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Twisted Trumpets

Twisted Trumpets

2025·Matthew Rodela

2 - 4 players
20 - 40 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

From BoardGameGeek

Twisted Trumpets is a lively, competitive tile-laying game where you vie for the prestigious title of “Royal Bugler” by crafting the most whimsical trumpet in the kingdom! On your turn, choose from three actions: draw a basic pipe tile from the face-down stack, trade for face-up premium tiles, or lay tiles on your player board to build your trumpet. As you go, you'll create a fantastical, Dr. Seuss-like horn that twists and turns in all directions. Adorn your trumpet with flags, birds, and musical notes to meet various scoring criteria. Additionally, you'll race to complete any of the three public Royal Decrees before your rivals to earn extra points. Collect private Queen's Plans cards, which challenge you to build your trumpet in specific ways by the end of the game to score additional points. As you build your trumpet, you'll trigger special bonus actions by covering “King's Favor” scrolls on your player board. These scrolls let you choose one of these powerful bonuses: take a free premium tile, perform two additional actions, or gain an extra Queen's Plans card. Each time you trigger the same favor, it becomes less powerful and eventually unavailable, so timing is everything! The game ends when a player completely fills all but three squares on their player board. You'll finish that round, then all players take one final turn. Everyone tallies their scores based on the length of completed pipes, sets of flags, notes surrounding birds, public objectives, and private goals. The player with the most points wins and becomes the new Royal Bugler! -description from designer

Twisted Trumpets

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Learn to play

All the Games with Steph: Twisted Trumpets - Teach17:24

All the Games with Steph: Twisted Trumpets - Teach

Steph Hodge

Steph Hodge

Review

Place Tiles & Make a CRAZY Instrument: Garrett's Games Reviews Twisted Trumpets from Play to Z Games9:07

Place Tiles & Make a CRAZY Instrument: Garrett's Games Reviews Twisted Trumpets from Play to Z Games

Garrett's Games

Garrett's Games

Which Twisted Trumpets video should I watch?

Twisted Trumpets has 4 videos from 3 creators: 1 review, 1 how-to-play guide, 1 unboxing and 1 other video. They date from 2025 to August 2026.

To learn the rules, start with "All the Games with Steph: Twisted Trumpets - Teach" by Steph Hodge, which runs 17 min.

For an opinion before you buy, start with "Place Tiles & Make a CRAZY Instrument: Garrett's Games Reviews Twisted Trumpets from Play to Z Games" by Garrett's Games.

If you like it, try Café, Azul, Copenhagen or Tribes of the Wind, which share several of its mechanics.

All videos

Introducing Twisted Trumpets: A Whimsical New Tile-laying Path-building Family Board Game1:38

Introducing Twisted Trumpets: A Whimsical New Tile-laying Path-building Family Board Game

Matt Rodela - Muse & Mettle Games

Matt Rodela - Muse & Mettle Games

Twisted Trumpets UnboxingUnboxing7:04

Twisted Trumpets Unboxing

Matt Rodela - Muse & Mettle Games

Matt Rodela - Muse & Mettle Games

All the Games with Steph: Twisted Trumpets - TeachHow to play17:24

All the Games with Steph: Twisted Trumpets - Teach

Steph Hodge

Steph Hodge

Place Tiles & Make a CRAZY Instrument: Garrett's Games Reviews Twisted Trumpets from Play to Z GamesReview9:07

Place Tiles & Make a CRAZY Instrument: Garrett's Games Reviews Twisted Trumpets from Play to Z Games

Garrett's Games

Garrett's Games

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Matt Rodela - Muse & Mettle Games
Matt Rodela - Muse & Mettle Games
2 videos of this game
Garrett's Games
Garrett's Games
1 video of this game
Steph Hodge
Steph Hodge
1 video of this game

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About Twisted Trumpets

From BoardGameGeek:

Twisted Trumpets is a lively, competitive tile-laying game where you vie for the prestigious title of “Royal Bugler” by crafting the most whimsical trumpet in the kingdom! On your turn, choose from three actions: draw a basic pipe tile from the face-down stack, trade for face-up premium tiles, or lay tiles on your player board to build your trumpet. As you go, you'll create a fantastical, Dr. Seuss-like horn that twists and turns in all directions. Adorn your trumpet with flags, birds, and musical notes to meet various scoring criteria. Additionally, you'll race to complete any of the three public Royal Decrees before your rivals to earn extra points. Collect private Queen's Plans cards, which challenge you to build your trumpet in specific ways by the end of the game to score additional points. As you build your trumpet, you'll trigger special bonus actions by covering “King's Favor” scrolls on your player board. These scrolls let you choose one of these powerful bonuses: take a free premium tile, perform two additional actions, or gain an extra Queen's Plans card. Each time you trigger the same favor, it becomes less powerful and eventually unavailable, so timing is everything! The game ends when a player completely fills all but three squares on their player board. You'll finish that round, then all players take one final turn. Everyone tallies their scores based on the length of completed pipes, sets of flags, notes surrounding birds, public objectives, and private goals. The player with the most points wins and becomes the new Royal Bugler! -description from designer

Designer

Matthew Rodela

Artists

James Churchill, Viktoriya Fajardo

Publisher

Play to Z

Categories

FantasyMedievalMusicPuzzle

Mechanics

Action PointsContractsEnd Game BonusesPattern Building
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