Fluid Fealty is a 1-4 player trick-taking game. The king is dead—killed by his own advisors—and many are rushing to fill the void left by his passing. To take the throne, and hold onto it, you need allies—but who can you trust when everyone is out for themselves? At the beginning of each round, players will choose a card from their hand to represent their...
Flummox is a tug of war fought with cards and brains. Each player has an exposed hand of cards they use to move and shift the Flummox token around the table. Sometimes players want to get the Flummox to land in their own hand, and sometimes it's best to send the Flummox to another player. Special cards can Stop, Bounce, Slide, and Bump the Flummox as it...
Flunk is a sort of Dummy Contract Whist for three. It doesn't claim to be a form of Bridge. Three-handed Bridge is a contradiction in terms, as it lacks co-operative bidding between the partners, which is one of the two defining features of that game. But it does offer its other defining feature, namely, that of declarer playing from dummy with a view to...
EQUIPMENT: a 48-card deck consisting of four suits: Fly Away Jill, Fly Away Jack, Come Back Jill, Come Back Jack. Each contains 12 cards ranked (lowest to highest) 1-9 plus A, B, C. SET UP: shuffle the cards and deal evenly to all players. Person to left of dealer goes first. PLAY: The first player lays down a card and the other players must follow...
In Dam Card Battle FNAWIPSR, the players are playing a trick-taking game that uses souvenir dam card style dam cards. In each trick, the players will play 2 cards - a rule card and a dam card. The rule cards (e.g. "longest length of dam crest") will determine which card will win the trick, and the values of the dams will determine the winner. The player...
Autumn has arrived and colorful leaves litter the ground. As a collector, this is your favorite time of year. Gather the halves of leaves and assemble them in your albums. Create the most impressive collection and become the envy of your peers! Folia Folio is a set collection game that uses the structure of may-follow trick taking. Players form albums by...
マストフォローソリティア (Follow-the-Suit Solitaire) was designed for the 2019 exhibition これはトリテなのか (Is this a trick-taking game?), for games that pushed the boundary of what could be considered both a game and a trick-taking game. It is a solitaire game where the player wins if they can run out of cards in their hand; if they do, the player also earns a score equal...
Following Suit is a simple trick-taking game. The object is to collect as many points as possible in a single suit. The game is played in several rounds and the first player to reach 400 points wins. Following Suit was one of the simultaneous-play games which began with Lamarckian Poker (published by GAMES Magazine in 1997 and previously free on the...
Food Chain is a trick-taking game for 3 or 4 players about the food chain in Japan. The game uses a pyramid type deck (two 2s, three 3s, etc.) It is a may follow game, where the lowest number in a trick wins. The non-winning players add the card they played to their food chain. Then, the non-winning players each pass a card from their hand to the winning...
Turkey or Lasagna? A Burrito or a Cheeseburger? Play your cards right to tempt the Food Critic into picking your dish and score big. When YOU are the Food Critic, which dish will YOU choose? The Food Critic is the game that asks you how well you know your friend's and family's likes and dislikes. Does Junior like coleslaw or potato salad better? Would...