Commonality 2021

Commonality is a family card game about collecting stuff you find in common. Find the commonality between things and collect sets of common images.

The compact, travel-friendly game comes with 150 cards showing a variety of images.

Setup:

Lay nine cards faceup in a 3x3 stockpile Maintain a draw pile Deal three secret cards to each player Maintain a reserve area in front of each player.

Game Play:

On each player’s turn, a player can perform one of the following actions first:

Moves a card from the stockpile to their “reserve” Discards a secret card and replaces it with a new card from the draw pile Steals a visible card from an opponent’s reserve to their reserve

Finally, if possible …

Reveals and collects a set.

Once the draw pile has been depleted, shuffle the discard pile into a new draw pile.

Continue playing until no draw cards remain or are playable. The winner has the most cards. In case of a tie, the youngest player wins.

Set Collection:

Players use one or more of their secret cards along with one or more reserve cards to make a set of at least three cards. Explain the connection between all these cards then flip upside down as a collection. Draw one or more new cards to maintain three secret cards.

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—description from the publisher