Designer	Reiner Knizia
Artist	Franz Vohwinkel
Publisher	Goldsieber Rio Grande Games
Year Published	1998
# of Players	2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 3 players Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players (9 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	20 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	(no votes yet) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (4 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Family Games (6 voters) [vote]
Category	Card Game
Mechanic	Auction/Bidding Set Collection
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Family	Animals: Cats Animals: Mice Goldsieber à la Carte
Primary Name	Katzenjammer Blues
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Katzenjammer Blues is an unusual hybrid of rummy and auction rules, with a couple of strange ideas thrown in about the game ending once 20 points, total, have been scored, and a 5-point penalty for most jokers. It's a quick, cutthroat card game, colorfully decorated with cartoony blues-band cats and mice.

Part of the Goldsieber à la Carte line of games.

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Katzenjammer Blues

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Rio Grande Games edition

Publisher: Rio Grande Games

Artist: Franz Vohwinkel

Year: 1998

Product Code: 655132001113

Size: 5.00 x 3.94 x 1.00 inches

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Katzenjammer Blues

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Goldsieber "a la carte" edition

Publisher: Goldsieber

Artist: Franz Vohwinkel

Year: 1998

Product Code: 618 8014

Size: 5.00 x 3.94 x 1.00 inches

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0	Rules Joker card turned up = auction starts?	2008-06-21	Xaykev	4
2	Variants Joker Variant	2008-05-19	Sprydle	1
0	Rules Bidding with Jokers	2007-06-15	flieger	2
2	Sessions Six player, mediocre game.	2006-11-03	Spielguy	2
17	Reviews Katz Blues: Underrated, Misunderstood...and very, very good	2006-10-09	Larry Levy	2
0	Rules More bidding questions...	2006-09-06	fmoros	2
0	Rules what happens with the bid cards?	2006-08-31	fmoros	3
4	Reviews A superb card game.	2006-01-29	Kobra1	1
0	Rules Who's the Bandleader?	2005-12-21	Christine...	2
0	Sessions Encore! Encore!	2005-10-02	seppo21	0

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Dutch rules	http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDFspelregels/4589.pdf	2011-12-18
German review Reich der Spiele	http://www.reich-der-spiele.com/kritiken/Katzenjam...	2011-04-07
German review - GoodGameGuide	http://www.superfred.de/katzenjammerblues.html	2011-04-07
English Review on Spotlight on Games	http://spotlightongames.com/list/nights/k.html#kat...	2010-06-04
Billabong Boardgamers Review - "great little filler"	http://members.optusnet.com.au/dacoutts/Billabong/...	2007-08-13
Meaning of the word Katzenjammer	http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-kat1.h...	2004-06-19
Review from the Game Report Online Website	http://www.gamereport.com/tgr18/katzenjammerblues....	2001-11-02
Review by Mike Siggins in Ken Tidwell's Game Cabinet	http://www.gamecabinet.com/reviews/KatzenJammerBlu...	2001-11-02