Ouch! Review

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We review Ouch! a push your luck game published by Devir Games. In Ouch!, players are trying to earn the most points by grabbing cactus cards and hoping to not get pricked.

How many of you find yourselves in a position where you want to play a game but there just isn’t enough time for a good game? What if I told you that there’s a small family-friendly card game that can set up and played in 10 minutes?

The downside is you’re probably going to be yelling ouch a lot like a masochist who needs attention. But don’t worry, unless you give yourself a paper cut, this game won’t really hurt you.

Ouch! has players taking turns drawing from one of six cards on the table with the goal of collecting the most flowers. But these flowers are on cacti so they’re full of spines. The more flowers on the card, the more spines it likely has. When you grab a card, you declare the side you’re grabbing and flip it over. If you grabbed the pointy bits you say “ouch!” and it goes into the discard, if you didn’t, it goes in front of you for scoring later. The game ends when someone gains eight cards. Counting each flower as a point, whoever has the most points wins.

But, that’s the basic game and a good way to start for non-gamers or young children but there are a few additional twists that’ll prickle your pears if you want something a little meatier.

First, some of the card backs showing three flowers only have one flower on them but they have a snake or a fennec. The snake means if the next player gets pricked, you get their card instead of it being discarded. The fennec fox allows you to draw again but if you get pricked you lose both the fennec and the new card adding a dash of press your luck.

Another push your luck-like aspect is the