Card Game

Five Cucumbers

Five Cucumbers is a trick-taking game with the goal of NOT winning the last trick!

2–6 players25 minages 8light difficulty

About the game

What is Five Cucumbers

Five Cucumbers is a trick-taking game with the goal of NOT winning the last trick!

It's not easy. You have two choices on your turn: Take over a trick by playing a equal or higher card or you must play your lowest card. It is not enough to keep a low card in your hand for the last trick as you will also need some high cards for taking over key tricks.

The player who wins the final (seventh) trick screwed up and must take cucumbers. Each player collects their cucumbers at the end of a round, and if a player has more than five cucumbers, he is out of the game; five cucumbers is the most you can have! In this way more and more players are excluded from the game until the final two are playing for victory!

Five Cucumbers is a modern variant of the trick-taking game Cucumber (Agurk, Gurka), which is well-known primarily in Scandinavia. We are excited to bring you our new version!

Specs

Game details

Players: 2–6
Age: +8
Duration: 25 min
Difficulty: Light
Type: Board game
Year: 2013
Mechanics: Player Elimination · Trick-taking
Categories: Card Game
Designer: Friedemann Friese
Publisher: 2F-Spiele · Albi · Arclight Games · Edge Entertainment

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davidarribas5/10

Un juego que bien podría haber diseñado un japonés de estos que van a Essen a vender 50 copias, pero no, es un juego basado en otro por lo que se ve muy famoso de Escandinavia. Es un juego tonto y familiar que tiene eliminación, y que según quedan menos jugadores se va volviendo mas estratégico. Para jugar en un bar con amigos no jugones puede estar bien, pero como filler de jugones para mi deja bastante que desear.

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