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Rock cards fanned

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Game cards

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Game contents

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Back of game package

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Front of game package

Thread: Rock-Paper-Scissors + War = More Fun Than It Should

CovertDad — 2008-06-30T15:30:18+00:00

Rock-Paper-Scissors is an incredibly boring game. Mind-numbingly so… And War is not the most brain-burning of games, either. But this game, which incorporates elements of both of these classics and is published by Out Of The Box, makes more of the whole than the sum of the parts.

When I paused at the Out Of The Box booth at the 2008 Origins Game Fair, I was primarily looking for something that I could take home to play with my 5-and-a-half-year-old son, and the demonstrator suggested Rock!. She proceeded to give me the basics of the game, and we went through a quick demo. I was leery at first about a card version of Rock-Paper-Scissors, but I was quickly converted and picked it up to take home.

The deck of cards is divided evenly between each of the two players, and the game is played by flipping over the top card of each player’s deck simultaneously. The winner of any given round is not the player who flipped the winning element, but rather the player who first identifies the winning element. The catch is that each of the three materials has different pictures representing them. For example, Rock is represented by a picture of a boulder, a Stonehenge-like trilithon, an Easter Island statue head, and a crumbling Roman pillar. So not only do you have to figure out which element wins, but first you have to figure out which elements are present. And you have to be careful, because if you identify the wrong element as the winner, your opponent takes the cards.

When players either flip the same element, or correctly identify the winning element at the same time, the round is a tie, and another card is flipped by each player, with the eventual winner taking all of the flipped cards.

The game ends when players have exhausted their stacks, the winner being the player who has collected the most cards.

This is definitely not a brain burner, but it is a very quick, fun game that plays easily with children. This may not be the hit of the Euro scene, but it definitely has a place with family gamers.

Game: Rock!

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Thread: Rock-Paper-Scissors + War = More Fun Than It Should