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Follow suit in four tricks

Announcing tricks, albeit with following suit in up to four tricks at the same time. The game comprises 50 cards with values 1 to 15 in four colors. You hold marker tokens and victory point cards in your colors; the cards - a different number depending on the number of players, as stated in the rules - are shuffled and dealt evenly to all players, each player holds 12 cards. After checking your hand you place the victory point cards for the current round face down in the order of your choice, in accordance with your supposition for how many tricks you believe you will be able to take. Then in turn you play one card from your hand, either to a trick already going or you start one of four possible tricks. A trick you start or take over with you card is marked with your token. If you cannot follow suit for a trick you must - if still possible - open a new one or play a card of your choice to any trick. The fourth card played on a trick completes the trick and the owner of the token at this trick reveals his current victory point card. If you take another trick you turn over this card and reveal the next one in order. When all twelve cards have been played, each player sets aside his currently revealed victory point card for the final scoring. After three such rounds have been played you win with most points on your set-aside victory point cards.

A very individual and unusual variant of trick-announcing games, in this game you want to take tricks, albeit in a controlled way, because - if your highest victory point card of the round is the middle one of your display, you need to take 2 or 5 tricks in order to score it!

Players: 2-5

Age: 10+

Time: 40+

Designer: Ralf zur Linde

Artist: Charlotte Wagner

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger 2015

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Trick-taking with announcement

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: nein

Comments:

Well-made version of a trick-announcing mechanism

Some card experience is helpful

Good, concise rules

Compares to:

Other trick-taking games with announcements

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