A colorful trick taking card game where you work with your friends to beat them. —description from the back of the box In Shady Hues, players partner up to build up hoards of their favorite three colors in this exciting trick-taking game. If your partner is just dead weight, change the rules and pair up with someone else. If your cards aren’t good enough...
Victorian game in which each of the 52 cards represents a scene from a Shakespeare play (with fabulous card art!) and has a quote from that play printed on it. It could be played in any of three ways. In the preferred method, a slightly souped-up version of "Authors," the player to the left of the dealer reads the quote on one of his cards. If the next...
Shakespeare’s First Folio has players taking the role of printers in the early Seventeenth Century competing to print the first folio of Shakespeare’s plays. The deck of Plays is made up of three different suits - Comedies, Histories and Tragedies - and each Play corresponds to its suit and the order it was printed in Shakespeare's First Folio. The deck of...
The Shardhunters card game is set in the world of Unseen Domains, a gloomy version of the 17th century Europe, where people infected by a witchplague return as zombies after their death. In this new world order, the rare and highly valued blood crystals are sought-after by fearless adventurers called Shardhunters, whose bold search for the crystals in the...
Shards of Creation is an innovative trick-taker where every suit is unique (different rank distribution, different abilities,…). The game is set in Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere (about The Shards of Adonalsium specifically). The game contains 8 of the 16 shards, the rest being expected as expansions. It is described as: A standalone card game where every...
Shareholders is a cooperative 4-player card game. It is played with a deck of standard playing cards and 12 additional tokens(3 'shares' per suit). Players form 2 teams of 2-players, and compete for higher scores by owning shares of more influential suits. While proceeding with typical trick-taking format, each player has an option of taking a share from...
Sharing a Table is one of the finalists for the 2020 Trick Taking Party Awards. It is a six to eight-player trick-taking game using two standard decks of cards and one joker. Players will also need two tables. In an eight-player game, 13 cards are dealt to each player, and the remaining card is flipped face up. The suit of the revealed card will set the...
Described in passing in Edward Falkener's book 'Games Ancient And Oriental and how to play them' (1892, page 163), thus: "an Indian game of cards, ... in which after every deal, the winners take at chance [ie randomly, unseen] as many cards from the hand of the loser as they have won tricks, and give back to him in return as many of the worst cards they...
Sheepdogs is a trick-taking game in which the sheepdogs are trump and four types of sheep are the different suits. Players bid to predict the number of tricks they will take and must be exactly right to gain any points. However, the player who collects the most black sheep always gets a point. Mind the wolf and the penned sheep as these cards can derail...
Sheepshead is a trick-taking card game related to the Skat family of games. It is the Americanized version of a card game that originated in Central Europe in the late 18th century under the German name Schafkopf. Sheepshead is played with 7-8-9-10-J-Q-K-A in four suits, for a total of 32 cards. A sheepshead deck is made by removing all of the jokers...
This here is the story of the most famous leprechaun of all, Roy G. McBiv. McBiv lives in the rocky hills of Vibgyor and is infatuated with beautiful rainbows. In fact, he dreams of owning his own one day, and is in constant search for all the rainbow colors. McBiv is growing old though... he no longer has that snap to his stature or that whistle in his...