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Great article on Trick Taking games (www.meeplemountain.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by valen to c/[email protected]
 

Meeple Mountain has a great article on trick taking games. I want to try Sail, as my wife and I love cooperative games.

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[–] donio 4 points 11 months ago

That's a great selection of games.

Worth noting that there is an excellent 2-player variant for Yokai Septet. It started out as a fan variant but the designer liked it so much that it was adopted as official. I've been playing this a lot in the Trickster's Table app.

Crew's 2p variant works well too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Good article, really great game suggestions. I particularly enjoyed Cat in the Box.

No mention of Euchre, which is also a wonderful trick-taking game that uses (some of) a standard deck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

There are a whole lot of trick-taking games in traditional card space: