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8 * 28

Form sums, earn gems

You want to get as near as possible to 8 or 28 with your collected cards and can earn gems each of those values. Should you manage to make up both sums exactly at the same time, you win all gems of the round.

Cards are shuffled and stacked face-down. Then each player takes a card, looks at it and puts it down face-down. The active dealer puts a gem from stock in the middle – at first a blue one, later on a red one – and then offers a face-down card to all players in turn and, finally, to himself. If you accept a card, you put it down open-faced. When the total of your open cards tops 28, you are out of the round. In turn each player is active dealer, until nobody accepts a card anymore. Then the gems in the middle are given out: First the player whose cards come nearest to 8,takes  half of the gems, the rest goes to whoever is nearest to 28. Should an undividable rest remain, it stays for the next round. 1/11 can be used as 1 or as 11.

If you have cards that would enable you to participate in both hand-outs, you decide on one of them. If you manage 8 and 28 exactly – which, for instance, is possible with cards 1/11+1/11+6 – you take all gems of the round. In case of a tie in sums you split the gems among those involved in the tie. For the next round all cards are shuffled again. When the first red gem is put into the middle, the game ends at the end of the round and then each blue gem is worth 1 point and each red gem 2 points, and you win with most points.

8*28 is an attractive fast gambling game, a lot depends on how early and if you get a 1 or a 1/11 card, if at all. Nice family game!

Players: 3-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Mike Hirtle, David L. Hoyt, Colin Morgan

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2015

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Sum formation with a limit

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple rules

Quickly explained

Nice risk/gambling element

Compares to:

All games with limits on sums

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

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Creativity (dark blue): 0

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Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

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