Wyatt Earp (card game)

Wyatt Earp (card game)

Infobox Game
subject_name=Wyatt Earp
image_link=
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designer=Richard Borg Mike Fitzgerald
publisher=Rio Grande Games Alea Asmodée Éditions
players=2–4
setup_time= 5 minutes
playing_time = 60 minutes
complexity=Low
strategy=
random_chance=Medium
skills= Strategic thought
bggid=878

"Wyatt Earp" is a rummy-like card game first released in 2001, manufactured by Rio Grande Games, and set in the American Old West. The game was created by Richard Borg and Mike Fitzgerald.

Rule summary

The following is a partial summary of the rules of play.

The game is named after Wyatt Earp, a famous sheriff of the wild west. Each player tries to earn reward money by participating in the capture of seven outlaws during multiple rounds of play. Outlaws are captured through the accumulation of capture points, awarded to players who play sets or melds of cards representing the outlaws, or who play cards which build on the melds of others. Cards almost always have reward amounts associated with them; playing a card adds to the reward for the outlaw associated with the play.

As in rummy or gin rummy, a meld is three or more matching cards. In "Wyatt Earp", card matches are not determined by suits; instead, cards are matched based on a color marking associated with each of the seven outlaws.

A round starts with each player being dealt ten cards, with one of the remaining cards used to establish the discard pile (face up) and the rest of the deck serving as the card supply, face down.

Each player's turn consists of three steps:
# drawing either the top card from the discard pile or two cards from the card supply;
# optionally playing one or more cards from their hand; and
# discarding a card.

A round usually ends when a player discards the last card from their hand. It can also end when the card supply is exhausted again (i.e. a second time) after having been restocked once from the discard pile. Or most rarely, it ends after a player discards a card as the third step of their turn and another player, as a result of play during that turn, is left with no cards.

Capture points are assessed and reward money is distributed at the end of a round. Players with the most capture points for a given outlaw get the largest share of the reward money for that outlaw; a player gets all of an outlaw's reward money if their capture point total for that outlaw is at least five points higher than any other player's total for that outlaw.

The game ends when one player has accumulated at least $25,000 in reward money.

Outlaw cards

A total of 49 of the 78 cards in the deck are outlaw cards, seven for each of seven outlaws:
Billy the Kid,
Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid,
Bob Dalton (of the Dalton Gang),
Wes Hardin,
Jesse James, and
Belle Starr.

Outlaw cards are worth two capture points each. A meld of three must be played the first time any player lays down cards for a particular outlaw. After that, outlaw cards can be played one at a time, by any player, though reward money rules encourage multiple cards to be played at a time. That's because playing a single outlaw card does not increase an outlaw's reward; playing two at a time add $1000 to the reward, playing three at a time adds $2000, and so on; in other words, the reward added for a play is (N − 1) × $1000, whereN is the number of outlaw cards being played together.

Sheriff cards

There are also 29 sheriff cards, which combine with the outlaw cards to form the 78-card deck used in the game. A bit more than half of the sheriff cards increase the capture points and rewards associated with an outlaw:

* Four "Bank Robbery" cards add two capture points and $1000 to the reward for an outlaw;
* Two "Stagecoach Robbery" cards add one capture point and $3000 to a reward;
* Three "Fastest Gun" cards establish an outlaw in that role (replacing any previous holder) and add three capture points and $1000 to the outlaw's reward; and
* Seven "Photo" cards, one for each outlaw, add four capture points and $1000 to their reward.

The remaining sheriff cards play other roles in the game:

* Three are "Most Wanted" cards, which let a player take a card from another player;
* Three are "Hideout" cards, used to block the capture point value of a meld of another player; and
* Seven are "Wyatt Earp" cards, which are used to add to or exchange cards in a player's hand, or to remove a hideout.

A player is allowed to use only one sheriff card per turn.

Based on card type, players are sometimes required to draw, or given the option of drawing, a card in order to successfully use a sheriff card. Such a draw is considered to be an attempt to "shoot" the outlaw. If a player draws an outlaw card (which are marked with a bullet hole for this purpose), the shot is successful, and the sheriff card is played. If another sheriff card is drawn, the shot failed, and the original sheriff card has no effect. Those cards for which attempting a shot is optional have greater value when the shot is attempted and successful than the value it has when no attempt is made.

Awards

"Wyatt Earp" won the 2001 "Meeple's Choice Award". [cite web|url=http://www.meepleschoice.org/|title=Meeple's Choice Award Winners| publisher=Meeple's Choice Museum| accessdate=2008-02-01]

References

External links

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* [http://www.thegamesjournal.com/reviews/WyattEarp.shtml Review] by "The Games Journal"


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