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Dec 13, 2024·Review·28:39·1·Watch on YouTube

Klunker — How to Play, and Is It a Gem?

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Watch “Klunker — How to Play, and Is It a Gem?,” a board game review for Klunker from Board Gems on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Board Gems on YouTube:

Remember the 1990s? There was lots of purples and oranges and greens and everything was radical and extreme! Back then, Uwe Rosenberg wasn't famous for complex harvest-set or polyomino board games. He was much less famous in the hobby, and was known for making simple, quirky card games. His most famous was Bohnanza, and it is still enjoyed today. Klunker (1999 Hans im Glück) is another quirky Rosenberg pre-Agricola card game, and shares some DNA with Bohnanza. Players are trying to collect sets of cards and turn them (literally) in for money. Instead of trading and negotiating to get the cards you need, though, you'll offer cards in your storefront and hope other players buy them, and you'll buy others' cards to put in your vault. The more different types you collect, though, the less each set is worth! It can be hard to justify seeking out an old copy of Klunker when Bohnanza is so widely available. Fortunately, you don't need to — you can give it a try with a seven-player copy of Bohnanza you may already have! Give it a look! 00:00 Intro ▶️ 02:20 How to Play 🎲 12:34 Is It a Gem? 💎 Board Gems highlights older board and card games that are still great games today, and deserve to not be forgotten! Join & Support: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX9Ab6egkU1ru3sgP8TUI2A/join Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/booned BGG Blog: https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/10011 BGG New Videos List: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/276559/ BGG Requests & Suggestions List: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/279371/ Brought to you by Pizzeria Ludica! https://www.ludica.ca/ BGG Listing: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/102/klunker Background Music: Sleepy Fish - Bookshelves https://chll.to/1a15c417 #boardgames #tabletop #vancouver #ludica

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Klunker

Klunker

1999·Uwe Rosenberg

3 - 5 players
30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

About Klunker, from BoardGameGeek:

Klunker features elements similar to Uwe Rosenberg's Bohnanza, with players trying to specialize in collecting only a few types of cards. To start play, each player has 1 banknote (a random face-down card) in their safe and a hand of six cards; seven types of jewelry are included in the game. On a turn, each player in clockwise order from the round's starting player places 0-6 cards from their hand into their store window. (If a player's window is empty, they must place at least one card.) Next, in clockwise order players can place one card face up in their safe or pass; when a player passes, they take the lowest numbered purchase card, and players continue placing cards one by one until they pass. Starting with the player who has the lowest purchase card, players can buy all of the cards in someone's store window - including their own - by paying the owner 1 banknote, after which they place these cards in their safe. (If you have cards in your store window, you must purchase cards.) As soon as a player has four of the same type of jewelry in their safe, whether from playing cards there directly or from purchasing someone's window goods, they must cash in those cards. If you have only one type of jewelry in the safe, you flip all four cards into your safe for 4 bank notes. For each extra type of jewelry in the safe, you flip one fewer card, e.g., with three types of jewelry, you flip only 2 banknotes, discarding the other two cards from play. If a player declines to purchase cards, the purchase round ends immediately, then players refill their hand to six cards. If this isn't possible because the deck has run out, the game ends. Whoever has the most banknotes wins.

Designer

Uwe Rosenberg

Artist

Oliver Moser

Publisher

Hans im Glück

Categories

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