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Year Published
2002
# of Players:
2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 5, 6 players
Recommended with 3, 4, 5, 6 players
(7 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
10 and up
User Suggested Ages
8 and up
(1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(3 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
The Bucket King
Alternate Names
Alles im Eimer
The Bucket King
Expanded By
Families
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Card game with unusual scoring. Players play sets of animal cards trying to knock over each other's pyramids of buckets. Cards in hand can be used to attack and defend certain colours of buckets, taking out lower buckets causes cascades.

The deck is five colours (farm animals) numbered 1-8, with two 1s and two 8s. Players start with 12 cards. The start player plays 1-3 cards of one colour, giving a total sum. This total attacks the player to their left, who either plays 1-3 cards of the same colour totalling higher to defend, or loses a bucket. If they do defend though, that total then attacks the player to their left and so on, round the table. If it gets back to the start player, then can add 1-3 more cards to their original play, increasing the total. At some point, a player cannot defend, and buckets go tumbling.

Players look at their starting hand before building their pyramid o' buckets, so it pays to put your weak colour at the top.

If you play a cards or cards, you draw back one card from the draw deck. If you forget, tough! The game ends when somebody loses all their buckets. The player with the most remaining is the winner.

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0 Frech rules / régles en français
Rules translation by Encolpe Degoute and Jean-Marc Tribet (Débit de jeux) with kindly autorisation (http://www.debitdejeux.free.fr).
2009-03-30
0 New edition from Kosmos - Rules Changes
The new edition of Alles im Eimer, from Kosmos, comes in a smaller box, and less buckets and less cards. For those who cannot understand the German rules included therein, here are the minor changes to the rules, as explained by Kosmos.
2008-05-07
0 Alles im eimer - Spanish Rules
PDF de las reglas en castellano / Rules in spanish (PDF Format)
2008-05-06
1 Rules (English) condensed to half a page
Rules (English) condensed to half a page
2007-11-11
1 水桶王.txt
a brief rules of the game in chinese
2007-04-24
0 Alles im Eimer.txt
English Rules
2002-04-03
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 921
Num Ratings: 1028
Average Rating: 6.36
Standard Deviation: 1.17
Num Views: 32194
GeekBuddy Analysis: Analyze
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Avg. Game Weight: 1.2 moreinfo
Fans: 2
Personal Comments: 432
Users Owning: 848
Users Wanting: 38
Users Trading: 43
Has Parts For Trade: 0
Want Parts In Trade: 0
Price History: View
Total Plays: 2798
Plays This Month: 6
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