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2006 Ranked #14,648

Wizard Junior

Players bid on how many tricks they expect to take, then play cards to meet those predictions. A second bidding round reveals rivals’ expectations, making hand judgment and timing easier to learn but still consequential.

Children's Card Game Children's Game Auction/Bidding Trick-taking

Players

3-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.33/5

Rating

6.29

Harder to teach Low interaction Deep strategy

Overview

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Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.3/5

Low interaction

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?

Wizard Junior uses the same game play as its older brother, Wizard, with players bidding on the number of tricks they will take during a hand, but simplifies things for the younguns so they can get a handle on trumps and tricks.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

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Wizard Junior uses the same game play as its older brother, Wizard, with players bidding on the number of tricks they will take during a hand, but simplifies things for the younguns so they can get a handle on trumps and tricks. Wizard Junior uses colors instead of suits, and each color has fewer cards than the 13 used in the original game. The game also takes players through two bidding rounds for each hand so that they get a better handle on what others expect to take and how to judge their hand.

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Game and edition data

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Play and group

Players
3–6
Best with
2
Play time
20 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Ken Fisher

Artists

1
Franz Vohwinkel

Publishers

3
AMIGO Fantasmagoria U.S. Games Systems, Inc.

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