https://www.booyakajuice.com/collections/all.atom booyakajuice 2018-07-17T00:11:48-04:00 booyakajuice https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/732450848819 2018-07-17T00:11:48-04:00 2018-07-17T00:11:48-04:00 Grifters: Nexus Board Games Indie Boards & Cards

Vendor: Indie Boards & Cards
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer Dave Fulton
Jacob Tlapek
Publisher Indie Boards & Cards
Players 2-4
Playtime 30 mins
Suggested Age 14 and up

Grifters operate on the fringes of The Dystopian Universe, eager to take advantage of every opportunity to profit from the chaos caused by the resistance. Players take on the role of powerful crime bosses, building their criminal organizations by carefully recruiting new operatives with specialized skills. During the game, the players' criminal teams will steal ISK from the government, powerful corporations, and each other via cons, blackmail, daring heists, and a multitude of other nefarious deeds. As always, money is power in The Dystopian Universe and the player with the most ISK at the end of the game is the winner.

Grifters: Nexus is a standalone game that is also an expansion for Grifters, which was released by Indie Boards and Cards in 2016. Nexus uses the same core "cool down" mechanisms found in Grifters, and introduces 15 new specialist cards, new mechanisms and a new job card system.

]]> Age_12+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Google-True INV-0-L INV-G Players Maximum_4 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_30 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Stocky-Clearance Year Published_2010s https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/732450848819 Default Title 22.95 8677825937459 867 https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/7837770561 2016-09-08T06:37:00-04:00 2016-09-08T06:37:00-04:00 Grifters Board Games Indie Boards & Cards

Vendor: Indie Boards & Cards
Type: Board Games
Price: 23.95

Designer Dave Fulton, Jacob Tlapek
Publisher Indie Boards and Cards
Players 2-4
Playtime 30 mins
Suggested Age 14 and up

Grifters (formerly "You Dirty Rat") is a hand-building game that has all the fun of deck-building games, without the deck. Set in the Dystopian Universe, players take on the role of powerful crime bosses, building their criminal organizations by carefully recruiting new operatives with specialized skills and directing their team’s nefarious deeds. All of your specialists are either in play or in your hand, ready to be used as you command. This unique hand-building mechanism gives you total control of your strategy.

Grifters is all about stealing as much money as you can from the corrupt government, malicious corporations, and your rival players. Each player starts the game with a hand of six Specialist cards, each with unique abilities. Your objective is to use this team of six Specialists to recruit more criminals, complete jobs, steal from the government coffers and swindle your opponents.

Each specialist has a special ability and skill. On your turn you can play a single specialist to perform their ability, or you can play a team of specialists to use their combined skills to complete a job. This means every specialist is a valuable asset to your criminal enterprise, earning immediate benefit through abilities and valuable end-game bonuses by completing jobs against the same target. And because all the cards in your deck are always available, you decide how to maximize your play.

Grifters uses a unique card "cooldown" system to control the use of your cards. On your turn, you play one or more specialist cards into the first "Night" of your hideout. If you already have a specialist card, or a team of specialist cards, in night one those cards advance to night two and push other cards through your hideout.

When a card is pushed out of the third night of your hideout it enters the refresh area. Any cards in your refresh area will return to your hand at the end of your turn.

The game ends when the coffers run out of money, there are no more jobs left to complete, or if there are no more specialists cards left for recruiting. End game bonuses are calculated for completing multiple jobs against the same target. The player with the most money wins.

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