Grandpa Becks Games Skull King - The Ultimate Pirate Trick Taking Game | from The Creators of Cover Your Assets & Cover Your Kingdom | 2-8 Players 8+

After playing this game at a friends house, we came home and ordered it. So. Much. Fun!!! We taught our children how to play and now they want to play it all the time. If you are considering it for yourself or for a gift, definitely get it!

We had fun learning this game. Didn’t work for the young kids but all the rest of the family enjoyed it. There’s enough randomness to give everyone a chance of winning.

I gave this as a gift to my grandkids, ages 12-16, they really liked it! Its fun to play, several different ways to play make it easy to learn.

We play a lot of games, I mean a lot. We have over 400! We were very surprised to see how much we love this game especially after playing Diamonds and thinking that ruined all trick taking games for us. Diamonds is a great game too. They are both trick taking games but theyre different. Scheming and Skulking had us excited and screaming . Great game!

Love this game. Played it at my parents house then bought it for game nights. Scoring takes a second to figure out but it is a blast.

We have now played this game well over 10 times with family and friends even since Christmas! Excellent game, super fun for all, not hard to learn, and the perfect amount of time to spend on a game with lots of players (30 min or so). It’s a small box too so it’s easy to store, bring on the go, and makes for a great gift!

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Fun game, but the scoring is not optimal. As a game enthusiasts I love games that are close, like when you think you loosing by a little but then you win, or Vice a versa. With this game if you loose the round early then your strategy is out the door, the only thing left to do is try and make your opponents loose too but impossible to target the score leader. Additionally the point swing between winers and losers is to great, and if you loose too many rounds in a row your in the hole too much you might as well not even play anymore. The only way to have a chance to come back is bid 0 (gamble big) but it is extremely hard to get 0 in the last half of the game, So you end up Loosing big. A few of those losses in a row and it’s impossible to come back. I recommend adjusting the point scoring for your own matrix to even out game pay. Example: Bid Zero: Get 20 bonus points for taking the risk. And Score 10 times the round for winning, minus 10 times the round for loosing. Bid 1 or more: Get. 10 for every hand you win, but minus 10 for every one you go over and minus 5 for every one under your bid. So you can still earn points for getting close to your bid. Bonus points: 10 points for hitting your bid exactly. And always score bonus points wether win or lose.

I love this game!! It arrived before the expected date and I and my family have been playing it ever since!

This game is so fun! I love the probabilities involved, and that winning isn’t necessarily all up to chance. It is a bit of a complex game (which I would say makes it more entertaining), but the rules have great infographics and examples to help in learning. Looking forward to playing it for years to come!