{"id":308410,"date":"2024-11-19T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/?post_type=reviews&#038;p=308410"},"modified":"2024-11-17T20:22:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T02:22:01","slug":"the-gang","status":"publish","type":"reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/the-gang\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gang Game Review"},"content":{"rendered":"    <div class=\"amzn-ad amzn-enhanced-links-small\">\n        <div>\n            <div class=\"amzn-product\">\n                <span class=\"amzn-product-image-container\">\n                    <div class=\"amzn-product-image-holder\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"amzn-product-image lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51xl-xhjIkL._SL300_.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"amzn-product-image\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51xl-xhjIkL._SL300_.jpg\"><\/noscript>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/span>\n                <div class=\"amzn-product-title-container\">\n                    <a rel=\"sponsored\" class=\"amzn-product-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CRHZC52H?tag=meeplmount-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1\" target=\"_blank\">\n                        <span class=\"amzn-product-title-text\" title=\"The Gang | Grown-Up Toy of The Year Finalist | Co-Operative Poker | Family Game | Game Night | Strategy Game | Ages 10+\">The Gang | Grown-Up Toy of The Year Finalist | Co-Operative Poker | Family Game | Game Night | Strategy Game | Ages 10+<\/span>\n                    <\/a>\n                    <div class=\"amzn-product-price\">\n                        <span class=\"amzn-product-offer-price\">$19.52<\/span>\n                                                    <span class=\"amzn-sprite amzn-product-prime\"><\/span>\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"amzn-product-buy-now-link-box\">\n                    <a rel=\"sponsored\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CRHZC52H?tag=meeplmount-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"amzn-product-buy-now-link\">\n                        Buy Now\n                    <\/a>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n<p>During my first play of <i>The Gang<\/i> (2024, KOSMOS) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/articles\/meeple-mountain-goes-to-gen-con-2024\/\">Gen Con 2024<\/a>, I had the chance to learn the game from the publisher. I was intrigued by the whole production: <i>The Gang<\/i> is a poker game, played cooperatively, where players use poker chips to hint at the quality of their hand. Using a theme so loose I laughed out loud when it was explained to me\u2014fellow thieves are working together to rob a bank, and to succeed, they have to play poker cooperatively!!\u2014<i>The Gang<\/i> gets a ton of mileage out of the <i>Texas Hold \u2018Em<\/i> format of poker, a game that I didn\u2019t think fit into a co-op format.<\/p>\n<p>But I was wrong. Worse, I was wrong to assume that the people who published other great card games such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/the-crew-the-quest-for-planet-nine\/\"><i>The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine<\/i><\/a> suddenly didn\u2019t know card games. That\u2019s because <i>The Crew<\/i> is the single-most played card game that has hit my table over the last five years by a sizable margin. (And, I\u2019m told the sequel is even better than the base game.)<\/p>\n<p>All this means that even if you don\u2019t play poker, you need to try <i>The Gang<\/i>. Its initial conceit makes for a fun time at the table, then it includes three additional modes of play to keep things spicy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-308412 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-wp-pid=\"308412\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-2-225x300.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 225w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-2.jpg?size=528x704&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 528w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-2-600x800.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 600w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-2-768x1024.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-2-990x1320.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 990w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-2.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1125w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-308412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-wp-pid=\"308412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-2-225x300.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 225w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-2.jpg?size=528x704&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 528w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-2-600x800.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 600w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-2-768x1024.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-2-990x1320.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 990w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-2.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h2>Texas Hold Up<\/h2>\n<p><i>The Gang<\/i> is a 3-6 player cooperative poker experience. Just like a game of <i>Texas Hold \u2018Em<\/i>, players are dealt two cards, then a series of cards is revealed from the deck until five cards eventually appear face up in the middle of the table.<\/p>\n<p>There are four series of rounds where players\u2014without talking\u2014signal to other players what the quality of their hand is when adding the face-up cards that are slowly revealed each round. The first signaling opportunity comes during the \u201cpre-flop\u201d portion of the round, based solely on the first two cards that were dealt to each player. Signals are sent using poker chips across each round\u2019s four distinct phases\u2014first using white poker chips, then yellow, orange, and finally red. Chips equal to the player count are placed in the middle of the table. Players simultaneously grab a chip with a star ranking on the front of the chip\u2014one star means you\u2019ve got a terrible hand, with the highest star ranking (so, three stars in a three-player game, for example) meaning you have something really juicy. Players can jostle and swap chips to land on a feeling they think makes sense, all again without talking.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a fun dance, done with yellow chips after the three-card \u201cflop\u201d, then orange chips when a fourth card (the \u201cturn\u201d) is dealt, before the \u201criver\u201d hits the table with the fifth and final face up cards. At this point, using the red chips, the guesses become final. In ascending poker chip order starting with the one-star chip, players must form their best five-card hand between their two secret hand cards and the five face-up cards, then hope that they have correctly predicted the ascending order of their hands in terms of quality.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-308413 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-wp-pid=\"308413\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-74x55.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 74w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-111x83.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 111w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-300x225.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 300w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1.jpg?size=528x396&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 528w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-600x450.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 600w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-768x576.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-990x743.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 990w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-1024x768.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1024w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-1200x900-cropped.