# Card game recommendations **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 22, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/card-game-recommendations/809313 "2018-02-22T02:39:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/card-game-recommendations/809313/21 "2018-03-13T23:18:37Z")
> [@Swampwolf](#): > > I recommend Fluxx. There are different varieties including Dr. Who, Monty Python, and many more. You can play a card that brings up an odd rule that has to be played every time (my personal fave is the one where you have to sing a Monty Python song before each turn, followed closely by, IIRC, 4 lines from any sketch). > > There are infinite variations, and it’s even 2-player friendly. IMHO, Fluxx is fun and pleasingly meta… but it’s also extremely silly. It’s the kind of game that is quite fun to pull out and play occasionally with casual gamers, but not the kind of game you’d get together with serious game playing friends and play once a week. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/card-game-recommendations/809313/22 "2018-03-14T04:46:58Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > **[Sushi Go!](https://www.amazon.com/Sushi-Go-Pick-Pass-Card/dp/B00J57VU44/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519269109&sr=8-1&keywords=sushigo)** is a hit card game in our family. Easy to understand after one quick practice round and the whole game does not take much time. You make decisions and your decisions matter. Fun game, great theme. Is you like _Sushi Go_, I recommend you check out _[Fairy Tale](https://www.amazon.com/Z-Man-Games-41240-Fairy-Board/dp/B00IKUH7E4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1521002458&sr=8-1&keywords=fairy+tale+card+game)_. It takes the basic rules of _Sushi Go_ and makes them better. In _Sushi Go_ you draft a card and immediately play it. In _Fairy Tale_, there’s drafting rounds where you draft five cards. And then there are playing rounds where you play three of the five cards you drafted (and discard the other two). You do this four times so in the end you have a tableau of twelve cards that you score. This gives _Fairy Tale_ new levels of strategy because you get to work on collecting cards before you have to play them. You also now have more opportunity to “hate draft” where you take a card that you don’t want in order to deny it to another player who you can see does want it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/card-game-recommendations/809313/23 "2018-03-14T04:55:25Z")
Some of my other favorites are [_Fidelitas_](https://www.amazon.com/Green-Couch-Games-GCG001-Fidelitas/dp/B00RZNJ6KK/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1521003056&sr=1-1&keywords=fidelitas), [_Red7_](https://www.amazon.com/Asmadi-Games-ASI-0050-Red7-Card/dp/B00OGR9PAY/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1521003026&sr=1-1&keywords=red7), and [_Trickster_](https://www.amazon.com/Action-Phase-Games-Trickster-Champions/dp/B06XFC4BGL/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1521002859&sr=1-1&keywords=trickster). I also enjoy [_Actionworks_](http://www.lumenaris.com/actionworks.html) but I have a harder time recommending it because it’s very hard to find a copy and you really need six players to experience the full game. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/card-game-recommendations/809313/24 "2018-03-17T01:30:43Z")
If you’re going to pick up Sushi Go, go all the way and get [Sushi Go Party](https://gamewright.com/product/Sushi-Go-Party). It adds a bunch of new cards, which you can sub in for the also-included cards from the original game to make a near-infinite amount of decks. It also adds a counter track for scoring, and now you can play with up to eight players. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/card-game-recommendations/809313/25 "2018-03-17T01:59:52Z")
I’ll also recommend [Kodama, The Tree Spirits](https://www.actionphasegames.com/pages/kodama-the-tree-spirits). The Studio Ghibli-esque design elements are what caught my eye, but the inventive game mechanics are pretty unique. You play your branch cards off your starting trunk card to build your tree and score points, so there’s a physical element to placement, as you choose which branches to extend and a card you play can’t touch any card but the one you are attaching it to. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/card-game-recommendations/809313/26 "2018-03-17T03:53:30Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Final recommendation: [Barbu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbu_(card_game)), which has the brilliant mechanic of having several different subgames, and the dealer deal the cards, picks up their hand, looks at it, and then chooses which subgame to play. um, you could grab Dragonmaster off ebay which is a very playable remake, or the (less playable imho) more recent take called Indulgence. both played with no traditional decks. splendor is a fantastic card game that isn’t really a card game but one that is played with cards. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/card-game-recommendations/809313/27 "2018-03-17T03:59:08Z")
I haven’t played it in years but I enjoy _Mille Bornes_ > **[Mille Bornes](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille_Bornes)** > > Mille Bornes (/ˌmɪl ˈbɔːrn/; French for a thousand milestones, referring to the distance markers on many French roads) is a French designer card game. Mille Bornes is listed in the GAMES Magazine Hall of Fame. > The game was created in 1954 by Edmond Dujardin \[fr\] as 1000 Bornes, and is almost identical to the earlier American automotive card game Touring, designed by William Janson Roche in 1906. One additional feature is the coup-fourré ("counter-thrust"), whereby bonus points are earned by hol... ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/card-game-recommendations/809313/28 "2018-03-17T05:59:31Z")
> [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](#): > > I recommend “Wizard”, it’s a trump (the good kind) based game that is quite enjoyable. It can be played with 2-8 players, 4+ is ideal. This does involve a custom store bought deck. I remember the actual gameplay of Wizard being underwhelming, but I have good memories of it because one of my friends started yelling WIIIZAAARD whenever he played the titular card and it became something of an inside joke for us. ---
**Author:** ![MedellinMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@MedellinMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MedellinMike)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/card-game-recommendations/809313/29 "2018-03-22T16:28:24Z")
Tichu - I’ll be the third or fourth to recommend this game. “The Game” - a cooperative card game, with limited communication between players. There is a deck with cards from 2 through 99. Each player starts with 5 or 6 cards. The object is to get all of the cards from the deck onto the table by placing them on 4 piles in either increasing or decreasing order. “Mind” - a new game that I don’t think is released yet. Another game with a deck from 1 to 100 and limited communication. This game is played in a number of rounds, again trying to get cards out of you hand in ascending order. There are a slew of deck building games, but I assume that is different than what you are looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/card-game-recommendations/809313/30 "2018-03-22T17:32:14Z")
> [@MedellinMike](#): > > “Mind” - a new game that I don’t think is released yet. Another game with a deck from 1 to 100 and limited communication. This game is played in a number of rounds, again trying to get cards out of you hand in ascending order. It’s been released in Germany and the Netherlands. There hasn’t been an English-language version released yet. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/card-game-recommendations/809313/31 "2018-03-22T18:32:34Z")
Another vote for Fluxx. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/card-game-recommendations/809313.md?page=1)