The Game: Quick & Easy

My friends and I loved this game. A great addition to the original. Fun, interesting and just enough thinking!

Firstly I love these cards, they are printed with some extremely bright and inviting colors that draw and keep your eyes focused on the game at hand. The skeletal characters depicted on each set of cards are in the realm of family friendly art. It reminds me of maybe some of the characters from the movie Coco, or similarly friendly children's art. It inspires an instant connection and comfortable familiarity with the well designed characters right upon opening up the box.The gameplay itself is as the title suggests; quick and easy. Players draw 2 cards and are working cooperatively to complete two sets of sequential numberings as they discard cards. Ascending from 1 to 10, and a second set descending from 10 to 1. You must play at least 1 card but do have the option of playing 2 if you wish and can play on one or both stacks. There is a "color matching" rule allowa you to reset the sequence backwards so that more turns may continue. If the ascending deck reaches 10 and is a yellow card, any yellow card may be played to lower the sequence to a new number and you begin building upwards again. This occurs likewise for the descending deck of cards.For as "easy" of a game as this is, I did find it rather challenging to actually complete and win the game. It took us 5 games initially before we synced up and were able to completely run through the entire deck which signals you've beaten the game. Of course we thought once we'd worked out our communication that future games would be certain wins, however this was not the case, our very next attempt had us fail in just a few plays of the cards. I found this both entertaining and frustrating in the very best sense of the word. I was happy that it was not a repeatedly winnable game and that sometimes the cards will just be stacked against you. Still, we found a lot of fun to be had in games that last rarely more than 10 minutes.I've added this to our small games collection, these are games we play on work nights or when we don't want to get into anything with huge setup times. We can play probably 6+ quick rounds of this in the time it would take for even some of our lighter board games to do one play, and still get just as much enjoyment out of the time we spent gaming.We've found it plays quite well at 2p and are excited to take it up to the 5 player count sometime in the future. The added communication between multiple players will certainly require several beginner games to once again get everyone synced up on what is a good flow for our group, but laughter and fun are sure to follow. Good game for such a small package, this one certainly surprised me with how eager I was to continue playing it.

Arrived quickly and in great condition. The game is super fun, quick and easy…so the name of “the game” is accurate!

Quick to learn, quick to teach, rapid play, fun cooperative game.

It sounds really easy and it is easy to understand but to win is very difficult but so much fun. The cards are so cute and unique and make losing worth it lol.