6 nimmt!

6 nimmt!, also published in English as Take 5 and Beat the Heat, is a card game for two to ten players designed by Wolfgang Kramer and first published in 1994 by Amigo Spiele, with Hasbro later producing an English-language edition. The deck holds one hundred four numbered cards, each marked with a count of cattle-head symbols that represent penalty points. On each turn every player secretly chooses a card, and the revealed cards are placed in ascending order onto one of four communal rows; a card that would become a row's sixth card instead forces that row's other five cards, and their penalty points, onto the player who played it. A round ends once any player reaches sixty-six penalty points, and the player with the lowest total score wins. A full game usually takes about forty-five minutes, with roughly five minutes to set up, and it is recommended for players aged eight and older. 6 nimmt! won the Deutscher Spiele Preis in 1994 and was also recommended that year for the Spiel des Jahres.