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| | | The revolutionary card game where you win by getting a head. This irreverent and humorous card game takes place during the French Revolution. Players represent rival guillotine operators ving for the best collection of noble heads over three rounds. Each round twelve nobles are lined up for the guillotine. The nobles are worth varying points depending on their notoriety. During your turn you play action cards to change the order of the line so you can collect the best nobles. The plater with the most points at the end of the game wins. Will you be skillful enough to bribe the guards to collect Marie Antoinette? Or will you lose points for beheading the Hero of the People? Heads are going to roll! | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 7.0 inches | | Product Width: | 4.88 inches | | Product Height: | 0.88 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.53 pounds | | Package Length: | 6.9 inches | | Package Width: | 4.8 inches | | Package Height: | 1.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.55 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 82 reviews |
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| | Features | 110 playing cards, rulesPlays in 30 minutesFast-paced and funTons of replay valueEasy to learn
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60 of 64 found the following review helpful:
 Single handedly the best gaming investment I've ever made. Mar 29, 2009
By Alan R. Tuckwell Jr.
"Strider"
As the title of this review says, Guillotine is single handedly one of the best investments I've made. I originally bought the game when I was 16 at my friend's request, as he'd played it before and insisted that it was a fun game to play. [...]
Wow, was he ever right, and I've thanked him probably 10 times between then and now for bugging me to get it.
Anyone can learn this hilariously fun and competetive game in about 5 minutes or less, and it has one of my favorite features of any game: everything you ever need to play the game from now until the day you die comes with the set. There are no expansions, no optional add ons, just everything under one box.
I don't need to describe the game here, as that is done in the product review. I've owned the same boxed set since I was 16, and I'm 27 now. I still get just as much of a kick out of it now as I did then, and this set still has a lot of miles yet to go before I need to purchase another. What I love about this game is that not only can it be played as a "for the fun of it" game, but it is also a multi-faceted game with which various stragegems can be employed to gain the highest score over your opponent(s). In other words: it isn't just for kids. Adults can have a blast with it, too.
Since 1-4 players can play, this can easily be a family game night game, party game, or fun travel game. I HIGHLY recommend Guillotine to anyone who wants a fun card game that can be learned easily (I've taught 7 year olds to play it), and played start to finish in about 25 minutes.
22 of 22 found the following review helpful:
 revolutionary game where you win by getting a head Sep 04, 2008
By Objective Reality
"-enjoy"
Guillotine is a card game with a French Revolution theme. That sounds kind of grim but actually the presentation is so comical that it is light hearted and amusing black humor. The cartoony illustrations are fantastic and the cards themselves are bright and sturdy.
Players are rival executioners trying to get the most points by beheading nobles with the most notoriety. simple.
I'll briefly describe how it is played:
The game has two decks of cards, an Action Deck and a Noble Deck.
The nobles are shuffled and lined up before the Guillotine (cardboard Guillotine- included)
Each player then takes a turn-
First they play an action card from their hand if they wish. action cards do all kinds of things but usually they involve moving the position of one or more nobles in the line.
Next the player takes (beheads) the noble in the front of the line. They put this Noble Card in front of them along with other nobles they may have collected. this noble has a point value.
There are some nobles however that are actually worth negative points, you don't want to behead The Hero of The People or the Tragic Figure for example.
Some nobles have special traits listed on their cards that make them worth more in some circumstances or even effect the line of nobles they are in. The Master Spy, for example, moves to the back of the line every time an action is played and if you collect both the Lord and the Lady, each are worth two more points.
Then the player takes a new action card and it is the next players turn.
The game is quick and light, it is also very easy to learn. It involves quite a bit of random luck but there is an element of strategy as well. Often a skilled player can make good use of a bad hand.
Usually when I play this game it becomes a warm up for some bigger game because this game is so simple, fun and fast, it leaves players ready for something meatier.
Really the game is charming and entertaining, not really enough for a hard core card gamer but just right for breaking the ice or relaxing with the family.
