How to Play Kazink! (Advanced)

Kazink! is the kind of game where luck plays a large role. If your opponent draws all the crown and wild cards, she's likely going to win. But a few simple strategies can help tilt the odds slightly in your favor.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Kazink! board game

1. Save the big cards. If you're fortunate enough to get a non-suit card in your hand, don't rush to play it. Continue playing your suit cards until you can use your special cards to take over an important space.

2. Make Crowned stacks ASAP. Until one of your stacks is crowned, it could always be taken away from you. Once you have a crowned stack, it's yours for the rest of the game, both waiting to become part of a scoring row and blocking that space from being used in an opponent's row.

3. Use your crowned stacks to the fullest. Once you have a crowned stack, it can serve as the pivot point for multiple rows of 3, letting you get away with 5 crowned stacks for two rows, instead of 6 crowned stacks.

4. Prevent your opponent from doing all of the above. If he is about to get a crowned stack--especially a crowned stack that could help make a scoring row or two--that's the time to drop your big cards and stop it from happening.

5. Watch the open spaces. If there are open spaces of a suit, your pieces on that suit are safe unless your opponent has a special card. However, this works both ways, so if you want to play atop your opponent's pieces, you must first fill up that suit unless you have a special card.

Tips & Warnings

• Use the Double Up card to claim two spaces at once.
• Even the best strategies can be disrupted if the opponent draws better cards.