Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Olympicards has the player athletes compete in nine different events, with competition taking place via card play.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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Olympicards has the player athletes compete in nine different events, with competition taking place via card play. Each sport has its own rules for playing cards, so sometimes you'll want to sit out an event to conserve your strength, while other times you'll push yourself to the limit to win the gold. Each player starts the game with six cards, each card having a number and color. On a turn, you'll play one or two cards until you cannot – or don't want to – play any more cards. The first player to drop from the event receives more cards for next time, while whoever remains in the event until the end wins the gold medal (i.e. points). Whoever has the most points after nine events wins!