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There’s a local pub by my old house that has a considerable collection of board games so we got to sample a lot that we or friends didn’t already own. It always

There’s a local pub by my old house that has a considerable collection of board games so we got to sample a lot that we or friends didn’t already own. It always amuses me when I figure out that a board or card game was obviously prototyped on a standard card deck. It didn’t happen a lot but it did happen a few times. Four kinds of cards in 1-2 stacks? 10-13 cards of each kind? 2-4 special cards that are identical? Hmm, I wonder how this game was invented… I do wish we would get back to games that were just played with a deck of cards though. More options for bored people at small gatherings.

aloisdg 2y ago
Like Coup or The Crew
butlike 2y ago
Couldn't you just translate the rules to a standard playing deck? Seems like a PITA, but if you dont want to go through that effort, the ruleset inventor should get compensated for their effort...
freddie_mercury 2y ago
There are tons of them, mostly thanks to a renaissance in Japan starting maybe a decade ago but spreading elsewhere. Taylor's Trick Taking Table is a YouTube channel dedicated to them. The Portland Game Collective's Discord channel is the de facto English language home to the movement. Most of them are very small scale and artisanal but a few bigger publishers have also started doing more of them in the past year. The Tokyo Game Market has literally hundreds of new ones released every year but most don't have English and can only be bought in Japan. A few smaller companies like Tricky Imports and Newmill Games are importing them, though.
tweetle_beetle 2y ago
There are quite a few made in niche communities but often not very discoverable, as they aren't commercially viable and marketed. One notable exception is The Emissary[1] which had a successful retail release as For Northwood![2]. Kni54ts[3] is often held up as another very good example of the genre, making very creative use of the deck, but you can find many more browsing through the links. [1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DB2YF46s0oVFUSIpR9vxoGIbhpTKz2jw/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DB2YF46s0oVFUSIpR9vxoGIbhpT... [2] https://www.sideroomgames.com/product/for-northwood/ https://www.sideroomgames.com/product/for-northwood/ [3] https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2946002/wip-kni54ts-a-solo-adventure-game-2022-traditional https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2946002/wip-kni54ts-a-solo-...

aloisdg 2y ago

Like Coup or The Crew

butlike 2y ago

Couldn't you just translate the rules to a standard playing deck? Seems like a PITA, but if you dont want to go through that effort, the ruleset inventor should get compensated for their effort...

freddie_mercury 2y ago

There are tons of them, mostly thanks to a renaissance in Japan starting maybe a decade ago but spreading elsewhere. Taylor's Trick Taking Table is a YouTube channel dedicated to them. The Portland Game Collective's Discord channel is the de facto English language home to the movement. Most of them are very small scale and artisanal but a few bigger publishers have also started doing more of them in the past year. The Tokyo Game Market has literally hundreds of new ones released every year but most don't have English and can only be bought in Japan. A few smaller companies like Tricky Imports and Newmill Games are importing them, though.

tweetle_beetle 2y ago

There are quite a few made in niche communities but often not very discoverable, as they aren't commercially viable and marketed. One notable exception is The Emissary[1] which had a successful retail release as For Northwood![2]. Kni54ts[3] is often held up as another very good example of the genre, making very creative use of the deck, but you can find many more browsing through the links. [1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DB2YF46s0oVFUSIpR9vxoGIbhpTKz2jw/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DB2YF46s0oVFUSIpR9vxoGIbhpT... [2] https://www.sideroomgames.com/product/for-northwood/ https://www.sideroomgames.com/product/for-northwood/ [3] https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2946002/wip-kni54ts-a-solo-adventure-game-2022-traditional https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2946002/wip-kni54ts-a-solo-...