Trickster: Tianxia

3-7 Players | Ages 10+ | 15 Minutes

Trickster is a series of fun casual strategy card games featuring heroes from many genres and universes. But feh! Who needs heroes anyway? In this game, you’re trying to get rid of those gallant chumps and lure them into your opponent’s house. Whoever has the fewest heroes will be the winner!

Trickster: Tianxia is a highly tactical set featuring characters from the martial arts Tianxia role-playing game Tianxia by Vigilance Press. Each Trickster set is a standalone game, but you can mix heroes from different sets to customize the game to your group’s tastes.

OVERVIEW

A Trickster set has 49 cards with seven heroes, each with their own simple effect on play. A hero appears in seven different suits, each a color of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. Each hero and suit combination appears once in a set.

The first player of each round may play any card from her hand. The second player in the round is called The Trickster, who may also pay any card from her hand. Any subsequent player that round must play a card that follows the pattern set by the Trickster. (If the first two cards are Yellow, then everyone must play a Yellow card.)

If you cannot follow the pattern, you must collect cards played this round into your personal scoring area. If everyone was able to play one card, then the Trickster collects the cards.

The goal of Trickster is to have the fewest cards by the time any player has emptied her hand. Whoever has the fewest cards is the winner... with one exception! If you have more cards of a suit than any other player, you may ignore those cards when scoring. That last twist is what drives a lot of your strategy in this light, fun game for up to seven players!