Pyramid Reviews: Blink and My Word!
Published by Out of the Box Games
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Pyramid Pick: Blink
by Reinhard Staupe
56 cards each; $8.95
When you first look at Blink, or just read the box blurbs, it's easy to see all the influences that could have gone into making this game: Uno, Brawl, Crazy Eights, Twitch, Lucky Charms breakfast cereal. When you open the box and see that it contains 56 cards, a slip of paper with rules and a company catalog, you'll probably think you got taken for nine bucks. When you read the rules, there's no denying they're almost childishly simple.
But when you're smacking cards down faster than you can draw them from your deck and sweating, thinking your opponent must be speeding ahead of you and you've got to pour it on or you'll fall behind in what the box calls "the world's fastest game," you concentrate less on little things like how lame you thought the game would be or grease fires in your kitchen.
The 56 cards are decorated with a variety of symbols in different colors. The deck is split during startup into two piles, one for each player, and this forms your draw pile. Each player takes three cards from their deck to form their hand, and each then puts another card face-down on the table. The face-down cards are flipped over simultaneously and the heart palpitations begin.
With never more than three cards in your hand, you must select one to play onto one of the two face-up cards between the players. These cards . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: May 18, 2001
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