Witty Chronos (2011)

About this game

The player who first accumulates 100 points wins the game. Each player has two hourglasses of thirty seconds. Cards shown a value from 10 to 50 or a special power. Cards are shuffled and placed in the center of the table into several piles of cards, face up. Houglasses are used to win cards. When a player places a hourglass on a card, he returns it to make it flow. Hourglasses can only be moved when they are emptied. When a player moves its hourglass (to another card), he wins the card on which he was, provided there was no other hourglasses on it. Players don't have to move their empty hourglasses, so they can block opponents. Some cards have special powers like "game ends now", "Cards exchange" or "remove an hourglass" that can change the game.

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 3 to 5.
• Rules load. At 1.7/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 8 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.