Black Spy (1981)

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Designer	Alan R. Moon
Artist	Charles Kibler Doris Matthäus
Publisher	Ali Baba e.V. Avalon Hill Hexagames (I)
Year Published	1981
# of Players	3 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 3, 4, 5, 6 players (3 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	8 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (2 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Family Games (7 voters) [vote]
Category	Card Game
Mechanic	Trick-taking
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Family	Ghosts
Primary Name	Black Spy
Alternate Names	Gespenster
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An interesting Hearts variant ... one of Alan Moon's earliest games.

Object is to be the player with the lowest score when one player goes out by getting 200 points.

Contents: Card Deck of 60 cards (11 blue; 11 yellow; 11 red; 11 green; 16 black), Scorepad, and Instructions

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Gespenster

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Ali Baba jubilee edition

Publisher: Ali Baba e.V.

Artist: Doris Matthäus

Year: 2011

Size: 3.86 x 2.60 x 0.87 inches

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Gespenster

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Hexagames German edition 1990

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Year: 1990

Size: 7.00 x 5.00 x 1.50 inches

0.46 pounds

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Avalon Hill boxed version

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Year: 1981

Product Code: 6335

Size: 11.40 x 8.30 x 1.10 inches

0.79 pounds

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11	Reviews A Good, Old-fashioned, Trick-taking Card-game by Alan R. Moon.	2008-02-19	da pyrate	8

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Scorepad from Avalon Hill version

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2012-01-09

Ukrainian Rules

Ukrainian Rules PDF

yorri

2011-10-23

Black_Spy_fr.pdf

French translation of the rules

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Black Spy Components.txt

Avalon Hill Black Spy Game Component List

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2005-07-15

Black Spy Rules.pdf

English Rules

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