
2025Shreesh Bhat
Mainly how-to-play. Crisps! is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 2 reviews and 3 how-to-play guides.
From BoardGameGeek
Crisps is a ladder-climbing card game for 2 players. Crisps selects and recombines ingredients from several climbing games to serve up as a light & delicious snack that will leave you craving for more. Players attempt to be the first person to empty their hand of cards. Like many climbing/shedding games, players can play single cards, sets, runs, or runs of pairs. The following player must play same rank or higher to beat the previous meld. After someone passes, players then must draw a card. The trick winner gets to pick a card first either face-up or from a face-down pile and then the trick loser has to draw the other card. There are special combos which can be led, played over other special combo types, or played over the highest ranked single/sets. -description from the designer
Crisps! has 5 videos from 4 creators: 2 reviews and 3 how-to-play guides. They date from March to July 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "Crisps! - How To Play" by Getting Games, which runs 9 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Crisps & Big Wave ~ Taylor's Trick-Taking Table" by Taylor's Trick-Taking Table.
If you like it, try Aurum and Dealer's Dilemma, also by Shreesh Bhat, or SCOUT and dnup, which share several of its mechanics.
2026Kei Kajino (梶野 桂)
2 - 5 players15 - 20 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Crisps is a ladder-climbing card game for 2 players. Crisps selects and recombines ingredients from several climbing games to serve up as a light & delicious snack that will leave you craving for more. Players attempt to be the first person to empty their hand of cards. Like many climbing/shedding games, players can play single cards, sets, runs, or runs of pairs. The following player must play same rank or higher to beat the previous meld. After someone passes, players then must draw a card. The trick winner gets to pick a card first either face-up or from a face-down pile and then the trick loser has to draw the other card. There are special combos which can be led, played over other special combo types, or played over the highest ranked single/sets. -description from the designer
Designer
Shreesh Bhat
Artist
別府さい (Sai Beppu)
Categories
Mechanics