Poison

Theme : In Poison, the mad scientist is in play, cooking up new potions on a dare. Players must add their own potions to one of three boiling pots. Care must be taken however, because if a pot overflows, you'll need to take all the potions - and one of them might contain Poison!

Gameplay : Poison is a strategy based card game from Reiner Knizai that plays like a modified version of Gin Rummy.

There are fifty potion cards in three colours - red, blue and purple with values of 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7 and the special 'poison' cards that are green with a value of 4. At the beginning of the game, the cards are shuffled and dealt out evenly. A player then plays a card, face-up, into one of the three cauldrons. Only cards of the same colour can be played into a cauldron at a time with the exception of poisoin cards that can be placed into any cauldron at any time. If a player places a card that makes the point value in a cauldron exceed 13, they take all the cards in the cauldron and place them face down in front of them.

At the end of the round when all the cards are played, players count up the total number of points they have. There are two important rules however - poison cards are double their value (8) and if a player has the most number of cards of a certain colour (i.e. red, blue or purple), he may ignore all the points from those cards. A new round is started straight away, one round being played per player. The winner is the player with the least number of points.

Content

• 42 potion cards


• 8 poison cards


• 3 cauldron boards


• rules