Over the New Years holiday, after a failed attempt at Tripoley, we switched to a game called Kazinga. Funny enough, like Tripoley, it also uses chips, though not for betting. Thats about the extent of the similarities though.
The game it primarily about dice rolling, though there are some additional bonus cards each player has to use as well. At the start of each game, each player is distributed a number of different colored chips and 3 bonus cards. The object, in the general sense, is to collect, or to get rid of all chips of a single color. There are half a dozen or so variations of play in the instructions. We played 2 variations, collect all chips of a single color, and collect all chips of a single color, without having any other chips. Other versions involve getting rid of all chips of two colors, trying to give all chips pf one color to a pre designated player, and a team variation of the basic collect chips game play. The game is made for 2-6 players and one round takes around 15-30 minutes depending on how well you play.
The chips move around by rolling dice, which gives a number of chips, 1, 2, or 3, and what to do with them, give or take from another player or the central pot. There are also some special cards that can be played each round, though the number of cards each player has is pretty limited. Also, some of the cards sound really useful, but the use case is a bit dubious. The cards are a good idea, but it feels like a game mechanic that could use some work. I feel like if there was some sort of mechanic to replenish your cards, they would be more useful. It also feels like it would be easy to end up in a sort of, stalemate situation, where nothing really changes, and everyone is put of cards.
There is a fair amount of strategy for each game, both in how you collect chips and how you deny chips to other players. There is one particularly powerful card that lets you trade an entire stack of chips of one color for your chips of another color, which can be extra tricky if played right, since you could potentially gain an entire stack of all one color even when you just have 1 or 2 of that color. Another strategy (that I got yelled at for doing), is to just stack and mix your chips up by color. It makes it hard to tell what you have a lot of easily.
Everyone really enjoyed playing the game overall though. Especially once we kind of got the hang of things a bit.
