Blink (1995)

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Board Game Rank: 2086

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Designer	Reinhard Staupe
Artist	John Kovalic Ariel Laden Jürgen Martens
Publisher	Adlung-Spiele Cactus Game Design FoxMind Imagination Entertainment Ltd. Mattel Out of the Box Publishing Show More »
Year Published	1995
# of Players	2 − 3
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2, 3 players (19 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	10 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	7 and up
User Suggested Ages	5 and up (10 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (6 voters) [poll]
Honors	1996 Fairplay À la carte Winner 1996 Spiel des Jahres Recommended
Subdomain	Family Games (17 voters) [vote]
Category	Action / Dexterity Card Game Real-time
Mechanic	Pattern Recognition
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Family	Shedding Games
Primary Name	Blink
Alternate Names	Blink: Bible Edition Speed Speed Art No. 1 Speed Art No. 2 Sprint
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This two minute, 2-player card game bills itself as the fastest in the world. Without taking turns, players race to empty their hands by matching the color, shape, or number of symbols on their cards to the two discard piles in the center of the table. The first player to empty their hand and draw pile wins the game.

The rulebook includes variants for 3 and 4 player games as well.

Blink: Bible Edition is the same game with Christian faith icons.

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Mattel Portuguese Hang-Box edition

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Year: 2011

Size: 3.54 x 4.33 x 0.79 inches

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Mattel hang-box edition

Publisher: Mattel

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Year: 2010

Size: 3.60 x 0.80 x 5.70 inches

0.75 pounds

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Mattel edition

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Year: 2009

Product Code: T5931

Size: 4.50 x 3.50 x 0.75 inches

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Out of the Box tin edition

Publisher: Out of the Box Publishing

Artist: John Kovalic

Year: 2005

Product Code: 92222

Size: 3.75 x 2.50 x 0.75 inches

0.25 pounds

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Out of the Box box edition

Publisher: Out of the Box Publishing

Artist: John Kovalic

Year: 2002

Product Code: 2222

Size: 6.00 x 5.00 x 1.50 inches

0.40 pounds

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2	Reviews Good for kids, but very little besides that	2010-10-09	Board...	4
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1	Rules "one at a time" question	2009-05-06	Hallow	3
16	Reviews An interview and review with my four y/o son and my 5 y/o daughter: their thoughts and mine	2008-12-02	cvandyk	3
4	Sessions Playing with my 5-year-old son	2008-10-19	Tatsu	2
13	Reviews It’s fast. It’s furious. Its fun.	2008-07-31	wrkeech	2
4	Sessions A Three Game Session with my Five Year Old	2008-05-25	beauka	1
0	Sessions Best 2 out of three...	2007-12-05	crystallr	0
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3	Reviews So Boring! But What Does My Opinion Count For?	2007-06-23	dagny21	6

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Num Ratings:	1101
Average Rating:	6.01
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English rules on Mattel website (in pdf format)	http://service.mattel.com/instruction_sheets/N1388...	2012-03-04
Dutch review on speldatabase.be - Speed	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=3398&zoekcr...	2012-02-16
Dutch rules - Speed	http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDFspelregels/3398.pdf	2012-02-16
German review (Speed Art No. 1) - Spielphase	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/keirat/tx...	2011-05-05
German review - Spielphase	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/keirat/tx...	2011-05-05
German review - bpk	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/luding/re...	2011-05-05
German review - Holgs Spieleteufel	http://www.spieleteufel.de/spiel.php?id=357	2011-05-05
German review - Spiele-Truhe	http://www.spiele-truhe.de/speed.html	2011-05-05
German review - games we play	http://gamesweplay.de/speed.html	2011-05-05
German review - Ausgepackt!	http://www.patde.de/ausgepackt/main_fr.htm?http://...	2011-05-05