Seemingly out of nowhere, Uwe Rosenberg catapulted into gaming stardom with a string of unusual card games. Bohnanza, Schnappchen Jagd, and Mamma Mia offered fresh mechanisms and innovative gameplay in an otherwise moribund genre overrun with Oh Hell retreads and lackluster efforts. With a record like that, Rosenberg’s name guarantees instant attention. Klunker continues his tradition of original if somewhat selfderivative this time out mechanics, and has garnered a cadre of enthusiastic fans. Regrettably, I’m not one of them. On paper it sounds like it has all the right stuff, but the illusion shatters as the importance of the random draw and lack of compensating mechanisms becomes apparent.

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