Greed (card game)

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greed
Game data
author Alexander Pfister
graphic Olaf Preiss
publishing company Amigo
Publishing year 2017
Art Card game
Teammates 2 to 5
Duration about 15 minutes
Age from 8 years

Greed is a card game by the Austrian game designer Alexander Pfister , which was published by Amigo in 2017 . The aim of the discarding game is to draw as many cards as possible from your opponent's hand and to be the first player to discard six cards of the same number.

Gameplay

The basic game principle of greed is based on other discarding games, however the players always pull their cards to discard from the hand of their fellow players and have to be careful not to draw a card twice ("push your luck"). The first player to discard six cards of the same number wins the game.

The game material is language-neutral and consists of 98 number cards with the numerical values ​​1 to 7 and twelve Ganovenkarten. Number cards with the same values ​​have the same color throughout, some of the number cards are also marked with symbols for special promotions.

Game flow

Actions per turn
  • play a card
  • Steal
    cards, take actions and discard cards
  • Refill hand cards (optional)

At the beginning of the game, each player receives a crook card and seven number cards, which he takes in hand (cards in hand). A starting player receives an additional card, which he places face up in his collection in front of him. The following players in clockwise order always get one more card to be discarded, whereby cards of the same value are always put down together in a row. The remaining cards are shuffled and laid out as a face-down draw pile.

Starting with the starting player, all players play in clockwise order one after the other and carry out their moves. First the active player puts a card from his hand into his collection. Then he determines a teammate from whom he would like to steal cards. He draws cards one after the other from his hand until he either voluntarily stops or draws a card twice. If the player voluntarily stops, he may put all drawn cards into his collection. If he has also drawn the other player's crook, he may choose a card from the other player's collection and place it in his collection as well. He then gives the crook back to the other player. If the active player draws a card value twice, he receives no cards and gives them all back to the other player; he may not put cards in his collection.

Some of the cards have symbols that trigger an action when these cards are drawn:

  • +1: All players who have at least one card of the value in their collection may draw a card and place it in their collection.
  • Eye: The active player may look at any other player's hand cards.
  • 2 → 3: The active player may put two identical cards from his collection on the discard pile and draw three new cards and place them in his collection.

In the last phase of his turn, the active player and the player from whom he has drawn may fill up their hand cards. If one of the two players has only one card in hand after the move, he may fill his hand with eight cards. If the active player has more than one card in hand, he may put all cards of a value from his collection on the discard pile and draw as many cards as necessary to give him eight cards again.

The game ends when a player has six identical numbers in his collection after his turn. That player wins the game.

Tournament rules

The rules of the game propose as tournament rules to play as many games as there are other players. The starting player changes clockwise and the winner of a game receives seven points. The other players receive points in each game according to the number of card values ​​of which they have the most cards in their collection.

Game for two people

In a game for two players, the active player may decide to draw cards from his opponent or from the draw pile. If he draws a card twice from the draw pile, he places all cards on the discard pile.

expenditure

Greed was developed by Alexander Pfister and published by Amigo in 2017 for the international game days in Essen.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Gier , Official rules of the game as download from Gier on the Amigo website; accessed on January 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ versions of greed at boardgamegeek; accessed on January 14, 2017.

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