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POTATO MAN

Evil Potato does not always trick

Silly farmers and huge potatoes, does that work with cards, too? Let’s see!

The game comprises 52 potato cards in four colors: red from 5-18 with Evil Potato on 16-18; blue 4-16, green 3-14 and yellow 1- 13 with Potato Man on 1-3. You are dealt 10 or 12 cards, the rest is set aside, 15 Sack cards are sorted by color and placed fanned-out.

The starting player leads a card, the others follow with one card each – in a trick each color can appear only once. If you played the highest number you win the trick; in a tie the card played last wins. In a trick with Evil Potato and Potato Man the trick is always taken by Potato Man. If you win the trick you take a Sack card in the color of the trick-winning card. When no such card is left you take a golden sack card, if still available. The winner of the trick leads for the next trick. If you cannot adhere to the color rule, the round ends instantly and no Sack card is given out for this trick. Otherwise, the round ends when all cards have been played. You count the potato sacks on your sack cards and note their total. Then you shuffle all cards for a new round and the Sack cards are fanned out again. After four rounds you win with the highest total of potato bags; in case of a tie you win most sacks collected in one round. There are special rules for a game with two or five players.

Definitively no silly farmers! Huge potatoes, that is, high numbers are not always the cat’s whiskers, especially when a low number has been played in this color – your loss, so play anything that goes and renounce the trick; there is still Potato Man, let’s hope for Evil Potato in the next trick!

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Günter Burkhardt, Wolfgang Lehmann

Artist: Victor Boden

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Zoch 2013

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: trick-taking, cards

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple rules

Good family game

Special rules for two and five players

Version for three players

Potato Man only works with Evil Potato

Compares to:

All trick-taking games with special rules for acquiring tricks

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0