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Big Five

Fourth card in a row - shed a card!

Animal cards must be laid out in groups; there are five different animals on five different background colors. One card is laid out to start the display; the remaining cards are dealt evenly to all players. You stack your cards face down and take five in hand. In your turn you can swap cards with your stack or place cards. To swap cards you shuffle any number of cards from your hand, put them under your stack and draw the same number of cards from your stack. To place cards you put down any number in the cards next to a card already there, to form groups of animals of the same kind or with the same background color. One card of the newly formed group must be one that was already in the display before you added your cards, it is not sufficient to put your cards down adjacent to a card in the display! If you place the 4^th card of a group, you can discard one card from your hand or stack, if you place the 5^th, two cards. Should you place both the 4^th and 5^th card, you bonus discard is three cards. If you are first to get rid of all your cards you win. In a solo version you must place a minimum of three cards in a group or put cards on an open discard pile until only 2 are left in hand. Bonuses are set aside from your discard pile and you try to achieve a minimum of cards in your discard pile.

Big Five is basically a standard card placement game, but the nice little details are alluring - the bonus discards and the forced including of cards from the display in a new group, which can also make you swap cards with your stack - but do you want to lose a turn that way? Cute and a nice family game, too!

Players: 1-4

Age: 7+

Time: 20+

Designer: Reiner Knizia

Art: Oliver Freudenreich

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2011

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Card placement game

Users: For children

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nicely varied standard mechanisms

Nice family game

Simple rules

Cute details

Quick to play

Compares to:

All card shedding games with group formation based on characteristics

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