Description

The goal of the Action Game is to get rid of all cards as quickly as possible. Deal 5 cards to each player, and put the rest in a face-down stack. A starting card from the top of the face-down stack is turned face-up on the table. Each player takes turns playing a card on top of the face-up stack, which must match either the symbol, color, or number of the current top card in that stack. If you don't have a matching card, you have to draw from the face-down stack. There are action cards which trigger changes in the game when played. Minimum number of players is 2.

It also comes with a second set of rules for the same 32 cards, called Happy Families or Quartets. The goal of this game is to collect as many families as possible (groups of 4 cards that belong together). With 2 players, deal 10 cards to each player, and place the remaining 12 cards in a face-down stack. One player begins by asking for a certain card; they must already have at least one card from that family. If the opponent does not have that card, then the player picks up the top card from the stack, and then it is the other player's turn. Or with 3 or more players, deal out all the cards equally among the players; and a player can continue asking for cards from selected opponents until they make a mistake (asking for a card that the person asked doesn't have). Whoever collects the most sets of 4 wins.

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