Take it Easy!
(1983)
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 10 and up. You can play with 1 to 8 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Bingo, Pattern Building und Tile Placement...
Game Data
| Average time to play: | 20 |
| Minimum age: | 10 |
| Number of players: | 1 - 8 |
| Publisher: | Burley Games, F.X. Schmid, Spear's Games, Arclight Games, Brain Picnic, Cappelen Damm AS, Cranio Creations, DiceTree Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, förlAgo AB, IELLO, Play Smart, Ravensburger, Rebel Sp. z o.o., Swan Panasia Co., Ltd., White Goblin Games, Zacatrus, Zvata Studios |
| Designers: | Peter Burley |
| Artists: | Peter Burley, Alexander Strohmaier, Steve Tolley, Franz Vohwinkel, Thomas Weiss |
| Mechanics: | Bingo, Pattern Building, Tile Placement |
It's really difficult to succinctly describe this game, so take a look at the pictures! Take It Easy is a true multi-player solitaire in which each player individually completes a hexagon-shaped board with spots for 19 hexagon tiles. There's no limit to number of players if you've got enough sets on hand. One person (the caller) draws a tile randomly and tells the others which of the 27 tiles featuring colored/numbered lines crossing in three directions, with numbers from 1 to 9, it is. "The 9-8-7," for example. Each player then chooses which empty spot on his own board he'll play the 9-8-7. This is repeated until the boards are filled.
The idea is to complete same-numbered lines across your board. Scoring is calculated by multiplying the number on the tile with the number of tiles in the completed line. A complete column of three 9s is worth 27, for example...but a lot of players will hope for five 9s to fill the big column down the middle.
Take It Easy is often compared to Bingo because of the familiar pattern of a number being called and then everybody looking at their cards to play it, and then scoring if a line is completed. But that's as far as the comparison goes. Bingo is sheer luck; Take It Easy is a game of skill.
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