Published card games
Haggis
Indie Boards & Cards, 2010
Haggis is a card game published by Indie Boards & Cards in 2010. It is played with 2 to 4 players, from age 13 and in about 45 minutes.
- players
- 2–4
- minutes
- 45
- years
- 13+
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The box
- Publishers
- Indie Boards & Cards, (Self-Published), Bambus Spieleverlag, Engames, Grok Games, Mandoo Games
- Designer
- Sean Ross (I)
- Artwork
- Luis Francisco, Diego Sá, 別府さい (Sai Beppu), Gary Simpson
- Year of release
- 2010
About the game
Haggis is a shedding card game similar to Tichu, Zheng Fen, and other East Asian climbing games. Haggis has received praise for being the first to successfully create a climbing, trick-taking game, designed from the start for two to three players, where most previous games required four players or more. The evenly distributed, face card "bombs" are a notable innovation for the genre, helping even out hand strength enough to make two-person play workable, and enhancing the strategic element of the game.
The game's designer, Sean Ross, developed Haggis over a period of several years, with first publication in late 2010 by Indie Boards and Cards. The game was named after haggis partly in a nod to Ross' Scottish heritage, but also because the game brought together the "guts" (scoring and play mechanisms) of several other climbing games. Haggis was a nominee for "Best Card Game" in the 2010 Golden Geek Awards by BoardGameGeek.More from Indie Boards & Cards
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