Take It Easy (Danish)

Take It Easy is a true multiplayer solitaire in which each player individually completes a hexagon-shaped board with room for 19 hexagonal tiles. There is no limit to the number of players, provided you have enough sets to hand. One person (the caller) draws a tile at random and tells the others which of the 27 tiles it is; the tiles have coloured/numbered lines crossing in three directions, with numbers from 1 to 9. “9-8-7”, for example. Each player then chooses which free space on their own board to play the 9-8-7 in. This is repeated until the boards are full.

The idea is to complete lines of the same number across your board. Points are worked out by multiplying the number on the tile by the number of tiles in the completed line. A complete column of three 9s, for example, is worth 27 … but many players will be hoping for five 9s to fill the long column in the middle.

Take It Easy is often compared to bingo because of the familiar pattern in which a number is called out, everyone looks at their cards to play it, and they then score if a line is completed. But that is as far as the comparison goes. Bingo is pure luck; Take It Easy is a game of skill.