You can order Abridged from Alpha There are 74 cards representing letters of the alphabet - 42 consonants, 32 vowels and 2 wild cards. Since cards of the same rank differ only in colour, these cards will be unsuitable for some colour-blind players, but it is easy to substitute a standard deck of playing-cards. The 52-card pack uses colours (red, green, yellow, blue) instead of suit symbols, and has numbers 2-14 of each colour, with the top four cards of each suit marked with 1-4 dots representing their Milton Work point count. You can order Take 5, an American edition of 6 Nimmt! from 7 WondersĪ commercial version of Minibridge from Out of the Box games. The Walking Dead includes a variant in which the aim is to collect points rather than avoid them, and some extra 'Hero cards', one per player, which can be used to play a card out of sequence. The rule booklet is available from Amigo. It's difficult to see how to develop an effective strategy, but players seem to enjoy trying. When a player's card would extend a row to six cards, the player has to capture the first five cards of the row when it won't fit on any row, the player chooses a row to capture. The cards in each row must be in ascending order, and a row cannot contain more than 5 cards. Each player simultaneously selects a card from their hand and these cards are played according to various rules to a layout consisting of four rows. Each card is worth penalty points (the multiples of 5 and 11 being most expensive), so the aim is to avoid capturing cards. The pack contains cards numbered from 1 to 104. It has been reissued in American editions under various names: Category 5, Slide 5, The Walking Dead and Take 5. This is a light-hearted game for 2-10 players by Wolfgang Kramer.

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