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Blink

#1197BGG ↗

1995 · 2-3 players · 10min · weight 1.07 · 2,394 ratings

v2 v3

BGG raw

ID
1197
Name
Blink
Year
1995
Rank
4005
Min players
2
Max players
3
Playing time
10
Min playtime
10
Max playtime
10
Avg weight
1.0656
Num weights
183
Bayes avg
5.71411
Average
5.98427
Users rated
2394
Num owned
6062
Wanting
11
Wishing
101
Num comments
882
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:20:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Hand ManagementPattern RecognitionSpeed Matching
Categories (5)
Action / DexterityCard GameChildren's GameReal-timeSports
Description (975 chars)

The two-minute-long, two-player card game Blink — which was originally published as Speed — bills itself as the fastest game in the world. Without taking turns, players race to empty their hands by matching the color, shape, or number of symbols on a card in their hand to the top card of either of two discard piles in the center of the table. As soon as a player lays down one card, they can draw another, up to the hand size of three cards. If both players can't play, they each simultaneously draw a card from their deck directly onto a discard pile, then continue play. The first player to empty their hand and draw pile wins. Blink includes a variant for three-player games: Deal each player a third of the deck, start a discard pile in front of each player, and discard only onto the discard piles in front of other players. (The rules also claim a four-player variant, but this is a tournament format, not for four players competing at the same time.)

LLM v2 (wide)

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LLM v3 (deep)

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