It may sound like sacrilege, but I’ve never liked trick-taking. I grew up around Bridge and Euchre and Hearts, but they never really did anything for me. As a result, I’ve ignored all the “modern” trick-taking games like Wizard, Skull King, and The Crew. Something changed the other day when I watched a video of Cat In The Box, and suddenly I realized that there were interesting things happening in this space and I should pay more attention.
Now I’m on a quest to buy up all the greatest trick-taking games out there! My only caveat is that they should work with 2 or 3, as I’m not really a fan of team play and I don’t often have 4 available.
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Arcs 😅
My man, are you the same db0 that designed doomtown awhile ago? :o
That I am 😁
You are a straight up legend sir! I loved that game to death! No other card game I’ve played since has had the same level of crunch in deck building and gameplay that doomtown had.
Are you working on any other games atm or you got your hands full with managing the lemmy instance? :>
I got my hands full by managing the Ai horde 😅 but before that I made my own little FOSS Slay the spire clone called Hypnagonia 😉
Those sound like awesome projects! I’m a big fan of slay the spire so definitely gonna give your take of it spin. Keep up the good work man!!
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My family always played a variation of “oh hell” that we named “oh blueberry” because no one ever saw grandma say a negative word. Basically same rules but instead of going 1 up to 7, back down to 1, we went 1 up until we ran out of cards, which varied depending on players. If the table was large we would add a deck which altered the rules, I think first played was higher for ties.
The Dutch version of Black Lady, a hearts type game with some trick avoiding elements.
i don’t know what this is, is it like Tic Tac Toe with more rules?
No, card games. You never played Hearts or Spades?
Usually 4 players, two teams of two. People take turns playing a card and the highest one takes the trick/book. Team with the most books, or closest to their bid without going over, wins.
The biggest gap I see in your picture above is Robotrick!
Absolutely awesome game for exactly 3 players, where a 4th robot player follows a card of instructions. The scoring is built off of what cards you win from the robot, or what cards the robot wins off of you, but with fairly “standard” rules for following, trump, etc.
It’s just brilliant, and always the game I suggest if we have 3 people and are looking for a filler card game.
Another vote for the crew being excellent, and with a completely different puzzle feel than other trick taking games I’ve played. It’s as much about the other people as the card strategy.
