Schotten-Totten
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Schotten-Totten | |
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Designer | Reiner Knizia |
Publisher | Schmidt Spiele ASS |
Players | 2 |
Age range | 8 and up |
Setup time | 2 minutes |
Playing time | 30 minutes |
Random chance | Medium |
Skills required | Strategic thought, Deduction |
Schotten-Totten is a card game designed by Reiner Knizia, first published in 1999.
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[edit] Gameplay
Gameplay in Schotten-Totten resembles simultaneous play of nine separate hands of poker, but where each hand has only three cards in it. There are nine "boundary" stones between players at the start of the game. Players vie to win five of the stones, or three adjacent ones, to win the game.
[edit] Other versions
The 2004 reprinting of Schotten-Totten added ten "tactic cards", a few of them being types of wild cards and others allowing you to affect the game in some way outside of the normal rules.
Schotten-Totten has also been rethemed and sold under the name Battleline (published by GMT Games) with similar gameplay, slightly altered rules (such as a player's hand size), artwork consisting of drawings of ancient soldiers, and Tactics cards which "introduce that random element that makes war continually surprising".[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Walters, C. Andrew (2000-12-22). "Pyramid Pick: Battle Line Card Game". Pyramid (online).
[edit] External links
- Schotten-Totten and Battleline at BoardGameGeek
- Independent review by The Game Report
- Schotten-Totten online at flexgames.com