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Poker Carré

Place card instead of poker face

Poker Carré is a card placement game on the topic of card combinations; it uses 49 cards in seven colors and cards 1-7 in each color. Nine cards are placed in a 3 x 3 grid and each player is dealt four cards.

Now each player tries to place cards from his hand that horizontally and vertically the longest possible straights or sets of the same card value or sets of the same card color are formed. Those combinations are scored when formed. You place one card in each turn. A card that you place must be differ from the neighboring card by +1 or -1; if the newly placed card touches two cards already in place the + 1 rule must only be adhered to for one of the two cards. If you can you must place a card and a row can take only up to seven cards. In order to be scored a straight must be made up from a minimum of four cards, for scores in color or card values a minimum of three cards must be displayed. The important point is that for such scores the card NEED NOT be placed next to each other or in the correct order, it is enough when they are present in the same row.

Points you score are cancelled on the score sheet, and in the end you add the values of the first not cancelled positions in each category; the more often you achieve a certain combination the higher your score will be for this combination.

Poker Carré is part of a series of three card games published last year at Winning Moves; it is based on standard mechanisms and standard game principles; poker combinations are known to all and if you do not like the bluff and bid element of poker you will love this version of it.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: not named

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 10 Euros

Publisher: Winning Moves 2011

Web: www.winning-moves.de

Genre: Card placement game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very simple rules

Nice family game without bidding

Standard Mechanisms

Compares to:

All games with formation of poker combinations

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): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0