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Cahoots box art
2018 Ranked #1,291

Cahoots

Cooperative card game where a team plays onto shared piles by matching colors or numbers to complete goals. Players cannot reveal their hands, so each move must communicate a plan through placement before time runs out.

Family Games Card Game Communication Limits Open Drafting

Players

1-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

1.12/5

Rating

7.14

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 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 3.5/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Cooperation is key in Cahoots! Play cards to one of four piles by matching color or number.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Open Drafting

Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Communication Limits

Rules restrict what players may say, show, or reveal while cooperating.
Cooperative Game

Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Read the full game description

Cooperation is key in Cahoots! Play cards to one of four piles by matching color or number. Work together as a team to complete a series of goals — without communicating what's in your hand. Can you make all piles purple or green? Every card lower than four? All cards add up to ten? There's only one way to win before time runs out: Play in cahoots! Note that the original Cahoots has a player count of 2-4, while Tippi Toppi (Schmidt Spiele's licensed version of the game) has a player count of 1-4. Notes a Schmidt editor: "It is works quite well as a solo game, too." Not to be confused with the other Cahoots game released in 2018.

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Type

1
Family Games

Category

1
Card Game

Mechanism

3
Communication Limits Cooperative Game Open Drafting

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
1–4
Best with
1–4
Play time
20 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.1/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Ken Gruhl

Artists

3
Ronan Le Maître Manu Palau Irina Pechenkina

Publishers

2
Gamewright Oya

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