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Cover Your Assets

Build crosswise towers of matching assets, protect the top set, and steal from everyone else.

Cover Your Assets is a card game about building towers of matching sets and stealing everyone else's. You collect ten kinds of asset cards, such as jewels, piggy banks and classic cars, and each finished set is stacked crosswise on top of the last, covering the ones underneath. Only the top set is exposed. Show a matching card or a wild, which is a silver or gold card, and you can steal it. The owner defends by showing a matching card, you counter with another, and the battle swings back and forth until someone runs out. The first to a million wins. It is loud, petty and fast, from Grandpa Beck's Games, for two to six, about forty minutes.

Sets are stacked crosswise to protect lower onesOnly the top set can be stolenMatching cards defend and counter

Who it's for

You enjoy take-that and set collection with lively banter, and you want a game that accommodates up to six with simple rules and big swings.

Not for you if…

You dislike losing things you built or prefer cooperative or quiet games. Stealing is the whole point, and it will happen to you.

Vibe's take

Loud and petty in the best way. A tower sits there, glowing with value, then someone slaps down a wild card and the table erupts into a back-and-forth card duel.

#3,521 on BGG

of over 30,000 ranked board games

Published 2011 · 15 years ago

older than 75% of games

In 7,222 collections

collected more than 71% of games

2–6 players · ages 8+

Best with 4 or 5 · publisher: 7+

20–40 min

shorter than 58% of games · typical 30–90 min

Complexity: light

Explained in 5 minutes · 1.2 out of 5 · lighter than 84%

Opinions: divided

Some love it, others really don’t

Language: no text

Playable without the language

Play style: competitive

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