When it comes to easy to play, card-based games, Cabo Deluxe Edition has a lot to offer. It’s simple to understand, quick to set up, and very easy to play round after round. You see, you are looking to get the lowest amount of numbers on your combined cards. However, often you cannot even see the cards you are meant to add together, so it’s more than just knowing and affecting your cards.
Everyone starts off with four random cards in front of them. You can take a peek at two cards, then place them back face down. The other cards in front of you will possibly continue to be a mystery right through until scoring. Then, on your turn, you can either grab a card from the top of the face down deck or a card from the discards. Whichever option you pick will then effect the cards in front of you.
If the card you select from the face down deck has the word Swap, Spy or Peek on it, you can then play it (adding it to the discards) to then peek at one of your cards, peek at someone else’s cards or swap one of your cards with someone else’s. If your card doesn’t have an action or you don’t want to use the action, you can then refer to the number and exchange one of your cards for the card you just gained. This new card will continue to be face down, and the card you are getting rid of will then go in the discards.
If you select a card from the top of the discard, this then ends up face up in your group of four after you have removed a card, so everyone can see it. Others might try to swap it away if it’s a low card! The thing about Cabo Deluxe Edition is that you cannot look at your face down cards again, unless you have a peek card, so you might be taking some risks and removing cards you have never seen. You might also forget what numbers you have — a common problem in our group — which creates some bad situations.
If you get two or more of the same number cards, you can actually trade them forward, for one card to replace them, which can really help you have a lower total than others as you are one card less than them. Once you feel you have the least amount of points on your cards, you can call Cabo on your turn, and then everyone else will have one more go before they reveal their cards. If you called Cabo and do not have the lowest total, you must add 10 plus the total you have, and that will be your score. Everyone else’ score is just the number of points, total on their card, which can all be jotted down on a handy notebook that is included in the game.
To win Cabo Deluxe Edition, you need to have the lowest amount of points when someone else hits over 100 points. If anyone hits exactly 100 points at the end of a round, their points will then be cut in half, to 50, for being so precise. There’s also a Kamikaze rule, which we never activated, where you can dole out loads of points to every other player if you assemble the worst hand possible in the game.
Cabo Deluxe Edition actually contains two decks, which are exactly the same but have different colored backings, so you can then pull out your second deck and get right back to playing, while someone else quickly shuffles the previous deck. As this game is so fast, it’s really convenient that this second deck is in the box!
You can find Cabo Deluxe Edition straight for the developer’s website.
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