Who’s afraid of the big, bad squid? I’m sure you know two to eight (or even more) players who aren’t. Object: Establish your supremacy over all other squid cults by retaining the favor of the Squid Totem for three rounds. You Need: * A Squid Totem (We used a plush orange squid.) * A poker deck for every four players Players, playing in teams, attempt to...
In each opening round of the trick-taking card game Union, players take turns using their voting tokens that are randomly drawn from a bag for starting player, trump, super trump, number of cards discarded, and the value of tricks taken. Once the starting player is determined, that player chooses a partner, then the teams play out the round based on the...
Designed by Wanye Cooley to fix the issue of needing multiple playing cards decks to play poker, pinochle, rook, and tarok. This deck includes mapping so that you can use it to play either of those games as well as the games in the rulebook. Rulebook include rules for several trick taking games using this custom 54-card deck with a "revolutionary"...
The Unnamed Game is a game with three distinct, recurring phases (resource gathering, trading, and creation) for three to five players. During resource gathering, you play a trick-taking game against your opponents. During the trick-taking game, each of you has a unique special power you can use to bend the rules of the game, but when one special power...
This game combines the standard game of hearts with special cards. There are cards that when played force everyone to pass their hands to the next player. There are wild cards that can be any color. If you win a trick with a wild card in it the wild card will specify an amount of cards you must draw and add to your won tricks pile. At the end of a round...
A traditional Japanese trick-taking card game based on the European game Ombre (originally "l'Hombre"), played with a special 75-card five-suited deck. This deck developed from Tenshō karuta, itself a close copy of the 48-card traditional Portuguese cards called "dragon cards" due to the dragons holding the suit symbols in the aces. Its creation was...
Up! is a Hungarian Ultimate Frisbee card game for 2-7 players. The player who scores the most Up! points or successfully call a Stall Out. In each round a player rolls a dice for the deciding aspect of the players. The aspects are: Up!, Team Play (Cs), Speed (Gy), Routine (R), Height (M) amd dive (V). They play a card from their hand and the other players...
A quick card game of summing and limits for two to five players. Object: To gather tricks by making the sum of the cards in play equal 21, or by forcing the player to your left to cause the sum of the cards to exceed 21. You Need: * A standard poker deck (jokers optional). * Paper and pencil to tally tricks. This is a game that is similar to Cribbage. Each...
Up & Down is a trick-taking game which uses a traditional 52-card deck (1-13 in four suits), one special double-sided Up and Down Card as well as two dice. Players compete over multiple rounds based on the number of players. Players are dealt a hand of cards. The number of cards depends on the number of players. The trump is determined by rolling the two...
updn is a trick-taking game using domino-style cards with two values, where either number can be the rank and either number the suit. It is a "must follow" game, where you must play a card that matches the suit of the lead card if you can. However, the card with the highest sum of its two values will win the trick, regardless of suit. The winner will take...