2013 · Card Game
Five Cucumbers
Players play a compact trick-taking game in which the objective is to avoid winning the final trick. Each turn a player either beats the current card by playing an equal or higher card to take the trick, or discards their lowest card when unable or unwilling to overtake. The round ends after a fixed number of tricks; the player who captures the last trick receives a penalty token (a cucumber). Players collect penalties across rounds and are eliminated once they accumulate more than five cucumbers, narrowing the field until two players remain to decide the winner.
- Players
- 2–6 best 4
- Playing time
- 25 min
- Age
- 8+
- Complexity
- 1.3 / 5
About the game
- Design
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Full stats in Ludoya- 72
- Plays logged
- 75
- Players
- 20m 46s
- Average play
- 22
- In collections
- 3
- On wishlists
4.6/10
from 10 Ludoya reviews
Numeric Party Card Game edited by Friedemann Friese. The cucumbers topic is funny, but the game is pretty standard.
Un juego que bien podría haber diseñado un japonés de estos que van a Essen a vender 50 copias, pero no, es un juego basado en otro por lo que se ve muy famoso de Escandinavia. Es un juego tonto y familiar que tiene eliminación, y que según quedan menos jugadores se va volviendo mas estratégico. Para jugar en un bar con amigos no jugones puede estar bien, pero como filler de jugones para mi deja bastante que desear.
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