Space Shuffle – We haven’t opened this yet?
by Karrde on Dec.23, 2007, under Games
An evening of games at Duane & Steve’s was started (after an abortive attempt at Pinochle) with the gem known as Space Shuffle.
We cracked open the box, opened the deck of cards and immediately started shuffling, after all it is the name of the game. Duane tells us to stop as we missed the player ”
Two solar systems immediately take shape, and play progresses smoothly. A mostly yellow solar system (no player) and a mostly green solar system (me of course) shape up nicely, and purple cards (Steve) are nowhere to be seen. Steve makes a comment to the effect of “I think I hate this game”, my response is “I know who else hates this game… the scorekeeper”. To which Duane responds “watch it or that’ll be you”.
The score keeping in this game truly is tedious, and a few times people got too into the grove of playing for Duane to keep up on the score keeping duties. The game proceeds ok for the most part, the first solar system closed is a solid blue one. We continue toward the end, and as we are playing out the last cards in our hand, I get to play 3 cars in a row to end the game. Still wasn’t enough to win the game. Scores are scattered between 170 and 120.
Overall a run of the mill card game, I won’t be suggesting it any time soon.
