Amigo
Take 5 (6 nimmt!)
★★★★⯨4.5 / 5 – editorial rating
Play the sixth card and you take the pile: number logic, risk feel and delicious schadenfreude.
age 8+2–10 playersapprox. 25 min.
Logic & planningNumbers & maths
How it plays
Everyone picks a hand card simultaneously; the cards are added to four rows in ascending order. Whoever has to place the sixth card in a row takes the five lying there as penalty points (bullheads!). Over ten rounds it's all about judging numbers, using gaps and dodging traps.
What it trains
Take 5 trains number-line intuition (where does my 47 sit between 45 and 52?), probabilistic thinking and forward-looking risk assessment – every card choice is a small forecast of what the others will do. All of this on the side, inside one of the most exciting card games ever made.
Community voices: Over 30 years old, millions sold, winner of the German Game Prize – and still rated at the top today. The sentence heard most at the table: "Just one more round!" The luck factor draws some criticism, yet it's exactly what keeps every generation in the race.
Our tip for parents: Works from 2 to 10 players – the perfect game for the whole extended family.
Especially good for
- Families and big groups of up to 10
- School kids consolidating numbers up to 104
- Game nights with teens and adults
Less suitable for
- Anyone who hates losing control – there's no avoiding some luck
- Pure two-player tables – it only truly shines from 4 up
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