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King's Court box art
1983 Ranked #13,240

King's Court

UNO-style card game has players shed cards while using elaborate royal wild effects to disrupt rivals. Powerful scroll cards can create large penalties or reverse attacks, making timing more important than simple color matching.

Card Game Medieval Hand Management

Players

2-8

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

1.5/5

Rating

7.45

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.1/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

The family card game with a ROYAL TWIST! This game plays similarly to UNO, but with more complex "wild" cards.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Hand Management

Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
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The family card game with a ROYAL TWIST! This game plays similarly to UNO, but with more complex "wild" cards. For example, the Wizard allows you to choose the color, skip or change the direction, have the next player (after the skip or direction change) draw 5 cards, and also play an extra card! The Magic Potion dissolves all your "scroll card" points when someone else goes out (scroll cards are cards with special abilities who's values range from 20 to 50). The Royal Decree reverses any draw card back onto the one who played it. The Magician can become any scroll card in the deck. Etc. King's Court is currently out of print.

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Category

2
Card Game Medieval

Mechanism

1
Hand Management

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–8
Best with
4–8
Play time
30 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.5/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Barbara Cunningham Shillito

Publishers

1
Janjohn Games, Inc.

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