Game Info

Potato Man
2 - 5 players
average 40 minutes
Casual
Published in
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Card Game
Trick-taking

Potato Man is a trick-taking game with the largely unused theme of potatoes in which you can sometimes achieve the highest scores with the smallest potatoes. After dealing the cards out, players each play one card to the center of the table to form the "trick" – but each of the four colors can be played only once. (The exception: In a five-player game, one color can be played twice.) Whoever plays the highest card wins the trick – except that the three least valuable cards in the game (1, 2, 3 of yellow) win the trick if one of the three most valuable cards in the game (16, 17, 18 of red) is present. Whoever wins a trick leads to the next trick. Each color has its own small deck of scoring cards, and when a player wins a trick, he takes a scoring card of the corresponding color. The red color, for example, has highest playing cards on average (cards 5-18, compared to yellow 1-13), but least valued scoring cards for a trick. However, once three tricks are taken with the same color, the scoring cards of that color are depleted and players take golden "joker" scoring cards, worth the most points. Therefore you might want to keep high cards of a frequently winning color in your hand in order to maximize your points – but the round ends as soon as a player cannot play a card due to the restrictions on which cards can be played in a given trick. Players tally their points, then begin a new round, with the game lasting as many rounds as the number of players. In the end, whoever tallies the most points wins!

Overall Statistics for Fred A. Gaming Group

Total Games Played: 5
Average Players Per Game 3.4

Win/Loss Statistics for Fred A. Gaming Group

Badges Name   NemePoints   Total Games   Avg. NemePoints   Wins / Losses % Won  
farchamb 58  5 12.00 
2
3
40 %
Steven P 48  4 12.00 
2
2
50 %
Virginie R 38  5 8.00 
1
4
20 %
Vincent Lanctôt 19  1 19.00 
1
0
100 %
Samantha Damiens 1 8.00 
0
1
0 %
Daniel Beaulieu 1 4.00 
0
1
0 %

    Last 5 Played Games for Fred A. Gaming Group

    Date Played Result
    10/7/2014
    19 
    2nd farchamb
    10/3/2014
    1st farchamb (25 game points scored)
    15 
    1st Virginie R (25 game points scored)
    15 
    3rd Steven P (17 game points scored)
    4th Daniel Beaulieu (16 game points scored)
    9/12/2014
    1st farchamb (14 game points scored)
    15 
    2nd Steven P (7 game points scored)
    10 
    3rd Virginie R (5 game points scored)
    9/12/2014
    1st Steven P (12 game points scored)
    15 
    2nd farchamb (9 game points scored)
    10 
    3rd Virginie R (7 game points scored)
    9/12/2014
    1st Steven P (21 game points scored)
    15 
    2nd farchamb (5 game points scored)
    10 
    3rd Virginie R (4 game points scored)