Get it – the right card without a clue

I feel the looks directed at me. My teammate on the left is staring at me. I look around frantically. Things have to happen quickly now. The player on the right doesn’t take her eyes off me. So I’m almost certain that… my counterpart is penetrating me with his gaze. now I understand: I You must play my card. Other players are satisfied. Oof! Everything was done correctly. I tighten and then the whole thing starts again until the hourglass passes.

Get It – Quick Card Game

Get it! by Steffen Benndorf It is a cooperative card game in which the goal is to place the cards in your hand in ascending order without talking to each other. To make it even more difficult, you must get rid of all the cards in your hand within one minute. To make matters worse, we do not see our own cards, only those of other players. So a wild mix of mechanisms Hanabi, Mind And Bendorfs the game.

The deck consists of a total of 50 cards with values ​​from 1 to 40, ten of which are duplicates. However, it is seeded in the first round along with the nine types of special cards.

This is how getting works

In the first round, 10 cards are distributed among the players and everyone secretly sorts the cards received in ascending order with the lowest card placed on top. Everyone now passes their deck of cards to the neighbor to their left, then the hourglass is flipped and they are off. Everyone reveals the top card, but in such a way that only the other players can see the value of the card, not you.

Small starting difficulties are possible

And here the first challenge awaits, because under time pressure you often turn the card towards yourself as usual and thus the first two attempts to pass the round according to the rules fail. But if you manage to hold the card in the right direction, from now on no one in the group will be allowed to speak.

Hourglass working

The task in the first round is to signal to the other players by looking for the lowest card. I only see everyone’s cards, so I look at the player with the lowest card. But if I quickly notice that all the players in the round are staring at me, I clearly have that card and I quickly put it aside. If the guess is correct, the game continues until the hourglass ends after about a minute. If we can play all our cards by then, we will have won and moved on to the next round. If we get the card values ​​wrong or if the hourglass runs out before all the cards have been played, it means we failed and have to try again.

Increase the difficulty level

From the second round onwards, more and more hand cards come into play, and at level 6 there are finally 25 cards. These then contain new special cards each round, causing more difficulties. If I reveal a smile card in the second round, I can expect everyone playing to smile at me like crazy so I can get rid of it quickly. In the third round, a teammate’s eye card makes me look behind him with a mustache, which he should notice first. In the senior rounds, we have to constantly change our facial expressions, and sometimes we are allowed to speak briefly, but we always act under time pressure.

Getting it is an entertaining pleasure

In the right group and ideally with a full team of six, the game is a lot of fun and perfect as an entertaining nightcap. This also works very well for children aged eight and above, although you should then increase the time limit slightly.

However, constantly looking at the hourglass is a bit uncomfortable and distracts from focusing on what’s happening in the game. The timer on the smartphone with an audio signal is the best solution here. People who don’t like games under time pressure or who find face faxes too silly should avoid getting it! Make.