Product Description

It's the classic suburban conflict of unreturned tools, loud neighbors, and prize-winning garden gnomes from Reiner Knizia. This simple gateway card game has players starting with low-value cards then escalating the values until someone goes too far and penalizes their neighbor with the stack of cards. When the deck runs out and a player's hand is empty, the player with the least cards in his stack wins.

One player opens with a card or cards and calls out the value played. The next player must play cards to surpass that value, and so on, escalating the value until the point where a player does not wish to or cannot go above that value, thus taking the stack of cards and placing them in her penalty stack. A simple card game in the tradition of No Thanks!

Product Information

• Designer(s): Reiner Knizia
• Manufacturer(s): Z-Man Games
• Artist(s): Beth Trott
• Year: 2007
• Players: 2 - 6
• Time: 15 minutes
• Ages: 10 and up
• Weight: 126 grams
• Language Requirements: Manufacturer's rules are printed in English. This is a domestic item.

Contents:

• 55 cards
• 1 rules card

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