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Fifty Fifty

High for grim, low for cheerful faces!

Opposites are known to attract each other and this well known byword has been used as the topic for this card game, only if you manage to find a balance between opposites you will have a chance to win. The game features faces that show a blue grim and a yellow cheerful half. Players need to collect these halves as efficiently as possible to combine them into complete faces, because only complete faces do not score negative.

Each player holds 9 Fifty cards, the 10 Mood cards are stacked face down. Then the first mood card is turned up and players in turn choose a card from their hand and place it face down on the table. Now all cards are turned up and scored for face halves: If you played the highest card you receive the number of blue halves noted on the Mood card, if you played the lowest card you receive the number of yellow faces according to the Mood card. Then you can combine blue and yellow halves that you own into complete faces and discard these complete faces. Then another round is played until all 9 cards have been played and scored. Then you score one point minus for each remaining half; if you have no half left, you can strike off your worst score so far.

Now another game of 9 rounds is played and this is repeated till as many games have been played as there are players. You win if you then have the fewest points.

Fifty Fifty is a nice amusing little card game where cards of medium value can be of advantage if used cleverly to avoid the wrong color of face halves; a good balance between luck and a little planning and memorising of cards.

Spieler         : 3-5

Alter            : ages 9 and up

Dauer           : ca. 30 min

Autor           : Reiner Knizia

Grafik          : Marek Blaha, Oliver Richtberg

Titel englisch          : -

Preis            : ca. 10,00 Euro

Verlag          : Zoch 2010

www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre                    : A game of set collection with cards

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : Play cards for face halves needed

Kommentar:

Nice Art

Good mechanism

Memorising cards is helpful

High chance factor

Vergleichbar:

All card games where extreme values score

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