C O U N T D O W N

You and your teammates are a group of hackers attempting to crack into a secure system. Each of you has a part of the cryptographic sequence required to bypass the target's security measures. The catch is that you are not able to communicate while attempting the hack––no talking, texting, sign language or pantomime. Enter the sequence of numbers from highest to lowest without missing any and victory is yours. Skip a number, however, and you're busted!

The mechanics are simple enough:

The game is played as a series of rounds or 'hacks.' For the first hack, each player is dealt a single card with a number between 0 and 99. The card with 100 is placed on the table. Without talking, signing or other overt forms of communication, players attempt to play their cards in a countdown order from highest to lowest. When all cards have been played in their proper sequence, the group succeeds. Should a card be played out of order, the group fails the hack. All cards are reshuffled into the deck and the group can attempt the hack again with a fresh deal.

When the sequence is successful, shuffle the deck and increase the number of cards dealt by one (1) for the next hack. For each successful sequence, the difficulty or 'level' of the hack increases: Hack Level 1– 1 card/player, Level 2– 2 cards, Level 3– 3 cards, etc. At any point, if a card is played out of sequence, the group is busted and that hack is a failure. What level hack can your team pull off without getting busted?

Added challenge: Time limit––put 10 seconds on a timer for every card dealt (i.e.: 3 players with 1 card each = 30 seconds)

Variant Play–RACE: Each team has their own deck to play with. When a team successfully completes a hack, the cards from the winning sequence are kept in a separate discard pile. Players increment their hand and continue play as normal. Whichever team exhausts their dealer's pile first wins.