The Hedgehog's Dilemma
2025Scott King
4 - 5 players
20 - 45 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
From BoardGameGeek
The Hedgehog's Dilemma is a trick-taking game featuring fragile partnerships, shared win and loss conditions, and completely open table talk rules. Based on Schopenhauer's parable of porcupines illustrating the perils of human intimacy, players navigate fraught relationships with each other to trade cards and build exponential scoring opportunities. By winning tricks, players traverse an endless loop that rewards those who get close-but not too close-to one another. -description from the designer
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About The Hedgehog's Dilemma
From BoardGameGeek:
The Hedgehog's Dilemma is a trick-taking game featuring fragile partnerships, shared win and loss conditions, and completely open table talk rules. Based on Schopenhauer's parable of porcupines illustrating the perils of human intimacy, players navigate fraught relationships with each other to trade cards and build exponential scoring opportunities. By winning tricks, players traverse an endless loop that rewards those who get close-but not too close-to one another. -description from the designer
Designer
Scott King
Artist
Eliza Pratt
Publisher
Self-published
Mechanics
Trick-taking & Climbing