Haggis (card game) Haggis (card game) Haggis is a shedding card game similar to Tichu, Zheng Fen, and other East Asian climbing games. Haggis has received praise for being the first to successfully create a climbing, trick-taking game, designed from the start for two to three players, where most previous games required four players or more. The evenly distributed, face card "bombs" are a notable innovation for the genre, helping even out hand strength enough to make two-person play workable, and enhancing the strategic element of the game. The game's designer, Sean Ross, developed Haggis over a period of several years, with first
A Game of Thrones (card game) play the "draw" deck cards will often end up in other game play areas including the "discard pile" (cards discarded from play) and the "dead pile" (cards that were killed or are marked with the Deathbound keyword). Typically, players are only allowed three copies of any particular card (as determined by the card name, regardless of card type or game text similarity) in their "draw" deck, and only one copy of any particular card, by name, in their "plot" deck, but these restrictions can be modified by some other cards, such as the Twins agenda. A player must earn 15