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Nov 9, 2025·How to play·04:19·2·Watch on YouTube

How to Play LAMA – Quick Rules Guide

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Watch “How to Play LAMA – Quick Rules Guide,” a how-to-play guide for L.L.A.M.A. from GameRules Studio on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by GameRules Studio on YouTube:

Learn how to play LAMA 🦙 — the lighthearted card game of luck, timing, and llamas! Created by Reiner Knizia and published by Amigo Games, this quick family game is all about getting rid of your cards before they cost you points. Simple to learn, fast to play, and always unpredictable! 🎯 LAMA (short for “Lege Alle Minuspunkte Ab”, or “Get rid of all minus points”) is a shedding-style card game for 2–6 players that takes about 20 minutes. Players race to empty their hands, score as few points as possible, and decide when to stay in or drop out! LAMA is fast, funny, and surprisingly tactical — a perfect filler game for families, kids, or casual nights. 🦙✨ GameRules Studio helps you learn how to play the world’s best board games. Simple, fast, and clear tutorials with official rules, setup guides, and scoring explanations. #LAMA #ReinerKnizia #AmigoGames #BoardGames #FamilyGames #CardGames #QuickGames #BoardGameTutorial #TabletopGaming #LearnLAMA #HowToPlayLAMA #BoardGameRules #howtoplay #gamerulesstudio

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L.L.A.M.A.

L.L.A.M.A.

2019·Reiner Knizia

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11
Creators
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Reviews and how-to-play. L.L.A.M.A. is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 5 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, and 1 recorded sessions.

2 - 6 players
20 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

About L.L.A.M.A., from BoardGameGeek:

In LLAMA, you want to dump cards from your hand as quickly as you can, but you might not be able to play what you want, so do you quit and freeze your hand or draw and hope to keep playing? Each player starts a round with six cards in hand; the deck consists of llama cards and cards numbered 1-6, with eight copies of each. On a turn, the active player can play a card, draw a card, or quit. To play a card, you must play the same number as the top card of the discard pile or one number higher. If a 6 is on the discard pile, you can play a 6 or a llama, and if a llama is on top, you can play another llama or a 1. If you quit, you place your remaining cards face down and take no further actions in the round. If all players have quit but one, that player can continue to play, but cannot draw more cards. The round ends when one player empties their hand or all players have quit. In either case, players collect tokens based on the cards in their hand. Each different number card in hand gets you white tokens (each worth 1 point) equal to the value of the card while one or more llamas gets you a black token (worth 10 points). (You can exchange ten white tokens for one black token at any time.) If you played all your cards, you can return one token (white or black) that you previously collected to the supply. You then shuffle all the cards and begin a new round, in which the first player to play will be the one who emptied their hand or was the last one to quit in the previous round. The game ends at the end of the round where at least one player has forty or more total points. Whoever has the fewest points wins! The original title of this game is a German acronym and stands for Lege alle Minuspunkte ab, that is, "discard all minus points", with "Lama" also being the German spelling of "llama". The Polish game Lato z Komarami features gameplay nearly identical to LLAMA except that the game has one less "llama" card, and the penalty for llama cards in hand is 10 points per card, instead of being 10 points for one or more llama cards.

Designer

Reiner Knizia

Artists

Tomasz Samojlik, Rey Sommerkamp, Barbara Spelger

Publisher

AMIGO

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