by Cathy Killian

Created on: April 17, 2008

SEQUENCE, ANYONE?

You've heard of being addicted to love? Well, we have become addicted to Sequence. It's a nifty little board game that involves excitement, strategy, calculations and putting on your thinking cap.

We live in South Florida and friends of ours, Dick and Norma, from Goshen, Indiana taught us how to play this combo card/poker chip game. We will often call up one another and say, "want to play 'the game' tonight?" We know which "game" it is!

The boxed version includes the game board, 104 Sequence cards, 50 green marker chips, 50 blue marker chips and 35 red marker chips. (You only use the red markers when there is either a third player or a third team.) Now our Hoosier buddies are serious Sequence competitors. They have made their OWN board made out of plywood and have a REAL honest-to-goodness deck of cards glued to the black painted board, and sealed with lacquer. It covers their entire kitchen table, a thing of beauty for the eye to behold in Dick's eyes! They also have real poker chips, housed in a "real" poker chip holder (so they'll cover the regulation-size cards), AND a card shuffler with two decks of cards, sans the jokers (the jokers are not used in playing Sequence.)

Ok, let's begin. For four players (two teams) each player is dealt six cards. (Our FRIENDS deal the cards AFTER they put the cards through the shuffler at least twice.) You choose a card from your hand and place it face up on a discard pile. You place a marker chip on the matching card on the game board. Each card is pictured twice-place it on either open card. Believe me, from the very first play, you are developing your strategy. You study your hand and you look at the board to see how what you hold in your hand can best be used to your advantage.

How do you get a sequence? The sequence occurs when one team has placed five of the same colored chips either up and down, across, or diagonally on the board. The board has 96 printed cards with 4 generic corner cards that can be used with any color chip to make the sequence. (When you use the corner, you only need four chips to complete the sequence.)

The object of the game is for one player or team to score two sequences before their opponents do. (WE always play for THREE sequences, a little tougher, but hey, we're big on competition!) Now I know by now you are saying, "ho hum, how boring!", BUT...hang in there with me a second; it really is competitive and VERY addictive. Did you notice I said there are 96 cards on the board? Did

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