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2023 Ranked #19,145

Nutty Business

This hand-management card game has squirrel gangs play actions, hoard nuts, disrupt rivals, and finish with the biggest stash. Each card activates a pile’s top effect, so simple choices combine into opportunities for theft and interference.

Mafia Hand Management

Players

2-5

Play time

10-20 min

Age

10+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

6.32

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 3.6/5

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?

Central Park, 1925: As part of a squirrel gang, you must smuggle in your illegal nut cargo, hide from customs officers, protect your loot, and prepare for potential police raids! In Nutty Business, players start with symmetrical hands of cards.

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Central Park, 1925: As part of a squirrel gang, you must smuggle in your illegal nut cargo, hide from customs officers, protect your loot, and prepare for potential police raids! In Nutty Business, players start with symmetrical hands of cards. Each round, they add a card on one of the two piles in front of them and activate the effect on top of each pile. Card effects involve hoarding nuts, stealing from opponents, and disturbing their plans. Once someone has played out their whole hand, the player with the most nuts wins. Even with only eight action cards, the game is surprisingly complex thanks to the variety of combinations and table dynamics to analyze. —description from the publisher

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Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
3–5
Play time
10–20 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Alain Rivollet

Artists

1
Christine Alcouffe

Publishers

1
Studio H

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