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Publisher: Days of Wonder
Salesrank: 27974
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Very similar to the Chinese game “BIG 2″ 
Very soon after I played this game, like 2 minutes into this game, I instantly had this feeling: Why is this game so much like BIG 2?
“BIG 2″ is a game play with regular playing cards and I believe originated from Hong Kong and then migrated to Taiwan, China, and Southeast Asian countries and then U.S.
If you know BIG 2, skip this game, don’t waste your money. This is a almost complete ripped-off of BIG 2 with slight modification.
My two cents for this game: Forget this game, go get your playing cards out and play BIG 2 cuz it’s more fun.
Gang of Four is my Favorite Card Game 
If you like poker, phase 10, uno, all the trump card games you will love this game. It is my new favorite card game. It requires quite a bit of strategy in which order you lay your cards out. Fun elements I like is the winner gets to slough a card he/she does not like but the loser of each round has to give the winner their highest card. Play reverses order each round. You must play the same number of cards of what the 1st person to lay down plays ie pair, full house, 3 of a kind, unless you have a gang of four or four of the same number which trumps everything. You really have to buy this game and play it to understand what i am talking about. You wont regret it!!
Excellent Filler Game 
I had the pleasure of playing this card game at the 2007 OwlCon in Houston, and it’s pretty sweet. I describe it as poker-flavored Uno with trump colors. Four players, 64 cards with two occurences of each of the numbers 1 through 10 in each of three colors (i.e. there are two red 9s, two yellow 3s, et cetera), plus four special cards. Red trumps yellow trumps green. All the cards are dealt out at the beginning of each round. You want to ditch as many cards as possible. The round ends when someone plays their last card and earns a score of zero, and everyone else is scored based on the number of cards left in their hands (their face values are irrelevant), with multipliers applied to certain range brackets, e.g. if you have 9 cards, you are tagged with 18 points, if you have 15 you are hit with 45, et cetera. Game ends when someone explodes over 100.
Whoever leads a round can choose to play one, two (pair only, as I recall), three (three of a kind only, I believe), or five cards (straights, flushes, full houses, straight flushes). Each succeeding player MUST play the same number of cards and must top whatever was last played, e.g. if Player A dropped a flush, Player B has to come in with a better flush or a full house. (Factoring in the interplay of trump colors is a bit tricky at first.) When no one else can (or will) play, that round ends, and whoever laid that last set of cards that no one could top gets to start the next round. Note that one exception to the rule that you must throw down the same number of cards as at the start of the round is when you deploy the dreaded Gang of Four. If you stun everyone with four of a kind (colors can be mixed), you bring that round to a screeching halt, UNLESS someone can fling out a superior Gang of Four.
In the first of our two games, the scores from best to worst were 0, 18, something in the 20s, and 100-mega+. Once we knew better what we were doing, the Game 2 scores were something like 42, 55, 80-something, and just barely over 100.
Note that an interesting feature is that after the cards are dealt to start a new round, but BEFORE play begins, the loser of the previous round has to slide his top card over to the winner, face-up, and that winner in turn can dump a trash card off to the loser. Also, the direction of play alternates with each hand.
It sounds a bit complicated, but you can learn it in about 10 minutes and it plays pretty quickly. This is a great game to bust out when you have maybe an hour to kill and don’t want to fire up that 18-hour session of Axis & Allies. Plus, as a card game, it’s obviously extremely portable. With a good balance of luck and skill, this one is highly recommended.
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01 31st, 2007| 
