A fast & furious flipping card game. Quickly flip over the top card from your pile and place it onto the center pile. Slap the center pile when you spot one of three things - two of the same cards in a row, two of the same separated one that is different, or one of the Meteor Shower cards. The first player to slap the pile collects all the cards in the...
This trick-taking game is a standard deck playing card game and takes on many different group-specific rules. Generally speaking, each player is given thirteen cards and a partner who sits across the table. Each player bids the number of tricks they'll take, and then the partners collectively attempt to take at least as many as they bid. The tricks are...
Introduction Spar is a popular game from Ghana. It is a trick-taking game without trumps, in which the object is to win the last trick. Spar is usually played by 2, 3 or 4 players, but it is possible for up to 7 to play. The game uses 35 cards from a standard international 52-card pack, the cards of each suit ranking from high to low: A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8...
The game has been updated to version 3! It's a complete revamp and change from version 2 for faster and more strategic gameplay. A fast paced card game featuring two opponents slugging it out in each other's faces. Very easy to learn, but the strategy lies in reading your opponent and strategizing your own moves. Do you go all out and attack heavily from...
Sparkling Happiness is a may-follow trick-taking game, but only until you win your first trick with a card offsuit. You can follow suit as a normal must-follow game, but you win more points for winning tricks offsuit. When you win your first trick offsuit, you must follow suit after that, and then you cannot win a trick with the color that you won the...
Sparrow: A Game of Triumphs is a trick taking game using four plain suits (black, green, red, and yellow) along with an extra suit of 22 triumphs or trump cards. The Sparrow is the lowest ranking triumph. Each player receives a hand of 12 cards with an additional six cards being dealt to the kitty. Players bid to become the declarer by stating how few...
The object of Speed is for the player to move his/her ship, plane, car and train along the designated routes from start to finish. The first player completing the routes for all four vehicles wins. Two to four players may play. There are 16 player pieces. One each of ship, plane, car and train in four colors (red, green, black and blue) Movement is driven...
Speed Run is a compendium trick taking game where each player is the declarer every hand! In a compendium game there are multiple objectives (known as contracts) that each player must complete by the end of the game. Normally in compendium games, there is one player (known as the declarer) who picks a contract for the hand and only their score counts. So...
Spekulatius is a variant of the classic trick-taking game Oh Hell!. The deck consists of four suits with cards in each suit numbered 1-20 and four jokers. In each round of the game, players are dealt a certain number of cards -- for a typical game this starts at ten cards for the first round and one fewer each successive round, until the tenth round when...
Spells and Wizards is an easy to learn card game that is fun for ages 7 and up. The game can be played with 2-6 players and can be played with partners or as individuals. Spells and Wizards is played with a custom 60-card deck. There are four different colors of cards in the deck and the card values range from 1-15 in value. However, there are no 3’s or...
Spetzi is a two-player domino trick-taking game inspired by Texas 42 and Schnapsen. The game blends aspects from both games to create a brand new experience. Each hand is a race to reach 25 points. The first player to reach 25 points gets 1 mark. If a player thinks they can win with just the tiles left in hand, they can close the boneyard to try and win...
The game consists of cards which show a grid of 10x10 squares. Within this grid, a number of squares are colored, and the size of this color field is also printed as a math question on top of the card (i.e. 6x8). The game is designed to teach basic math to elementary school children. Three game ideas are described in the rule booklet: - MAL seh'n: Each...