Each card includes a number from 0 to 5—the lower the better—and might also have an action or victory points! Each time a player receives a card, he checks to see whether his total equals 13 or more. If it does, each other player receives VPs from his own cards. The unlucky player with the total of 13 or more discards all his cards.

Possible actions on the cards include veto cards (in order to say no to a card in the future), 13 --> 18 (raising your bust total to 18), lose your last card, and receive 1 or 2 VPs immediately.

Sounds like a memory game to me.  (unless all player’s cards are face up?)

Rüdiger sent only a brief description, Phil, but I believe that cards remain face-up after you receive them. Jetzt schlägt’s 13! sounds more like a light push-your-luck game because you’re distributing cards to all the players one by one as they’re revealed. More details when I can…

I guess the higher number cards have higher VP values.  So if you dish out a nasty ‘5’ to someone, they might bust, but it’s worth a lot of VP’s for that player.  Meanwhile, a ‘0’ card won’t hurt a fly, but carries no VP’s.

Whatever it is, Dorn is one of my favorites and I’ll definitely be picking this one up!