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Run for the privy

Toilets in general have the tendency to be occupied when you are in urgent need of them. You have 11 people that need to find a toilet urgently and try to send one of them to the toilet successfully in each round.

Two person cards from the draw pile are laid out next to the privy huts to start two rows of cards. In each round you choose one of your 11 cards face-down. Then all cards are revealed simultaneously. The player with the lowest card places this card into a row of his choice where it fits, and then the player with the highest card. In each row a number or a color can only be present once, the order in which they are placed does not matter! When two players did choose the same number, the red on is considered to be the lowest one, followed by yellow, green, blue, orange and grey. When the lowest or highest card does not fit in any of the rows it turns into toilet paper and you draw another one as a penalty. All other cards played turn into toilet paper too, because the persons had to use the forest, and are placed face-down. If you place the 5^th card in a row you remove the four already there and receive a cleaner card. After 11 rounds you score penalty points for your toilet paper rolls, each cleaner card neutralizes one toilet paper roll, but three cleaner cards neutralize all them for you! After three such rounds you win with the fewest penalty points.

Focus is a funny, fast game with a clear advantage for people with a good card memory, which is heavily tasked with cards from 1-12! A nice mixture of guessing, risk and memory, would work without a topic, too, but is a bit more fun that way.

Players: 3-5

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Reinhard Staupe

Artist: Christian Opperer

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Nürnberger Spielkarten 2012

Web: www.nsv.de

Genre: Card placement game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: nein

Comments:

Funny but albeit rather forced topic

Nice mechanism highest/lowest card

Card memory can help

Compares to:

6 nimmt! and other placement games with card limits

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): 0

Action (dark green): 0