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- <\/a>Zaster<\/a><\/b>
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\nThis game was released by Parker<\/a>
\nin 1978 and comes in a fairly large box for a card game. It contains seven suits of
\ncards, each suit showing 9 identical cards of a European currency of the time with
\ndifferent point values for the currencies. In addition, there is “Depreciation”
\nand an “Appreciation” card which complete the deck. The box also contains a
\nlittle hotel reception style metal bell – hence the size of the box.<\/p>\nThe game is played with as many currencies as there are players plus the two special
\ncards. All cards are delt to the players, i.e. 2 players hold 10 cards and the others 9
\ncards each. The aim of each player is to collect the set of cards of one currency. The
\n“Appreciation” card may be used as a joker and the “Depreciation”
\ncard prevents one from finishing a round and yields minus 10 points to the player holding
\nit when the round finishes. The game is started by ringing the bell.<\/p>\nNow players simultaneously start to announce how many cards (not the type of currency,
\nthough)they want to trade. All players may exchange cards at the same time taking care
\nthat only an identical number of cards and only a set of identical currency cards are
\nexchanged. As soon as a player holds all 9 cards of a currency (or 8 cards plus the
\n“Appreciation” card s\/he rings the bell and finishes this trading round. That
\nplayer now receives the point value of that currency.<\/p>\nZaster is probably one of the first party-style games of the time and it plays fast and,
\nin particular, loud as all players trade at the same time shouting out the number of
\ncards they want to exchange – a kind of stock exchange atmosphere. We found this game a
\nlittle bit too “flat” even as a starter for a game session because of the
\ngeneral lack of tactics. With many players the game can actually last pretty long as one
\nshould play as many rounds as are required to let every player be start player once (the
\n2 players receiving 10 cards obviously have a slight advantage which is leveled out by
\nthis).<\/p>\nWestpark Gamers score: 5.7<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
- <\/a>Canyon – with Grand Canyon Expansion Set<\/a><\/b>
\n
\nAfter having played Wizard<\/a> in our previous session we
\nremembered this wonderful variant of the concept and played it with the great “Grand
\nCanyon” expansion set. Similar to last time<\/a> when
\nwe played this game we had a lot of fun. And again we had a close finish of two players
\nwhile the others were still struggling to negociate a narrow bend.<\/p>\nWestpark Gamers score: 7.4<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
- <\/a>Gespenster<\/a><\/b>
![\"Gespenster\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/Ressourcen\/gespenster_t.jpg\")
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\nThis is a rerelease of Alan R. Moon<\/a>‘s “Black Spy<\/a>” which
\nwas published by Avalon Hill<\/a> in 1981. It contains 5 differently colored sets of cards
\nnumbered from 1 to 11, the exception being the white Gespenster (spectre) set, which has
\n5 additional sevens.<\/p>\nGespenster is a trick taking game like Hearts where players have to follow suit either by
\ncolor or by value. Since all white cards yield negative points (other colors count zero)
\nplayers try to avoid having to take a trick that contains one or more white cards.<\/p>\nWe found the game rather uninspiring and far too luck based.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
- <\/a>Bluff<\/a><\/b>
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\nOur usual closing game of a session whith nothing special to report this time.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spielbericht 25.9.2002 Autor: Aaron am Tisch: Peter, Hans, Andrea, G\u00fcnther, Walter, Aaron auf dem Tisch: Zaster, Canyon, Geister, Bluff Zaster This game was released by Parker in 1978 and comes in a fairly large box for a card game. It contains seven suits of cards, each suit showing 9 identical cards of a European currency … Spielbericht 25.9.2002<\/span> weiterlesen
- <\/a>Canyon – with Grand Canyon Expansion Set<\/a><\/b>