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Top 5 Rummy

The game taking a turn!

You collect and play number cards to complete tasks displayed on task boards as quickly as you can. At the start of the game each player is dealt five cards from the face-down stack and seven cards are placed on the places on the card wheel. Each player is given five markers in his a color, a certain number of chips for a starting capital and seven of nine task boards are laid out.

For each card on the wheel a price is indicated. In your turn you buy or sell cards or complete a task. When you sell a card you put it on a free spot on the wheel or on a place where there is one card maximum and you are paid the indicated price for the card in chips. When you buy a card, you choose one spot on the wheel and buy all cards in that spot paying the indicated price once! Then you turn the wheel by one position, thereby changing prices for each card - and – should there be three adjacent empty spots on the wheel – refill those spots from the draw pile.  Then you choose one of the free marker spots on the task board and place one of your markers there; is it a bonus space you are paid the bonus; if you are forced to fill penalty spot you can only complete the task if you can pay the penalty. On each task board only one marker per player is allowed.

If you are the first placer that can place the last of his markers onto a task board you win the game.

Very nice! The game offers exactly the right mixture of tactic and chance; if you can afford it you should maybe pay the penalty for a task to get rid of a marker, which can decide the game in the end. Best family entertainment with a well-done mixture of mechanisms.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 40+

Designer: Rüdiger Dorn

Artist: Schwarzschild and others

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger 2013

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: card collecting for sets

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very attractive design

Familiar, standard mechanisms, nicely adapted

Good mixture of chance and tactic

Compares to:

Some mechanics from Rummy, other set collecting games with cards

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