69: A Nice Card Game. About Numbers. 2025

69 is a fast-paced card-matching game for 2 to 6 players. The rules are simple enough for any age, but for some reason, players below a certain age wouldn't stop giggling when we demoed it, so we recommend playing only with serious, mature adults.

The 69 deck is mostly made up of number cards (0-9), in six suits. The 6 and 9 of each suit are interchangeable. Use them for whichever number you want, depending on which side is up.

There are also three wild cards (with three of each in the deck):

Wild: a simple wild card that can count as any number and suit. Lock: a wild card that also stops another player from stealing your cards. Scramble: a wild card that lets you rearrange everything on the table.

How to play:

Deal: Every player starts with ten cards, and the dealer flips one card face up on the table. Play: On your turn, try to play cards from your hand onto cards on the table to make a stack. The cards in a stack need to all have different suits, and need to be either all the same value or form a run (cards in numerical order). Punt: If you can't play a card from your hand, pick up the top card from the deck and play it. Form a stack if you can (and want to), or leave it on the table to start a new stack. Capture: If a stack gets three or more cards, you capture it! Take the cards and put them face down in front of you...unless someone steals it! Steal: If another player can add legal cards to your completed stack, they can steal it from you...unless someone else steals it from them! Score: Once someone plays the last card from their hand, the round is over. Score points for every card you captured, and lose points for every card left in your hand. Repeat: Play another round, adding to your score. The first player to get 69 points wins the game!

—description from the publisher