Hand Management Games
Games featuring hand management mechanics
Karma
In Karma, each player is dealt three face-down cards that he cannot look at and that remain on the table in front of him. He is dealt six more cards, chooses three of those for his hand, and places the remaining three face-up onto his table cards in three separate stacks. One player begins by pla...
Dragonkeepers
Herd dragons and cast magic spells to boost their value. 2-4 Players | 20 Mins | Ages 8+ Exciting family game New card mechanism Over 120 lovingly illustrated large-format cards Description:Anyone can herd sheep, but have you ever herded dragons?Even dragons start small. Before they can fly...
Sea Salt & Paper
Assemble your hand of cards, play their effects, and take the initiative to stop the round. Will you dare to give your opponents one last turn to try to maximize your own points? HOW TO PLAY: In Sea Salt & Paper players are trying to manage their hands and collect sets of cards. On your tur...
Wyrmspan
You are an amateur dracologist in the world of Wyrmspan, a place where dragons of all shapes, sizes, and colors roam the skies. Excavate a hidden labyrinth you recently unearthed on your land and entice these beautiful creatures to roost in the sanctuary of your caves. During a game of Wyrmspan,...
Forest Shuffle
Gather the most valuable trees and attract species to them. 2-5 Players | 40-60 Min | Ages 10+Features: Animals, Card Game, Enviromental, Territory Building, Hand ManagementDescription:Experience the miracles of the forest in this clever card game. In Forest Shuffle, 2-4 players compete in gather...
Five Crowns
Five Crowns is rummy with a five-suited deck and a twist. The set collection aspect of rummy is basically the same, with groups of three cards in either runs or denominations making a valid meld. The twist is that in each hand the number of cards required to create a meld increases, from three ca...
Spots
Dogs have spots. Dice have spots. Spots is a game about rolling dice, pushing your luck...and dogs! You’ll roll and reroll, trying to place dice on the matching spots on your dogs. You get to laugh at your friends when they take a big risk and bust. And they get to laugh right back at you for doi...
Sea Salt & Paper: Extra Salt
This mini-expansion for Sea Salt & Paper is presented as a booster pack. It includes 8 new cards with 5 new effects: Jellyfish 1 point for each combination of Swimmer and Jellyfish card Effect: On their next turn, opposing players can only draw the first card from the deck. They cannot p...
Heat Pedal to the Metal
Based on simple and intuitive hand management, Heat: Pedal to the Metal puts players in the driver's seat of intense car races, jockeying for position to cross the finish line first, while managing their car's speed if they don't want to overheat. Selecting the right upgrades for their car will h...
Foodie Forest
Share a pot to create your own soup using refreshing trick-taking mechanics. 2-5 Players | 30 Min | Age: 8+Key Features: Hand Management, Set Collection, Trick-takingDescription:This Reiner Knizia concoction is a sort of a trick-taking game, but instead of everybody playing one card and seein...
Cockroach Poker
Cockroach Poker is a reverse set collection game that has nothing to do with poker – except that the game is all about bluffing, with cards that show cockroaches, rats and stink bugs. The goal is to force another player to collect 4 of any one type of critter.The deck includes 64 cards, with ei...
Here to Slay
Here to Slay is a competitive role-playing fantasy strategy card game that's all about assembling a party of Heroes and slaying monsters (and sometimes sabotaging your friends too) from the creators of Unstable Unicorns.In this game, you’ll assemble a full party of heroes to slay dangerous monste...
Wingspan
Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. You are bird enthusiasts researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collector seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a cha...
Everdell
Everdell is a game of dynamic tableau building and worker placement. Within the charming valley of Everdell, beneath the boughs of towering trees, among meandering streams and mossy hollows, a civilization of forest critters is thriving and expanding. From Everfrost to Bellsong, many a year ha...
The Mind
The Mind is more than just a game. It's an experiment, a journey, a team experience in which you can't exchange information, yet will become one to defeat all the levels of the game. In more detail, the deck contains cards numbered 1-100, and during the game you try to complete 12, 10, or 8 leve...
Spellbook
Wide variety of spell combinations, play hundreds of unique games.1-4 Players | 45+ Mins | Ages 12+A game by: Phil Walker-Harding - Australian game designer, best known for Sushi Go!, Barenpark, Gizmos & Imhotep!Description:Become the greatest wizard of the Annual Grand Rite by collecting...