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Yak

Groundhog is bigger than a yeti

Yaks, ibexes, vultures, groundhogs and yetis of values 1 to 3, jokers, special cards and stop cards make up the deck we play with, they are shuffled and stacked face-down for a draw-pile. All players are dealt five cards from the draw-pile. The active player plays a card face-down, makes an announcement and draws a card or he doubts the announcement of the previous player und checks this announcement; in this case no card is drawn.

If you start a discard pile you must announce 1, all others then announce XC beings of a kind in the stack, true or untrue. You have two options - to announce a higher number than the previous player and any kind of being or to announce the same number and a bigger being. You can doubt if you believe that there are fewer beings in the stack than were announced. You check the discard pile and do not count the cards for the being, but add values on cards of that being. Special cards “!” change each being in the stack into the one that was previously announced, retaining the card value. Special cards “1” give each card in the pile the value 1. An uneven number of Stop cards in the pile render “1” and “!” invalid. Whoever is in the wrong when someone doubts, takes the discard pile. When the draw pile is empty and someone doubts, you win afterwards with fewest cards taken.

Standard mechanisms and well-known - and yet a cute fast game, living beings instead of colors change the flair of the game immensely and it is fun to keep track of them and to risk a doubt, as accepting announcement is dangerous, too in case one is doubted, therefore: “There are no eight yaks”!

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Bono Light

Artist: Gabriela Silveira

Price: ca. 11 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2015

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Cards, believe announcement yes/no

Users: For families

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Comments:

Cute drawings

Standard basic mechanism

Very nice family game

Compares to:

All card shedding games featuring believing announcement or not

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0