At a retreat a few weeks ago, my friends introduced me to a fun card game called Dutch Blitz. As soon as I got home, I ordered the game and its expansion pack, and everyone in the family is loving it! I highly recommend this fast-paced card that my family and I have enjoyed so very much.
The backs of the cards are the whiter sides:
Each player gets all of the cards for one symbol on the back.
The solid colored ones are the front. In the game, everyone works together to stack the cards in the middle in numerical order.
To play, each player (2-4 players with original pack, 2-8 players with original and expansion packs), sets up like so:
The one high piles are called the Post Piles, the ten high stack is called the Blitz Pile, and all the other cards (off to the side) are called the Wood Pile.
To start, everyone puts any “1” cards that they have out in the middle. As soon as you empty a Post Pile, you can replace it with the top of the Blitz Pile. You can put a “2” on top of a “1” of the same color, and keep stacking until you get to ten, at which point the top card in that stack, the ten, would be flipped to the back so that everyone can see that that pile is completed. At this point, your game should look something like this:
When you don’t have any cards to play, you can take the top three cards of your wood pile and use the third one.
The game is over when someone empties their Blitz Pile and calls “Blitz”. Someone sorts all the middle cards by player, and everyone counts those cards, counts the number of cards left in their Blitz Pile, multiplies that number by two, and subtracts that number from the number of cards that they had in the middle. The person with the most points wins.
And there you have it! Now, go get yourself a deck of Dutch Blitz, a couple of friends, and have a wonderful afternoon!
See you next time!
