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Kemet
In Kemet, players each represent an Egyptian tribe and will use the mystical powers of the gods of ancient Egypt – along with their powerful armies – to score points in glorious battles or through invasion of rich territories.
The conquest for the land of Kemet takes place over two phases: Day and Night. During the day, choose an action amongst the nine possible choices provided by your player mat and perform it immediately. Once every player has taken five actions, night falls, with players gathering Prayer Points from their temples, drawing Divine Intervention cards, and determining the turn order before the start of the new day.
As the game progresses, they can use Prayer Points to enroll magical creatures and have them join their troops. In addition to intimidating enemies, these creatures provide special powers!
Expect to see lots of detailed components, as in Matagot’s Cyclades, to represent the armies and immortals.
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6 nimmt!
In 6 nimmt!, a.k.a. Category 5 and many other names, you want to score as few points as possible.
To play the game, you shuffle the 104 number cards, lay out four cards face-up to start the four rows, then deal ten cards to each player. Each turn, players simultaneously choose and reveal a card from their hand, then add the cards to the rows, with cards being placed in ascending order based on their number; specifically, each card is placed in the row that ends with the highest number that’s below the card’s number. When the sixth card is placed in a row, the owner of that card claims the other five cards and the sixth card becomes the first card in a new row.
Read MoreReview: 6 Nimmt
It’s been a while since we reviewed a classic of a card game, but holy cow!
6 Nimmt isn’t just great. It’s up there with Arboretum, Jaipur, Condottiere and The Fox in the Forest.
In fact, there’s more flow tucked into this tidy, tiny box than we’ve seen since Love Letter. Not sure what the heck “flow” is? Click play, and find out.
Read MoreCard Games That Don’t Suck: Cribbage
Our series on the best games that you can play with a 52 card deck has dealt out a wild card!
Cribbage is a great game for 2 players (though you can enjoy it with 3 or 4) that people are still playing after four hundred years. And yes, that means it’s a profoundly weird thing to learn, but it also means that there’s an undeniable magic to it.
For help internalising the rules of Cribbage, we thoroughly recommend Cribbage With Grandpas, which is better than a phone game about Cribbage has any right to be.
Read MoreGAMES NEWS! 22/07/19
Ava: Quinns, Quinns, there’s a news emergency! The news pumps are overflowing.
Quinns: Don’t worry, Ava! That’s what they’re supposed to do.
Ava: But no, Quinns, you don’t understand, my cynicism valve has got wedged to ‘can only be excited about cats, Queen and civil disobedience’.
Quinns: Oh dear.
Ava: I’m even a bit surly about the moon!
Quinns: Well, that’s no good. Let me see what you’ve written, then you can report to Decontamination Chamber B for De-Grumping.
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