Facecards

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Facecards
Game data
author Leo Colovini
graphic no information
publishing company Ravensburger
Publishing year 2017
Art Card game
Teammates 3 to 7
Duration 20 minutes
Age from 10 years on

Awards

Game of the year 2018: recommendation list

Facecards is a card game by Leo Colovini that was published by Ravensburger in 2017 . In 2018 the game was included in the jury's list of recommendations for Game of the Year .

Background and game material

The game Facecards is about creating pairs of different face cards that should look as similar as possible and presenting them to the other players for assignment. If another player guesses their own combination, both players are rewarded with points (in the form of photo cards). Photos of people, animals and objects similar to faces are shown on the game's 142 playing cards. There are also seven “photo album” cards, under which the players can collect the cards they have won, and a “camera” card, which is used as the starting player marker for the respective round. 10 blank cards are also included for your own creations.

Game flow

At the beginning of the game all playing cards are shuffled and placed face down in the middle of the table. Each player receives a photo album card as well as 7 cards (with at least 5 players only 6 cards) from the deck as cards in hand, which he can pick up and look at. A selected starting player receives the camera as a starting player marker.

At the beginning of each round, each player chooses two cards from his hand that, in his opinion, look particularly similar and match each other. The players place one of the two cards face down in the center of the table, the other face down in front of them. Then with up to four players three cards and with more than four players one card from the draw pile are placed face down on the cards in the middle of the table and the starting player shuffles all cards well. These are then laid out face up and all players reveal their cards face up in front of them.

The starting player begins by typing a pair from a card in front of a teammate and one in the middle of the table and thus guessing the pairs of his teammates. If the guess is wrong, it is the next player's turn in clockwise order. If it is correct, both players receive one card from the pair as a reward and place it under their photo album card. If the couple also consists of two different categories (human, animal, object), both receive an additional bonus card. As soon as all players in turn have submitted and resolved their bet, the round ends and all remaining cards are cleared. The starting player marker is passed on and each player receives 2 new cards from the draw pile. Then the new round begins.

The game ends when each player has been the starting player the same number of times. With three players the game is usually played over 9 rounds, with four to five players over 8 to 10 rounds and with six or seven players over 6 or 7 rounds. The winner of the game is the player who was able to collect the most cards in his photo album at the end and in the event of a tie several players win together.

Game variants

The game can be played in several variants:

  • Connoisseur: In this variant, all players receive one less card in hand. When choosing a pair, you draw a card and place it face up in front of you, then you choose a card from your hand and place it in the face down pile in the middle of the table.
  • Expert: In this variant, both selected cards are placed face down in the middle of the table by hand. If a suitable pair is named in the round, this must be confirmed and both players are rewarded.
  • Risk: This variant is limited to the game for 3 to 5 players and supplements the game with a push-your-luck component. Each player chooses two pairs and places one of the cards in the middle of the table and one in front of him. The cards in the middle of the table are filled up to 9 cards and laid out, then the game is played as usual. As soon as a player guesses a correct combination, he can choose whether he wants to guess again or if he wants to secure the cards he won. If he decides on another betting round and cannot name a correct pair this time, he loses all cards won in the round. Bonus cards are not included in this game.

Expenses and reception

The card game Facecards was developed by the Italian game designer Leo Colovini and published by Ravensburger in 2017 for the international game days (Spiel '17) in Essen. The game was first published in a multilingual version in German, English, French, Italian and Dutch.

Facecards was included in the jury's list of recommendations for the Game of the Year 2017 and described as a "fun combination game".

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Official Game Rules for Facecards , 2017.
  2. ↑ Versions of Facecards in the BoardGameGeek database; accessed on June 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ Facecards on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on June 21, 2018.

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