Trick-taking and shedding/climbing type games all in one place.
This isn’t MY thread. So post any news or start a topic if you’d like to share them
Best to read the article itself. As it contains several titles within it. Taiki Shinzawa and Sean Ross are designers that I am more familiar to. Haggis is perhaps Ross’s most well known title. (see below for the reprint news)
Most interesting to me is Mike Hutton - more popular for his two 18xx titles - planning to publish his other game he designed called Pilgrim with a “very short print run”.
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Sean Ross’s Haggis will be reprinted by Portland Game Collective - I have got Five Three Five and Bridge City Poker recently so I’m keen to have them played. Haggis is something I have playedn and I would play Haggis with 2 or 3 players if I don’t have enough to play Tichu with 4 players.
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Out of interest how did you get PCG’s games?
They’re doing the English version of Tricktakers, an asymmetric trick taking game.
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Kickstarter. Unideal but that’s their only avenue.
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We played Yokai Septet for the first time this week. Team based trick taking ticks a lot of boxes. It’s really clever and definitely had the ‘let’s re deal and go again’ vibe that good card games have. I think it will improve as we find a meta as well.
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Thanks for this thread btw. I’m a big fan of Haggis (although I’ve only played it on BGA). 2&3 player versions of Tichu are very welcome and the management of knowing you have a bomb is really cool. Will definitely get the reprint, even if just to reward the designer and publisher.
Dou Dizhu (Fight the Landlord) is another cool 3 player climbing game that you can play with a standard deck.
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I should also say, a lot of these games come from odd places with short print runs. I’m definitely up for group buying from other people’s recommendations to save on postage costs
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Found a couple of Geeklists where you can play some trick takers/shedders (and other games) with a Sticheln/Stick Em deck. Take note though: I believe the newer Capstone edition got a different number of cards compare to the older editions
Games Playble with a Sticheln deck, Please Add | BoardGameGeek
I’m looking for some lists of traditional and modern trick-takers that can be played with the standard 52-card set. Catchy!, which I talked about in the Last Games You’ve Played thread was played with a standard 52. I’ll post them here when I find them
Bremen, which is in my grail list, can be played with 4 cheap copies of bicycle cards with different card backs.
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Boast or Nothing could be reasonably proxied with a Stick Em deck and a few tokens
Yeah, I’ll keep.an eye out for the KS then
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I think the canonical “you can play a bunch of games with this” deck that I’ve met is Rage, six suits numbered 0-15 (plus some special effect cards). (I have a set for this reason, though I’ve never played the game itself.) Parade has six suits 0-10. Looks as though Sticheln is 0-18 in six suits, so maybe I should get a copy. 
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I was looking at this yesterday:
The deck has 6 suits. Ranks are 1-10, with the 2-9 cards all having dual suits.
Structural features of the Decktet - The Decktet Wiki has more info, and there’s a PDF of the cards on the main site under the “print your own” heading.
Trick-taking games for this deck are listed at Games Listed by Category - The Decktet Wiki
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Yeah, I’ve love one of them, but $10 for the cards plus $16 untracked shipping…
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More trick-taking news.
Has anyone played Potato Man? Looks interesting and pretty approachable for less experienced trick-taking players, which is who I’m mostly gaming with. The old version is also pretty cheap and easily available here.
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Just noting the predecessors of For Northwood!.
In reverse chronological order:
- The Emissary | Board Game | BoardGameGeek
- Gongor Whist | Board Game | BoardGameGeek (for the Decktet)
- Oneonta Whist | Board Game | BoardGameGeek
See also Recent Boardgames (Your Last Played Game Volume 2) - #7250 by Phil
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Tall Tales by Daniel Newman (New Mill Industries) — Kickstarter
Kickstarter campaign for a trick taker called Tall Tales
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What’s the shipping usually like on a trick taker?
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Lots of trick taking/ climbing games are on BGA. Losing the tactility is a shame, but they do work (ideally real time, but have played a lot async as well).
Off the top of my head
Tichu 4 player, teams of 2
Haggis - 2 or 3 player
Dou Dizhu - 3 player
Yokai Septet - the 4 player team version definitely, but 3 irl as well
Belote - not sure on player count
Cribbage
If anyone fancies trying anything I’m generally up for a game
42 trick takers listed on BGA
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