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1200w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-1320x990.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1320w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-1200x900-cropped.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/768;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-308413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-wp-pid=\"308413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-74x55.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 74w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-111x83.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 111w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-300x225.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 300w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1.jpg?size=528x396&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 528w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-600x450.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 600w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-768x576.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-990x743.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 990w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-1024x768.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1024w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-1200x900-cropped.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1200w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-1320x990.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1320w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-1-1200x900-cropped.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>If they have, the players get to \u201copen\u201d one of the three bank vaults by flipping a vault card from its gray side to its bright yellow money side. Open three vaults, and the table collectively wins the game. If the players lose the hand, they flip a bright red alarm card face-up. Trip three alarms and all players lose.<\/p>\n<p>The tension is brilliant, and I was really impressed with how thick the tension was each time a round went from turn to river. That sometimes meant that a player who thought they had two terrible hand cards suddenly went from Jack-high on the table to a flush, because they had two low spades in their hand and suddenly had a five-spade flush available thanks to the fifth card being a spade. Then, there was a scramble\u2014quietly, that player went from always selecting a one- or two-star chip to desperately wanting the five-star chip in a five-player game.<\/p>\n<p>The whole no-talking thing? Crucial. In one of my three plays (I tried <i>The Gang<\/i> at three players, five players, and a second group of five different players), we had a couple people who had never played poker at the table. <i>The Gang<\/i> features an extremely helpful pair of player aid cards, one of which lists poker hand hierarchy. Still, we decided to talk during that game but not reveal any specific cards in hand. It didn\u2019t help\u2014we lost that game on the fifth and final hand\u2014but it was still interesting to see how things would play out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-308411 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-wp-pid=\"308411\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-3-225x300.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 225w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-3.jpg?size=528x704&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 528w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-3-600x800.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 600w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-3-768x1024.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-3-990x1320.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 990w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-3.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1125w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-308411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-wp-pid=\"308411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-3-225x300.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 225w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-3.jpg?size=528x704&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 528w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-3-600x800.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 600w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-3-768x1024.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-3-990x1320.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 990w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Gang-3.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h2>A Blast, with Conditions<\/h2>\n<p>I had a lot of fun with <i>The Gang<\/i> and that should have come as no surprise, given how I feel about the general quality of the games coming out of House KOSMOS (the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/exit-the-game-advent-calendar-the-hunt-for-the-golden-book\/\"><i>Exit: Advent Calendar<\/i><\/a> games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/noobs-in-space\/\"><i>Noobs in Space<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/the-adventures-of-robin-hood\/\"><i>The Adventures of Robin Hood<\/i><\/a>). Two of my three plays of <i>The Gang<\/i> used only the basic game mode, and I loved those plays. My third game used the Advanced mode components, where every round after the first features a host of conditional elements that either make the game harder (if players keep winning hands) or easier (if they keep losing).<\/p>\n<p>For players who do a lot of rounds of <i>The Gang<\/i>, I could see the extra modes being a requirement\u2026games like <i>The Crew<\/i> get dry fast if you only play the first 5-10 different missions (of the 50 included in the box). But I\u2019m happy to say that I haven\u2019t felt the need to go beyond the basic play mode of <i>The Gang<\/i> so far and I\u2019m having a blast\u2014as long as the player count remains high.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because my three-player game of <i>The Gang<\/i> was fairly weak. It\u2019s often very easy to tell who has the best hand, who has the worst, and who has middling fare, especially if everyone knows how to judge a poker hand\u2019s quality. We won our three-player game with relative ease, and I wasn\u2019t sure if this was going to hold up with more players.<\/p>\n<p>My second and third games both featured five players, and that changed everything. The drama was real and the game became harder with more players, which is just the way I like it. Someone almost always knows when they have a pile of crap. Maybe they are holding a two of diamonds and a three of clubs: there\u2019s no chance at a straight after the river, and the highest card on the table is a 10 or a Jack. Great. But it\u2019s the middle that creates so much drama every round. What if two players are holding a low pair, and they are jostling over who should take the two-star chip and who should grab the three-star chip?<\/p>\n<p>That kind of thing happened in every round during the red chip phase, and I loved it. I loved it more because the players couldn\u2019t talk. When players revealed cards, there was almost always a collective gasp, or a \u201cyou dirty *&amp;^%$!!\u201d moment, or a big, fat PHEW as players moved up the line.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Gang<\/i> accommodates 3-6 players, but my advice is to play the game with at least five. For players who all consider themselves knowledgeable poker players, I would start with the Advanced Mode then go up from there.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Gang<\/i> is a fun concept that turned into a fantastic time at the table. I also love the playtime\u2014my games took anywhere from 15-25 minutes. Pick this one up, especially if you are a <i>Texas Hold \u2018Em<\/i> fan looking for more ways to integrate poker into your life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Texas Hold \u2018Em players like to play poker individually. 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