Djinn (game)

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Djinn
Game data
author Sen-Foong Lim , Jay Cormier
graphic Fiore GmbH, Sabine Kondirolli
publishing company HUCH!
Publishing year 2015, 2018
Art Card game, trick game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration about 40 minutes
Age from 10 years on

Djinn is a card game by the game authors Sen-Foong Lim and Jay Cormier , which was released in 2018 at HUCH! appeared. The trick game is about getting tricks and thus completing tasks on the cave cards on display.

Background and material

The basic gameplay of Djinn is consistent with other random games, so it must stitches are obtained. However, the tricks do not count directly as points, but must be used to complete tasks on the cave cards on display. Whoever reaches the deepest level of the caves first wins the game.

The game material consists of

  • 60 treasure cards with values ​​from 1 to 15 in four different colors ,
  • 18 cave cards with tasks in three levels of difficulty,
  • 18 Djinn cards in German and English (and another 18 in Dutch and French) and
  • 8 player tiles in four player colors.

Game flow

Actions per game round

  • Play cards, possibly use Djinn card
  • Settle the stitch
  • Winner gets the trick
  • After the round,
    possibly fulfill the cave card

To prepare for the game, the cave cards are sorted according to the level of difficulty on the back of the card and shuffled separately, then three cards with the designation "3", "4" and "5" are laid out face down. The levels of difficulty define in the game how many cards are required to complete the tasks, so first 3, then 4 and then 5 cards must be used in ascending order. All cave cards that are not displayed are removed from the game for the current round. Each player chooses a player color and receives the two corresponding color tiles, of which he places one in front of him and one on top of the cave cards. For each individual round of a game, the treasure cards are shuffled at the beginning and each player is given 8 cards as hand cards. The rest of the cards are placed face down in the center of the table and the top card is turned face up to determine the round's trump suit . The Djinn cards are also shuffled and each player receives one of these cards.

Starting with the player to the left of the first dealer, all players in clockwise order play one card per round in the middle of the table. Each game must, if possible, also play a card of the first led suit (obligation to operate) or, if he does not have a corresponding card in hand, add a card of the trump suit (trump) or any color (discard). If one or more players played a trump in the round, the player with the highest trump wins the trick. If there is no trump in play, the player who played the highest card of the suit led wins the trick. In addition, each player can play a Djinn card once per round, which can also change the rating. The player who takes the trick chooses a card from it that he can put down in front of him. He puts the rest of the cards on the discard pile, after which he opens the next trick as the winner of the trick.

When all eight tricks of the game round have been played, each player checks whether he can use the cards he won to perform a task on the cave cards in the top row. The player discards the required cards and places his or her player tile on the corresponding cave card (several player tiles may also be on the same cave card), all other trick cards won remain with the players. In the later rounds, the player always tries to complete a task in the row under his tile. Then the cards from the discard pile, the unused card pile and the trump card are shuffled and redistributed for the next round. All Djinn cards are collected, also shuffled and each player receives a new Djinn card for the new round.

The game ends after the round in which at least one player has completed a task on the bottom row of the cave cards. This player wins the game and if there are several players in a round who reach the lowest level, the player with the most treasure cards left with him wins. If there is also a tie, the player with the treasure card with the highest single value wins.

expenditure

Djinn was developed by the game authors Sen-Foong Lim and Jay Cormier and was published by the toy publisher HUCH for the Nuremberg Toy Fair 2018 ! in a multilingual version in German, English, French and Dutch.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Djinn rules of the game, HUCH! 2018.
  2. ↑ versions of Djinn at boardgamegeek; accessed on September 16, 2018.

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