Cheez-Tricks
Cheez-Tricks is a trick taking/avoidance game where players play as rats trying to grab some cheese. But the cats will capture those who fall in some specific traps. Will you be able to score some points avoiding them? Or, even better, will you face them all for even more of points?
Players play trick-taking hands, following usual trick-taking rules (must follow, trump, etc). In each round, though, some cats (missions) should be avoided. For example, the player should not have the most 8s. Or one specific card, the red 7. Or maybe can not win trick number 4.
Points are awarded according to tricks won and cats avoided. After a certain number of rounds, the player with the most points is the winner.
Number of players: 2 - 5
Game duration: 10 mn
Complexity: 2 / 5
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Rules summary
Cheez-Tricks is a trick-taking game where you should avoid some missions (or try to get them all for more points).
- Deck composition: 2 players: 1-7 3 players: 1-9 4 and 5 players: 1-10 All the cards are dealt, except in 2 players where 20 cards are dealt and 8 are removed from the game.
- Playing the game: Regular rules for trick-taking game: must follow suit, trump (random on the first round, chose by the player who has the least score on all the others). Highest card of the trump takes the trick; in case of no trumps, highest card of the lead suit takes the trick.
- Scoring:
- Number of tricks x 2 if you have not been captured by any cat.
- Number of tricks x 1 if you have been captured by 1 cat.
- Zero points if you have been captured by 2 cats.
- Number of tricks x 3 if you have been captured by all cats.
BGA deck by color / cheese:
Orange = Parmesan
Red = Swiss
Green = Roquefort
Blue = Brie
After rounds = number of players, the player who has the most points is the winner.
- The Cats:
- Black Cat: Capture the player who wins a certain trick.
- Siamese Cat: Capture the player who wins a certain card.
- White Cat: Capture the first player who wins a certain amount of tricks
- Gray Cat: Capture the player that wins the most of a card/suit/tricks by the end of the round.
- Orange Cat: Capture the player that wins the least of a card/suit/tricks by the end of the round.
- Tuxedo Cat: Capture the player that wins exactly a certain amount of tricks by the end of the round.
