Indie Board & Cards IBCCOR2 Coup Reformation 2nd Edition Expansion Card Game, Multicolor, 3.18 x 10.16 x 15.24 cm

Very enjoyable indeed. Rules straightforward and easy to pick up. Suitable for children from about 11/12 - no prior experience of gaming required.

Coup is such a fun and clever card game! It’s quick to learn, doesn’t take long to play, and always gets everyone laughing and plotting. Perfect for small groups, it’s all about bluffing, strategy, and outsmarting your opponents. Each round is different, and it’s great for bringing out a bit of friendly competition. Definitely a great game to have in your collection!

I bought this to play with friends! Have loved this game and had to get it for myself! It was really fun and easy to use. We usually run a practise game to ensure each player especially new players are happy with the rules! The cards are really good quality and can he used by all the family!

This game is extremely good fun and is very easy to learn/pick up. I've now played with 2 groups of about 4 and both times the group have agreed that they thought the game was fun.A typical game normally lasted about 5-7 minutes but we tend to play first to 3 or 4 wins to make it more like a mini competition The game is a little smaller then you may expect the box is smaller then I thought it was going to be however doesn't take away from what a great game it is. The only thing that lets this game down is the price. The game itself is only 15 cards and about 50 little coin things made from cardboard a game like Uno only costs around 6 pound and has a lot more cards so probably doesn't cost that much different to make.

Great fun little game. I was amazed at how quick it was - a 3/4 player game lasts just under 10 minutes. It's a game where you need to bluff your way through and there is a nice mixture of skill and luck. You start off with two cards which for some reason they describe as influence - I would have labelled them as lives. You take actions depending on what cards you have and what you actually want to do. If you want to pretend to be a different character and use their action you can. Any player around the table can challenge what you've done after you've attempted to take your action. If they catch you out you lose a card and a life, if you were telling the truth you reveal the truthful card and they lose one of their cards and a life. You also get to swap a card you've revealed which is a nice touch to enable the bluffing to continue. When you run out of cards you are out. The last one standing wins. I thought to begin with that it would always be best to tell the truth but there is a definite need to bluff and to stop others knowing what you really have. The bluffing gives you real advantage in the later stages of the game. You also need to race others to the 7 coins for a coup as there is no way to block it - this is then the reason for the bluffing to enable you to get there first, or when you're one on one to beat someone else to the win.

This is a great little game to play with friends. The quality of the cards is great, artwork is nice. It takes a couple of rounds to pick up, but it is very easy to do. The difficulty of the game varies on who you play with and your playstyle. It is round of fun! Each round is very quick.

I bought this along with a few other board games to play at my cousin's over Christmas. This one was the quickest to set up and easiest to learn. There are very few pieces (deck of cards + coins) and within 5-10 minutes of opening the pack everyone is able to understand how to play it. The quality of the product is amazing. I really liked the art style of the cards themselves as well as the coins. Although my fibbing skills weren't the best, I still had a great time playing this. Definitely pick this game up if you're in the market for a new card game to play with your family and friends.

I played Coup after having played The Resistance, a game set and the same universe (and made by the same people). That game is very much about cooperation, Coup dispenses with any such notion, you have no friends here! The game is simple, there are 15 cards, 3 of each of the 5 characters. Each character has an ability and some also have a counter-ability. The game starts with each player having 2 cards face down in front of them, these represent the amount of influence (think lives) they have in court. When you lose all your influence you are out. Each turn the player will announce the character that they have "I am the ..." and then use this character's ability. The crux of the game hinges on the fact that they do not have to have this character in front of them to make this claim. The way in which is influence is (mostly) lost is through people challenging others on the character they claim to be holding. If the player was lying, then they lose influence (flip up a card of there choice, or the remaining one if already down to one), however, if the player is able to prove that they did in fact have the character that they claimed then the challenger is the one that loses influence. There are two other mechanisms via which influence can be lost; an assassination, the ability of the assassin and a coup, an action any character can but costs a lot of money. The only factor of this game that breaks one of the golden rules of game design is that of player elimination and for this I was tempted to dock a star. The saving grace of Coup is the speed at which a game is played, even if knocked out first you are unlikely to spend more than 5 minutes waiting even in a game with the full 5 players. We have also found this game as a great way to decided player order for the next more in depth game (think Game of Thrones) due to its clear winning/losing order and the fact it can be wrapped up in 15-20 mins.