Where Cabo comes from.
Four face-down cards, a bad memory and the hope of holding the least.
The roots: Golf
Cabo builds on the classic card game Golf: cards lie face down in front of you, you swap them out bit by bit and want as few points as possible at the end. Rat-a-Tat Cat from 1995 is a close relative too.
With regular playing cards, the same idea goes by names such as Cambio, Pablo or Cactus.
2010: Cabo arrives
Melissa Limes and Mandy Henning designed Cabo as a card game of its own, released in 2010, with a deck from 0 to 13 and the actions Peek, Spy and Swap. The illustrations of the first edition are by Adam Peele. Kamikaze counts by this first edition by default.
2019: The new edition
Bézier Games published a second edition in April 2019 with new artwork, modified rules, a scorepad and four player reference cards. A Deluxe edition followed later.
And Kamikaze?
Kamikaze is the wildest hand in the game: 12, 12, 13, 13, which is 50 points in your hand. Whoever holds it scores 0 and everyone else 50. This app is named after that hand.
Good to know
Kamikaze is an independent score keeper and is not affiliated with Bézier Games or the team behind Cabo. You can get the cards from Bézier Games and in stores.
Sources: Wikipedia: Cabo (game)), Bézier Games.