A traditional deck trick-taking game that is rare for its use of playing paired cards rather than a single card at a time. The game uses values 2-7 in a 2 or 3 player game, 2-9 in a 4 player game. Lead Pairs consist of A matched pair: Two cards sharing a suit - totaled and requiring others to follow suit. An unmatched pair: Two cards that have different...
A card and board game based on trump taking. The cards are comprised of six suits. When the game begins all suits are of equal value. The player who lays out the highest number takes the hand and then moves their pawn one space forward on the game board. Every fifth or so space is marked "Dynasty" and a player landing on this space may select one of the...
The smartest dogs in the world are getting together for game night! Now you have to keep an eye on which dogs will play which roles and make the right choices. Who will be the best dog? In the trick-taking game HUND, which was first released as ebbes, players try to collect as many points as possible, but initially no one knows which suit will generate...
A quick trick taking game for two based on Triomphe (French Ruff), and played with a 32-card Piquet deck (standard playing card deck stripped of all 2-6's). Écarté has an unusual press-your-luck mechanism which allows both players to exchange cards in hand for cards in the draw deck. This exchange is by agreement, and may occur multiple times before the...
Eccentric Exhibits is a 2-player, 20-card trick-taking game. In this game, players are rival museum curators trying to arrange the most prestigious exhibitions of bizarre and unusual artifacts - unicorn hooves, kraken tentacles, books of pure evil, and alien skulls, to name a few. Over four rounds, two players will play a series of tricks, trying to win...
When the mirror moons presented themselves to the galaxy, they promised infinite resources. We were wrong. They were only echoes of our homeworlds. Each one the alternate outcome of a choice made eons ago. With every empire given a key to the universe in which they were the ruler, the galaxy fell to pieces. We inherited a system colonized by our former...
ECK (pronounced like “deck” without the ‘d’) is an abstract solo trick-taking game where the you play against the AI opponent ECK by attempting to collect trick cards by winning exactly the number of tricks shown on the available trick cards. The ranks are polygon shapes where increased complexity means increased trick value: line, triangle, square...
EcoGoGo! is an educational and entertaining card game designed to inform and inspire interest in our world’s ecology. It highlights the roles of food chains, feeding, mating, and migration in the lives of organisms in a wide variety of ecosystems. The Grand Canyon National Park deck is built on extensively researched food chains comprising real organisms...
Effective Detective is a strategic card game in which players battle their your fellow detectives in a race to solve a murder. Gather your evidence--hair, blood, fibers, fingerprints, etc.--to thwart your rival detectives and arrest the murderer. The game is played in a series of six-card hands. Players go head-to-head with each opponent using ranked...
§egment Trix, also called Seven Segment Trix, is a trick-taking game where the card ranks are shown in a "seven segment" font, such as that used in digital clocks. The game includes wooden segments that the players can add to cards to adjust their value. The amount of unused segments a player has will determine their bid for the round. For instance, a...
An Egyptian-themed trick taking game made for the TTUTcon event held in Layton, Utah, in August 2025. This 3-player, low-luck trick-taking game is played in just 18 total tricks. In Round I, player play a must-follow trick-taking game with their 9 cards. They either earn points (for a first-place finish in a trick), the ability to score second place in...