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2010 Ranked #1,150

Haggis

Climbing card game where players shed combinations, collect tricks, and race to empty their hands. Wild cards and bold bets add tension, rewarding players who can judge whether their hand will truly finish before the others.

Strategy Games Card Game Betting and Bluffing Ladder Climbing Card Games: Climbing

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

13+

Complexity

2.11/5

Rating

6.99

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.1/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Haggis is a climbing game in the same family as Zheng Fen and Big Two.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Betting and Bluffing

Risk resources on uncertain outcomes while disguising intentions or information.
Hand Management

Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Ladder Climbing

Play increasingly strong combinations until opponents cannot or choose not to respond.
Read the full game description

Haggis is a climbing game in the same family as Zheng Fen and Big Two. It borrows and recombines elements from its parent games - card combinations, bombs, scoring for cards in hand, scoring for cards collected in tricks - and it mixes in equally distributed wild cards and betting that you'll be the first to empty your hand of cards.

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Type

1
Strategy Games

Category

1
Card Game

Mechanism

3
Betting and Bluffing Hand Management Ladder Climbing

Family

6
Card Games: Climbing Card Games: Shedding / Stops Components: Traditional Playing Cards Country: Scotland Digital Implementations: Board Game Arena Organizations: The Game Artisans of Canada

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–3
Play time
45 min
Age
13+
Complexity
2.1/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Sean Ross (I)

Artists

3
Luis Francisco ???? (Sai Beppu) Gary Simpson

Publishers

1
Indie Boards & Cards

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