Loop 2009

In the game, there are 72 cards in 4 colors and with the values ​​0 to 5. Players are dealt four cards in hand and are trying to get rid of the cards as fast as possible, or at least collect as few points as possible.

Stacks are formed in the middle of the table for depositing discards; there can only be one stack per color. A stack starts with 0 or 1. A discarded card must have the same value, 1 higher, or 1 lower than the previous card, as well as the same color (example: yellow 3 on yellow 4 or yellow 2). If possible, you can lay down several cards in on turn, but only on one pile. You can also pass and draw a card from the draw pile, or place a card face down as "waste" in front of you and draw a card from the draw pile.

A player who discards his last card, or who draws the last card from the draw pile ends the round. Whoever discards the last card gets 0 points. Everyone else writes down the value of the remaining cards in hand +2 points per waste card. After 10 rounds the player with the fewest points wins.

From the Austrian Games Museum Ludorium: Loop is primarily interesting as an example of a game from India, the German team of authors Kirsten Becker and Jens-Peter Schliemann have been working with the Indian publisher since winter 2007. Parksons is trying to offer a program of educational games and family games in India. Loop combines well-known mechanisms into a brisk card-shedding game in the tradition of Ligretto and other such games. Graphics, material and workmanship are attractive, the rules of the game are in English.