Quick Cups

Designer	Haim Shafir
Publisher	AMIGO
Players	2-4
Playing Time	15 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Honors	2015 Årets Spil Best Children's Game Nominee 2014 Vuoden Peli Children's Game of the Year Nominee 2014 Spiel der Spiele Hit für Kinder Recommended 2014 Kinderspielexperten "5-to-9-year-olds" Nominee 2014 Kinderspiel des Jahres Recommended 2014 JUGuinho Children Game of the Year Finalist 2014 Japan Boardgame Prize U-more Award Winner 2014 Japan Boardgame Prize U-more Award Nominee
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Haim Shafir's most famous game design, Halli Galli, includes one of the best-known game props in existence: a bell. Players both young and old love to hit the bell after spotting a winning combination, so it's no surprise to see the bell return in yet another Shafir design: Speed Cups, a.k.a. Quick Cups.

In this game, each player receives a set of five plastic cups, each a different color; a deck of 24 cards is shuffled and placed face down in the center of the table next to the bell. One player flips over the top card, which depicts colored objects – trains, birds, cups, etc. – stacked vertically or horizontally, then everyone tries to recreate this colored sequence with her own set of cups. The first player to do slams the bell, revels in the soul-brightening "ding", then (if correct), claims the card. Someone then reveals the next card, and the players start shuffling cups once again.

Once all the cards have been claimed, whoever holds the most cards wins!