Ghost Trick: Second Edition társasjáték

Angol leírás

A trick-taking card game where the trump is a number, not a suit, and it keeps shifting every time a player gets possessed. Avoid the ghosts and end the game with the fewest scares.

The deck has four ritual suits (Goat, Doll, Cat and Candle) plus ghost cards and a single suitless Glass card. Each round, players secretly sacrifice one card from their hand and reveal them together: the lowest sacrificed number becomes the starting trump, marked by the planchette on the board, and whoever played it leads first. The sacrificed cards are placed on top of small face-down piles of ghost cards around the board. Players must follow the led suit if able. A card showing the current trump number wins the trick (ties go to the first one played); otherwise the highest card of the led suit wins. Ghost cards cannot be led until every player has been possessed.

The first time each player cannot follow suit, they become possessed: the number of the off-suit card they played immediately becomes the new trump, and they must take one of the piles of ghost cards, including its sacrificed card, into their hand. Only one trump change can happen per trick. The Glass card can be played in any trick and traps all scoring cards from it, which go to the winner of the next trick.

A round ends when any player runs out of cards; cards still in hand are added to that player's won tricks. Each ghost card is worth 1 scare, and one cursed card in each ritual suit has a special effect: the Lucky Cat removes 3 scares, the Candelabra adds 2, BelleAnna adds 4, and the Goat doubles your ghosts, unless you collected 7 or more of them, in which case you score nothing that round. After three rounds, the player with the fewest scares wins. A two-player variant uses a reduced deck, personal ghost piles drawn from after each trick won, and no possession.

—description from the publisher