Skyjo
Swap, flip and dump your worst cards before someone ends the round on you.
- Designer
- Alexander Bernhardt
- Published by
- Magilano
- Editions by
- Hobby World, Lúdilo, Spelialisten
Everyone has a grid of twelve cards face down, two of them flipped up at the start. On your turn you take the top discard or draw blind, then swap it into your grid or flip a card over. Card values run from minus two up to twelve, and the lowest total after several rounds wins.
Who it's for
Larger, mixed groups looking for a card game with a running score, and holiday tables where people drift in and out between rounds.
Not for you if…
Luck decides a lot: a bad blind draw at the wrong moment costs you the round no matter how well you played. Over a full game to 100 points it can also drag, and the theme is pure numbers with no flavour at all.
Vibe's take
Constant low-level gambling with your own grid, punctuated by groans when someone closes the round while you still have a twelve sitting face down. Everyone stays involved because you can watch the grids around you.
Published 2015 · 11 years ago
older than 63% of games
In 16,171 collections
collected more than 88% of games
2–8 players · ages 6+
Best with 4 · publisher: 8+
15–45 min
shorter than 51% of games · typical 30–90 min
Complexity: light
Explained in 5 minutes · 1.1 out of 5 · lighter than 93%
Opinions: divided
Some love it, others really don’t
Language: no text
Playable without the language
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