Anatole Latuile: Le sac qui craque

Leaking pens, stinking sandwiches, Anatole’s schoolbag is full to breaking point. In this little card game, players will have to use tactics, cunning and bluffing to win the game.

The goal of the game is to collect exactly ten identical objects in two of the three schoolbags that each player has. There are four types of objects: pens, rubbers, paper planes and sandwiches. Each card has two sides with two types of objects in different numbers, for example four rubbers or two sandwiches, one rubber or three paper planes… Each schoolbag can only be filled with one object and you cannot exceed ten objects in one bag. All the players are aware of the number of objects picked up by the other players.

The active player draws one card corresponding to the number of players (3 players = 3 cards) One card after the other, he announces the number of objects on one side of one card (he chooses the side), for example two pens, four sandwiches… The first player who is interested in taking the card may say it and then places it on the side he wants in one of his schoolbags. If nobody is interested in getting the card, the active player has to take it. If the player can’t place the card (if it exceeds the capacity of ten objects in one bag), then the card is discarded. There are three special cards called ‘Crac’ that completely empties one schoolbag of the player who collected it. Although this card game is suitable for kids, it turns out to be an excellent bluffing game with adults. If you love smart bluffing and games that offer incomplete information, this game is for you.