Sam Davis 2008-11-29

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

This is the best adult game for two people we have ever found. You can play quickly or as long as you choose. This is a great game to keep the mind sharp as well as great fun. It has a board for discards, but it is a card game.

C. Wood 2008-02-08

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

My husband and I play this almost every night when we get home from work. It's addictive and can be played at the spur of the moment for as long or as short as you want. The math is simple, just adding single numbers. It is just plain FUN. Whoever designed it was really clever. There is just the right mix of strategy and luck and the pictures take you away as well. We yell and laugh as it can be maddening and a tease but it's all part of the fun.

Mark Cassidy 2007-12-17

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

The first time my wife played this game she was hooked. We have been playing this as a quick 30-40 minute filler game for over a year once or twice a week. She rarely wins this but still begs to play. Any other game that she loses so much she will refuse to play but this one has her trying for more. Even when she loses, she wants to play one more round. For her, this game is a 5 star. I give it 4 stars - but it is easy to play and quick. Our deck is becoming a little too worn so I bought another set of cards.

While scoring involves math (just arithmetic), it isn't difficult, and while you're playing you don't really have to do much mentally - it's more about what educated gambles you want to play or guessing what your opponent is up to. There are some fine points as well - like not picking up the first card your opponent discards of a color you want so they'll throw down another thinking it is safe.

Atomicwasteland 2007-12-04

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

This game is a great way to pass twenty to thirty minutes. It is very easy to learn and does not have any pieces to lose, or money to count. The strategies, however, are numerous, and there is an equal amount of luck as skill involved in good gameplay.

I really liked how the game could ONLY be played with two people, as I was tired of games that COULD be played with two, but which were really meant to be enjoyed by three or more...

Game Contents: 1 deck of game cards, and one small board. Note: If you want to make this game really portable you don't even need to bring the board. It is just a place to put discarded cards and a way to help organize your cards. As long as you have a pencil and paper for scoring at the end of the game, you can play it everywhere that you have a table. (I figure you need as much space to lay down your cards as the size of a typical Monopoly board).

Playing Note: One thing that was initially a little confusing to us when we were reading the instructions, was that the instructions do not explain that you are to place your cards on the opposite side of the board as your opponent. You can each play all 5 expeditions, in a head to head manner. We were sitting on a couch at a coffee table, and we had turned the board horizontally to face us (instead of vertically) and the instructions were confusing until we moved the board 90 degrees. The game designers assumed that you would play the game as one would play a game of checkers, sitting across from one another, but you don't actually have to play this way, even though you DO need to turn your board for the same effect.

This game is really fun and I would highly recommend other games from the same manufacturer (Rio Grande Games). They really have a knack for publishing great strategy games. They even release expansion sets to their popular games, and they credit the players who gave them the ideas for the expansion cards. Pretty neat!

Kimberly 2007-11-08

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

I wouldn't call it a math game, though you do have to do simple math to calculate your score. During play, you have to try to get the value of each stack (adding up the cards) up to 20 before the round ends, but that's all the math you really need to know to play the game. It's much more a strategy game. This is a neat twist on traditional card games with the basic premise of arranging numbered cards in order to maximize your score. Each round goes very quickly and if you don't pay attention, you and up losing a lot of points because the round ends before you finished putting down the cards you wanted to play.

All around great game (with a little math to do).