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The Game

Players work cooperatively to discard a shared deck of numbered cards onto four tableau piles, two that build upward from 1 and two that build downward from 100. On a turn each player must play at least two cards (one after the deck is empty) from their hand onto one or more piles, following ascending or descending order, with the special allowance that a card exactly 10 higher or lower may be played to reverse direction. Players refill their hands from the draw deck after their turn and may give limited, non-specific hints to teammates about which piles to avoid or target. The group wins by placing all 98 cards; failure occurs when no legal plays remain.

groupPlayers

1–5 best 3

schedulePlaying time

20 min

cakeAge

8+

psychologyComplexity

1.2 / 5