WIZARD CARD GAME

Perfect your strategy and outsmart your opponents in this Wizard card game, the ultimate card game! This original card game has its own 60-card deck and the rules are simple to learn. The real challenge is mastering the strategy needed to win! Have fun and see for yourself why over a million copies of this Wizard card game have been sold!

Goal of the game:

The goal of the game is to correctly bid the number of tricks a player will take in the following round. Points are awarded for a correct bid and subtracted for an incorrect bid. The player with the most points after all rounds have been played is the winner.

How to play:

The game is played over a certain number of rounds from 10 to 20, depending on the number of players, and each round consists of three phases: Dealing, bidding, and playing.

In the first round, each player is dealt one card. In subsequent rounds, the number of cards is increased by one until all cards are dealt. This means three players play 20 rounds, four players 15 rounds, five players 12 rounds, and six players 10 rounds. The top card of the remaining deck is turned over to determine the trump suit. If there are no cards left or if a Jester is turned over, there is no trump, and only Wizards are trump. If a Wizard is turned over, the dealer chooses a trump suit.

After looking at their cards, starting with the player to the left of the dealer, each player states how many tricks they think they will take, from zero to the number of cards dealt. This is recorded on a score pad.

The player to the left of the dealer plays a card, then the others follow clockwise. If a card other than a Wizard or a Jester is played, players must follow suit, but it is possible to play a Jester or a Wizard even if the player has the required suit. The Wizard beats all other cards, but the first one played in a trick beats all others. The Jester is beaten by all others, but if all cards in a trick are Jesters, the first one beats the others. If a Jester is played as the first card, the first card of a suit decides which suit must be followed. If a Wizard is played as the first card, each player is free to play what they want, regardless of the others. If the first card is a Jester and the second is a Wizard, then the Wizard rule prevails and players are not required to follow suit.

At the end of each round, each player receives a score based on their performance. For correctly predicting the number of tricks taken, a player receives 20 points plus 10 points for each trick taken. For incorrectly predicting the number of tricks, a player loses 10 points for each trick over or under.

Age:

10+

Number of players:

3 to 6 players

Duration:

60 minutes

Contents:

- 60-card Wizard and Jester deck

- Score pad

- Instructions