No Thanks! is a card game for three to seven players designed by Thorsten Gimmler and dated to 2004 by the Board Game Matcher listing. It reduces auction bidding to a single repeated choice: when a numbered card is turned up, a player either pays one of a limited supply of chips to refuse it or takes the card together with any chips already resting on it. Cards are worth penalty points that the holder wants to avoid, though runs of consecutive numbers count only at their lowest value, so a card that looks costly can become an asset in the right hand. The page describes it as an auction game that strips bidding down to its skeleton, with a push-your-luck edge from deciding how long to keep paying. A session is listed as lasting about twenty minutes, which makes it a short, easily taught filler for small groups.
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Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sources
1. No Thanks! (Board Game Matcher)
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Year 2004
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No Thanks! is a board game for 3-7 players, with sessions lasting 20 min.
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