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- Replay Value (1-10): 9
- Fun Factor (1-10): 7
- Worth Buying (1-10): 5
- MMG Popularity Rank (out of 49): 30th/41st
A trick-taking game that is a rather distant variant of
Spades;
each player bids some number of tricks, and you're
trying to take that many tricks. Overtricks give smaller
extra points but too many overtricks gives a big penalty.
The twist here is that the trump suit is different every
trick; at the start of each hand, a series of unused cards
called the "Tide"
are laid out for all to see, and those determine the trump
suit for those respective tricks. For example, if the
trick's special card is the "4 of waves", then "Waves"
would be the trump suit. Somewhat akin to
Euchre,
the card also ennobles its rank. In this example, the
other blue 4 is called the "knob" and beats all trump,
and the other two 4s are called "off-colored knobs" and
beat all non-trump. The game also comes with some special
cards that allow you to, once per game, use some special
abilities.
As you've probably figured out by now, although the deck
is similar to a regular deck of cards, the suits are
nautically-themed and the face cards have very different
letters and rankings. The design is very functional and
I liked it a lot. The game is reasonably innovative as
far as trick-taking games go; much more random than
Spades, unfortunately, but perhaps that's a good thing
for some players.
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