2025Bryan Bornmueller
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- 91
1 - 4 players20 minLight weight

2026Bryan Bornmueller
Mainly reviews. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Trick-Taking Game is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 10 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
The journey continues in the magical world of Middle-earth in The Two Towers: Trick-Taking Game, a narrative-driven co-operative card game that lets players take on the roles of heroes and villains in Tolkien's legendary work, The Two Towers. This standalone game follows 2025's The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game with chapters 19-36 of gameplay. The chapters can be played in any order and playing the earlier game isn't required, but ideally you play them in sequence. In each chapter, each player takes a different character role and each character has a condition that must be met in order to pass the chapter and advance in the story. As you advance through the chapters, new characters, items, and challenges are introduced to the game. The One Ring is the game's only trump card, but initially rings can't be led until someone plays one off-suit. In the two-player game, one hand of cards is dealt to a dummy player, with some cards being face up and others face down. This dummy is assigned a character, and one of the human players will play cards for it based on which cards are free to be played. In the solitaire game, one player plays four hands of face-up cards, with each hand being assigned a character and only a few cards being available at a time. After you play a trick, deal each hand a new card. -description from the publisher
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Trick-Taking Game has 22 videos from 18 creators: 10 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 2 playthroughs, 4 unboxings and 2 other videos. They date from 2025 to July 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Trick-Taking Game - How To Play" by Watch It Played, which runs 23 min. For a quicker teach, "All the Games with Steph: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Trick-Taking Game - Rules teach" by Steph Hodge runs 13 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Trick-Taking Game Review: Are You Tolkien to Me?" by The Dice Tower. 9 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Trick-Taking Game | 2 Player Board Game Playthrough" by kovray, one of 2 playthroughs.
If you like it, try The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Trick-Taking Game and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Trick-Taking Game: Gifts of Galadriel, also by Bryan Bornmueller, or The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine and Jekyll & Hyde vs Scotland Yard, which share several of its mechanics. It appears in convention videos from PAX Unplugged 2025.
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2025Bryan Bornmueller
1 - 4 players20 minLight weight
2024Bryan Bornmueller
1 - 4 players20 minMedium weight
2019Thomas Sing
2 - 5 players20 minMedium weight
2023Gaëtan Beaujannot, Olivier Cipière, Geonil
2 players20 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
The journey continues in the magical world of Middle-earth in The Two Towers: Trick-Taking Game, a narrative-driven co-operative card game that lets players take on the roles of heroes and villains in Tolkien's legendary work, The Two Towers. This standalone game follows 2025's The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game with chapters 19-36 of gameplay. The chapters can be played in any order and playing the earlier game isn't required, but ideally you play them in sequence. In each chapter, each player takes a different character role and each character has a condition that must be met in order to pass the chapter and advance in the story. As you advance through the chapters, new characters, items, and challenges are introduced to the game. The One Ring is the game's only trump card, but initially rings can't be led until someone plays one off-suit. In the two-player game, one hand of cards is dealt to a dummy player, with some cards being face up and others face down. This dummy is assigned a character, and one of the human players will play cards for it based on which cards are free to be played. In the solitaire game, one player plays four hands of face-up cards, with each hand being assigned a character and only a few cards being available at a time. After you play a trick, deal each hand a new card. -description from the publisher
Designer
Bryan Bornmueller
Artists
Elaine Ryan, Samuel R. Shimota
Publisher
Office Dog
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