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Countaloupe

Game ID: GID0076845
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Your goal in Countaloupe is to rid yourself of slice cards as quickly as possible, and whoever clears their plate first wins.

Each player starts with slices numbered 1-16. On a turn, you roll 3-5 dice (depending on your current top slice) and the chance die. After your roll, if any single die or the sum of any number of dice matches your top slice, you remove it; keep removing slices as long as the numbers add up. If, for example, you rolled 1, 2, 5 at the start of the game, you could remove the 1, 2 & 3 slices.

You now either end your turn or roll again. If you roll again and fail to remove a slice, you must place slice cards back on your deck as a penalty.

The chance die may give you the opportunity to swap decks with another player — or force you to swap with whoever has the largest deck! Alternatively, you might gain the Nope! token and use it to block a deck, whether to keep an opponent from removing cards from it or to protect your deck from being stolen.

Countalope can also be played as a multi-round game, with players scoring 1 point per card removed, with a game ending when someone has 16 points. Whoever reaches 100 points first wins.

Description

Your goal in Countaloupe is to rid yourself of slice cards as quickly as possible, and whoever clears their plate first wins.

Each player starts with slices numbered 1-16. On a turn, you roll 3-5 dice (depending on your current top slice) and the chance die. After your roll, if any single die or the sum of any number of dice matches your top slice, you remove it; keep removing slices as long as the numbers add up. If, for example, you rolled 1, 2, 5 at the start of the game, you could remove the 1, 2 & 3 slices.

You now either end your turn or roll again. If you roll again and fail to remove a slice, you must place slice cards back on your deck as a penalty.

The chance die may give you the opportunity to swap decks with another player — or force you to swap with whoever has the largest deck! Alternatively, you might gain the Nope! token and use it to block a deck, whether to keep an opponent from removing cards from it or to protect your deck from being stolen.

Countalope can also be played as a multi-round game, with players scoring 1 point per card removed, with a game ending when someone has 16 points. Whoever reaches 100 points first wins.

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  • I don't feel any pressure to create content.
  • This is my full-time job, right? I don't have another job to go to.
  • I'm producing all of this content and honestly, if I could produce more, I would because I love what I do.
  • The category here or the criteria here is massively popular, really well-respected, solid Euro games that have been around for a while and stood the test of time and are known as just really, really good games.
  • No games do. It doesn't need all of the bling and everything else.
  • I think most people in life are affected by what's called seasonally adjusted disorder.
  • Entering is absolutely free. It doesn't cost you anything whatsoever.
  • The secret word this month is haggis.
  • All of my advertising revenue from all of my videos goes to charity.
  • I don't make any money out of the videos themselves on YouTube. People call me crazy. They would be right.
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  • One thing that really annoys me is when the games come out at retail like the same time or even before and they're cheaper.
  • I personally believe it is fundamentally, morally, and ethically wrong for me to sell a pre-production prototype copy of a game.
  • It's International Unplayed Games Day. And the date that I've chosen... is the 1st of July.
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