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5211

Not 5211! 5-2-1-1!

Play cards of a color for points - sounds easy, but has its pitfalls, as too many cards of a color are worthless instead of scoring more points.

From 20 cards each in five colors - red, blue, yellow, green and orange, showing values 5x1, 6x2, 5x3, 2x4, 1x5 and 1x6 and showing Kododo markings on five cards - you remove 10, 13, 0, 15 cards from the stack in case of 2-3-4-5 players and are then dealt five cards. Then you play four out of your five cards in three turns: All play simultaneously two cards for the first turn, and add one card each in the second and third turn, always with replenishing the hand.

When then there are - in case of 2-3-4-5 players- 4-5-6-7 cards in total with a Kododo marking on the table, only those cards are put into the scoring pile. Otherwise, each player puts the cards of the all-over majority color in their scoring pile, unless too many were played: 5-6-7-8 in case pf 2-3-4-5 players. If this is the case, the round explodes and the majority color is set aside unscored and the second-most color is scored; as it is in case of a tie for majority color. When most- and second-most color are not scored, no color scores. As an alternative scoring method, you use cards of value 1 - if, again in relation to player numbers, a certain number of those cards was played, only those cards are scored. When the draw pile is empty, you win with most points in your scoring pile.

A clever little card game offering a fun-to-play, nice mix of lots of chance and a bit of tactic. Simultaneous play is very important to not give a hesitant player an advantage! A good card memory is helpful.

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Tsuyoshi Hashiguchi

Artist: Chris Quilliams

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Next Move Games / Pegasus 2019

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Collect cards for points

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en fr it jp

In-game text: no

New edition of 5 Colors

Designer 5 Colors: John Bannister

Simple family game

Sophisticated details

Compares to:

All card games with collecting cards to collect points

Other editions:

5 Colors, Gallery Ouchi / Japon Brand 2018

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

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