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Block 5

4+3+2 to make up 9

Block 5 is a new game on numbers, cards and combining card for numbers and discarding them. Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 are in the stack 10 times each, plus five cards marked 3+. You hold 8 cards and try to be the first out of cards to win. At the start of the game you try to make up a total of value 5 from your cards and place the cards you use for this as a first row or underneath an already existing row. If you cannot make up a total of value 5 from your cards you draw a card from stack; for instance, you could use 3+2 or 1+2+2 or 3+1+1. If you place the 5^th row of value 5 you place these cards at a 90 degree angle to the previous rows to mark the completion of the block. Then you start a new block with one and only one card of any value; others in turn again add one row with the value of the single card until there are 5 rows altogether, always using one or more cards. Each block can be doubled once by adding another 5 rows. Every time when you complete a block you start a new block with a single card. 3+ is used like a 3, but when you place it you draw 3 cards from the stack, keep one and can hand the other two to a player or players of your choice or keep them for yourself. If you can lay out your last card, you win the game instantly; so you can never end the game and win by laying out a 3+ card as your last card.

Block 5 is one of those fast little games that only seem simple; you must consider carefully how to best get rid of cards of high value; and then there is the luck of the draw, so the game all in all offers a very good mixture of chance and tactics!

Players: 2-6

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Aya and Alma Modan

Artist: Arthur Wagner

Price: ca. 11 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2012

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Card shedding game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de hu

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple basic rules

Very good mix of chance and tactics

Block doubling is an essential element of the game

Compares to:

All card displaying games with the aim to have no cards left

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): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0