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What the Heck?

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What the Heck? is the North American title of a card game designed by Alex Randolph and first published in Germany in 1988 by Ravensburger under the title Hol's der Geier, meaning The Vulture Gets It. Two to five players use numbered bidding cards to compete for Mouse cards, which score positive points, while trying to avoid Vulture cards, which score negative points, across a series of simultaneous-bid rounds.

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Sport
Game Type (category)
Card Game 1
Classification
Player Count
Small Group (3-6 Players) 1
Origin Year
1988 1
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1. What the Heck? (Wikipedia)
  • Lead sentence (game-type-category)
    What the Heck? is the North American title of a card game originally designed by Alex Randolph and published in Germany in 1988 by Ravensburger under the title Hol's der Geier.
  • Lead sentence (origin-year)
    published in Germany in 1988 by Ravensburger
  • Game details
    Players: 2-5 players
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