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Craig Dalrymple
11 July 2002
USA

Last year at Gen Con my wife and I discovered Out of the Box Publishing which seemed to be a neat little company with some simple, fun, and fast games. The first game that caught our eye was Blink.

Blink is, in a nutshell, Speed (for those who are familiar with it). Two people split a 60 card deck. Each player draws three cards and then lays a fourth card down face up. When play begins they try to match the cards by the shape, color, or count on the face of the top cards. If you have a match you lay a card down on the top card and draw another. First person to lay down all their cards wins.

The premise is very simple, and you really don't need to buy this game to play it, but the cards and their shapes add a lot to the play of the game since you are working with (more) shapes and colors that are not as familiar as red hearts and black spades. This plus 8 more cards than a traditional Bicycle deck gives Blink a little more "oomph" and value for the buck (MSRP is only 9.95).

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