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Written by Sandra Otterbin on August 17 2022.

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“Pride comes before the fall” – an aphorism that fits perfectly with “the dead.” Try to get rid of all your mortal sins in your hand as fast as you can before other players hand you their mortal sins. But watch out, whoever is too arrogant will surely pay for it.

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How do we make opposing personalities green with envy?

The goal of “The Deadlies” is to play the hand cards as fast as possible. If this succeeds, two fewer cards will be drawn in the next round. You start with six hand cards. Once it has been played, play continues with four and then two. Each person gets an overview of the cards that will be drawn from the personal sin disk; On this the value of the current session is displayed.

How are the cards played? The active person can play as many cards as possible, but they must either be of the same number or suit, or be played in successive values ​​in ascending (direct) order. Each color is assigned a mortal sin and has a special effect. When playing cards from your hand, you need to think about which card should be on top, as this effect is played. Street Exception: Here the higher card effect is automatically triggered.

The effects can be that the opponent must show a particular card. If she can’t do that, she has to draw a card as punishment (“pride”). or that a card may be taken from an opposing person (“glutton”) or that two cards must be drawn from the draw pile. If there is no “envy” in your hand after that, you can exchange cards with another person (“envy”). If you can play all your cards at this point, you can reduce the value on the sin disk by two. Whoever gets to zero first – that is, gets rid of all his cards three times – wins.

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