Tricks and Treats Card Game

After last week's Halloween Party, it's time to divvy up your candy!

 

Tricks and Treats is another card game from Trick or Treat Studios featuring the art of Drew Rausch. The game itself actually came out in 2012 and this is an updated version with new art.

In this fast and fun game of bluffing, you must divvy up your Halloween candy fairly. Or at least, make it seem like it's split fairly. If someone else can guess which bucket is yours, you'll be forced to give up your entire haul!

This is another game where you're trying to out bluff your opponents. The goal is to have the most candy at the end of the game. To start, a number of candy buckets are placed equal to the number of players plus two. Then each player is secretly assigned one of the buckets with a card that matches it.

On your turn, you draw a card then play a candy to any of the buckets. Obviously you want to put candy into your own bucket but as part of anyone's turn, they can "tattle" on you by guessing which bucket is yours. If they're right, you're out of the game. If they're wrong, they are out of the game and you get their bucket card to add to your score.

 

The reaper above is the "game over" card. He is secretly shuffled into the bottom three cards of the deck so you never knew exactly when the game will end..assuming people don't get tattled out of the game!

There are also special baskets you can add to the mix to make things more interesting.

 

 Here's a brief overview and review of the game.

As of this writing,  Tricks and Treats is sold out at Trick or Treat Studios but I have spotted it in Barnes & Noble.