wreath of laurel, using cards from your display, the card naming the mixture can be used for the mixture. Letters of the mixture denote the number of cards for a type of fruit; if you want to complete mixture AABBCC you need to set aside face-down two cards each from three different types of fruit.

This is then repeated in descending order of cards played for each player, the last one must take the remaining card and takes one of the plum cards, for use in mixtures. When all cards of the first lap have been played, you play two more laps using the respective stacks of cards. When the last card is played you may complete mixtures and win with most points from cards in the mixtures that you completed.

This is an unusual, attractive game offering a nice mix of planning and riling over a stolen card or the Pi card of the last player, which lets him now choose a card before I can choose. Here goes my mixture!

Players: 3-5

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Matthias Cramer

Artist: Dennis Lohausen, Hans-Georg Schneider

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2015

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Card game, tricks, collecting 

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very beautiful retro design

Interesting trick/draft mechanism

Felicitous mixture of planning, chance and riling elements

Compares to:

Trick-taking games with distribution of trick cards  for later use

Other editions:

Polish edition announced

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0