Renown - The Game brings back a traditional Austrian card game. The original game is still played in Austria but it is getting more and more forgotten. Decades ago there were many tournaments and it was played in almost every tavern. It is called “Schnapsen”, probably because the winner was rewarded with a shot of schnapps. We have modernized it with a lot...
Reservations is a trick taking game that shares DNA with traditional contract bidding games, such as Konigrufen, Vira, Doppelkopf, etc. but with a "modern" feel. In the traditional games, the scores are almost always zero sum, meaning if I am gaining points, you are losing points. In Reservations, the scoring is based on an area majority in the 4 different...
"A New Twist to the Popular Card Game Hearts!" boasts the cover. The game is somewhat of a Hearts with a retirement theme, but there are some rule ambiguities that make it unclear. There are 40 cards, 10 each in 4 suits. The black & white artwork on each card depicts various advantages to retirement (more time, relaxation, etc.) The lead player lays down a...
Revelación is a pseudo-trick-taking game played with an extended Decktet in which players compete to have the smallest score as they play cards to the "Tree of Life". Will you be able to grow the tree and help it prosper or will you succumb to the forces of evil and destruction? Each turn, players will play a card from their hand on one of the branches of...
To be the player with the smallest score, trying not to take pawns and crowns. Play a card from your hand on one of the branches of the Tree of Life, following the Decktet suits. If once placed, all the cards from that branch add up to more than 12 points, then you'll have to take a number of those cards, from end towards the beginning, until they add up...
This game is played with a standard deck of cards without the Tens. Some counters are also needed, a full set of Reversis equipment cotains 36 units called fish, 24 counters worth 6 fish each, and 6 "contracts" worth 8 counters each, making a total equivalent to 468 fish. The main object is to avoid taking tricks containing penalty cards. The winner of the...
In Rewind, players play a must-follow, fixed trump trick-taking game, but rather than taking the cards played, they keep them for a second round. In the first round, they mark their rank in the trick, first through third (in the 3-player game) or fourth (in the 4-player game). Then, at the end of the hand, they play in reverse, trying to get the same rank...
Tricks in My Mind is an expansion for Rewind. In this new way to play, players play a must-follow, no trump, low-luck trick-taking game. In the first round, the winner of each trick gets points, but the players not winning the trick get to make bets for the second round. In the second round, players play the same hand of cards again (just like in Rewind)...
The new battling dinosaur bidding game everyone wants to try. As you enter the jungle battle for points with some of the dinosaurs on your side, the struggle will get exciting. When the Royal Juraissteers, King Rex, Prince Don, & Duke Rus get involved, you had better hope that they are also on your team. The game is played with a deck of 48 cards...
Set just before the annihilation of the Polish/Lithuanian Commonwealth, players take the roles of 4 political factions negotiating a new constitution for the state using a modified trick-taking system in which every card matters. Each faction, from the moderate reformers to the absolutist reactionaries, has their own goals for the constitution, but some...
Das Rethorische Quartett is a trick taking and communication game. First, player agree on a topic and on opineons every player represents. Each player has cards in his hand showing a kind of argumentations (not an argument, but something lika "non-representative statistic" or "personal attack" or "interpretational sovereignty". By turns players play cards...