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Foppen

Take tricks to shed cards!

A trick-taking game, but not with the goal of taking most tricks, but to be the first player in a round to be rid of all cards, because remaining cards in hand are penalty points.

88 cards comprise 82 cards in four colors and six „1“ cards; depending on the number of players you use varying numbers of cards and one or two Fool discs. You are dealt twelve cards – eleven with eight players.

In a round, you play tricks following color suits, but without mandatory tricking, and there is no trump. If you cannot follow suit, you discard any card to the trick. The highest card in the color that was led wins the trick. If you played the worst card in the trick, you are „fooled“, take a Fool disc and have to pass your turn in the next trick, cannot play a card, that is. When all followed suit, the lowest card played in this color is the worst one, otherwise the lowest card of all the discarded colors. If there is tie in those, the last card of those that was played is the worst one. In a game of eight, the two lowest cards are „fooled“. “1” cards are jokers for any color but need not be played to follow suit. If one or several players are out of cards, all players score remaining cards and “1”s for penalty points. Being out of cards scores +10, albeit only if you do not have a disc. If someone goes t0 -80 or below or has collected +10 six times, you win with most points or fewest negative points.

In the new edition, player numbers are 4-8 instead of 3-6 and the bidding variant was deleted; the game is a cute trick-taking version with an unusual scoring and a nice mix of luck and tactic; a quickly played, nice filler game..

Players: 4-8

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Friedemann Friese

Artist: Harald Lieske

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: 2F-Spiele 2018

Web: www.2f-spiele.de

Genre: Trick-taking

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: cn de en es fr jp kr

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition, 1^st edition 1995

Cute version

Plays quickly

Nice filler game

Compares to:

Foppen, trick-taking games to shed cards

Other editions:

Arclight (jp), Edge Entertainment (es fr), Mandoo Games (kr), Stronghold Games (en), Swan Panasia (cn)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0