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Sequence Board Game | 
 enlarge | Brand: Winning Moves UK Ltd FirstOrder Account
Category: Toy
Buy New: £14.83
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Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 228
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.4
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8.1 x 2.2
MPN: 10061
EAN: 5036905010061
ASIN: B0013SW7YK
Release Date: February 25, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
With a little strategy and a little luck, you can be a Sequence winner! Play a card from your hand and place a chip on the matching space on the gameboard. When you have 5 in a row, that's a Sequence! But watch out for the wild Jacks, use them to block your opponents and even remove their chips on your way to victory! 7 Years +
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 Reasonable game but there's better out there October 1, 2008
Darren Simons (Middlesex, United Kingdom)
Sequence is a board game where you take 2 packs of cards each of which has a place on the board and fill the places in turn with markers using cards you already have. The idea is to to make two continuous rows of 5 markers. Jacks have the ability to act as wildcards or to remove other markers to make the game more likely to finish.
The game is played between either 2, 3 or any number divisible by 2 or 3 (you take it in turns with different hands to have your go).
When you start playing it, the game is very slow and to be honest quite boring. As it gets further developed it improves a little and sometimes can actually be quite good. The problem though is in terms of long term appeal it just lacks a bit.
From an educational value, you could only refer to the ability to spot sequences.. but then Connect 4 or similar is far easier for that.
Long term appeal for this game is also very limiting... all in all, you're better off with just some playing cards and playing something else.
A bit like Connect4 September 9, 2008
Tom Douglas (Oxford, United Kingdom)
It is simple enough - form a straight-line sequence of five chips on the board by playing the cards in your hand, or using wild-card jacks.
The key is to do this first, so also need to think about blocking the other player, exactly as you would in Connect4. As a result it is quite tactical and children playing against adults would need to be around 11-12 years old.
It can be played in 20-30 minutes and requires no set-up, so is a good time-fuller. It does bear repeat play, although I don't see it becoming a family classic like frustration or scrabble.
It makes for a good gift item that would actually get used.
Four stars.
Passes the time, but there's much better games out there August 28, 2008
Miss (Coventry)
I love board games so was eager to try this. On first impression it seems well-made and pretty durable, though the board isn't the most interesting-looking thing in the world and the instructions certainly don't explain things as clearly as they could.
Other reviewers have explained the rules which are reasonably simple and should be easy enough to understand after a couple of games, even for youngish children. Sequence is basically an amalgamation of other board or card games, so the basic concepts are familiar.
The problem is that it's not really very much fun. I can imagine young kids getting bored with it after a few games, and although it might provide a bit of challenge for groups of adults who are playing strategically, I can't see it holding much long term appeal. The fact that you can only have 3 different players before you need to start putting people into teams is a bit odd too - this doesn't work very well as a team game in my opinion.
There are similar games which are much more fun out there for both children and adults. Try Texas Hold 'Em poker or Go for adults, or try the many varients of Uno for family games to suit all age ranges. To be honest, with the millions of card games to learn, you could probably save yourself some money and just get a pack of cards, which would be more amusing than Sequence.
 Entertaining and fun strategic game August 27, 2008
josie82 (Fife, Scotland, UK)
The aim of Sequence is quite simple - each player must aim to get two sequences of 5 game tiles on the board to win the game. To do this, each player starts with a set number of playing cards. They then discard a card of their choice from their hand and place a tile piece on the corresponding place on the board. After your turn you take another card from the stack and the game continues until either player get two rows of 5 tiles. Throw into the mix the jokers (where one-eyed jacks mean you can remove an opponent's tile from the board and two-eyed jacks means you can place a tile anywhere on the board regardless of whether or not you hold the appropriate card) and you have a very enjoyable and at times strategic game.
I'll admit that at first we didn't think this game would be particularly fun as you start off simply placing tiles randomly on the board. However as more and more tiles appear on the board you start to get into the swing of things and strategy comes into play. As well as looking out for your own sequences, you can easily disrupt another player's sequence by placing your own tile in the way of their potential sequence. This adds another element to the game as you attempt to thwart and sabotage your opponent.
The game itself seems well made and all the pieces, cards, board and instructions fit back into the box easily so storage is not going to be a problem. I hate games where you take out all the pieces and then find they don't fit back into the box when you're finished playing! I did find the instructions a bit baffling at first but once you've read them through a few times then the game is very simple to pick up.
Overall, this is a fun game with a little bit of strategy thrown in. It doesn't take too long to play but will make you want to just have one more game every time. 5 star fun and a good family game that's highly recommended.
Bored game... August 21, 2008
ratstails (North Shields, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sequence is a board and card game. The box contains an average-sized playing board with images of two decks of cards (minus the Jokers and Jacks), two full standard decks of cards and red, blue and green playing chips.
The game can be played by two players, two teams, three players or three teams. Players are dealt a certain number of cards and then take turns to play these cards, placing a chip of their colour on one of the corresponding card images on the board. The object of the game is to form one or two rows of 5 chips (be it horizontally, vertically or diagonally) before the other player or players, team or teams.
Jacks fulfil a special role. If a player plays a two-eyed Jack, he or she may place a chip anywhere on the board. If a one-eyed Jack is played, the player may remove an opposing player's token from anywhere.
I found this game to be an over complicated version of Connect 4. My enthusiasm was dampened before the start making sense of the lengthy instructions. The game just felt tedious. I could have had more fun with just the packs of cards.
Connect 4
Waddingtons "Number 1" Playing Cards
Uno Card Game
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