Sequence Game
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Toys and Games Reviews of Sequence Game
Customer Review: Outwit and Outplay
Summary: 4 Stars
"Sequence" is a challenging game that is fun for both the adults and the kids. It is one that will really make you think and holds your interest for several rounds of play. This is a fairly new game to us, we've had it since Christmas, and it turned out to be one of the best and most thoughtful presents we recieved as a family, as it gives us a great couple of hours of time together.
The object of the game is to get 5 chips in a row on a game board that has 2 sets of playing cards printed on it.
Each player is dealt a given number of playing cards (the amount will depend on how many players there are). Using the cards in your hand, determines where on the board you may put your chips.
Be careful though..there are wild cards lurking out there...just when you get your strategy all set and are ready to be the winner..someone may remove one of your chips or even worse...use a wild card to win their own sequence!
I like that it really makes you think. Like Chess you will be planning your next few moves in advance. Should the strategy be to go for the sequence or block your opponent? The more the board fills up with chips, the more fun to try and figure it out. Team play requires more sequences to win.
The game may be played on an indivual basis(with 2 or 3 players) or may be played by teams(this is always fun for the youngsters to team up with an adult). The only probem would be if you had five or seven or elven(up to 12 may form teams) people. Too many to play indivually and not enough to make another team of 2.(this is why I went with 4 stars on fun).
The equipment seems to be pretty durable. The chips are smaller than checkers though and young children an toddlers should be supervised, so as not to choke on them. Two decks of standard playing cards come with it, so there's a perk, you can use them to play card games as well. The instuctions were easy to understand, by the second round we had it down pretty good, and they also came in Spanish for those that may need it.
This is one game that will probably never see the bottom of the stack! Get the family away from their TV's and computers,take it on trips, or bring it out when company arrives. It's a nice way to spend an evening or a rainy afternoon....Have fun...Laurie
also recommended for the entire family:Hasbro Games Clue
Customer Review: Great fun for the whole family!
Summary: 5 Stars
Sequence is one of those rare games that can be played by many people of widely different ages at the same time. A little skill and a lot of luck make this an easy game to learn, but sometimes very tough to win. It's more of a card game than a board game, so I can see why one reviewer said it requires "no skill," but I don't think that's a reason to "dis" the game: after all, most card games rely more on luck than anything else, don't they? However, I don't really think you can call this game "educational" except in the sense that it does help the younger kids learn about the suits and types of playing cards. And so what if it's not educational? It's Fun!The game description does not tell you that although 2 to 12 people can play, it must be in multiples of 2 or 3. There are only 3 sets of color chips to play with, and you have to have evenly divided "teams" when you play with more than 3 people. This means that 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 or 12 people can play, but not 5, 7 or 11. (I'm sure you can figure out some way to make this work, too, especially if you've got younger children who want to get into the game).
Sequence is really easy to learn, and games are usually short, so you can play a few before you move on to something else. The biggest problem (if you can call it that) my crowd has experienced has been the "no table talk" rule of the game, which just lets us fool around trying to get our team-mates to know how we'd like them to play without saying it directly.
If you're looking for a challenge, or to show how much smarter you are than everyone else, go somewhere else, but if you're looking for a fun and "no-brain-strain" game that you can play with the kids, that "special someone" or a bunch of friends, this is well worth adding to your game collection.
Customer Review: Deceptively simple,*Great strategy game for kids and adults*
Summary: 5 Stars
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I'm always looking for more games to play with my nieces, especially the 11 year old, who is getting good at chess,and always beats me at Mancala. This game is simple enough to learn that the 9 and 10 year olds were willing to play too. For kids who have trouble with individual competition, this game has an interesting team play option also.
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The game board has 104 spaces with the pictures of the cards in two standard card decks arranged in a big rectangle, but not in order. The object is to play your hand (5-7cards at a time, depending on the number of players) to form a sequence of card squares.(markers are used to show the filled squares. ) The jacks have special wild card rules, some can be used on any space, and some can be used to substitue your marker for your opponents.
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This game is very easy to learn and has the advantage that you dont need to learn new pictures, the cards are two standard decks. They could be replaced if necessary by any decks of cards if you lost some cards from the original set, and used up all the jokers as replacements.
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After you've played once or twice, it becomes clear that certain strategies for making a row might backfire if the other player gets the wild card that allows her to remove your piece and take the spot. Or your using that play yourself, may backfire.
My 11 year old still is usually the winner, but the rest of us have enough of a chance to make it competitive.
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This is a great family game for 2 to 4 players. Simple enough that ages 8 and up can play and compete with adults , and just tricky enough for the adults to find it great fun too.
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Customer Review: Easy to learn, great fun to play, and you can chat all the while.
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this game some years ago on the recommendation of a couple of families at my church. They claimed it was simple to learn (so almost everyone in the family could start playing at once) and it was the sort of game you could still chat and socialize while playing at your own pace. Also, most "hands" were over pretty quickly, so you weren't tied into some long, long undertaking (think Monopoly or think RISK). You could play a short while or long while.
Basically, you have a board made up of card faces and you have chips (red, green, blue) that you use to mark the cards you set down (ie play). Your goal is to get five in a row (across, up and down, diagonally). There are also Jacks (one-eyed and two-eyed) that allow for a strategic removal or additon of a chip to the spot of the player's choice. That's where the real battle gets going. Do you remove from X player or Y player? Do you save your Jack for a last minute chip add for the win? Does the other player have multiple jacks, and what do you risk setting down?
There are variations (double fives, for instance).
Two or three players can play, or three teams can play, or whatever variation you can come up with given the pieces.
My sisters, nieces, and I really enjoy it. And even the guys have had a good time with it.
Strongly recommended for families who enjoy board games that give them the flexibility of time and sociability.
Mir
Customer Review: Sequence vs Cranium
Summary: 5 Stars
You don't have to be a game person to like this game, which plays easily from two to four people. It's got a playing board, poker chips, and uses two decks of cards. But you don't have to figure a lot out, or do a lot of math, or hold a lot of cards (just six at a time). It's part luck, part thinking and, with four persons, part teamwork. Not as thorny and infinitely long as chess, nor as obvious as checkers, not a strategic all-nighter like Risk, or a major undertaking like Monopoly. Not a way-too-educational game you got instead of a toy for your birthday (to your dismay). If you like all those games, you'd probably enjoy Sequence also. But if you're not a game person, and don't like all of the above, this might be the one game you would like. It's like hearing a clean joke that's actually funny, or finding non-alchoholic beer that tastes good. The odds are stacked against it, but Sequence may have beaten the odds. The only other game I like this much is Battleship, but if you hate Battleship, you may still like Sequence. If you've already got Cranium, empty the box out and put the Sequence pieces in the Cranium box. Then you've got the best of both worlds: a great game and great Gary Baseman box art.