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Fight a titan, wage a war of conquest, have a drawing contest using only dots, or just try to build better words than your friends - all in the palm of your hand.
One Card Wonders is a library of single-card games that covers a wide range of genres and mechanisms, including area control, dexterity, hidden movement, abstract, racing, pattern recognition, dice games, drawing games, word games, and more!
This set requires only a few simple components to play, most of which you can find around the house, and the games can all be played pretty much anywhere. You can have a space battle on an airplane tray, or try to use the snakes of Medusa to turn your friends to stone without using any table space at all.
The games included in this set are:
Space Ace
Killer Looks
Blown Away
Zomboy +
UFO, Go!
Fly, You Fools
Tiny Titan
Tug of Paw
Breached
Clash of Coins
Science Project Gone Wrong
Dungeon Dash
Realm of Ironfist
Max Tagger
Squarcles
Mini Mosaic
The Letterator
- 18 games in a small package.
- Some games seem well-thought-out and fun.
- Novelty is clever.
- Good for parties or travel.
- Relatively inexpensive ($1 per game).
- The discovery aspect is the point.
- Backing too many similar postcard games that went unplayed.
- Questionable how many are actual keepers to play more than once.
- Very much a gimmick forward thing.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- single card game — A collection of 18 single-card games.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I hate to be reductive, but this looks very cut rate to me.
- My biggest problem with this game is the name. The name is awful.
- Also, this is some of the worst font usage I've seen in a long time.
- Visually though it doesn't look ready for prime time yet.
- It's adorable, though, and it is well made.
- This is a game you know exactly what you're getting.
- The novelty is clever.
- But they hold the smell for a long time.
- Are the wells deep enough to be useful at all?
- This is for somebody who has a 3D printer and knows not what to do with it.
- This is cute right here. I like this part. It's like pretty.
- I like the simplicity, the purity of that in a way.
- It's almost stark and how like basic it is.
- This is doing very well. That's insane.
- Find a dog. Make that dog's day. What are you throwing it away?
- It's like being in Cape Canaveral. I mean, it's like the sound of the rocket getting ready to explode.
- My prototype from four years ago still smells.
- If I walked into that guy's house and saw that, I'd be turning right back around.
- The only thing you're distracted by is the incredible pain in your wrists.