#The fox in the forest cards series

This card and scoring mechanism is the magic of The Fox in the Forest. At the end of the round, you count up how many tricks you have won and compare that number to the end of the round scorecard. You are dealt 13 cards and each turn you will play one of those cards.

#The fox in the forest cards series

The game is played in a series of rounds where each round consists of 13 turns. The first one to score 21 points or more is the winner. The concept where if you win too many times you lose. Then we add the icing on the cake of this card game. Do you use your special cards early to set yourself up to win that round or save them for later to surprise your opponent? These special cards can turn the tide in the middle of a round. The game’s card pool is small enough to remember what each card does and you’ll find yourself playing around cards that you “suspect” could be in your opponent’s hand. – Or a card that when played forces your opponent to play a specific card from their hand even when they dont want to. – Replacing the trump card for another card in the middle of your turn. Then it gives half of the cards special powers that spice up the game.

The Fox in the Forest card game takes this concept of trick-taking with a regular deck of cards and removes one suit of cards to make the game tighter. You’ll be able to read your opponent and try to bait out some of their cards and maybe remove a suit from their hand entirely. Once you understand it you’ll be able to make interesting decisions about which cards to play and which to save. Trick-taking is a deceptively simple mechanic. They win the trick because even though their number was lower than the top player, the suit of the bottom player matched the trump suit which is the suit that wins all other suits. But since they dont have a Bells card to play, they play a 2 of Moons instead. The bottom player must follow with a Bells card of any number from their hand. In the photo below, the trump suit is Moons (the card under the deck). If they play a suit that matches the “trump suit”, (the special suit declared at the beginning of the round) then they win no matter who’s number is higher. If their number is higher they win the trick, if yours is higher you win the trick! But if they don’t have the same suit in their hand as the one you played, they can play any other suit they want. In the simplest explanation… Trick-taking is a genre of card games where you play a card from your hand and then your opponent plays a card of the same suit. But losing on purpose sometimes isn’t as simple. However, the biggest twist is that if you win too many times, you end up losing the game. Some of the cards you play with have special powers to spice up the game. The Fox in the Forest is a trick-taking game with a twist.

I chose The Fox in the Forest specifically because it was considered to be one of the best two-player games out there at the time and it was cheap, about $15.Ī year later, I am now writing a review about Fox in the Forest and telling you why I believe it’s one of the best two-player card games I have ever played. To dip my feet into modern board gaming I decided to pick up a small two-player card game.