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Black Jacky

Avoid 21!

Don’t reach a total of 21, but get as near to this number as possible, using cat cards, heart cards and 36 mice cards of 1y value 1, 2x value 2 and so on up to 8x value 8.

You have one cat card, to indicate active or inactive status, as well as two or three heart cards, red heart up, on display and two mice card in hand, one mice card starts the discard pile.

The active player can trick and must then risk. To trick, you lay out an open mice card and use its trick on active players who are not out of the game or did not knock. Tricks influence end of round, card displays and cards in hand.

To Risk you draw a card from stack. Or you set aside a face-down card, take the top card from the stack or the discard pile and then put the set-aside card open-faced on the discard pile. Or you knock on the table and do nothing; the first to knock triggers the end of the round, all others have one more turn and can also knock; this protects against tricks!

Then you add the values of mice cards in hand and mice cards on the table - if your total is 21 or more, you lose one heart; if nobody reached 21 or more, you lose a heart if your total is the lowest. If you are out of hearts, you are inactive and may bet at the start of the turn on who will lose a heart. If you guess correctly, you receive one black heart! If you lose this as well, you are out of the game. The last one with a heart card wins.

The name tells it, this is the “little” brother of Black Jack with some easing additions, amusing and enchantingly illustrated. The chance to stay in play with a black heart is the final ingredient for a felicitous family game.

Players: 2-6

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Dynamo

Artist: ca. 10 Euro

Price:

Publisher: Ravensburger 2018

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Card, risk

Users: For families

Version: de                                           

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very nice illustrations

Simple rules

Fast, one-heart version without black heart included

Good family game

Compares to:

Black Jack and other card games with result/sum limit

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0