Tis the year 1861 and the snake oil trade is thriving. Thou art commencing a venture in the snake oil business and intend to establish a market stall to begin hawking thy own snake oil brand. As the business prospers, thou shalt need to improve thy stall, replenish thy stock, and sway influential figures to dominate and undermine thy rivals. Good fortune!...
User summary Nine Planets is a butting game with a science fiction backdrop. 'Butting' is a term used in JP games when more than one player makes the same choice. The action might fall to the next player down, or the players might resolve the demand some way, such as bartering. Each term consists of purchasing cards to construct your score base whilst...
The crow glares from its gargoyle perch as crumbs of granite fall from the decaying structure. You hear the creak of the nearby door too late to dodge the hand that pulls you inside and presses you against the wall. The smell of the rotting timbers floods your nostrils. Your assailant removes her mask - It is the Muscle. ‘‘Once again you’ve been careless...
As the old saying goes: A dragon have nine sons, but each one is different. They have different natures. There is a rumor in the clan that the one who tames the most dragon sons will gain the power of the dragon and lead the clan to prosperity. But all this is by no means easy. Although some dragon sons are docile and approachable, there are also fierce...
Free game published in the January 2018 (GTM #215) issue of Game Trade Magazine. The game utilizes the Pairs game system and is designed with the Muses Deck, though it can be played with any Pairs deck. Background: The Nine Muses of the Old World were crafted as courtly educators and advisors, always on hand to help the young princes and princesses reach...
Niner is a small bidding trick-taker for 2 players loosely based on David Parlett's Ninety-Nine. Both players are dealt a hand of 10 cards from which they must choose one card to act as the bid for the round. Among the undealt cards, the top card is flipped over to reveal trump. The trump suit acts as another bid. The player bid and the trump card together...
Nines is a simple game that uses two decks of standard cards with jokers included, and is based almost entirely on luck. Players are dealt nine cards each, and they proceed to line them up into three vertical columns (3 cards per column). They each then turn over two cards that are in different columns. The goal of Nines is to have the fewest points at...
Trick-taking card game for three in which players must sacrifice cards from their hands to bid the number of tricks they will take. It uses a standard deck of cards, shorted to 6 through Ace in each suit, plus one Joker. (A more recent version of play omits the joker.) To bid, lay aside three cards from your hand; the suit of those cards determines how...
Ninety Nine is a race to 99 points, with players scoring for both smart card playing and smart card discarding. The deck consists of cards numbered 0-10 in ten colors, with each player starting with a hand of six cards and fifteen cards in a reserve pile. Start two discard piles with a face-up card. On a turn, play one card from your hand into your...
[This adding game is not to be confused with the trick-taking game, Ninety-Nine.] From David Parlett's The Penguin Book of Card Games: Said to be a Gypsy game. Deal three cards each and stack the rest face down. Play goes to the left, but may change. Each in turn plays a face up card to the table, announces the total value of all cards played so far, and...
Nineveh, unlike any deck of cards in existence today, is a card deck system consisting of 67 cards and features more than 20 unique card games for 1-13 players. Resurrected from the ashes of the ancient wicked sin city of Nineveh, after the Babylonian conquest of 612 B.C., comes the root of all card games, the NINEVEH CARD DECK. This patent-pending deck...
Nineveh: No Mercy is a series of 5 card battles in which the player playing the red deck plays 2 cards, while the player playing the blue deck plays 3 cards. The higher total wins the battle. Nineveh: No Mercy is based on true historical events. Starting in 626 BC, a series of civil wars have weakened the Assyrian Empire, thus emboldening occupied...