Balloon Cup
This short 2 player game takes on a race feel as each of you try to complete legs of between 1 and 4 cards on each side. How many cards a leg needs depends on how many cubes are on it, and the colour of the cubes also represents what colour cards need to be played to each side.
One of the fun parts of the game is that strategy of where to play, and on which side of the leg. Do I use a low card on my side of this leg that needs a low total, or a high one on the other side of it? You also have to decide which colour cubes to focus on, since there are 5 colours, but the winner only needs to take a majority of 3 colours, and with the the smallest colour only having 5 cubes, getting enough of them can happen quickly. The largest colour has 13 cubes, but because there's so many of them they can appear quite often too.
part way through a game, left player is likely to claim either of the top 2 legs by playing to the right depending on how good their yellow card is
I have a bit of fun with this game, and 15 years after it was released I still enjoy it as a quick little strategy game. It takes 30 minutes, but can be quicker if the cubes fall the right way.
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