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Mania

Extinguish fire or buy shares?

Mania is a card game featuring strange characters in a strange town, and as can be expected, the game itself is strange, too. It is made up from seven individual card games, which you can play individually or in the order in which they are presented in the rules.

There are basic cards with a number value, in four different colors, special cards marked with “!” and “X”, those cards are used differently depending on the version you play - some basic cards have those, markings, too) and then there are joker cards for each of the characters.

With KleptoMANIA you steal card stacks from your fellow players, assisted by special abilities on the cards. In PyroMANIA you set up six buildings of your own and burn down those of your fellow players; red and yellow cards represent fire, blue cards extinguish fire and green cards are buildings. NymphoMANIA is a search for the one and only female character in the game, and of course you want to sabotage the chances of your opponents. In BusinessMANIA you manipulate the share values of companies owned by the characters and buy the best shares for yourself. MemoryMANIA is a classic memo game, just to learn the cards or to relax. CartoMANIA demands the formation of an open card display, you must play a card fitting the open-faced starter cards and can then turn over an adjacent card. And, finally HyperMANIA - a card shedding game, you play cards of the same color and of higher value and then follow up with any number of cards of the value just played.

If you like spacy cards and freaky humor and love to use the same cards in many different ways, then you will have fun with Mania!

Players: 2-8

Age: 13+

Time: 30+

Designer: Juha Samijärvi, Anna-Leena Kolunen

Art: Juha Samijärvi

Price: on demand

Publisher: Revision Games 2010

Web: www.revision-games.com

Genre: Collection of card games

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: en fi

In-game text: no

Comments:

Cute drawings

Very individual humor

Seven different ways to play

Compares to:

First game of this kind, in general collections of card games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0