Sail or Die

In Sail or Die you start with 15 points and a handful of cards. It sounds contradictory, but you want to hold on to your points and get rid of your cards. Every round is about an exciting trade-off: do you dare to keep playing, or do you give up a point to carry on? In turn, you play cards to the middle. You may play as many cards as the player before you, but in a colour that is not on the table yet. Or you put a point in the middle and play along in a colour that is already there. Want to turn everything upside down? Then you sacrifice a point, sweep the table clean and play exactly one card more. And if things get too hot to handle, you take your points back and pass. Whoever plays their cards away most cleverly keeps the most points. After three rounds, the player with the most points wins. With a short playing time of about twenty minutes, this is exactly the game for an evening full of tough choices and cheerful frustration. For two to five players aged ten and up, and big enough for one rematch after another.