New Game Release – Flash 10

Devir Games has released Flash 10, a card game where if you blink, you might miss it, into retail recently.

Designed by the legendary Wolfgang Kramer (author of great games like El Grande or Downforce and five-time winner of Spiel des Jahres), Flash 10 is a new title in Devir’s pocket collection. This frenetic card game allows games for groups of 2 to 5 players, from 8 years old. The objective of the game is to score more points than the rest, creating a row of cards from left to right in ascending order.

Flash 10 contains 120 cards, of which one hundred are numbered (0 to 99) and twenty are storm cards. To start playing you must shuffle all the cards and deal ten to each player. They will place these on the table, face down. After revealing the cards, players can take new cards from the deck and place them on top of those in their play area, so that up to ten stacks of cards can be formed. If a player draws a storm card, they may place it on top of any of their cards or piles. These cards do not interrupt the row. But, at the end of the game each storm card left in view will subtract one point.

The game ends immediately when a player manages to place his ten visible cards in ascending order or when the deck of cards runs out. Players will score points for their cards. Starting from the left, each player checks which of their cards are in ascending order. You get one point for each card that is in the correct order. If there is a card in ascending order that has a lightning bolt, get one more point. You can write down the scores of all the players, shuffle all the cards and start another game. Continue playing and adding points until a player reaches an amount decided at the beginning, such as 50 points.

Flash 10 is for two to five players, ages eight and up, and plays in around twenty minutes. It retails for $11.99.

Devir Games also previously released Walkie-Talkie (see “Walkie-Talkie board game“).