The card game Phase 10 is very similar to the well-known rummy. The game, invented by Kenneth Johnson in 1982, was published by Ravensburger in Germany in 2001. With a total of around 30 million copies sold worldwide, it is one of the best-selling games of all time after the United Nations. It is played with 2 – 6 people and is suitable for ages 10 and up
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Gameplay
All players are dealt 10 cards. The remaining cards are placed face down on the table as a pile and the top one is turned over to a discard pile. The first player draws a card from the pile or takes the top card from the discard pile. So everyone tries to collect the card combination of the required phase. At the end of your turn you put a card on the discard pile.
Now it continues clockwise. Depending on the phases you need different combinations of cards. If you have the first phase in hand, you put the cards face up on the table in front of you. Each further phase is now applied to this. A player can only move on to the next phase when the current phase has been completed. The winner is the one who has finished all 10 phases first. The joker can be created for any card. If you have a “skip” card and play it, the next player must skip a round.
The 10 phases
- Two triplets
- Three of a kind and four wins
- Four of a Kind and Four Successes
- Seven successes
- Successes
- Nine successes
- Two quadruplets
- 7 cards of one suit
- Quintuplets and twins
- Quintuplets and triplets
Game material
A phase 10 card game consists of 108 cards. These are divided into 4 colors and each in the numbers from 1 to 12. There are also 4 joker cards and 4 skip cards. There are also 6 cards with a quick guide and the 10 phases.
- 108 playing cards
- 4 wild cards
- quick start Guide
- 10 phases
