Sequence

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Sequence
Game components for Sequence
Game components for Sequence
Game data
author Doug Reuter
publishing company Jax, Ltd., Parker Games ,
Winning Moves ,
etc. a.
Publishing year 1982
Art Board and card game
Teammates 2 to 12
Duration 10 to 30 minutes
Age from 7 years

Sequence is a board game by the game designer Doug Reuter , which first appeared in 1982 by the American game publisher Jax, Ltd., and was then published in numerous other editions, including Parker , Winning Moves and others. The first German-language version appeared in 1997 at Parker, who published several different language versions in parallel.

Theme and equipment

In Sequence , the players try to use their own playing cards to create sequences of five pieces that are horizontally, vertically or diagonally adjacent on a playing field with a given card display; in this it corresponds to well-known games of the type five in a row . The playing field consists of a printed display of a total of 204 playing cards, each card appearing twice except for the jacks. A set of 104 playing cards (corresponds to a rummy sheet without joker) and 45 blue, green and red pieces each for up to three players or teams are required as additional game material .

Style of play

In a game with up to three players, they each play alone, with more players two or three teams are formed. At the beginning of the game, each player or team receives a colored set of tiles. The starting player or the starting team is determined by drawing a card from the playing card set; the player with the highest card drawn begins. The playing cards are shuffled and each player receives a set of cards in hand, the number of which depends on the number of players (with two players, 7 each, with twelve players, 3 cards per player). The remaining cards form a face-down draw pile.

Sequence of five green game pieces

The game is played one after the other in a clockwise direction. The active player chooses one of his own hand cards and places it face up in front of him, then he takes one of his own game pieces and marks a free space with the picture of this card. Then he draws a card from the draw pile and ends his turn. The players now try to create complete sequences of five of their own game pieces or pieces of their own team. The four corner squares of the game board are considered to be jokers for all players - if a player places on these, he only needs four pieces of his own color for a complete sequence. The jacks enable special moves when they are played:

  • Boys with two eyes visible from the front are jokers. If they are played, the player may occupy any space on the board.
  • Jacks in profile with only one visible eye enable the player who played them to remove an opposing piece from the field. However, an already complete sequence must not be destroyed.

If the players play in teams, they are not allowed to talk to each other about the respective cards in their hand and to coordinate. The game ends as soon as a player or team has the number of sequences required for victory. With two players or two teams, these two complete sequences must form, with three players or teams only one. In the case of intersecting sequences, a stone can be used as part of both sequences involved.

Versions and reception

The game was developed by the game designer Doug Reuter and first appeared in 1982 by the American publisher Jax, Ltd., which offered it in several editions in English and later in French and Spanish. In 1992, in addition to the Jax edition, an edition was published by Ventura Games, also in English. In 1997 the publisher Parker Brothers published the game and brought out several international editions, including the first German-language version. Nordic Games and others licensed the game and published it in their respective national languages ​​and also in multilingual versions. The last edition so far was published in 2018 by Goliath BV in the Netherlands, which was also published multilingual in several European languages.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d game instructions Sequence , Goliath 2018
  2. ↑ Sequence , versions at BoardGameGeek. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .

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