Date: 26th June 2015
Game played: Game, The ( Nurnberger Spielkarten Verlag ) BGG Id: 173090

The table of five finished with The Game... spiel so lange du kannst (play as long as you can), which is a co-operative card game that is somewhat reminiscent of Hanabi and was one of the nominated games for the 2015 Spiel des Jahres. The game is played with a deck of cards numbered from 2 to 99 and you are building four piles of cards, two of which must go in ascending order and two in descending order. You are trying to end up having played every card but that is pretty difficult and it suggests that ten or less is an excellent result, so we set that as the criterion for whether or not we had won the game. Like Hanabi, you can give other players limited information about where you might like to play but can't spell out exactly which numbered cards you have. This was again greatly enjoyed and presented a quite tense puzzle. However, we ended up doing really well, even though we thought some of the jumps between laid cards were too great, and we finished with just one card remaining. So close to a perfect score but still a win.

 
Player
Rating
Score
Position
Winner
John R
8
1
1
Felix
8
1
1
Guy
8
1
1
Andrew
8
1
1
Garry
8
1
1

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