Control the ice, collect pebbles, and find love in this chilly area-control game of the heart for two to four players. Play cards to both win hands AND strategically outmaneuver your foes on the frozen tundra board. Will your clever play win you the love and pebbles needed for victory, or will you be pushed aside by a more worthy rival? How to Play On Your...
Penchant is a two-person trick-taking card game invented in 1893 by John Smith McTear (aka “Jack Sharpe”), but lost to history. It is in the “marriage” family of traditional card games, along with Bezique and Pinochle, and uses a "piquet" deck of 7-A in four suits. Penchant’s unique scoring, method of setting trump, and the addition of blocking melds add...
The 21 penguins are now 20. Which one is the missing one? If you organize the information about the children who are present, you may be able to find out the children who have disappeared. Play cards according as a trick-taking game and guess the number of the child who disappeared from the numbers that gradually appear, and guess the number! ペンギンの消えた足跡 is...
This book by David Parlett sets out rules for a very large selection of games. The book is laid out by 'families' of games and details main rules for each game plus a plethora of variations. It also includes an introduction to card games and a glossary of terms. The latest edition (from 2008, cover pictured) also includes some original games by David...
Penniless and Insane is a simple auction game with a twist: the lowest bid takes the good stuff, but the object is to run out of money. Every player is a frustrated artist nearing the end of a wasted life. With no inspiration and a lackluster body of work, your newfound ambition is to die penniless and insane. You believe that this will make your work more...
Penny for Your Trick is a fast trick-taking game made from household objects: just coins and a till-roll. Players build secret stacks of pennies and twopences, with heads and tails forming suits and the stack size creating their card ranks. Each trick shifts the suit order, forcing tough choices on when to commit or hold back. Scoring rewards careful...
User summary ペンタトリックス (Penta-Tricks) is a game about the power struggle between aristocrats in the 14th Century France, during the reign of Louis XIV. It combines trick-taking and area-majority. During the game, changes occur to both the trick-taking trump and the value of areas for area majority points. The game has Dice in the suit colours set up on a...
Pentacles is a card game for three to five players that uses a traditional playing card deck with jokers and five glass beads or other tokens. Play is divided into two phases. In the first phase, players play cards to their own rows, then in the second phase the winner or winners place their rows to one of the five files surrounding a joker that make up...
Jalape-NO!, first released as Pepper, is a trick-taking game in which you want to dodge the spiciness to end up with the lowest score possible. The deck consists of 108 cards (102 number cards and 6 pepper cards), with cards being numbered 1-18 in six colors and with the 1s being peppers. Based on the player count, you use 4-6 colors of cards ranging from...