The hare and tortoise are staging a series of races! This an asymmetric 2 player climbing race game using the Decktet system. Even though the players must shed the same amount of cards, the Hare is given much more to use (and is more free to use them) at the start of the game, but the Tortoise will slowly and steadily build up her hand. The card play like...
From BoardgameNews.com: "Igor: The Life of the Party, from newcomers Dug Steen and Nate Beeler, blends a trick-taking game with some of the rules craziness of Frédéric Leygonie and Sylvie Barc’s Elixir. "The trick-taking element of Igor: The Life of the Party works mostly as you’d expect. Players are dealt a hand of cards, which come in five suits numbered...
In a far away ocean the five most renowned privateers were determined to find who among them was the most cunning and brave. They decided to find out by playing a great race. The game is divided in two phase: 1. Starting with the first player (which is the one who choose the dominant suit) each player will play one card, with the objective to win the hand....
The Illimat Syzygy Coin: A bronze challenge coin that when used as an okus has official gameplay properties. The coin uses the Luminary Sun & Initiate Moon illustrations by Carson Ellis from the game Illimat. The Luminary Matriarch added a special rule when using the Syzygy Coin as an okus. When a player clears a field and collects the Syzygy Coin, they...
In the trick-taking game Illusions of Prestige, the magician players battle it out on stage with their best tricks, with the winner of a trick receiving points while losers gain support from apprentices and gather props to use for rule-breaking illusions. The game lasts one or three hands as you prefer. At the start of a hand, shuffle the deck of 54 cards...
Illustrated Tarokk, also known as Palatine Tarokk, is a four player, variable partnership, trick taking tarot game. As with most games in this genre, the base objective of each round is to capture a certain amount of card points (in this case, more than half) in tricks. However, each round of Illustrated Hungarian Tarokk starts with a peculiar round of...
Ímpar is a trick-taking game with pieces in which you want to avoid winning tricks, as whoever plays the highest piece wins the trick and scores points—and whoever has scored the fewest points at the end wins the game. The game's biggest difference lies in its limited information: throughout the game, you can't see the front of your own pieces, only the...
A variant of the classic card game War incorporating resource management and strategy. The game can be purchased and downloaded at RPGNow.com. The game includes 6 pages of rules and one map. The setting of the game is the world of the Roman Empire, with the mechanics of War being used to resolve combat. Random events (whim of the Gods) also play a role in...
Recently revised into a deluxe box, Imps Vs. Puppies is a trick-taking game about players competing to smash open the top card of the Crate Deck. The game offers 15 different Imps with various abilities that will trigger at different points of the round. Each of these Imps come in 6 different colors to support the different teams and there is often a...
This set collects the base, as well as the first two expansions to Imps Vs Puppies. The main version of Imps Vs Puppies is a simple trick taking game in which each player sends an Imp from their team to smash a crate. If the Imp is sent face up, they all have unique abilities which will alter the course of the round but if an Imp is sent face down, the...
The first expansion to the trick taking game of puppy smashing chaos, Hissy Fits introduces 8 new Imps and the dangerous new Ninja Kittens to the crate decks. New character abilities run the gamut from resurrecting dead imps, stopping other abilities from triggering, even reversing the order of strength for the round. Once upon a time, not winning a round...
Imwah is an abstract strategy game that combines the classic card play of trick-taking games with Chess-like movements to create a simple, yet satisfying strategic and tactical experience for 2 players. The goal of the game is to move 2 of your pawns to your opponent's base. Each player has an identical hand of 11 cards that consists of 3 suits and 2...