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Tempurra game
A few years ago I bought Tempurra as a gag. I saw it at Half Price Books and thought, “Why not, it looks like it could be fun and it’s only $5.” Then it sat on our shelves until I told the kids, “We need to play some of these games we haven’t played much and figure out if we want to keep them.” So we pulled out Tempurra and I realized we have a fun new card game to add to our gameschooling.
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What is Tempurra?
Tempurra is a press-your-luck card game you can easily play with just about anyone in your family. It’s simple enough your kindergartener can play and all of the adults will have fun.
The game is played in a few rounds so it can be done in around 15-20 minutes. This makes it a good place-holder game if you’re doing a big game night with lots of people while you are waiting for other games to finish.
You are a bunch of cats hiding behind the Japanese restaurant and eating the leftover sushi.
Or maybe you’re cats who are eating in a sushi restaurant. From the illustrations I do not think they are dumpster diving.
Either way, you are hoping that you don’t eat so much that you get sick. If you get sick you get a sick face token, and the round starts over.
How to play Tempurra
The play starts with each person getting five cards. The first player picks a cat to put down, anywhere from 2-7. The next player then has to match the card or they can play a specialty card.
You know, like Uno, but unlike Uno you don’t want to run out of cards.
Actually it is to your advantage to have lots of cards in your hand.
Specialty cards can reverse the turn order, let you pick the next player to play a card, or add a card to the play stack.
Once a specialty card has been played you no longer have to play the same number card.
Now, if you can’t play a card, OR you choose not to (I’ll talk more on that later), your cat “eats the pile,” add up all of the number cards in the pile and the “+1” cards, then draw that many cards.
This gets stressful as somewhere in that pile is an indigestion card.
If you draw the indigestion card you lose that round. The game is played in three rounds, so after that everyone turns their cards in and you start a new round.
Once all the cards have been turned in the person who drew the indigestion card gets to decide if another will be added, thus making it more likely to draw one.
The first player to have three sick tokens loses.
Our tips and house rules
As I mentioned it can be to your advantage early on to eat the pile of cards. It gets you more cards in your hand and lets you control when you might be eating again. Because of this we set up a few house rules.
- You start the next round if you choose or are forced to eat the pile. At first, we just followed the rules of the next player starts, but that ended up with some people being able to constantly get more cards as they would choose to draw, and other players constantly playing cards.
- We also ruled that the person who ate the indigestion card gets to pick who starts the round. Where you are in the start of the round is surprisingly important. As people make different calculations if they want to eat the pile.
Playing the game slowly becomes more and more loud with my family as we start counting out cards being drawn and cheering as someone does or does not draw that indigestion card.
All in all, I highly recommend getting this game.
More fun quick games to play
While we love long complicated games, sometimes it is fun to play a short game that is just silly.
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