Slambo!

Slambo! is a faintly silly game where you are sumo wrestlers, struggling to push each other out of the ring to achieve victory.

The game consists of a deck of cards with positive values (blue) and negative (red). Each player gets a hand of cards and the Start card (value 5) is placed face-up between you on the table. On each turn, the active player must add a card to the fight by placing it on top of the last-played card and announcing the new value: so a three on top of the five would be 8, then a seven on top of that would be value 1 and so on. The goal is simply to avoid the value going over 10, or dropping beneath zero. If you’re forced to play a card that does that, your opponent calls out Slambo and wins the round. As soon as anyone wins a third round, they win the game.

With 3 or 4 players there is the addition of some special cards, and with any player count you can opt for the ‘expert’ variant of keeping the value between 1-9 instead of 0-10.