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Review and game description.
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Game Review Guillotine by Paul Peterson  Guillotine is an excellent beer and pretzels type card game that is easy to learn, plays in less than 30 minutes, and provides a whole lot of laughs. The strategies are simple, but this is an excellent lighter game for...
http://www.io.com/~beckerdo/games/reviews/GuillotineReview.html

Review by Keith Burkhead.
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RPGnet: The Inside Scoop on Gaming  Head will cause you to lose your head laughing. You and the other players are excutioners plying your trade on 3 busy days 3 game turns) during the French Revolution. You accumualate or lose points based on the heads you...
http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_2556.html

Review by Peter Sarrett.
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Guillotine Review  Coast imprint in recent months have been disappointments. Some are merely uninspired reincarnations of classic card games, others try out some novel ideas but don’t quite hold together. Guillotine, on the other hand, is an unmitigated delight, but then again...
http://www.gamereport.com/tgr19/guillotine.html

Publisher's site with rules.
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Guillotine  The revolutionary card game where you win by getting a head! This irreverent and humorous card game takes place during the French Revolution. Players represent rival guillotine operators vying for the best collection of noble heads over three rounds. Each...
http://www.wizards.com/vault/main.asp?x=guillotine/welcome

List of cards by Rick Heli.
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Guillotine: summary of cards  Adjustments specific to one color: Marie Antoinette to front [Let Them Eat Cake] Blue to front [Lack of Faith] Palace Guard to front [Forward March] Other Ways to Affect the Line: Take an extra (x2 Double Feature] Put front into...
http://spotlightongames.com/summary/guillotine.html

Review with a couple of fixes to the game.
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Guillotine  Whoever gathers the most prestigious heads wins the games. While this sounds gruesome, it actually isn't, as the art work makes light of the subject and keeps it at a silly level. The game consists of two decks one of...
http://www.panix.com/~sos/bc/guill.html

Review by Mikko Saari.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewarticle.php3?threadid=80

Review by Tom Zunder.
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RPGnet: The Inside Scoop on Gaming  This game is presented in a box roughly the size of a video cassette, well made and pleasantly illustrated with an aristocrats head sticking out of a basket. The box containes 110 cards, rules, and (depending on which edition you...
http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_4589.html