Desperados

 

Anarchy in the Wild West, desperados are trying to catch the biggest loot, players send their henchmen out to those location where a rich booty is to be found. If a hold-up takes place a player gets the bounty who has the strongest band of bandits. But before a holdup the bandits must learn their trade and so the strength of a bandit varies from hold-up to hold-up. Play has two phases, daily business and hold-ups. Daily business is used to adjust the strength of the card hand by skilfully discarding bandits, a hold-up only happens at a location, where the number of bandits has surpassed the value on the location card. All players now can form a gang to participate in the hold-up, in the end the player with the biggest booty wins.

 

Card game * 3-5 players from age 12 * Designers: Anselm and Malte Ostertag * Pfiffikus, Germany, 2004 *** Pfiffikus-Spiele * www.pfifficus-spiele.de