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Chicago Grand Slam ups the ante of the classic Chicago card game with the elegance of a unique game board and ruleset, loaded with more strategic depth and replayability.
Play your cards at the just the right moment and try to make the best poker hand, all while attempting to be the first player to obtain their Chicago Marker and get both of your pawns across the goal. But watch out, you may end up moving backwards!
Chicago Grand Slam is best played with 2-4 friends, aged 10 and up, and takes less than an hour to play.
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The classic Chicago game was allegedly invented in an underground poker club at Hammarbykajen, Stockholm in Sweden owned by the Russian mafia. The game is a variation of the Swedish card game, Fem-kort. The poker-related card game called Chicago is one of the most popular card games in Finland today.
Relying on the keeping of score instead of the placing of bets, it is suitable even for environments such as schools, where gambling is often prohibited.
- The win condition is highly unlikely to ever occur.
- The game is described as 'terrible'.
- Trick taking and poker with a roll and move element
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Poker — Game involves poker elements.
- roll and move — Game includes roll and move elements.
- Trick-Taking — Game involves trick-taking.
Video topics + discussion points
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- Fiction: Banned Books, this is from All Play. I really like the first Fiction, guessing a five-letter word. If you like things like Wordle, um this is a good sort of one versus others game because one person is trying to stop you from guessing the word cuz they lie they have to lie about a letter each time, but you know they lie, so they're picking the right time to lie. But this offer this adds some special powers and things to it, so it's slightly better than the first one, I think, if you care about the stuff. If not, you can still play it normally, so great little game.
- Got 5, a great deduction game for kids, wonderful components. Basically, um you everyone can see your numbers and you're guessing if this is higher or lower than your numbers and where they fit on a grid really works well for kids. There's a lot of good deduction games for kids these days. Another 8.5.
- And Catan on the Road, what a glorious card game version of Catan, one one few games that I am going to get a copy of this for my house because my kids and family liked it so much. We can play this with anybody. It takes Catan, it distills it down into 15 minutes. What a wonderful thing. Like it a lot.
- So, almost 15 minutes for 36 games.
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