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2 Win Game Review

If you’ve read any of my reviews, you’ll know that I love light card games. They’re light on rules, quick to play, and I can almost always convince my family to play them. And 2 Win from designer Florian Racky and publisher Blue Orange Games, definitely meets that criteria: the game takes about 60 seconds to teach and less than 10 minutes to play. I even had it on my list of most anticipated games of Essen SPIEL 2025.

In 2 Win players start with a hand of cards, which run from 1 to 9 in three different colors (pink, blue, and green), with cards featuring 0, 1, or 2 stars. Simultaneously, each player takes two cards and flips them face up in front of them. The card on the left is the “tens” while the card on the right is the “ones”. Thus, if you lay down a 1 and a 2, you have twelve. From the second round onwards, you’re stacking the next two cards atop the previous set, such that you can always see the previous number. The only rule is that the new 2-digit number you place must be higher than the last.

You might say to yourself, “Self, that doesn’t sound like much of…

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