Trick-Taking Special, featuring The Crew and The Fox in the Forest
Channel: Andrew Venus
Date: 2021-03-02

In medieval times, Karnöffel meant 'scrotal hernia'. So there's that.

Trick-taking games were likely invented in Europe, around the same time as the modern playing card. That's around 600 years of history, and a whole lot of trick-taking games. But though there's a lot of variety in trick-taking games, the foundations on which the concept is built have not really changed.

But today we're looking at two trick-taking games that not only change the idea of what a trick-taking game can be, but do it while somehow remaining recognizably traditional. Join Andrew as he looks at The Crew, which turns traditional trick-taking into a cooperative team-building exercise, and then watch him flounder as he tries to work out the literal magic that makes The Fox in the Forest a genuinely (and alliteratively) traditional two-player trick-taking game.


00:00 - Introduction
04:24 - The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine
11:49 - The Fox in the Forest
16:57 - Final Thoughts.