Hasbro Gaming - 5 Alive - Card Game for Kids - Fun Game for The Whole Family - Card Game for 2 to 6 Players - Age: 8+

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Instead of using the normal end game criteria, you can choose to use this variant. This variant leads to a shorter game.

KEEP IT UNDER 21 TO STAY ALIVE: players have to keep the running total under 21 to stay in the game. If they go over, they flip an Alive card. Lose five lives and you're out If you play a number card, you will add the number printed on the card to the running total. To start the round the total will start at zero. The first player has played a five to the discard pile. They will announce that the running total is now five. Each team only uses one set of five Alive cards. Each player gets their own set of ten cards for their hand though. The 5 Alive card game is easy to learn, players play numbered cards to a running total of 21 but can't go over if they do, they lose a life! The players divide into two teams. Team members should sit where the two teams will alternate turns.

Items that are not available in store will take 3-5 working days (excluding weekends and bank holidays) to be delivered to your nominated store. When the first player flips over their fifth Alive card, the game ends. The remaining players count how many of their Alive cards they haven’t flipped over. The player with the most Alive cards that haven’t been flipped over, wins the game.

BE THE LAST PLAYER STANDING: If a player goes over 21 they flip over one of their 5 Alive cards. With 5 chances to win…it's anyone's game! The last player with an Alive card still face-up wins Alive is actually quite a bit like the game Boom-O. Since 5 Alive was actually created before Boom-O, I actually see Boom-O as a reimplementation of 5 Alive. The two games have a couple different special cards, the players only get three lives in Boom-O instead of the five in 5 Alive, and instead of counting to 21 in Boom-O you are counting to 60 seconds. Otherwise the games are very similar. The last player remaining with at least one Alive card face up wins the game. 5 Alive Sudden Death Variant When you play this card, all of the other players must immediately play a 0 card (this does not include =0 cards or any other Wild cards). Any player that is unable to play a 0 card, has to turn over one of their Alive cards. Then reset the running total to 0. One of the players has played the Bomb card. Each player will have to play a 0 card. The player that played the 0 will avoid the punishment. The rest of the players will lose one of their Alive cards. EliminationThe rules say the running total resets to 0 after the Bomb card is resolved, and it doesn't say anything about that changing if all of the other players play a 0 card. Therefore I would think the total would get reset to zero in your example. First the game has too many “wild” cards. With so many wild cards it is very hard to force a player to lose an “A-L-I-V-E” based on not being able to play a card. None of the special cards add to the running total so there is no punishment for playing “wild” cards. In an extreme case if a player somehow only gets wild cards they are almost guaranteed to win the hand. Every turn you will be able to play a card and since none add to the current running total, there is no danger of going over 21.

This post will detail how to play both the 1994 and 2021 versions of 5 Alive. The rules between the two versions are exactly the same. The look of the cards have changed though. Most of the pictures below show both the 1994 and 2021 versions of cards. Objective of 5 AliveGet ready for an unpredictable, fast-paced, family-friendly card game that's fun for kids, teens, adults, grandparents…just about everybody! Having 5 lives to win means it's anyone's game you never know who will be the last player standing, change things up with the alternate sudden death version for an even faster game, or play in teams. You must be over 18, a resident of the country offering Afterpay, and meeting additional eligibility criteria to qualify. Late fees apply. On your turn you will play one of the cards from your hand to the discard pile. Depending on what card you play, you will take a corresponding action.