/pic256707.jpg)
Game Info
Year
2007
Collection
Mechanic profile
Not enough video data yet
Vibe profile
Not enough video data yet
Description
Players arrange their cards on the playing surface building “hills.” Once a hill gets five cards high, the sixth card will cause an “Avalanche” and that player must take all of the cards in the row, leaving the sixth card to start a new hill. This is the re-themed version of 6 Nimmt!
Featured Videos
Ask a Rules Question
All mentions
Browse transcript mentions, sentiments, pros/cons, mechanics, topics, quotes, and references.
Total mentions: 1
This page: 1
Sentiment:
pos 1 ·
mix 0 ·
neu 0 ·
neg 0
Showing 1–1 of 1
Video KdFoyxYmshI
Allies or Enemies Review at 0:20 sentiment: positive
video_pk 61071 · mention_pk 153504
Click to watch at 0:20 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Elegant, evolving puzzle that's rewarding to solve
- Strong 3-4 player drafting dynamic
- Compact playtime with depth
Cons
- Looks bland visually and lacks direct interaction
- Might be inaccessible to players who dislike abstract puzzles
Thematic elements
- numbers, spatial reasoning, and puzzle solving
- abstract, number-placement puzzle on a grid; dynamic sliding puzzle across rounds
- puzzle-focused, non-narrative
Comparison games
- Bridge
- Canasta
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Compound Scoring — Points come from numbers that are not in any group, encouraging forming groups
- drafting — Players draft a card and place it revealed, shifting existing cards to fill gaps
- Scoring based on non-grouped numbers — Points come from numbers that are not in any group, encouraging forming groups
- Sliding puzzle dynamics — After drafting, players slide their remaining cards to maintain groups and open edges
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- this feels like those little slide puzzles that you play with as a kid
- you always have to slide the number in you can't ever just add it to an empty spot
- it's really satisfying when you can take two numbers that are far apart and make them come together
- it's a puzzle that you are figuring out
- a spatial puzzle that constantly evolving and shifting
- this is one that we're going to keep
- you only have half of the information when you see the cards
- depending on how many cards you have dictates what bonus or negative you'll get
- the silent passing between players creates a fun bit of social interaction
- it's interesting that you can't talk about the card you looked at
- this is definitely four to five players and it's a mean card game
References (from this video)
No references stored for this video.
Transcript Navigation
Showing 1–1 of 1