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Fiasko box art
1997 Ranked #16,383

Fiasko

A push-your-luck card game has players draw groceries or bank a hand by multiplying one product’s value against all collected cards. Disaster cards forfeit a hand, while each grocery type can be scored only once.

Card Game Humor End Game Bonuses Push Your Luck

Players

2-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

5.99

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 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

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?

A small card game featuring a supermarket theme and a Can't Stop-like element to gameplay. Each turn, players may either draw a card or score their hand and begin collecting groceries anew.

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A small card game featuring a supermarket theme and a Can't Stop-like element to gameplay. Each turn, players may either draw a card or score their hand and begin collecting groceries anew. Hands are scored by multiplying the values of one type of grocery (milk, canned corn, etc. - the player decides which type will score) by the total number of cards in a players hand. The risk: If a player draws one of the 6 Fiasko cards, all cards in his hand are forfeit (apparently the grocery display had grown too tall and toppled over, based on the graphics). The deck also contains two Catastrophe cards, which cause all but the player who draws them to discard their hands. Players may score each type of grocery only once per game. The game ends when one player has scored all five types of merchandise. Player with the most points wins.

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All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
2
Play time
20 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Reinhard Staupe

Artists

1
Ulf Marckwort

Publishers

2
F.X. Schmid Ravensburger

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