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L.A.M.A. Party Edition

Game ID: GID0184103
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2020
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In L.A.M.A., you want to dump cards from your hand as quickly as you can, but you might not be able to play what you want, so do you quit and freeze your hand or draw and hope to keep playing?

Each player starts a round with six cards in hand; the deck consists of llama cards and cards numbered 1-6, with eight copies of each. On a turn, the active player can play a card, draw a card, or quit. To play a card, you must play the same number as the top card of the discard pile or one number higher. If a 6 is on the discard pile, you can play a 6 or a llama, and if a llama is on top, you can play another llama or a 1. If you quit, you place your remaining cards face down and take no further actions in the round.

The round ends when one player empties their hand or all players have quit. In either case, players collect tokens based on the cards in front of them, whether in hand or on the table. Each different number card in hand gets you white tokens (each worth 1 point) equal to the value of the card while one or more llamas gets you a black token (worth 10 points). If you played all your cards, you can return one token (white or black) that you previously collected to the supply. You then shuffle all the cards and begin a new round.

The game ends the round that at least one player has forty or more total points. Whoever has the fewest points wins!

L.A.M.A. Party Edition differs from the original L.A.M.A. in three ways:

The game includes a single pink llama card that can be played on top of any card; this pink is worth -20 points if in hand at the end of a round.
Some number cards are now "plus" cards, e.g., 4+, and when you play one of these cards, you take another turn immediately.
The game includes pink tokens worth 20 points, so your luck can turn around quickly if you win a round and ditch one of those!

Description

In L.A.M.A., you want to dump cards from your hand as quickly as you can, but you might not be able to play what you want, so do you quit and freeze your hand or draw and hope to keep playing?

Each player starts a round with six cards in hand; the deck consists of llama cards and cards numbered 1-6, with eight copies of each. On a turn, the active player can play a card, draw a card, or quit. To play a card, you must play the same number as the top card of the discard pile or one number higher. If a 6 is on the discard pile, you can play a 6 or a llama, and if a llama is on top, you can play another llama or a 1. If you quit, you place your remaining cards face down and take no further actions in the round.

The round ends when one player empties their hand or all players have quit. In either case, players collect tokens based on the cards in front of them, whether in hand or on the table. Each different number card in hand gets you white tokens (each worth 1 point) equal to the value of the card while one or more llamas gets you a black token (worth 10 points). If you played all your cards, you can return one token (white or black) that you previously collected to the supply. You then shuffle all the cards and begin a new round.

The game ends the round that at least one player has forty or more total points. Whoever has the fewest points wins!

L.A.M.A. Party Edition differs from the original L.A.M.A. in three ways:

The game includes a single pink llama card that can be played on top of any card; this pink is worth -20 points if in hand at the end of a round.
Some number cards are now "plus" cards, e.g., 4+, and when you play one of these cards, you take another turn immediately.
The game includes pink tokens worth 20 points, so your luck can turn around quickly if you win a round and ditch one of those!

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  • Party Game — This is described as a party edition of a card game.
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  • does board game media podcasts youtube and blogs really matter
  • it matters because it can act as asking a friend online if they liked a game to an extent if z garcia from the dice tower likes a card game i'm probably going to like that card game
  • for me board game media matters and i'm trying to think of me the consumer rather than me the board game media person
  • it's such a valid and important form for me specifically it's form of entertainment i watch a lot of board game reviews and i watch a lot of them as entertainment
  • yeah it does because board game media sells copies of games so in that regard undoubtedly board game media matters
  • it's funny when you compare those lists to the previous years what was i looking forward to but often you kind of don't even know for starters what's coming out in 2022
  • i find these what are we looking forward to lists very interesting when compared to the previous what did we enjoy of that year
  • and i'd really love to know what games you're looking forward to so below in the comments i'd love to start a conversation about what games are we excited for in 2022.
  • it really felt like going off doing loads of side quests in skyrim and you had the main mission and like things going on but really you could just go into another side quest
  • federation seems to be the star trek game that i've always wanted though it's not star trek theme
  • i always go for a board game resolution and i tell ya i don't follow through on them pretty much ever
  • i would like to be a better ambassador for the board game hobby than i am at the moment
  • looking for recommendations on games to show people who have little patience for lots of rules
  • the rules to so clover for instance are so short and quick and simple but the game itself is incredibly fun
  • strike the game of gladiators fighting to death in a tournament bowl of doom fantastic fun brilliant
  • p for pizza the one of the most underrated party games of all time
  • because of the the the wall that of wall of text can really provide
  • game itself is incredibly fun strike the game of gladiators fighting to death in a tournament bowl of doom fantastic fun brilliant
  • p for pizza the one of the most underrated party games of all time where you are drawing cards trying to make a pizza but really it's just a word to guess word association game absolutely love pizza pizza by big potato it's great
  • if you have any answers to the questions that we have what games do you think have a small rule set that are just really good games to get people into the hobby who are a bit hesitant because of the the the wall that of wall of text can really provide let me know in the comments i'd love to know
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