Skip Bo
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| publishing company | The Skip-bo Company (1967), International Games (1980), Amigo (1987), Mattel (1992) |
| Publishing year | 1967, 1980, 1987, 1992 |
| Art | Card game |
| Teammates | 2 to 6 |
| Duration | 30 minutes |
| Age | from 7 years |
With Skip-Bo (also pass on or aces out ) is it is a card game with 144 number cards and 18 Skip-Bo cards for two to six players.
history
Skip-Bo is a commercial version of the classic card game Spite and Malice (also cat and mouse ) . It was produced in 1967 by Danny Fuhrmann in Texas (The Skip-bo Company). International Games bought the rights to the game in 1980, and later International Games was bought by Mattel . In 1987 a German version of Amigo appeared and in 1992 another German version by Mattel. Since then, Mattel has distributed the game in numerous editions and versions, such as a compact or deluxe version.
Style of play
The aim of the game is to be the first to completely discard your own deck of cards. For this you use your hand cards including some jokers, as well as the cards of your own auxiliary pile, based on the templates of the other players. The game material consists of a total of 162 cards, including 144 cards in 12 colored card sets with the numbers 1 to 12 and 18 skip-bo cards that play the role of jokers in the game .
Rules of the game
At the beginning of the game, a dealer is determined who shuffles the playing cards and distributes them to all players. In a game with 2 to 4 players each player receives 30 cards, with 5 or 6 players only 20 cards. The cards are not viewed and are laid out in front of the players in a face-down pile (player pile). The topmost card is turned over by the players and placed face up on the pile. The remaining cards are placed in the middle of the table as a draw pile ( card stock ).
The player to the left of the dealer starts the game. He draws five cards from the deck and takes them up as hand cards. The player can now either play cards from his hand or from his player pile onto the discard pile in the middle of the table. During the game, up to five discard piles can be formed here, and each player can also place up to four auxiliary piles next to the player pile. A discard pile can only be started with a 1 of a row or a Skip-Bo card and is then formed in the order from 1 to 12, whereby Skip-Bo cards can replace any number card. If a 12 (or a 12 skip-bo card) is placed on a discard pile, it is complete and removed from the game and a new discard pile can be placed. The complete discard piles that have been set aside are shuffled and replace the deck of cards when all of the cards are used up.
A player can discard as many cards as he wants and can in a round. If he has, for example, another 1 after playing a 1, he can start a second discard pile or put a 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. on the first pile. If a player discards all his cards in hand in a round, he draws five new cards from the deck and continues playing. If he cannot or does not want to discard any more cards, he ends his turn by placing one of his hand cards face up in front of him and thus forming the first of four possible personal auxiliary piles. The order of the cards placed on the auxiliary pile is arbitrary.
The game continues clockwise and each player begins his turn by filling his hand with cards from the deck to five. Then he discards as many cards as possible and desired. The cards can be placed on the discard pile from three different sources:
- The top card from the player deck,
- the top card of any personal auxiliary deck,
- the five cards in hand.
A turn is always ended in such a way that a player places a card from his hand face up on one of his personal auxiliary piles. The game ends when a player has completely played his deck, regardless of the number of cards he has in hand or in the auxiliary decks. The player who is the first to complete his stack wins the game. If a player discards a card even though it is not his turn, he may not put back the drawn cards. When it is then his turn, however, he may not pick up any more cards. If this is not noticed, it is the turn of the player to his left after him. If a player draws one or more cards too many, he must put them under his player pile. A player is also not allowed to pick up the cards he has placed on the discard pile, even if it is still his turn.
Play over several games
In a game over several games, points can be collected and noted. The player who wins a game receives 25 points plus an additional 5 points per card in the opponent's piles that have not yet been played.
Shortened game
The playing time of a game can be shortened by starting with fewer cards per player deck.
Play in teams
When playing in teams, two players play together. At the beginning of the game teams are formed, whereby the order of the seats is unimportant. In this variant, the player whose turn it is may use and discard cards from his partner's player or auxiliary pile in addition to his own cards. Only the partner whose turn it is may decide the order of the cards; If the partner who is not in turn gives clues, he must draw two penalty cards and put them under his player pile. The winner is the team with which both stacks of players are used up first.
Games based on Skip-Bo
In addition to various editions such as the compact or deluxe version, there are some independent games that are based on the game, including Skip-Bo junior as a version for children or the Skip-Bo dice game and the Skip-Bo board game. These games use the design and gameplay of Skip-Bo in principle , but implement the latter in a different form.
If you play cat and mouse on the basis of the Sikp-Bo rules, you can use three poker sets (with the two jokers usual for poker games) instead of skip-bo cards . The (3 × 4) twelve kings - like the joker cards themselves - are used as jokers - making 18 jokers. With the ace the discard piles are opened (i.e. ace replaces the 1), with the queen as the highest card the discard piles (ace-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-JD) are complete.
Web links
- German game instructions ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) from Mattel (200 kB)
- Skip-Bo (Amigo, 1987) in the Luding games database
- Skip-Bo (Mattel, 1992) in the Luding games database
- Skip-Bo in the game database BoardGameGeek (English)
- Christian Becker-Asano: The virtual human MAX videos. In: becker-asano.de. www.becker-asano.de, accessed on June 24, 2017 (English).