Gone Cardboard News: Escalation! - New Game from Z-Man Games
Reiner Knizia teaches us how not to be neighborly in Escalation!, a new game being published by Z-Man Games. Here’s a game description from the Z-Man Games website:
| It’s the classic suburban conflict of unreturned tools, loud neighbors, and prize-winning garden gnomes from Reiner Knizia. This simple gateway card game has players starting with low-value cards then escalating the values until someone goes too far and penalizes their neighbor with the stack of cards. When the deck runs out and a player’s hand is empty, the player with the least cards in his stack wins.
One player opens with a card or cards and calls out the value played. The next player must play cards to surpass that value, and so on, escalating the value until the point where a player does not wish to or cannot go above that value, thus taking the stack of cards and placing them in her penalty stack. A simple card game in the tradition of No Thanks! |
Escalation!, which is scheduled to appear in March 2007, carries a 15 minute playing time and retails for $10; the game is for 2-6 players, ages 10 and up. You can download the rules, in PDF format, from Z-Man’s Escalation! page. This game has been added to Gone Cardboard.
Source: Zev Shlasinger, Z-Man Games
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Dec 2, 2006 at 09:01 AM in Game News, Game Announcements / 690
