Game Info
Year
2009
Players
2-5
Age
8+
Playtime
15 min
Collection
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Description
A real-time card shedding game also known as Ligretto Crazy where players race to empty their piles onto shared center stacks
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Board to Death TV - Board Game Reviews Review at 0:13 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Good for teaching numbers and quick hand-eye coordination to young kids.
- Can be fun for families.
Cons
- Cards get damaged easily.
- Hard to keep track of what others are doing.
- Too easy to cheat.
- Can get too wild and hectic for some groups.
Thematic elements
- Collecting cards while removing cards from your own deck and playing them onto central piles.
Comparison games
- 789
- Circles
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hand Management — Players hold cards in one hand and play with the other, discarding unwanted cards to draw new ones.
- Real-Time — The game is played in real time with no turns, meaning all players act simultaneously.
- Set Collection — Players aim to collect the most cards by playing them onto central piles and taking completed piles.
- Take That — Players can remove cards from their own deck and hand, effectively reducing their own resources while building central piles.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is our review of Ratuki
- Ratuki players are trying to collect the most cards as possible while removing most of their own cards in the box
- The game is in real time so there are no turns
- When a player runs out of cards he shouts I'm out and The Game Stops
- It's a nice little family game great with kids but playing with hardcore competitive players you'll run into major problems
- folded cards and ripped cards cards get damaged fast during game play hard to keep track of what others are doing way too easy to cheat and just really hectic
- we're giving Ratuki 6.5 out of 10
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Brains On Games Review at 0:23 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Very fast and fits short play sessions (around 15 minutes).
- Educational value through rapid symbol recognition and basic quantitative reasoning.
- Five different representations of the same numbers promote cognitive flexibility.
- Accessible to kids 7+ and supports up to five players.
- Compact box and simple setup.
Cons
- Pace can be chaotic with multiple simultaneous stacks and fast turns.
- Heavily dependent on quick reflexes and pattern recognition, which may be challenging for some players.
- Junk pile/discard mechanics can slow decision making if moves aren’t readily available.
Thematic elements
- Speed, numeric recognition, and flexible representation of numbers
- A fast-paced counting race using individualized decks, played simultaneously.
- abstract, puzzle-like sorting and counting
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Compound Scoring — At the end of a round, points are awarded for cards in the score pile and penalties apply for leftover junk/deck cards.
- Hand Management — Each player maintains a hand of up to three cards and draws as needed to maintain options.
- scoring by completion — At the end of a round, points are awarded for cards in the score pile and penalties apply for leftover junk/deck cards.
- Simultaneous Actions — All players act at the same time, attempting to place cards onto stacks as quickly as possible.
- Simultaneous Play — All players act at the same time, attempting to place cards onto stacks as quickly as possible.
- Stack building — Players start stacks at 1 and play cards that are 1 higher or 1 lower, with constraints depending on two-player vs. larger player counts.
- wild card — Ratuki card acts as a wild that can help claim a stack in advantageous ways.
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Quotes (from this video)
- ratuki is a game you can play with between two and five players
- it's it's okay for kids age seven and up
- everybody is playing at the same time
- it's a crazy race to claim as many of those cards as possible
- rapid automatic naming
- the numbers are represented in five different ways
- you start counting up your points
- it's a super quick game
- this is clearly a game where you're doing some rapid symbol translation
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