Stick 'Em

Get ready for 'Stick 'Em', a card game that will make you think and maybe even chuckle (or grimace) back! The idea here is simple: each round, you secretly choose a color to be your 'pain' color – the color you MOST want to AVOID. At the end of the round, each card of that color you collect gives you NEGATIVE points, and the value is the card's face value! Cards of other colors you collect are worth 1 positive point each. It's a trick-taking game where the dynamic shifts each round. The player who leads the trick plays a card, and others follow clockwise. If everyone plays the same color, the highest card wins the trick. But if different colors appear, things get interesting: the highest card of a color NOT led becomes trump and takes it all! The only exception is that zero-value cards never win a trick. The game lasts for a number of rounds equal to the number of players, and whoever has the most points (or fewest negative points!) at the end wins. With 3 to 8 players and games lasting 30 to 60 minutes, it's a game that flows quickly and can create hilarious moments of strategic 'take that'.