In November FRED Distribution will release Reiner Knizia’s Yin Yang (MSRP $15), a card game for 3-5 players ages 8 and up that takes just 30 minutes to play. In the Yin Yang game, the player who best succeeds in balancing opposites rather in just producing the highest powered card is the winner.
In each round of the Yin Yang game each player plays one card. The high card wins positive points and the low card negative points. Unlike most games the goal is to be as close to zero as possible, so players will want to both win tricks and sandbag them.
Yin Yang is actually a rather drastically revamped 2010 version of the 1999 game Drahtseilakt, which was published in the
