Flip 7 is a fast, chaotic little card game where players flip number cards from a shared pile.

And that is all you do.

Flip 7 Game Overview

In Flip 7, the deck is composed of numbered cards (from one up to twelve) with one “1,” two “2”s, three “3”s etc

At the beginning of each round, each player is dealt one face-up card.

On your turn, you decide whether to “Hit” and draw another card from the deck face up or “Stay” and end your round.

If you draw a number card that matches a number you already have face-up, you “bust” and score zero for the round.

Otherwise, you score the total of the cards in front of you.

If you get seven different numbers you trigger the bonus and earn a 15-point bonus and end the round for everyone.

There are special cards like Freeze that forces a player to stay, Flip Three forces a player to draw three cards and Second Chance lets a player avoid busting once.

How Do You Win?

Play rounds until at least one player has 200 points, the player with the most points wins.

Main Mechanisms

Push-your-luck as you only have the one choice on your turn.

USP

It’s a less fun Blackjack so none.

Theme

No theme.

Setup

Shuffle and deal.

Components & Artwork

Very minimal, most cards are just a number.

Ease of Teaching

Extremely easy to teach and will be intuitive for casual players.

Flip 7 Review

Positive

It reliably produces laughs as players push their luck way past the point of reason.

Negatives

Very high luck factor and decisions really don’t matter.

The luck of the special cards, such as second chance (which takes away any decision making) makes it even worse.

Strategy is non existent.

The game is VERY repetitive after a couple of plays.

It’s too random to provide ANY satisfaction.

Too many players has a lot of down time, too few and the chaos is less entertaining.

Summary

Flip 7 is barely a game.

Jesta ThaRogue