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Year Published
1988
# of Players:
2 − 5
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 5 players
Recommended with 3, 4, 5 players
(10 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
8 and up
User Suggested Ages
6 and up
(3 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(6 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Raj
Alternate Names
Au diable le vautour
Beat the Buzzard
Catch Up!
Drommels, nog aan toe!
Il Gioco dei Gatti
Hol's der Geier
Korppikotka
Mini Hazard
Pas op voor de gier
Stupide Vautour
Expanded By
Families
Description Edit | History

Rarely is a game broken down to its barest elements like this one (one of the others being For Sale). Raj was originally printed as Hol's der Geier. Its main 'simultaneous action' mechanism has been used numerous times: most recently as Sky Runner, or Olympia 2000, or even For Sale to a certain extent. Players are given an equal deck of cards from one to fifteen. Each turn, a prize tile is randomly selected from a pool. The prize tile either has positive or negative points, and each player is attempting to gather the most positive points from these prizes. Players secretly select one of their remaining fifteen cards, and reveal them simultaneously. The highest card gets the prize (if positive), or the lowest card get the prize (if negative). However, if two people play the highest (or lowest) card, they cancel each other out and the prize goes to the next in line...

More Information Edit | History

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2 Hols der Geier.doc
Instrucciones en Español de Hol's Der Geir (Spanish Rules)
2007-07-24
0 mini_hazard_zasady_PL.pdf
Polish rules
2006-06-01
2 Raj_Spanish_Rules.pdf
Rules in Spanish
2005-05-12
3 RAJ_rules.doc
English Rules
2003-01-12
3 Hols.html
English Rules
2001-01-31
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 832
Num Ratings: 727
Average Rating: 6.51
Standard Deviation: 1.36
Num Views: 27992
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Avg. Game Weight: 1.2 moreinfo
Fans: 2
Personal Comments: 366
Users Owning: 831
Users Wanting: 42
Users Trading: 42
Has Parts For Trade: 1
Want Parts In Trade: 1
Price History: View
Total Plays: 2345
Plays This Month: 5
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