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2010 Ranked #21,317

Bugs

A ladder-climbing card game has players shed cards to win rounds and minimize points left in hand across six rounds. Uneven card quantities and special actions complicate the race to discard everything before rivals.

Family Games Animals Card Game Ladder Climbing Animals: Insects

Players

3-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

1.25/5

Rating

5.52

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

There is an insect swarm coming your way, and you want to be the first to get it off your property. Bugs!

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Ladder Climbing

Play increasingly strong combinations until opponents cannot or choose not to respond.
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There is an insect swarm coming your way, and you want to be the first to get it off your property. Bugs! is a ladder climbing game where players try to get rid of their cards. The first player to get rid of all his cards wins the round. The cards in the other player's hands count against them. The player with the least points after 6 rounds is the winner. Cards range from 1 to 9 with declining quantities (1 card nr 9, 9 cards nr 1) and there are a few special action cards that spice things up.

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Type

1
Family Games

Category

2
Animals Card Game

Mechanism

1
Ladder Climbing

Family

2
Card Games: Climbing Animals: Insects

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
3–6
Best with
3–6
Play time
30 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Keith Meyers

Artists

2
Patrick LaMontagne Kelly Zylstra

Publishers

1
Valley Games, Inc.

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