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Cooperate to match cards and make your way up the pyramid as a team in this exciting, colorful, addictive game. Make clever matches by number or color. Will you use 1 card or 2? Addition or subtraction? Mix colors (yellow + blue = green)? Will you risk a card now or save it for later? Can you guess what card the other player needs? Make a perfect match of both number and color to feel the thrill and gain the rewards of an Ultimatch!
Ultimatch includes both public and private cards and requires the kind of clever decision making about when to use cards that seasoned card players enjoy. Silently trading 1 card facedown with 1 other player keeps all players engaged throughout, introduces a push-your-luck element, and calls on players to read each other. Will you risk trading a card with another player? If so, who is likely to know what you need? Is your card better to keep for later use? The thinking goes quickly as do the turns. Every match is a mini-win, and win or lose, players keep coming back for more.
—description from the publisher
- Colorful
- Addictive
- Clever decision-making
- Players can read each other's minds or faces
- Players keep coming back for more
- Cooperatively making your way up a pyramid in a colorful addictive card matching game.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card matching — cooperatively make your way up the pyramid in this colorful addictive card matching game.
- Push Your Luck — Push your luck and call on players to read each other other's minds or at least faces
- Set Collection — Make progress by making matches by number or color using either either one or two cards addition or subtraction and mixing card colors make a perfect match of both number and color and gain the rewards of an Tim match
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Oh this is just Star Realms again but it's really not because I mean it is in some ways but it's a deck builder right
- The first player to destroy three other opponent bases wins
- it really is the closest to uh being at a casino or being at a horse race
- The great legend about the moon made of cheese
- it ends up with you ripping your hair out from tough choices