A Rummy-like Card Game With a Strategic TWIST!
Unlike luck-of-the-draw games, KAPOW! rewards strategic thinking, careful placement, and clever play. Every round offers new tactical opportunities and meaningful decisions.
The core foundation for building runs and straights. Values of 0 through 12.
Raise or lower values when combined with fixed value cards — adding a layer of tactical decisions. For example, convert a fixed value 6 card into a 4 or an 8.
Wild cards that can be moved within your hand for maximum strategic advantage.
Each player receives a hand of twelve face-down cards and arranges them into four columns with three cards each, referred to as ‘triads’. The remaining cards form a draw pile and discard pile.
Through successive turns, cards are revealed and may be retained, replaced, or discarded as needed to ‘complete’ each triad into a sequential run (1, 2, 3) or matched set (5, 5, 5). Completed triads are discarded, reducing the points in a player’s hand.
Innovative cards provide creative new ways to complete your triads into runs and sets. Power cards can be used to raise or lower the value of fixed value cards in a triad. KAPOW! cards are wild cards that can be moved within or across triads.
A player exits a round when all cards in their hand are discarded or revealed. Each player then gets one final turn and the round ends. The player who went out first starts the next round. After ten rounds, the player with the lowest score is the winner.
KAPOW! will become your favorite new game.
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