Quick look: 5010018 Card Game Set
Posted by Huw,
5010018 Card Game Set is currently a gift with purchase at LEGO.com, free when spending £60, €70, $70 or more on Creator, Speed Champions, Fortnite, Friends, or Duplo sets.
It comprises two packs of cards, instructions for a couple of games, and an egg timer.
Summary
5010018 Card Game Set
It'll make a great stocking filler
The set was provided for review by LEGO. All opinions expressed are those of the author.
It's packaged in a long slim box with a slide out drawer.
One pack of cards is suitable for playing snap, pairs, and similar kids' games, the other is a standard deck with a pair of jokers.
The instruction sheet shows how to play pairs on one side, and snap on the other.
I look forward to seeing how people incorporate this official LEGO part into their MOCs.
The standard pack has minifigures on the picture cards.
Unfortunately, the back design is not mirrored, so they are not really suitable for serious grown-up card games or magic tricks.
The second pack consists of 26 pairs of minifig designs, ideal for games involving matching cards.
This'll make a nice little stocking filler for a youngster but not worth going out of your way to acquire.
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I looked in my stocking and all I got was this stupid card game... and socks!
"I look forward to seeing how people incorporate this official LEGO part (egg timer) into their MOCs."
...a Broderbund Prince of Persia diorama?
@EtudeTheBadger said:
""Made in Dongguan, China".
Ugh."
I'd be surprised if any of your devices, including the one you're visiting this site with, aren't made in Dongguan or elsewhere in China. Probably a significant chunk of your LEGO, too.
The cards look nice. Not a must-have indeed, but perfectly nice as a freebie.
Is there a LEGO logo on that sand timer?
@ToysFromTheAttic said:
"I'd be surprised if any of your devices, including the one you're visiting this site with, aren't made in Dongguan or elsewhere in China. Probably a significant chunk of your LEGO, too."
Yeah, I know. That's why I deleted my rather impulsive comment.
@StyleCounselor said:
"I looked in my stocking and all I got was this stupid card game... and socks!"
Cards games are only stupid if you play stupid games.
I suppose I should've been more careful when I said I wanted Lego games to return. Somewhere, entirely unnoticed but with great significance, a disembodied monkey's paw curled one of its mummified fingers.
The pictures on the cards are the same ones they used in that game you could play for 20 seconds at a time while you waited in the queue to access the site on Black Friday at its busiest time (while I waited before purchasing my LEGO Star Trek).
Okay, I don't care about the kid's deck or the egg timer, but I low-key want that standard deck. Not going to go out of my way to try to get the thing, but still.
"Unfortunately, the back design is not mirrored, so they are not really suitable for serious grown-up card games or magic tricks. "
.. ummmm, why not? I've played plenty of games with various novelty packs with non-mirrored designs? I guess you wouldn't use them in a casino in case it supports card counting or something, but for a friendly game you just shuffle end to end a few times and they're sufficiently mixed that the upright /reversed backs are irrelevant?
Or am I missing something that means other people can read my cards?
@sprica86 said:
"Is there a LEGO logo on that sand timer?"
on each grain maybe ;-)
That egg timer might be useful next time a popular set like the Enterprise D is about to launch and you want to find out when you will be released from the queue they put you into. Just use the egg timer. If you're still in the queue when the sand has run through, just turn it around.
Will feel like in the PC era of the Nineties, when turning egg timers were a common sight in Windows... :-)