Description

??????? (Unko Funda!) is a bluffing game from Japan. The game title translates literally as 'to step in poo!'. Players are walking around town trying to avoid stepping on dog poo on the pavement.

The game has 41 cards. Some are poo cards, some are score cards and some score cards have special actions. The deck is shuffled and the cards are all laid out face-down. They can be set out how you like, in a grid, in a loose mess, anyway you like as long as they are laid out separately.

On a player's turn, they take a card and look at it secretly. Then they choose to put it back face-down, or to keep it. If they keep it, and it is a poo card, it goes face-down in front of them and has no benefit. If it is a score card, it goes face-up and if it is a special action, that takes effect.

If the player puts the card back, it goes back face-down. The other players now have a chance to challenge the turn player, calling out Unko Funda! if they do. The card is turned up. If the card is poo, the turn player is eliminated from the game and scores zero at the end. The player who called out Unko Funda! keeps the poo card face up in front of themself, and it scores 2 points at the end.

But if the card is not a poo card, the turn player collects it face up, and the challenger is eliminated. So as players draw and play cards face down, they trying to bluff each other whether or not the card was poo.

Players use a mix of bluff, deduction and knowing what cards they have seen to work out if the card played is poo or not.

At the end of the game, the players still in the game calculate their scores, and the most points wins.
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