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Trick or Bid

Game ID: GID0365786
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Year
2025
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Description

Trick or Bid is a trick-taking game for 3-4 players trick-or-treating for cards and candy, where winning a trick lets you choose whether it counts toward tricks won or becomes your bid.

Description

Trick or Bid is a trick-taking game for 3-4 players trick-or-treating for cards and candy, where winning a trick lets you choose whether it counts toward tricks won or becomes your bid.

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Sentiment: pos 2 · mix 1 · neu 0 · neg 0
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Video f7VAtv9ylJY Tabletop Tokki Top 10 List at 2:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Immersive Halloween vibe
  • Accessible and light-weight
Cons
  • Could be perceived as gimmicky or shallow by some
Thematic elements
  • Candy collection and childhood nostalgia
  • Neighborhood Halloween trick-or-treating
  • cute, light-hearted
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Set Collection — Collect candy across locations; manage bag capacity and interact with other players via the loot system.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • this is the game where you're going to be putting together a spooky Carnival filled with Oddities Horrors beasts and all sorts of variety of attractions in order to shock and thrill your audience
  • it's cute it's very light-hearted but the set collection elements are actually really fun
  • it's like being at a party and going from Booth to Booth
  • one of my all-time favorite aesthetics in board gaming
  • this is a really cool game ... it has a niroshima hex vibe
  • the reference materials are so well put together that it's never difficult to know what to do next
  • this is a gorgeously punishing game that I own
  • the Bloody Inn is a card game where you lure and guests into your murder hotel
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Video zBjayWUHhFY Board Gaming Ramblings Other at 4:30 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Fun to play
  • Good for introducing trick-taking
  • More interesting than expected
Cons
  • Less interesting than games the reviewer wants to keep
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • bidding — Players bid based on the number of cards they choose not to take as tricks.
  • Trick-Taking — Standard trick-taking gameplay.
  • Trump selection — The color of the first card taken by a player who foregoes a trick becomes the trump suit.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Keep or Cull the series where we play a lot of games and then decide if we want to keep it in the collection or call them out of the collection.
  • It's a double cow, which is sad because I really wanted to like this game. And it's not that I didn't like it. It's just that it was fine.
  • But it was a in this genre I enjoyed it, but I'm the more of these I play, the more I'm like, I want to go back and play Fury Dracula, which is basically more straightforward where it doesn't take 16 hours to play.
  • I was a little unsure because it was fun. But there's so many games. It's I'm I'm very happy to have played it, but I will never choose to play it again.
  • Probably Bone Wars or Cudilero. So, I'm going to go Kudro because you had the other one.
  • And best uh I think I liked the trick takers the most.
  • But here we have a crazy good deal for you for $0 and0 or whatever currency you use in your country. You can subscription to this series forever.
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Video S81rmFcKqU0 The Dice Tower Top 6 List at 0:42 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
  • cute, approachable presentation
  • fun, approachable bid mechanic
Cons
  • does not offer deep hooks or high replay variety
  • not as engaging as other trick-taking designs
Thematic elements
  • bidding, trump selection, and trick-taking competition
  • Abstract card game with three/four suits; thematic framing around bidding and trump choice
Comparison games
  • Tiki Shanzawa
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • scoring by bid accuracy — Points are awarded based on hitting the bid exactly, being off by one, or failing to meet the bid
  • Trick-Taking — Players bid the number of tricks they aim to win; the highest bidder appoints the trump for that round; players follow suit when able
  • Trick-taking with bidding — Players bid the number of tricks they aim to win; the highest bidder appoints the trump for that round; players follow suit when able
  • variable deck and suit setup — Deck includes multiple suits with special values; with three players, one suit is removed from play
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • This is a mustfollow game.
  • I grab the power.
  • This game is weird. I like that kind of weird.
  • This is an excellent quick game. You play one hand and you're done.
  • Orbita is fantastic.
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