Game Info
Year
2023
Players
3-5
Age
9+
Playtime
35 min
Complexity
1.5/5
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Description
Superhero-themed cant-follow trick-taking game where players avoid paradoxes that end hands early
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Top List at 16:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Innovative trick-taking and drafting mechanism.
- Engaging scoring system that encourages strategic drafting.
- High player interaction and potential for sabotage.
Cons
- Can lead to players getting in each other's way.
Thematic elements
- Superhero-themed game where players draft cards from tricks to build sets of suits for scoring.
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card drafting — After a trick is resolved, players draft cards that were played to that trick.
- Must not follow suit — Players must play a suit that has not yet been played in the trick if possible.
- set collection scoring — Points are scored based on collecting cards of certain suits, with different scoring for single high-value cards versus multiple cards.
- Trick-taking — Players play cards in tricks, but with a twist on the usual rules.
- Trump suit — A supervillain suit has much stronger cards.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Wow, straightforward.
- One of the best mechanisms ever and and most everlasting.
- This is just like seriously one of the like most bafflingly amazing mechanisms ever created for games.
- Keep making new ones. How?
- It's fantastic.
- The scoring in this game is nuts.
- It was one of the greatest like board gaming experience of my life.
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Tricky Dojo Review at 14:22 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- High strategic depth and tension throughout
- Innovative scoring and the no-follow variant creates interesting decisions
- Strong thematic integration with a compelling villain/hero dichotomy
Cons
- Rule overhead can be substantial and intimidating for newcomers
- Longer playtime may deter casual players
Thematic elements
- Time-travel-esque combat of misfortune and celebration with dramatic moments
- Hero-vs-villain arc with a time-crisis twist; no-follow rule variations
- Tension-driven crescendo toward a climactic end
Comparison games
- Skull King
- Dog Tag Trick
- Inside Job
- The Crew
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Catch-up and suspenseful finale — Scoring structure creates mounting tension as players approach the 40-point threshold, with potential dramatic shifts.
- End-game scoring with duplicates and mid-range cards — Scores hinge on end-of-round totals; duplicates cancel; mid-range cards gain importance as the round closes.
- No-follow rule and villain/hero suits — You cannot always follow suit; a villain/hero dynamic then governs trick resolution.
- Special cards and nuanced scoring — 13 or Infinity cards can trump all; end-of-round scoring with unique modifiers affects strategy.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Skull King creates this escalating tension each round of Tricks becomes more and more interesting and harder and harder to predict
- I think Skull King is the Victor
- Skull King to the table over and over again
- replayability is higher in Skull King
- Inside Job has a very interesting mechanic in that hidden Trader
- dog show and when you play cards you have a choice of two different options
- thematic implementation all also puts it just a level above Skull King
- it's a really interesting way to think about a trick-taking game
- the main event and sub event and tying that to a dog show
- this game is so good
- highest card does not win nor does the lowest card it's the second highest card
- you cannot always follow suit in this instance that's not the case
- the thematic implementation all also puts it just a level above Skull King
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