The Lie (Devir Pocket) (Spanish)

The Lie is a card game in which all the cards lie! The cards have numbers from 1 to 4 and are 4 different colors. However, when you turn them over something has changed, either their color or their number. You will have to play cleverly to combine the highest numbers of the same color. Whoever manages to run out of cards wins.

Designed by Eloi Pujades and Eugeni Castaño, The Lie aims to score points in 3 rounds of play in which players will try to discard their hand by forming numerical combinations.

Each round consists of two phases: building the playing hand and playing the cards. In the first, everyone plays at the same time, taking cards from the center of the table to form a hand of 12 cards. However, we will never be sure which card we are taking, since the back of the cards lies: the color or the number will be different when we turn them over. The cards that make up our hand must be placed in the order in which we took them, and they cannot be rearranged at any time.

In the card play phase, players will be able to play a combination of cards from their hand. This combination can be 1 card or a group of 2 or 3 cards of the same color that are adjacent to each other in our hand. The next player can pass (i.e. not play) or play a combination of cards of the same color as the set played by the player who started the round, forming a number that exceeds the previous one. Turns will continue until someone runs out of cards, at which point points are distributed.

With very few rules and a lot of replayability, La Mentira is an ideal game for any type of player or game group. The youngest will learn to form numerical combinations, while the older ones will find it a great challenge to manage the cards to quickly end up with an empty hand. And all this is seasoned with a touch of chance, thanks to the "lying down" of the cards. Ready to play with numbers?