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Zen Master

#83197BGG ↗

2010 · 3-5 players · 30min · weight 1.31 · 654 ratings

v2 v3

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ID
83197
Name
Zen Master
Year
2010
Rank
6920
Min players
3
Max players
5
Playing time
30
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
30
Avg weight
1.3103
Num weights
29
Bayes avg
5.67175
Average
6.29638
Users rated
654
Num owned
1234
Wanting
35
Wishing
137
Num comments
211
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Hand ManagementSet CollectionTrick-taking
Categories (1)
Card Game
Description (872 chars)

Each round in Yin Yang, a.k.a. Fifty-Fifty or Zen Master, players play a card from their hand. The highest card played on a turn receives light tokens, the lowest card dark, with the exact number of tokens determined by a scoring card revealed for that turn. Once the round ends, players eliminate pairs of light and dark tokens from their holdings, and their score for the round equals however many tokens remain. After a certain number of rounds, whoever has the lowest score wins. Yin Yang differs from its predecessor Relationship Tightrope in that only nine of the ten cards in hand are played each round — giving players some wiggle room when deciding what to play — and the scoring cards have differing numbers for the light and dark tokens received on a turn (whereas in the previous game the scoring cards were parallel — such as 9/9 or 8/8).

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).