Eric Alvarado

At first, I had my doubts about this game. Seemed way to simple for a coop game. Boy was I wrong. The four of us played four games and got closer each game. The elegant design of not seeing your cards, but helping others decipher what cards they have to help the group is brilliant. For those that have not played, the premise is simple:

There are 5 colors suits. In each suit there are numbered cards going from 1 to 5. There are three 1’s, two 2’s, two 3’s, two 4’s and one 5. You have three failure tokens and nine clue tokens. Each player draws four cards, faces them so they face their co-players. Hence, the player does not know what cards he/she has. The goal of the game is to player 5 sequences in each color suite in ascending order from 1 to 5. Simple? Nope. On your turn, you can play a card, discard a card, or give a clue. If you play a card, it has to be played so that it is in the correct order of the matching suit. If not, it is considered a failure and a failure token is issued for the team. If you discard a card, a clue token is earned. However, you have to be careful what you discard, because if you discard the last of a number you need (i.e. the only 5), then the game is over. You can give a player a clue by using a clue token. You can tell any player either which cards have the same color (i.e. first and third are blue) or the same number (i.e first and second are 3). Game continues in clockwise order until you collect three failures, discarded a card that was the last one of it’s kind, or miraculously winning the game by creating 5 color suits in ascending order from 1 to 5.

It is a great game! My wife enjoyed playing it enough to try four times in a row with my gaming buddies.

Enjoy!