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Ruck Zuck box art
1985 Ranked #19,271

Ruck Zuck

This shedding card game has players place cards onto a board and empty their hand before everyone else. Its rapid pace turns every legal placement into a race to remove the last card.

Card Game Math Open Drafting Tile Placement

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

5.97

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 3.7/5

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?

Ruck Zuck, the quick cardgame. Try to get rid of the cards in your hand by placing them on a board. The one that first has an empty hand wins.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Open Drafting

Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Tile Placement

Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
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Category

2
Card Game Math

Mechanism

2
Tile Placement Open Drafting

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
3–4
Play time
10 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Manfred Schreiber

Publishers

4
(Self-Published) Espenlaub Georg Appl Otto Maier Verlag

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