Pyramid Review
Mü & More
Published by Rio Grande Games
Designed by Doris & Frank
Art by Doris Mattháus
66 full-color cards & rules; $11.95
Over the last 10 years, give or take, Mü & More has bounced across a couple of companies. Designers Doris Mattháus and Frank Nestel have retrieved their game license and released the first English-language version through Rio Grande.
The game has been issued with rules for as few as four games and as many as six; this edition has five. The deck has 66 cards, including six reference "sheets." The rest of the stack is split into five 12-card suits of different colors (each color features a different animal -- yellow hedgehogs, green serpents, and so on). Cards are numbered zero to nine, and they also have zero, one, or two triangular symbols.
The eponymous Mü, similar to bridge, features the set's basic mechanics. The object is to take as many tricks as possible. You bid by revealing as many cards as the tricks you think you'll take, and bidders can enter or drop out of the bidding at will. The high bid is the "chief" and the second-highest is the "vice." Each chooses a trump from among the card numbers or colors they bid (the chief's choice trumps the vice's). The chief also gets to choose a partner for the round.
A chart tells the chief team how many points they need -- the more cards bid, the more points they must score. The card numbers don't get you points, though; the triangles on the card margins do, and these aren't always on the highest-valued . . .
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Article publication date: July 2, 2004
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