6 Nimmt (English)

To play the game, you shuffle the 104 cards face up, lay out four cards face up to start the four rows, then deal ten cards to each player. Each turn, players simultaneously choose and reveal a card from their hand, then add the cards to the rows, where cards are placed in ascending order based on their number; specifically, each card is placed in the row that ends with the highest number that is below the number on the card. When the sixth card is placed in a row, the owner of that card claims the other five cards, and the sixth card becomes the first card in its row.

In addition to a number from 1 to 104, each card has a point value. After finishing ten rounds, players add up their scores and see whether the game ends. (Category 5 ends when a player has a score of more than 74, for example, while Category 6 ends when someone goes above 66.) When this happens, the player with the fewest points wins.

6 nimmt! works with 2-10 players, and the dynamics of the game change the more players there are. In one variant of the game, you use 34 cards, 44 cards, 54 cards and so on (instead of all 104 cards) when you have three, four, five and so on players. This change lets you know which cards are in play, which allows you to track which cards have been played and (in theory) make better choices about which card to play when.