Phase 10

à la carte Card Game Award 1995: 7th place

Phase 10 is a card game similar to rummy. The game was invented in 1982 by Kenneth Johnson, published in 1985 by K & K International and in 1986 by Fundex Games in the U.S. and there a bestseller. 2010 sold Fundex Games the game at Mattel, now found his new home at the phase 10. 1995, it was in Germany from F.X. Schmid published. After F.X. Schmid was acquired by Ravensburger, the game was released in 1998 under the label of FX again and finally in 2001 only under the publisher name Ravensburger. The game ends after Uno zweitbestverkaufte card game in the world. We have now sold over 30 million games, which currently has an annual nearly 3 million games sold.

Expiration

Each player is dealt ten cards. The player who starts pulls, concealed a card from the deck, or take the top card of the discard pile. He tries so to achieve the required in the phase combination of cards. At the end of the train you put any card on the discard pile. Now, the next in line. Play proceeds clockwise.

The phases calling cards of the same number (eg, twins), a series of numbers or, in Phase 8, seven cards of the same color. There are four colors (red, yellow, green, purple ) and numbers 1 to 12 In addition, joker cards exist (*) or cards that, when any given player, this can expose a round ( ).

Anyone who meets the phase lays the cards face up on the table. The following course you can then create matching cards. If a player has played so all cards that phase is completed. A player only comes in the next phase when it has reached the current. The winner is the first phase of the 10 closes.

More Ways to Play

With Phase 10 - Dice the first offshoot of the game came out in 1997. The rules are similar to those of the card game. It is played with ten special dice ( d6 ). Of these, six high cube and four low dice. The high cube have the values ​​5-10. 1-4 and the lower die twice "W". "W" is used as a wildcard. In addition, the sides of the cube are colored differently in order to roll the color combinations.

Meanwhile, there are also Phase 10 - Master. The same principle as the normal card game, but with new action cards and new phases that can be reached.

A board game variant there under the name Phase 10 - The Board Game. Here is how played primarily with maps in the original game, with the number of cards to be included or to be deposited cards or other actions on a game board with dice is determined.

There is also a child-friendly presentation of the card game as Phase 10 - Junior. The aim is to achieve the first phase 10. A phase is fulfilled when 4 identical cards can be designed. It is played with 55 cards ( 48 cards with four different colors, animals and things and 7 Joker ). In contrast to the other phase 10 games there are 12 different phases, of which 10 phases must be achieved in order to win the game.

The latest offshoot of the game is Phase 10 - Twist. This game was made ​​by Mattel in the market in 2011. The 10 phases are identical to the base edition phase 10 Currently, there are Phase 10 - Twist not in the German-speaking area (DA- CH).

Phases

Phase 10, Phase 10 - Dice and Phase 10 - Twist

Phase 10 - Master

Phase 10 - The Board Game

Phase 10 - Junior