@christianp I really like Skip-Bo as a family game. The rules are really simple. There's a Junior version of the game that can easily be played with kids as soon as they can count to 10.

In normal Skip-Bo, the strategies can get quite complex, but the payoff is very slim. That means you can think really hard about how to play optimally, but you'll still lose a lot to more basic strategies. (My family hates the way I discard, but I think I do it very well.)

#SkipBo rules: you have a pile of cards that you're trying to get rid of. Only the top card of that pile is flipped up at any given time. There are four piles in the middle where everyone is trying to play. These are started by playing a 1, then get removed when a 12 (highest card) is played on them.

On your turn, you first draw up to 5 cards in your hand, then can play cards from your hand, the top of your main pile as well as the top card of any of your four discard piles. If you play all five cards in your hand, you immediately draw 5 more.

After you are done playing as much as you can/want, you must discard one card from your hand to the top of one of your dicsard piles. (This way you draw at least one card at the beginning of your next turn.)

Play then continues to the next player. The winner is the one to first empty their main pile.

The Skip-Bo card is a "wild" that can be played as any number.

#SkipBo for #FamilyGameNight

Selten so viele 10er auf einem Haufen gesehen #SkipBo 😳🙄

#SkipBo for #FamilyGameNight. First time playing for the 6 year old.

Now we're on to #SkipBo

Daddy-Daughter #SkipBo

Moved on to #SkipBo

#SkipBo Junior with cousins!

I lost this game of #SkipBo tonight.

#SkipBo at #FamilyGameNight. Lots of games today!

Followed by #SkipBo

#Spielenachmittag #Asseraus #skipbo

#DB Navigator sagt: „Exceptionally high demand“. Keine Lust von Berlin nach Frankfurt im Gang zu sitzen. Also exceptionally mal einen Sitzplatz reservieren. Abteil oder Großraum? Abteil! Da sind nur 5 Fremde statt ein ganzer Raum voll. Turns out; im Abteil wird über den ganzen Tisch #Skipbo gespielt und versucht #Smalltalk anzufangen. Masken sind hier auch nur eine Empfehlung. Ich schreibe diesen Tröt aus dem Gang. #DRINNIES #DrinnieDesMonats

#SkipBo ist immer wieder schön.

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