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Shoot The Moon box art
2004 Ranked #20,681

Shoot The Moon

This trick-taking card game has players win odd tricks or bonus cards to collect seven chips first. Rocket cards always trump, while weak cards carry more victory value and special moons can reward or punish a trick.

Card Game Trick-taking Team-Based Game

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.2/5

Rating

5.73

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

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?

This is a trick-taking card game, which may be played individually or in partnerships of 2 or 3.

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This is a trick-taking card game, which may be played individually or in partnerships of 2 or 3. The game comes with a deck of 52 cards, made up of 4 colored sets of 12 cards (numbered 1 to 12) - the colored sets are suits of red rockets (always trump), green crescent moons, purple stars and blue full moons. There are also 2 orange big moon (bonus cards, always high), 2 orange little moon cards (penalty cards, always low) and 40 Shoot the Moon chips. Players start with 2 chips and are dealt 5 cards for each round of play. Players gain chips by winning odd number of tricks or the big moon cards. The first player to win 7 chips wins. This is not the same game as the other game with this title in the BGG database - that one appears to be a set-collecting card game.

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Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
3
Age
8+
Complexity
1.2/5
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Credits

Designers

2
Garrett J. Donner Michael S. Steer

Publishers

3
Alex Brands Fundex Ideal

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