Friday nights at my house are usually short. The movie and pizza are usually accompanied by a considerable letdown due to all the accumulated fatigue of the week, so it is rare for the day to be excessively long. Yes, I know that all this may matter very little to you, but it will make more sense when I tell you that last night we were playing Plata.
Staying until one in the morning playing cards and chatting is far from our usual plan on a Friday, but when we start playing Plata and we got hooked game by game, the hours began to fly and the fatigue disappeared as if by magic.
How to play silver
The idea behind Plata is to play combined cards until you run out of cards. You can lower cards to the table in two ways: either by creating pairs, trios or whatever with cards of the same number, or by creating runs of three or more cards that follow an ordered sequence.
The next player will have to do the same following the same scheme, but with the particularity that their cards will have to be higher than the ones that have just been placed. In either case he can check if he doesn’t have the right cards or if he prefers to save them for the next hand,
The first to finish their hand will take the first scoring token and all the played cards that will be added towards a final score, but with quartzite and silver cards dealt randomly, you are only last among all those on top. the pile will count for score points
From here that player will be left out of the game while the rest get off the cart one after the other while they take their corresponding prize or, if you are the last to have a full hand, the curse token that will leave you without points for that round. After several rounds, whoever reaches the target score first wins.
A game as simple as fun
I’m always looking for games that are quick and not too complicated to play with my kids, so when I found out about Plata I knew I had to give it a chance sooner or later. I’m glad to know he wasn’t too far off the mark with the idea.
Simplifying the games of tricks to the maximum, Plata It’s one of those collections of cards sober enough to pass for elegant, but with a high enough design and quality that they don’t seem haphazardly drawn.
60 cards and a handful of tokens and tiles that make it one of those ideal games to take to your friends’ house or wherever you intend to cool off in summer without having to carry around Mercadona bags that can fit a huge set.
Despite the fact that the recommended minimum age is eight years, at home we have played it with even younger children, which gives a good account of the solidity of its mechanics and how easy it is to explain how to play and start a game. Something that, by the way, will not take you more than two minutes.
