The Four Deuces

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Trick-Taking — Players take turns playing cards, with the highest card typically winning the trick.
• two-player — Designed for two players.

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• man, this theme and everything about this from One More Turn Games, I'm very pumped about this one. I love the I cannot wait.
• It's a cool cover actually. It's just not very legible, but it's a life.
• If you like gardens, that's great. You like dragons, that's great. You like them both, buy three copies.
• This is teetering on the edge. This is almost more of a tainted grail type of a look to me.
• I think of all the ones that we've mentioned, this is the one I'm least interested in
• Never mind. This might be the one I'm least interested in.
• Cuz Clank! Catacombs exists.
• that's a really good-looking prototype.
• This would have been my most anticipated game of the year or one of them had I known about it
• This is one of my most anticipated games of the year now.
• This is basically um a Star Trek version of Captain Sonar.
• We know about this for a while. We've been very excited. We've already played it actually.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Dice — but with dice as well.
• Suit Hierarchy — it's going to have kind of this trick hierarchy, or excuse me, suit hierarchy that's going to be dynamic throughout the game.
• Trick-Taking — It's going to be two-player trick-taking

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• And so I'm talking about the upcoming spring 2026 Tokyo Game Market.
• While I won't be going, I do have some friends who will be there that may be able to pick up a couple of these for me.
• Baseball is a huge sport in Japan and and I do like seeing games with this baseball theme. You don't see it a whole lot, so looking forward to that one.
• I love auction games.
• I always like games that take trick-taking and add some little wrinkle to it.
• I love the look of the game. It has a really great art style, like most of the games from uh Oink Games Studio. I've really liked the way they look.
• And so it looks like another banger from Cunnil. I'm very much looking forward to The Four Duces.
• Hisashi Hayashi finds ways to get really compelling gameplay out of a very simple rule set and I'm expecting no different for Pizza Otter Double Bingo.
• Leo is just rapidly becoming one of my favorite uh, card game designers.
• Sashi puts out a game like this that that kind of is like one of these dice placement style games or mid kind of weight type games, and I'm on board because I've yet to really be disappointed.
• And the only reason it's not number one on my list is because number one on my list is coming from my favorite trick-taking uh designer of all time, who I feel is the best trick-taking designer of all time, Taiki Shinzawa.
• And um I'm I'm here for it. Can't Win just looks fantastic.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Dice Rolling — Dice are used to potentially change the power of the suits.
• Hand Management — Managing cards to avoid winning too many suits.
• Trick-Taking — A two-player trick-taking game.

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• The way that this list came about to be and the games that we ended up choosing are games that we would personally go get.
• I would like to also say that we is used softly here because Ilia would tell me that I need to go find this and I would go around the convention while he goes and finds a different one.
• Our list for Tokyo Game Market 2026 spring.
• It just seems silly enough and with the art that I just want to try.
• I wonder about this game because it feels like the way you describe it feels like it should be competitive.
• The puzzle of like closing that gap, not being able to play the number, hoping that another number comes up is really where the fun comes out of it.
• It seems like another one of those games that's really clever
• Well, Ilia will. I I don't know about these other games. You do. I told you about many of them.
• Now, before you go, Tyler, which one of these are you most excited about?

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