Cursed!

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Cursed!
Game data
author Steffen Benndorf
graphic Jan Bintakies
publishing company Amigo
Publishing year 2018
Art Card game
Teammates 1 to 5
Duration about 15 minutes
Age from 10 years on

Cursed! is a cooperative card game by Steffen Benndorf , which was published by Amigo in 2018 . The game can be played alone or with up to five players. The other players try together to defeat creatures from a pool of cards based on the values ​​of their available items.

Style of play

The game is played as a cooperative card game by one to five players. The players have to draw cards from a card pool and find either creatures or objects with which they can fight them. Thematically, the players are invited to a Victorian mansion that was built over a cemetery and must survive one night. In addition to the instructions, the game material consists of two card sets with 40 cards each and the corresponding values ​​1 to 40, with one set consisting of the objects with green numbers and one set containing the creature cards with red numbers. There are also 5 seal cards with green and red sides.

Game flow

To prepare for the game, the seal cards are laid out in a row with the green side up. Depending on the number of players and the desired level of difficulty, three to five seals are available. Then all creature and item cards are shuffled and distributed in a wild pile in the middle of the table.

The players play together and must defeat the game together, so they can vote, but are never allowed to reveal the values ​​of their items. Starting with a starting player, all players in turn always draw a card from the pool in the middle of the table. If the card drawn is an object, the player may take it in hand; if it is a creature, it is placed face up in a display next to the seals. Then the player may play objects from his hand against creatures on display in order to drive them away.

To drive off a creature, the active player must play one or more of the cards from his hand that together have at least the same card value as the creature on display. In principle, each creature must be driven out individually. An evicted creature is discarded along with the items it used. If the sixth creature is placed on the display or if two or more creatures on the display form a group of consecutive values, a spontaneous attack occurs:

  • When the sixth creature is placed in the display, the creature with the highest value goes on to attack and must be driven from the hand of the active player with his or her items.
  • If a creature is revealed that, together with one or more creatures on the display, forms a group of consecutive values, the entire group attacks the players. These must now drive out the entire group of creatures together, each creature must be driven away by a single player and the players are not allowed to combine their cards to drive away a single creature.

If the players fail to drive away all attacking creatures, they must use a seal. In this case, the seal is turned from the green to the red side and the creatures repelled with it are shuffled back into the card pool.

The game ends when all seals have been used and another attack cannot be repelled. In this case, the players lose the game together. When all face-down cards have been revealed and all attacks have been successfully repelled, the players have won the game and survived the night. In this case, each player may use items from his hand again to drive off remaining creatures. In addition, for each unused seal, players may remove one creature, starting with the creatures with the lowest value. The values ​​of all remaining creatures are added together and give the result of the game. The lower the score, the better the players played.

Expenses and reception

The card game cursed! was developed by Steffen Benndorf and published in January 2018 as a new release for the Nuremberg Toy Fair by the Amigo game publisher. The card and game design comes from the illustrator Jan Bintakies .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Official rules of the game for Verflucht! , 2018
  2. ↑ Versions of Cursed! in the BoardGameGeek database; accessed on April 19, 2018.

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