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Kabuki Tricks

Kabuki Tricks

2024·Geoffrey Chia

Videos
7
Creators
7

Mainly how-to-play. Kabuki Tricks is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 1 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, and 1 unboxings.

2 - 5 players
20 - 30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

From BoardGameGeek

It's showtime in Kabuki Tricks, with players becoming producers of Kabuki performances in which the quality of showmanship depends on the number of tricks to be won. The game is played over a number of rounds, with each player having a chance to play as the dealer. Each round plays out as follows: • Each player gets a hand of a joker and seven random cards, which come in four actor suits. The dealer then arranges the separate actor cards in order to determine the rank of the suits, while also determining whether low or high cards are best. • The dealer leads to the first trick, and all players must follow suit, if possible - except that one non-lead player can play their joker instead of matching suit. When someone plays a joker, they place one of their player cards face down above one of the actor cards; their player card is a bet that they will win 1, 2, or 3 tricks, and the actor they played above is a bet that their final card will be that color. Additionally, they can either flip the High/Low card to affect which numbers are best or swap two adjacent actor cards to change the rank of the suits. • Whoever played the highest/lowest card in the highest rank wins the trick, then leads to the next trick. • After seven tricks, players reveal their bets and score: 1 point per trick captured, 1 or 2 points for correctly bidding the number of tricks they won, and 1 point if their final card matches the actor card they chose. Alternatively, if a player's last card is their joker and they won zero tricks, they earn 5 points. The player with the highest score after adding the scores from each round wins. -description from the publisher Kabuki Tricks is the second title of the Shiba Senpai game series.

Kabuki Tricks

Watch first

Learn to play

Kabuki Tricks Summarised Game Rules6:03

Kabuki Tricks Summarised Game Rules

Good Spirit Games

Good Spirit Games

Review

Kabuki Tricks - Tutorial & Review - Mastering the Stage!8:42

Kabuki Tricks - Tutorial & Review - Mastering the Stage!

Board Games With B7

Board Games With B7

Watch it played

Kabuki Tricks 3 Player Learn and Play29:02

Kabuki Tricks 3 Player Learn and Play

Board Gaymes James

Board Gaymes James

Which Kabuki Tricks video should I watch?

Kabuki Tricks has 7 videos from 7 creators: 1 review, 4 how-to-play guides, 1 playthrough and 1 unboxing. They date from 2024 to May 2026.

To learn the rules, start with "Kabuki Tricks Summarised Game Rules" by Good Spirit Games, which runs 6 min.

For an opinion before you buy, start with "Kabuki Tricks - Tutorial & Review - Mastering the Stage!" by Board Games With B7. To see it played, watch "Kabuki Tricks 3 Player Learn and Play" by Board Gaymes James.

If you like it, try Contraband Insider, Nightmares of Sushi, River Woods and Katana Spirits, also by Geoffrey Chia.

All videos

Kabuki Tricks - Tutorial & Review - Mastering the Stage!Review8:42

Kabuki Tricks - Tutorial & Review - Mastering the Stage!

Board Games With B7

Board Games With B7

Kabuki Tricks Summarised Game RulesHow to play6:03

Kabuki Tricks Summarised Game Rules

Good Spirit Games

Good Spirit Games

Curious + Chill UnboxingUnboxing2:33

Curious + Chill Unboxing

eVanDiesel

eVanDiesel

All the Games with Steph: Kabuki Tricks - TeachHow to play15:20

All the Games with Steph: Kabuki Tricks - Teach

Steph Hodge

Steph Hodge

Kabuki Tricks 3 Player Learn and PlayPlaythrough29:02

Kabuki Tricks 3 Player Learn and Play

Board Gaymes James

Board Gaymes James

Kabuki TricksHow to play7:23

Kabuki Tricks

Jamie, Tabletoptiktok

Jamie, Tabletoptiktok

Kabuki Tricks how to play interview at sSpiel 2024How to play13:55

Kabuki Tricks how to play interview at sSpiel 2024

So Play We All

So Play We All

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Good Spirit Games
Good Spirit Games
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Jamie, Tabletoptiktok
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Steph Hodge
Steph Hodge
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About Kabuki Tricks

From BoardGameGeek:

It's showtime in Kabuki Tricks, with players becoming producers of Kabuki performances in which the quality of showmanship depends on the number of tricks to be won. The game is played over a number of rounds, with each player having a chance to play as the dealer. Each round plays out as follows: • Each player gets a hand of a joker and seven random cards, which come in four actor suits. The dealer then arranges the separate actor cards in order to determine the rank of the suits, while also determining whether low or high cards are best. • The dealer leads to the first trick, and all players must follow suit, if possible - except that one non-lead player can play their joker instead of matching suit. When someone plays a joker, they place one of their player cards face down above one of the actor cards; their player card is a bet that they will win 1, 2, or 3 tricks, and the actor they played above is a bet that their final card will be that color. Additionally, they can either flip the High/Low card to affect which numbers are best or swap two adjacent actor cards to change the rank of the suits. • Whoever played the highest/lowest card in the highest rank wins the trick, then leads to the next trick. • After seven tricks, players reveal their bets and score: 1 point per trick captured, 1 or 2 points for correctly bidding the number of tricks they won, and 1 point if their final card matches the actor card they chose. Alternatively, if a player's last card is their joker and they won zero tricks, they earn 5 points. The player with the highest score after adding the scores from each round wins. -description from the publisher Kabuki Tricks is the second title of the Shiba Senpai game series.

Designer

Geoffrey Chia

Artist

Geoffrey Chia

Publisher

Good Spirit Games

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