Camouflage

What is Camouflage

Camouflage is a card game from 1918. It consists of a deck of 56 cards. There are five cards each of nine different weapons of war: Airplane Gun, Tank, Howitzer, Mortar, Field Gun, Machine Gun, Rifle, Revolver and Bomb (hand grenade). There are 11 Camouflage cards, showing a camouflage pattern.

Each player is dealt one card. The first player is then dealt another card. If he is dealt a Camouflage card, he does not spin and play passes to the left. Otherwise, he uses the spinner, which has six results: 1, 2 and 3 places to the left and to the right. That player is the target. If that player's stack does not have a Camouflage card on top, the spinning player takes the whole stack. Either way, play passes to the left (dealing a card then using the spinner).

If a player is dealt a Howitzer card, he takes all unprotected stacks from all other players. The player with the most cards when the deck runs out wins the hand and gets 10 points. The winner of the game is the first to reach 50 points.

Game details

Players

2–6

Age

—

Duration

10 min

Difficulty

—

Type

Board game

Year

1918

Mechanics

Trick-taking

Categories

Abstract Strategy · Card Game · Wargame

Designer

(Uncredited)

Publisher

Parker Brothers