Decktet games, ordered by rating
Nathan Morse
United States
Powell
Ohio
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This is a list of games using the Decktet, ordered by rating. Simple as that.
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Board Game: Snakebit
[Average Rating:8.00 Unranked]
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Board Game: Bisque
[Average Rating:8.00 Unranked]
Daniël Muilwijk
Netherlands
Zeist
Utrecht
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A trick-manipulating game for 3 players with hidden goals and a deduction aspect.
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Board Game: Shed
[Average Rating:7.83 Unranked]
P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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A trick-taking game in which players have to follow type rather than following suit. Uses suit chips for scoring.
My review: Shed like a house, or shed like a dog?
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Board Game: Myrmex
[Average Rating:7.80 Unranked]
Greg J
Canada
Richmond Hill
Ontario
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Myrmex is an olde style solitaire game for the Decktet. Two Decktets are required to play. The object of the game is to organize all of the cards into 6 piles that share a single suit and are in descending rank order from Crown to Ace.
Myrmex is an engaging and utterly addictive Spider solitaire experience. Don’t play this game if you have something important to do today.
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P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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a resource management and development game for 2 players
This was the first Decktet game to get enough ratings to have a rank in the database.
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Board Game: Gasp!
[Average Rating:7.50 Unranked]
P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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A trick-taking game designed by Greg James in which the goal is to collect different kinds of tricks.
My review: Some exclamations about Gasp!
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Board Game: Boojum
[Average Rating:7.50 Unranked]
P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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An auction game. You use the lots of cards that you buy to build sets (for scoring) and as currency (to buy lots in the next round).
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P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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A trick taking game in which the top suit of a card is what matters for following suit and the other suit determines which top suits count as trump.
My review: Double Knot means all kinds of fun
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Board Game: Quincunx
[Average Rating:7.27 Unranked]
Nathan Morse
United States
Powell
Ohio
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tableau-filling game for 2 to 4 players
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Board Game: Frogger
[Average Rating:7.12 Unranked]
P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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A race game with elements of Cartagena
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P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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A market manipulation game that uses suit chips to represent shares in the different suits. Can be played with 2 or 3 players, but is best with 3.
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P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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An auction game inspired by a 19th-century fantasy poem.
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Board Game: The Wall
[Average Rating:7.00 Unranked]
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Traditional style solitaire game.
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P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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a territory control game for two players
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P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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A game of growing the tree of life - until it gets too big, and then you get stuck with the branches.
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P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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A game of seeing patterns and making connections for 2-5 players
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P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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a game of hardscrabble bird ranching for 2 players
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P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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A tug of war game for 2 players, created for the August 2008 Game Design Showdown at the Board Game Designers Forum.
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P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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a game of reckless burgling for 2-5 players
Each card represents a house, and each suit corresponds to a different kind of loot. After robbing one house, you may decide to hit another. Press your luck too far and you'll lose your whole take for the night.
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4-Player partnership trick-taking game.
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A light push-your-luck adventure game
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P.D. Magnus
United States
Albany
New York
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A solitaire game in which you try to control of the personality cards before they foil your plans.
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Clemson
South Carolina
Also, why does each game have a listing? Other special decks (e.g. Alpha Playing Cards) have one entry for the Game System (under the new BGG parlance) and no individual listings. Since Decktet has a listing, why have all these other listings? It doesn't make sense unless we list all those Alpha Playing Card and Early Games and Galaxy and Mu spinoffs separately. And then we'd need to list every entry in game anthology books (like Co-op Games Manual). It's madness, I tell you.
Albany
New York
I missed this when the question was first asked. The short answer is: Yes, almost.
The longer answer: I think that Dectana requires a double deck. Four-player Chancellors requires much less shuffling if you play with a double deck. But you can play almost all the extant Decktet games with a single deck.
Zeist
Utrecht
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
Boojum requires at least 2 decktets. With a silly number of players you would need more.
West Jordan
Utah