6 Nimmt!

6 Nimmt! is thirty years old and it still lands harder at a table of six than most of the party games released since. Everyone chooses a card in secret, everyone reveals at once, and then the rows resolve in an order nobody has fully thought through and hand somebody a pile of bullheads. We gave it 5/5 Bamboo and 4/5 Pandas, and it stays in the bag because it is the cheap filler that works when the group is too big for anything with a board. Everything we have written about it is collected here.

Never played? The full rules take about five minutes to read and cover the thing most tables get wrong, which is the order the cards resolve in. The review is the honest version, including who should skip it. Once you have a few rounds behind you, our strategy guide explains why the low cards are traps and when taking a row on purpose is the smart play.

Two more for anyone still deciding. Player count ranks every group size from two to ten, explains why a ten-player game takes no longer than a four-player one, and covers the variants that fix two players. And 6 Nimmt! vs No Thanks! sorts out which of the two cheap number-card fillers belongs in your bag, since both of them are built around dodging points.