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Penalty design is a card game that consists of 80 playing cards; on the maps are the natural numbers from one to twenty in each of the four colors (blue, green, red and orange, but originally yellow) printed. In a first version of the game there were only three colors and 60 cards. The aim of the game is to have no more cards in hand by continuous drop first. There is also a junior edition, in which the cards are illustrated with animal motifs.
For the first time appeared the card game in 1925 in the catalog of the company Hausser on, now sells the company Ravensburger the card game.
Game History
At the beginning of the game cards are distributed to two to six players; 20 cards (or 2 players 40 cards ) remain face down on a deck of cards. The first map the red elf must be placed on the table. If no red Penalty been dealt, is considered as a color ranking for Penalty yellow -green-blue. After that can be stored in turn maps either to a next higher or lower number of exposed cards on the table with the same color. Each player can interpret any number of matching cards. Can not be stored for up to three cards must be drawn from the deck. In this way, four rows of numbers.
Strategic
The game is not a game of luck, as there is a tactical element: You can get a card that you could actually play out, hold back to block other players with lower or higher numbers of the same color. However, the player must play at least one card, if he can. Since every game situation maximum of eight different cards could be placed (usually but there are usually less, are there opened at the beginning of the game either, not all rows or around the middle of the first series are already completed), but these cards to all Players divide as the draw pile is the tactical element usually very limited and you have to be lucky to be able to use it in a meaningful way. The fact that there is only one of each card unique way, one is often dependent on luck. If, for example, a card that a player needs to win, at the lowest position of the drag stack ( the probability is quite high ), until all the cards have to be taken before that player can win at all. There are even situations are possible in which a player regardless of what he and the others play, using only the cards that have been assigned to him at the beginning of the game, can win under any circumstances. In four to six players, it is highly probable that this inequality is true at least one.
Instructions
The game lasts about 20 minutes and is intended for people aged 7 to 99 years according to the manufacturer. The game manual describes 13 variants to the basic rule and other card games. So must in the version " number change" each color instead of the elf with the Ten or Twelve will started, and in the variant " draw lots " is determined ( as in the French card game "Domino" ), the first player which number the role of Elf takes over.
Under the described other games are adaptations of Snip - snap, quartet and Black Peter. In the game " duel " contained an error. If a player has the two highest Playing cards ( 20), so the game never ends. This fact, however, is not stated in the game manual.
With the playing cards can also be the card game variant stitches rates, also known as " stitches announcements " known to play.
Gaming community
The game is particularly widespread in West Germany and was often played in pietistic and evangelical environment because it does unlike other without sin motifs and symbolism of classic card games.
Others
The game has more recently as a board game.