Don’t Bust On Your Way To 200 With ‘Flip 7’
With simple mechanics, quick games, the potential to get very competitive, and almost no max on players, Flip 7 may be a perfect party game.
Flip 7 is one of those obvious additions to your game shelf. This fast-paced card game is a little strategy, a little luck, and the perfect game to reach for when you’re hanging out with friends who aren’t usually “game people.”
| Quick Guide | |
|---|---|
| Mechanics | Luck, Card Passing, Score-and-Reset |
| Players | 3-18 Players, Ages 8+ |
| Playing Time | 20 Minutes |
| Similar Games | Uno, Scat, Blackjack, Trio |
| Publisher | The OP Games |
Flip 7 Overview
For people who don’t really consider themselves ‘board game people,’ it’s easy to look at some of the most popular games of the last few years and wrinkle their noses. Many of our favorite games look like a lot. Many of them are a lot. So sometimes it’s refreshing to be able to pull out a simple, fast, easy-to-teach-easy-to-learn game that can accommodate up to eighteen players.
This is a pretty straight-forward game of drawing cards without revealing the same one twice. It has an element of strategy, an element of luck, and an element of strategically pushing your luck. Things can get competitive and unpredictable, and games usually play out in about twenty minutes.
In short, Flip 7 may be perfect for parties and get-togethers.
How To Play Flip 7
The goal of Flip 7 is to be the first player to reach 200 points. This is done by scoring the cards and bonuses in front of you at the end of each round. But if you have two matching number cards in front of you at the same time, you ‘bust’ and you’re out.
To begin a game, players shuffle the deck and select a dealer for the round. One card is played face-up to each player. Once the cards have been dealt, players take turns and can either choose to ‘hit’ or ‘stay.’ Just like in Blackjack, players who request a ‘hit’ will get another card while players who opt to ‘stay’ will only have the cards in front of them and are done for the remainder of the round. The numbers on the cards in front of you are representative of their point value. There are also action cards and bonus cards, either with actions that must be resolved, or bonus points the player can add to their total at the end of the round.
If a player ever has two of the same card in front of them, they bust and are out of the round. But if they manage to get seven unique cards, they get fifteen bonus points, and the round ends immediately. Rounds end either when everyone decides to stay, everyone busts, or a player successfully has seven unique numbers. At the end of the round, every player who has not busted adds up their points. A new round begins with a new dealer, and this is repeated until someone reaches 200 points.
Should I Buy This Game?
I want to say that this should be on everyone’s shelf, but I won’t because it sounds a bit hyperbolic. Flip 7 is easy, it’s fun, it’s bound to get competitive, and it will easily become addictive. This reminds me so much of the highly contentious games of Scat that my family always plays at holidays. And I mean that in the most affectionate way possible.
Flip 7 is a game you can play with absolutely anyone. This is the perfect game to break out when you’re hanging out with people who don’t like all of your rules-heavy board games, or with the most hardcore of game players. And when I said that it’s a game for up to eighteen people? You can technically play with more, Flip 7 just recommends you add a second deck. Does that sound like madness? Absolutely it does. But fun madness!
