LetterTricks is a collection of trick-taking card games. The deck consists of 52 cards, but instead of having numbers like most decks, each suit contains letters of the English alphabet. There are three suits, each having all vowels, most common consonants, and two of the rarest consonants. LetterTricks Cooperative is a 4-5 player cooperative game in which...
Alpine Tricks is a fast-paced, trick-taking card game based on Austria's national card game Schnapsen. While it keeps the tried and tested game rules and mechanics the same, the layout has been redone to ensure smoother gameplay and make the game easier to learn. Both players try to be the first to reach 66 points to win a hand. Points can be earned by...
From the back cover: "The alternative games in this booklet are all designed to be played with standard equipment. They offer exciting new dimensions to games played on or with draught boards, cards, dominoes etc., helping to eliminate the constant financial burden of purchasing expensive and often short-lived new games. The games in Alternative Games for...
Card game played in South-Western France using a latin-suited card deck. This is an easy trick taking game for 2 or 4 players in partnerships where there is no trump suit and no obligation to follow suit. The winner of a trick, is the person who plays the highest ranking card. In the case of a tie, the trick is set aside, and the winner of the next trick...
Ambition is a trick taking standard deck playing card game. It was invented by Indie designer Mike Church whose stated goal was to create a trick game where the role of chance ("hand-luck") was as small as possible. The usual object is to avoid taking the most points in a round and, secondarily, to score as many as possible up to that. (That is, if the 120...
In アメノキリフダ (Ameno Kirifuda), players play a trick-taking game where the winner of a trick places a chip on a 4x4 grid in the row corresponding to the suit of the card they played. The suits of the cards represent the seasons, and the trump mechanism used is that the lead suit is subordinate to the "next season". In addition to the cards used to take...
In アメノチハレルヒ, roughly translated as "Clear Skies After the Rain", the players are recording certain lines of dialogue. The game alternates between "lesson" tricks and "recording" tricks, with the lesson tricks being must follow and the recording tricks being may follow. At the start of the game, each player is given a prompt card showing the lines of...
American Bookshop is a trick-taking game in which players must follow suit when possible, there is no trump, and the highest card of the lead suit wins the trick. However, if the sum of the cards played to a trick exceeds a certain value — 14-17, depending on the player count — the trick ends immediately, and whoever played the last card claims the trick....