In this trick-taking game with a standard pack, each suit has a 'ladder' represented by a face-up card on the table which is its current 'rung'. If you win a trick containing the card above the rung of a ladder, you claim control of it, as the rung increases to its new value. The trump suit is set by the current rungs of the ladders, and may change from...
The card deck in Indiscretion, a.k.a. Scan, is the standard four-suited, 52-card deck – but the back of each card is color-coded to reveal the suit of the card to all players. Any classic card game can be played with this deck, and the published edition of Scan includes several variations for team or individual play with 2-6 players, with the primary game...
Scarabs, Pyramids & Dung Beetles is an Ancient Egyptian themed trick taking card game with a BID of a twist. The object of the game is to be the first to complete three pyramids. To do this you play cards to the table to try and win the trick. The winner of the trick uses the cards to build his pyramid. But, sometimes there is a tie and then those players...
Schadenfreude is a trick-taking game for 3-5 players. The game ends when any player has scored more than 40 points, and the winner is the closest to 40 without going over. The card distribution includes some ranks of negative value, is a "must follow" game, and does not include any trump suits. The winner of a trick is the person who played the second...
Traditional German card game played with a Bavarian 32 card deck. Similar to Skat but simpler bidding and scoring rules. Can also be played with a traditional French-suited 52 card deck by removing the 2-6 of each suit. Players either play in teams ("I'll play with the Ace of Leaves"), or one player decides to play a solo (worth more points) against the...
Schafköpfchen is an easy variation of Schafkopf, a trick-taking game popular in Austria and Bavaria. In each of the four colors of cards in the deck are six cards numbered 1-6; the deck also contains gray cards numbered 7-15, which are always trump. An additional trump color is determined each round by die roll. Each round, a player starts with eight cards...
Scharfe Schoten (a.k.a. "Hot Peppers") is a trick-taking game in which players predict their tricks — but instead of predicting the number of tricks they'll take, they have to state the color that they think they'll get the most or least tricks of. Since all cards show their color on the back, the players have more information than usual. In addition to...
scheiße is a card game, played with a standard 32-card French deck. Starting the first round with one card, the second with to cards and so on up to 7 cards each player. Then it goes down to one card again. After examining your cards you state the number of tricks you will win. The number of statet tricks is not allowed to be equal to the number of cards...
Description of Big Funeral (1964, Kookie): A card game of wits for 3-6 people. Theme: Throw Wild Funeral Parties While Still Alive Scheme: Make Your Friends Look Cheap Send Them To Slob Hill In An Orange Crate Coffin Dream: Accumulate $50,00 Worth of Hearses, Tombstones And Other Status Symbols Trick taking game where the 2nd highest card takes the trick....
Schmitz 21 is a Blackjack inspired card game where players are playing cards to a collective discard trying to be the one to reach exactly 21. The game comes with 55 cards: 10 times the numbers 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 [yes, there is no 4!] and 5 times the number 10. Each player starts with four cards. A central deck is formed from the rest of the cards. It is...