AlphaTricks is a collection of two trick-taking card games. The deck consists of 52 cards, but instead of having numbers like most decks, each suit contains letters of the English alphabet. There are three suits, each having all vowels, most common consonants, and two of the rarest consonants. AlphaTricks Cooperative is a 3-5 player cooperative game in...
Alpine Tricks is a fast-paced, trick-taking card game based on Austria's national card game Schnapsen. While it keeps the tried and tested game rules and mechanics the same, the layout has been redone to ensure smoother gameplay and make the game easier to learn. Both players try to be the first to reach 66 points to win a hand. Points can be earned by...
From the back cover: "The alternative games in this booklet are all designed to be played with standard equipment. They offer exciting new dimensions to games played on or with draught boards, cards, dominoes etc., helping to eliminate the constant financial burden of purchasing expensive and often short-lived new games. The games in Alternative Games for...
Card game played in South-Western France using a latin-suited card deck. This is an easy trick taking game for 2 or 4 players in partnerships where there is no trump suit and no obligation to follow suit. The winner of a trick, is the person who plays the highest ranking card. In the case of a tie, the trick is set aside, and the winner of the next trick...
Ambition is a trick taking standard deck playing card game. It was invented by Indie designer Mike Church whose stated goal was to create a trick game where the role of chance ("hand-luck") was as small as possible. The usual object is to avoid taking the most points in a round and, secondarily, to score as many as possible up to that. (That is, if the 120...
A strange phenomenon in which "impossible things" fall from the sky "Fafroshkies" In this town, candy, spiders and leopards falling from the sky has become commonplace!? Relying on the weather forecast, they try to collect "Fafroshikies" Ame Nochi Kumori Tokidoki Hyō ("Rain, then Cloudy, Occasionally Hail" or "Candy, then Spiders, Occasionally Leopards")...
In アメノキリフダ (Ameno Kirifuda), players play a trick-taking game where the winner of a trick places a chip on a 4x4 grid in the row corresponding to the suit of the card they played. The suits of the cards represent the seasons, and the trump mechanism used is that the lead suit is subordinate to the "next season". In addition to the cards used to take...
American Bookshop Card Game is a trick-taking game where players must follow suit where possible, there is no trump, and the highest card of the lead suit wins the trick. Each card a player takes is worth -1 point. However, the player who takes the most cards in each of the suits earns +1 point per card instead. Tricks may end prematurely as if the sum of...
Objective Throughout history collect Life, Liberty, & Pursuit of Happiness cards. Each of these cards has a value, the player with the most points is the winner of the game. Deck Types American Dream – These are the Timeline Cards that will be played each turn to progress through American History, each play of the game will be the length of fifty years....