For the beginning of this Happy New Year, we are delighted to gift you with not one, not two, but three new card games. Skat, a classic very popular in Germany, Saint Poker, a game created by a member of the BGA community and Palace, another popular classic, are now available on Board Game Arena!
Skat is a 3 players trick-taking game played in teams which has some similarities with French Tarot. After a bidding phase, the player who made the highest bid chooses the type of game played, then has to fulfill his contract against the two other players to win.
Saint Poker is inspired from the Texas hold 'em poker card game (without bidding). It plays over several rounds with cards being moved to and from the River and your hand over the rounds which makes the game more strategic as you can try to influence the later rounds from the knowledge gained from previous rounds. This game has been designed and implemented recently by a player of the BGA community, Ricardorix so you have certainly never heard of it before! Please give it a try and give him feedback 🙂
Palace is a popular classic known under many names and having numerous variations. The goal is to get rid of your cards before the other players. You'll follow the other players laying down cards in a central pile as long as possible, but if you can't play, then you have to take back in hand all the cards from the central pile. Of course, you want to avoid that as much as possible...
For Skat, our thanks go to DrKarotte, and for Saint Poker and Palace, to RicardoRix. Thanks a lot to both of them for their work developing games for the community using BGA Studio!
Happy New Year everyone, we wish you a lot of fun and games!
Skat, Saint Poker and Palace: 3 card games!
For the beginning of this Happy New Year, we are delighted to gift you with not one, not two, but three new card games.
Skat, a classic very popular in Germany, Saint Poker, a game created by a member of the BGA community and Palace, another popular classic, are now available on Board Game Arena!
Skat is a 3 players trick-taking game played in teams which has some similarities with French Tarot.
After a bidding phase, the player who made the highest bid chooses the type of game played, then has to fulfill his contract against the two other players to win.
Saint Poker is inspired from the Texas hold 'em poker card game (without bidding).
It plays over several rounds with cards being moved to and from the River and your hand over the rounds which makes the game more strategic as you can try to influence the later rounds from the knowledge gained from previous rounds.
This game has been designed and implemented recently by a player of the BGA community, Ricardorix so you have certainly never heard of it before!
Please give it a try and give him feedback
Palace is a popular classic known under many names and having numerous variations.
The goal is to get rid of your cards before the other players.
You'll follow the other players laying down cards in a central pile as long as possible, but if you can't play, then you have to take back in hand all the cards from the central pile.
Of course, you want to avoid that as much as possible...
For Skat, our thanks go to DrKarotte, and for Saint Poker and Palace, to RicardoRix.
Thanks a lot to both of them for their work developing games for the community using BGA Studio!
Happy New Year everyone, we wish you a lot of fun and games!