Trendy (2000)

About this game

In Trendy, each player plays cards representing various fashion designers. Each turn, you lay a card face up to the table and draw a new card. When as many cards for a designer have been laid face up as the number on that designer's cards, that designer has a "breakthrough" and players who played that number save those cards for scoring at the end of the hand (The deck is balanced: more 7-value cards than 6-value cards, etc.). All other played cards are discarded. There are 2 special cards for each designer in the deck: A Super Model is worth 2 cards toward achieving a breakthrough. An Out card clears all of that designer's face up cards. The game is played over several hands until at least one player has scored more than 100 points.

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 5.
• Rules load. At 1.1/5 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.