beasts
Beasts has all players working together as a
team, trying to play all the cards in the deck.
On your turn, play a card in your hand to cover
up a single digit in a 3-digit number, creating
a new 3-digit number in the process. However,
this new number must be higher than the
previous number. Things get even trickier when the Beasts
show up, limiting where you can play your cards!
With some
clever communication and precise placement of your cards,
your team may just survive your encounter with the Beasts!
LB_NUMBER_OF_PLAYERS: 2 - 5
Game duration: 21 mn
Complexity: 2 / 5
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Rules summary
How to play
Setup
- Lay out the three spaces for the hundreds, tens, and ones digits on the table.
- Shuffle the "Beast" cards into the main deck, with the number of beasts determining the difficulty.
- Deal each player five cards.
Gameplay
- On your turn, choose one suit and play all the cards of that suit from your hand to the table.
- You can play the cards in any order you choose, but the number formed by the digits must be higher than the previous number.
- For example, if the number is 275, you could play an 8 to make 278, 285, or 875.
- Cards have a suit (clubs, spades, hearts, diamonds) and a variety ("broken" or "whole"). Broken cards have a golden shape around their suit symbol and whole cards don't. Both suit and variety together form a card's type.
- Communication is limited. You can say things like "I can help," but you cannot show your cards or reveal their suit numbers or varieties.
Beasts
- When a "Beast" card is played, it is placed above the 1s place.
- The Beast blocks that type (suit + variety) from being played in the column directly beneath it.
- If the space beneath the Beast has a card of the same type as the Beast, the Beast is "startled" and moves to the next column to the left that does not contain a card of the same type as the Beast.
- If all cards are the same type as the Beast, it has been "defeated/captured" and is removed from play.
Tokens
- You can use one of your three discard tokens at any time during your turn to discard a non-Beast card from your hand.
Winning and Losing
- You win if the team plays all the cards from the deck.
- You lose if you cannot play a card and a player still has cards in their hand.