Touché
BGG rank
BGG #26,876
BGG rating
5.6

Touché

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Rules assistance for Touché

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 30 min
  • 8+
  • Complexity 1.4/5

Rules assistant for Touché

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Touché is a board game released in 1979 for 2–6 players, 30 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. It was designed by Wayne Bobette and its main mechanics are Square Grid, Matching, and Pattern Building.

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About the game

Players are dealt a hand of cards from a standard double deck including four jokers. The board depicts card images—two of each—and some wild spaces distributed in a cross pattern. A turn consists of playing a card and placing a marker of your color on one of the corresponding spaces on the game board. The object is to claim spaces which form certain patterns (boxes, lines, crosses, tees). When one of these patterns is formed, you cap off your pieces with black markers to show that you've completed that pattern. Capped pieces can't be used again for another pattern. The first person to complete a specified number of patterns wins the game.

Designers

Publishers

  • Parker Brothers
  • N.W. Damm & Søn (Damm)
  • Piatnik
  • Jumbo
  • Cadaco
  • Tactic
  • Kärnan
  • Nelospelit

Questions and answers

Touché supports 2–6 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.