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Blink box art
1995 Ranked #5,862

Blink

A real-time card game has players match color, shape, or number to clear their hands and draw piles. No turns are taken, so quick recognition and immediate placement decide the race.

Family Games Action / Dexterity Card Game Pattern Recognition Card Games: Shedding / Stops

Players

2-3

Play time

Not listed

Age

7+

Complexity

1.07/5

Rating

5.93

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.7/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.5/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 3.8/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

The two-minute-long, two-player card game Blink bills itself as the fastest game in the world.

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The two-minute-long, two-player card game Blink bills itself as the fastest game in the world. Without taking turns, players race to empty their hands by matching the color, shape, or number of symbols on their cards in hand to the top card of the two discard piles in the center of the table. As soon as a player lays down one card, they can draw another, up to the hand size of three cards. If both players can't play, they can both draw a card directly onto the discard pile at the same time and then continue play. The first player to empty their hand and draw pile wins. The rulebook includes variants for three- and four-player games. Blink: Bible Edition is the same game with Christian faith icons.

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Play and group

Players
2–3
Best with
2–3
Play time
10 min
Age
7+
Complexity
1.1/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Reinhard Staupe

Artists

4
Oliver Freudenreich John Kovalic Ariel Laden Jürgen Martens

Publishers

4
Adlung-Spiele Cactus Game Design FoxMind FoxMind Israel

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