This game is packaged as a single deck of cards, with the rules for two games: Betwixt Two Tricks and Work, Life Balance. The deck of cards is a somewhat standard deck of 52 cards, with A-K in four suits. However, each corner of a card shows only the suit or the rank, and not both. Betwixt Two Tricks is a trick-taking for 3 or 4 players where each person...
Translated as Cutpurse, this is a fairly unique entry in the trick-taking genre. Three of the suits are relatively normal, however, the cards that are worth points, in the form of gold coins, have the least value. The special thing about this game is the trump suit, which could have the Assassin killing the King or the Adventurer seducing the Countess; the...
In the trick-taking game Beutelschneider, players compete to gather as much gold as they can, but the gold is on the lowest-valued cards in the game, so you can rarely win with your own gold and instead need to grab it from others. The deck includes 36 cards in four colors, as well as nine trump cards in a fifth color. On a turn, someone leads a card, and...
This trick taking game comes with a deck of 4 different colored suits. Each suit has 13 cards numbered 0 through 12, with 12 as the high card. Four of the cards in each suit (the 9, 0, 2, and 1) are Zip Code cards that score points. Each player is dealt 6 cards and a standard trick-taking round follows. The high card of the suit led wins all the other...
In the spring of 2018, Beyoncé became the first ever Black woman to headline Coachella, an annual multiday music and arts festival in California that had been ongoing for nearly 20 years. Understanding the opportunity to put Black cultural expression in the spotlight, she organized a 26-song set with over 2 hours of performance steeped in historically...
A trick taking card game in which players score for winning aces and 10s in tricks, and for forming certain combinations of cards from tricks won and cards in hand. Point-scoring combinations include four of a kind (aces, kings, queens and jacks only), a marriage (king and queen of same suit), sequence (A-10 of trump) or a Bezique (queen of spades and jack...
Bhabhi is a card game of East Indian origin. Players compete to get rid of all of their cards and not be the last remaining player with cards in their hand, who is named the "Bhabhi" or "Sister-in-law." The game uses an interesting and unique mechanic whereby players must follow the suit that was lead if possible. If they cannot they may play any card...
With 4 families (Red, Blue, Yellow and Green), with each 8 characters, the game uses an Italian mafia theme. The game plays with 3, 4 or 5 players in teams (1vs2, 2vs2, 2vs3) The player (and his team) that starts the round takes the bet to make a minimum of 45 points. If he fills his contract, he wins the rounds, otherwise he'll lose points. Each trick is...
Rarer 3M crackerbox game. In play, there is card dealing, bidding, card playing, and movement of the giant wood dice around the big fold-up vinyl board. Tricks are won, and the player advances his die around the board to the finish. "Keen Competition for 2 to 6 players." Board also features a "Do or Die Zone" where movement becomes more difficult....
Bid Coin is a trick-taking game where players try to win a number of tricks over several rounds in ways that sum to combinations a 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7. When a player wins a trick, if it exceeds their current bid, they must use one of their current bid cards to increase their bid. If at the end of a hand, they have won a number of tricks equal to exactly...
User Summary: Bid Euchre is a variation of Euchre. Bid Euchre uses Jacks to Aces from two decks (two of each card). All cards are dealt to the players, who are on two teams of two. Due to there being two of each card, the first card played is the high card (if the Ace of Spades is played first, it would beat the other Ace of Spades if it was played during...