Read Time:2 Minute, 10 Second
Players: 2 (ages 7+)
Playing Time: a couple of minutes
As a kid, I had two much-older brothers (still do, actually). Since they were into cars and girls when I was into hopscotch, I never ended up passing the time on car rides by playing Rock Paper Scissors. I never used the game to settle arguments, either. As a result, I’m not much of a Rock Paper Scissors pro—which made the new card game, Rock!, a bit of a challenge for me.
Rock! is a super-simple game that’s a mix between Rock Paper Scissors and the card game War—with a slight twist. Before play begins, each player gets half of the deck (which contains 20 cards each of rock, paper, and scissors). To play, both players flip over the top card on their pile at the same time. You then consider the Rock Paper Scissors rules (paper covers rock, rock breaks scissors, scissors cut paper) and decide which card wins.
But here’s where the twist comes in. It doesn’t matter who played the winning card; what matters is who can call out the winning card first. For example, if you play a scissors card and your opponent plays a rock card—but you’re the first to call out “Rock!”—you win the hand. You then collect those two cards. In case of a tie, you flip two more cards—and the winner collects all four.
After all of the cards have been played, the player with the most collected cards wins.
Because I didn’t play Rock Paper Scissors much as a kid, Rock! didn’t come naturally for me. It took me an extra split-second of thought, so I didn’t win a whole lot of cards. For that reason, I wasn’t thrilled by the game’s twist—but I wasn’t the only one. My opponent and I both agreed that it seemed like an unnecessary complication to a game that worked just fine without it.
After playing a round or two by the rules, we then switched over and played it like War—with the player of the winning card taking both cards—and we liked it better that way. The War rules make it a quick and simple—yet low-stress—card game that’s a fun way to fill a few extra minutes.
So while it isn’t my new favorite game, Rock! offers an interesting new twist on a couple of old favorites. And, whichever way you play it, it’s a good way to pass the time.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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