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Trumpet box art
1990 Ranked #6,564

Trumpet

This trick-taking racing game has players win tricks to advance along a crowded scoring track. Trump suits emerge during play and movement can bump leaders, creating opportunities to surge forward or send rivals backward near the finish.

Family Games Card Game Trick-taking

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

9+

Complexity

1.44/5

Rating

6.20

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

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?

In this light, short trick-taking game, there are six suits with cards numbered one through eleven, plus 3 wild cards.

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In this light, short trick-taking game, there are six suits with cards numbered one through eleven, plus 3 wild cards. If you take a trick, you advance your scoring token, however each scoring space can only be occupied by one person, jumping the piece[s] immediately ahead of you. In addition, there are certain spaces which allow that player to set one of the suits as trump. Eventually all the suits are established as some form of trump, however each of them is ranked top to bottom. Once one of the players enters the home stretch of the scoring track, players can chose to move the leaders back a space instead of moving themselves up, but the winner is the player who crosses the finish line first. Won Games Magazine Game of the Year award in 1991.

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Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
3–6
Play time
45 min
Age
9+
Complexity
1.4/5
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Credits

Designers

1
Phil Orbanes Sr.

Artists

2
López de Zubiria Per Sjöholm

Publishers

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