Cards in all the colors of the rainbow or … well … not quite! It’s a very colorful bunch, which makes for a colorful game in more ways than one. Color me surprised in Color Flush!
Color Flush contains a deck of thin, oblong, double-sided and colorful cards. Most cards have different colors on the front and back, some cards only have a single color on both sides and some cards even have a black or white side. Your goal: to get all the same color cards in your hand.
At the beginning of the game, each player gets a handful of cards. Each player holds the cards so that you yourself can clearly see the colors facing you and other players can see the colors of the (current) backs of your hand cards. Each turn you take a card (from the draw pile or another player), give away a card (again to the draw pile or another player) and turn over one of the cards in your hand. When you give or take cards, the same side must remain visible to you. White cards are jokers and black cards force you to turn over your hand cards. If you discard white cards a nasty surprise awaits one of your opponents….
By taking, giving and turning over cards you try to get all the same colors in your hand, which sounds simple, but because players influence each other’s hand this still proves to be quite crafty and tricky. If other players realize which cards you are trying to save (because they see which cards you give away or which cards you take), they will naturally try to screw you. However, you always don’t know the backs of your cards unless you’ve flipped cards over, so the backs suddenly turn out to be the fronts.
Color Flush is a twistedly funny yet challenging party game. Perfect for a colorful group of friends who like to show color.
