Category: card game

You still have a couple of days to enter to win the cardgame Rowboat. Tichu Designer: Urs Hostettler Year: 1991 Players: 3 - 10 Time: 60 - 90 minutes Ages: 10 and up This is a great card game - a little confusing the first few times you play it. First I'll give the blurb since I find it a little tough to explain. Partnership climbing card game -- object is rid yourself of your hand. The deck is a standard 52-card pack with four special cards added. When it's your turn, you may either beat the current top card combination or pass. If play passes all the way back to the player who laid the top cards, he wins the trick and can lead the next one. The card led determines the only combination of cards to be played on that trick. So if a single card is led, then only single cards are...

Rowboat Manufacturer: Moosetache Games Year: 2010 Players: 2 - 4 Time: 60 minutes Ages: 13 and up Ah, summer's over here in eastern Ohio. The temperature has been in the sixties and low seventies for a while now. I love autumn, but I kinda miss summer too. However, this winter when I'm longing for the beach, for warm weather, I can at least pull out Rowboat, a very pretty trick-taking card game. These are some of the "face" cards, but there are also the standard 2-10 of the four suits, shells, waves, oars and maps. Isn't the nautical theme beautifully done? The game play itself is reminiscent of several other card games, but put together in a unique way. The dealer lays cards out on the table face up until all four suits are showing. This is called the Tide. The number of the cards varies each game. Each card in the deal represents a round and is the card that controls trump for that round....