Mechanisms
- Hand Management
- Set Collection
- Trick-taking
- Release
- 10/2026
- Publisher
- Inside Up Games
- Designers
- Ignasi Ferré
- Languages
- English
- Age
- 10+
- Illustrators
- Dasha Park
In Tricky Traps, it's easy to score points. The real challenge is to hold onto them!
The game plays over 3 rounds. Each round, you’ll draft 9 cards (3 at a time), then play them out in tricks. Every card has a value, and the highest card wins the trick.
But setting traps is the real game:
The winner takes all the cards won from the trick and adds them to their personal scoring zone, grouped by trap "type". Only your lowest cards score, and consecutive runs cancel each other out. Every trick is a delicate balance of risk VS reward.
You’ll collect plenty of points… just don’t expect to keep them all.