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A version of Russian Bank
68 cards with 29 x Sun, 29 x Moon, 5 x Solar Eclipse and 29 x Lunar Eclipse are well shuffled and stacked face-down, each player draws five cards from this stack. In turn players lay out one card to start a row or continue a row. You only draw cards again when all your cards in hand are placed.
In a turn you can either place a card or remove a row, you must do one of those two actions. Another restriction is that you can have only one sun row and and one moon row on display. You can place a card in your own row or also in an opponent’s row. Both kinds of cards are placed in adjacent order at the left or right end of the row, a card is never inserted between cards already placed- When you place a card showing an animal you must place another card in the same turn. Eclipse cards are placed on top of cards already placed and interrupt an opponent’s row; Eclipse cards can be annulled again by a fitting card. When you have five or more cards in an uninterrupted row you can remove this row in your next turn. Those removable cards can be part of a longer, interrupted row, but must be free of Eclipse cards themselves. If you have no card that you can play anywhere and cannot to a move, you destroy yourself and lose cards in hands and both rows, and then draw five new cards. When nobody can play anymore, removed, that is, collected Moon and Sun cards score one point each, cards still on display -1!
A neat little game, in which destroying yourself can be a useful tactical move, if you can initiate it; it is a card game typically for designer Jacques Zeimet, fast, unusual and interesting, annoyance potential inclusive!
Players: 2-4
Age: 8+
Time: 20+
Designer: Jacques Zeimet
Art: Johann Rüttinger
Price: ca. 11 Euro
Publisher: Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne 2012
Web: www.hasehasehase.de
Genre: Card placement game
Users: For families
Version: multi
Rules: de en fr it
In-game text: no
Comments:
Wonderful graphics
Unusual idea
Darkness cards for irritations
Compares to:
Placement games with row formation
Other editions:
Currently none
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 3
Strategy (blue): 0
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 0
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0