Mana Mana (2022)

About this game

Mana Mana is a card-set collection game in which it is wise to share your wisdom to always remain the wiser. Everything revolves around mana, the Maori life force. To increase it, all players try to match pictures of the same symbols. Those who form color rows of up to six cards are rewarded with precious mana stones — but if you keep an eye only on your own cards, you won't get very far. You can add only cards of other suits that have already been played! And so those who help their fellow players in a particularly lucrative way do themselves good. Whoever is "selflessly" showered with mana and rows of cards in the course of the game has done the most for their fellow players...and wins. —description from the publisher

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 3 to 4.
• Rules load. At 1.5/5 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.