Some more stringent parents may find the subject matter too violent for their young children. However, The game can be a great lead in to teach children about the French Revolution. It is as offensive as the song London Bridge is falling Down or Ashes Ashes (if you are aware of their historical meaning) so I wouldn't be too shy about it.
21 of 21 found the following review helpful:
A good, easy to learn, fun to play, and the whole family can join in. Jan 18, 2009
By Alan Holyoak
In this game players are competing executioners during the French Revolution. Well, it's not as grim as it sounds :-)
As you may know, during the French revolution royalty, clergy, military, and civic leaders that were in power before the revolution were rounded up and executed.
In this game, each player competes to collect cards representing different nobles (like those listed above).
FYI - game play proceeds as follows:
1) A small cardboard piece representing a guillotine is set up at one end of the table, and twelve cards representing different nobles are laid out in a line. Nobles' cards have values ranging from +5 to -3 points.
2) Each player in the game (and we have played with up to 8 players, though the game works best as a 2-5 player game) is dealt 5 action cards. Action cards are cards that allow you to manipulate the order of the line. You use them to try to acquire the nobles' cards that have the highest values and set up the line so that your opponents can acquire only lower valued cards.
3) One game consists of three rounds (called days), each day being comprised of at least twelve nobles' cards lined up by the guillotine.
4) The game usually ends when all nobles' cards have been collected.
5) A winner is determined when all of the players in the game count up the total number of points they have accumulated.
This is a great little game. You can play an entire game in under 30 minutes, and even younger players (but old enough to read - maybe 8 to 9 years old at the youngest) can play.
This is a fun game that is highly recommended.
I gave it 5 stars because it is fun and has some educational value as well.
Check it out. I think you'll be glad you did!
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Let them eat cake! Whack...but less morbid than it sounds. Feb 04, 2008
By Alan Holyoak
In the game Guillotine players are competing executioners in revolutionary France that vie to see how many heads they can collect. Sound gritty? It's not that bad.
Game play proceeds like this. The game is divided into 3 "days." A "day" consists of 12 cards (nobles) laid out, face up, in a row. At one end of the row is a cardboard piece representing the guillotine. Players then take turns using action cards they hold in their hands to manipulate the order of the line of nobles, or increasing their chances of tallying the highest number of points by benefitting themselves or by slamming an opponent. Once an action card's effect has been determined the player takes the noble at the front of the line and play progresses to the next player. Play continues in this fashion until all of the nobles in line are collected, and a day ends. Three such "days" make up one game. At the end of the game each player counts up their point total, and the high score wins.
We have a closet full of games, and Guillotine is chosen frequently by our crew (children ages 17, 15, 13, and 8) to play as a family or with friends. The game does not require heavy duty strategic thinking or lots of negotiation. No trivia questions are involved, and play proceeds quickly.
Guilloting works well as a 2-player game, and though the rules indicate that up to 5 people can play, I've played successfully and happily with as many as 7. Admittedly though, play proceeds more smoothly and the fun factor is higher with 5 or fewer players.
All in all this is a great little game. The cardboard guillotine piece is not very durable - its support tends to bend easily, but that's a minor issue. The fun cartoonish drawings on the noble cards and action cards keep things light and fun. When we first got this game a number of years ago we bought several copies and shared them with family and friends.
Though our 8-yr old has played this game, it's probably a better seller with players 12 and older. Teenagers especially seem to like Guillotine!
From a long-time gamer...5 stars all the way for family fun!
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Great for all ages Feb 04, 2007
By B. Olson
"momof2girls"
Guillotine is great family game, although some parents may find the premise a bit gruesome for young kids. The characters (from the French Revolution) on the cards are all drawn tastefully, and other than the premise that they are all waiting in line to be beheaded, there is no overt blood or gore invovled. I noticed that the recommended age is 12 and up, but my 8 year old has no trouble understanding the fairly simple rules and strategy to play this game. Another advantage of this game is the short playing time. For two people a game takes about 10-15 mintues, and gets about 5 minutes longer for each additional player.
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