Rebis

Players draft cards from a central Library and place them as books on shelves, building piles whose visible book values determine scoring. On a turn a player draws, then plays either one card to their active shelf or two identical-numbered cards, observing a shelf cap of 13 book-weight; alternatively a single card may be played to another player’s active shelf using its positive or negative value. Negative cards, closing shelves by exceeding the cap, and placing cards on opponents trigger card draws or award Mixture tokens. Mixture tokens placed on a shelf multiply that shelf’s final score. The game ends when the deck or mixture tokens run out; players total shelf values (applying multipliers) to determine the winner. A small set of zero-weight cards is included to alter strategies.

Players: 1–4 best 4
Playing time: 20 min
Age: 14+
Complexity: 1.8 / 5