Published card games
Straw
Alderac Entertainment Group, 2006
Straw is a card game published by Alderac Entertainment Group in 2006. It is played with 2 to 6 players, from age 8 and in about 30 minutes.
- players
- 2–6
- minutes
- 30
- years
- 8+
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The box
- Publishers
- Alderac Entertainment Group, Evertide Games
- Designer
- Richard James
- Year of release
- 2006
- Also known as
- Straw: The Game That Broke the Camel's Back
About the game
Straw (a.k.a. "Straw: The Game that Broke the Camel's Back") is an Arabian-nights-themed card game designed by Richard James (of Evertide Games) and published by Alderac Entertainment Group in 2008, with artwork by Octographics. The game is packaged with a rule book in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, but the cards themselves use numbers and symbols instead of just text.
Players draw from a common draw deck and maintain a hand of 4 cards representing items of varying weight. At a rate of 1 card per turn, players place cards onto the camel until the camel's back breaks from carrying too much weight, restoring a new card to their hand from the deck afterward. The person who breaks the camel's back scores 0 and all other players score the weight in their hand. Hand management is the key mechanic in this multi-round survival-style game.More from Alderac Entertainment Group
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