The Wyatt Earp Card game plays a lot like Rummy but with contextual modifiers that make the experience a fun western challenge. There are gunfights, and bank robberies, cash and rewards, but most of all there are well-known real life outlaws that have to be captured in order to come out as the numero uno lawman.
It’s not the most complex of games, but it does require a bit of strategy. Players work both together and against each other in their efforts to accumulate the most reward money. You have to put together sets in order to get capture points, which allow you to eventually capture the bad-guys. Mixed in to the pile of draw cards are things like Hideout, Wanted, and most significantly, Wyatt Earp. These cards have special conditions allowing a player to do things like taking items from a rival, or drawing extra cards.
No one player gets to be Wyatt Earp, instead he exists as a special card that can be drawn from the deck and allows you helpful maneuvers. But for the historical buffs, there are seven true-to-life outlaws for the players to arrest and capture. These miscreants are Belle Star, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Bob Dalton, John Wesley Hardin, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.
It’s an easy-to-play game that doesn’t take long to catch on to, so if you sit down to play for the first time, everyone should be on board and having fun in a relatively brief time. You can find it on EBay or Amazon, but there is something to know if you do go looking for it. The first version was released in 2001 by Rio Grand, but then it was re-released in 2014 by Eagle-Gryphon. This is important to know because the original release sells for quite a bit more and might discourage someone who was hoping to make the purchase. But the newer release is a more standard price at about twenty-five dollars, plus shipping, depending on who you order from.
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