Produktbeschreibung
Good card games can be so simple: either take a card or pay a chip. Anyone can make that decision, right? However, there's a catch - in fact there are two. Nobody wants the cards, not even for free, because they give you points in a game where you need to have the fewest points to win. And the chips? They are scarce, very scarce!
The Components:
No Thanks! comes with: 33 cards; 55 chips; and 1 rulebook.
Cards: The cards are all high-quality, thick, linen-textured cards. They're numbered 3-35, but also have some nice graphical design work, to make them look attractive.
Chips: Small, red, plastic chips. Nothing special.
Rules: A single, double-sided rulesheet, printed full-color. It explains the very simple rules, and also has some graphics, some examples, and even some tactical notes, all of which make the th easy game even easier to learn.
Overall, the quality of the components is high, and they're relatively attractive; the game thus earns a solid "4" out of "5" for Style.
The Gameplay:
The object of No Thanks! is to get the least points in cards and the most points in chips at the end of a round.
Setup: Each player is given 11 chips. The 33 cards are shuffled, then 9 are set aside, leaving 24 for play. The first card is flipped up.
Order of Play: The gameplay is immensely simple. On a turn a player either: plays a chip on the currently face-up card, which ends his turn; or else takes the face-up card, with all the chips on it. At this point he must then turn the next card face-up, and make the same decision: play a chip or take the card. (Clearly a player must take the card if he has no chips.)
The catch here is that cards are usually bad, while chips are good, and also allow you to pass on future cards that you don't want to take. But you're always going to have to take some cards.
Ending the Game: The game ends when all the cards have been taken.
First each player sums up the value of all of his cards--except if a card is in a sequence ("18-19-20") in which case he only adds on the value of the lowest card. So, if a player had 3-4, 7, 18-19-20, and 22, he'd get 3+7+18+22 points, or 50. The trick here is, as you'll recall, that 9 cards are out of the game, so you can never be assured of completing a sequence.
Then each player subtracts the number of chips he has.
The player with the least points wins.
A 3-5 player game that plays in under 20 minutes. Great for non-gamers. |
