BLUFF AROUND THE CLOCK

The hourglass replaces every clock card. Play it face-down or face-up, as the card you need or as the cover on top. A joker can also stand in for the matching clock card of a partner card.

Each hourglass left in hand = 5 penalty points.

A partner card is always laid face-up together with its matching clock card: first the partner card, then the clock card on top. Draw as usual, then the effect fires — and only then can the bluff be called. Every partner card has its own effect. For an easier first game, leave the partner cards out of the deck.

• “Broken” / Alarm clock — every other player’s alarm clock is broken: all of them must take an extra card.
• “Snooze” / Digital radio alarm — too early for your neighbour: the next player takes a card and misses their next turn.
• “Beam” / Smartwatch — hand one of your cards face-down to a player of your choice and you get rid of four cards in this turn.
• “Jungle” / Grandfather clock — overgrown and chained: the face-down card underneath cannot be challenged this round.
• “Time Vortex” / with any clock card — every player passes their whole hand to a neighbour. Whoever plays it decides whether hands go clockwise or counter-clockwise.

Played as your very last card, the Time Vortex hands on before scoring — so the winner is whoever has no cards left after the swap.

Each partner card left in hand = 5 penalty points.

It shows no hour at all — the cuckoo clock belongs to no stack and no time. Get rid of it by bluffing it away, and it always stays in the game. There is no such thing as a safe cuckoo clock.

With a cuckoo clock in your hand you cannot win the round.

Each cuckoo clock left in hand = 5 penalty points.