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Game Entry

Escalation!

(2007)
User Rating: 5.7 / 10 (293 Ratings)
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GameID: 26884
Rank: 2766
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Information

Designed By: Reiner Knizia
Published By: Z-Man Games
Mfg suggested # of Players: 2 - 6 players
User suggested # of Players:
Best with 4 players
Recommended with 3, 4 players
(3 voters) [poll]
Playing Time: 15 Minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages: 10 and up
User Suggested Ages: 8 and up
(1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence: No necessary in-game text
(2 voters) [poll]
Category: Card Game
Mechanics: N/A
Other Names: N/A

Description

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From the publisher:
It's the classic suburban conflict of unreturned tools, loud neighbors, and prize-winning garden gnomes from Reiner Knizia. This simple gateway card game has players starting with low-value cards then escalating the values until someone goes too far and penalizes their neighbor with the stack of cards. When the deck runs out and a player's hand is empty, the player with the least cards in his stack wins.

One player opens with a card or cards and calls out the value played. The next player must play cards to surpass that value, and so on, escalating the value until the point where a player does not wish to or cannot go above that value, thus taking the stack of cards and placing them in her penalty stack. A simple card game in the tradition of No Thanks!

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Statistics

User Rank: 2766
Num Ratings: 293
Average Rating: 5.74
Standard Deviation: 1.50
Num Views: 8561
GeekBuddy Analysis: Analyze
Similarly Rated: View
Avg. Game Weight: 1.07 moreinfo
Personal Comments: 176
Users Owning: 258
Users Wanting: 12
Users Trading: 9
Has Parts For Trade: 0
Want Parts In Trade: 0
Price History: View
Total Plays: 1752
Plays This Month: 20

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