https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/collections/all.atom vaibhavhospital 2018-03-21T02:03:33-04:00 vaibhavhospital https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/547887448115 2018-03-21T02:03:33-04:00 2018-03-21T02:03:33-04:00 Jack Attack Board Games AdMagic Games

Vendor: AdMagic Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 8.95

Designer Joe Andrews
Publisher AdMagic Games
Players 3-6
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up

Jack Attack is a trick-taking game with an augmented deck, described by the publisher as "combining the best elements of Hearts, Bridge, and Bridge." The deck contains the standard 52 cards, plus 4 suited "1"s, 2 "Big" Jokers, and 2 "Little" Jokers.

The object is to avoid taking Jacks, although a player may collect all four for a "Grand Slam", similar to shooting the moon in Hearts.

The players are dealt a number of cards dependent on the number of players. The dealer determines trump/no trump, and makes the opening lead. Suit must be followed, with the exception of the Jokers, which may be played on any trick. Trick is won (in order of precedence) by the first "Big" Joker, highest trump, or highest card of the suit led. ("Little" Jokers cannot win tricks.)

Play continues until one person has taken 10 Jacks, or 10 hands have been played. Low score wins. ("Grand Slams" alter this somewhat.)

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Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.95

Designer Joe Andrews
Ken Fisher
Publisher AMIGO Spiel + Freizeit GmbH
Players 3-6
Suggested Age 10 and up

Note: Thie game is in German. English rules can be found here.

The object of HeartSwitch – a card game inspired by Hearts – is to have the lowest score at the end of the game. The sixty-card deck consists of the standard 52-card deck, plus four Magicians and four Witches, two good and two bad, with Witches ranking between Jacks and Tens.

As in Hearts, HeartSwitch is a trick-taking game with fairly standard rules. The lead player plays a single card, then each other player must follow suit, if possible – except that a player can always choose to play a Magician. A Magician is a null card that can never win a trick (unless a trick consists only of Magicians). Whoever plays the highest card in the suit led collects the cards, then leads to the next trick.

After everyone's hand is empty, players score points for the cards they've collected. As in Hearts, each heart collected is one point, while the Queen of Spades is 13 points. What's new in "HeartSwitch" is that the Witch of Spades is worth 5 points, while the Witch of Clubs cancels points earned for either of the Spades cards. The Witch of Hearts doubles points earned from hearts up to a maximum of 15 points, while the Witch of Diamonds knocks up to 5 points off your score. If a player "shoots the moon" by collecting all the hearts and either the Witch or Queen of Spades (or both), that player scores no points while everyone else scores 20, 25 or 30 points.

Players continue playing rounds until one player reaches 70 points, at which time the player with the lowest score wins. Alternatively, players can agree to play a set number of rounds, with the lowest-scoring player winning the game.

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