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Sluff Off!

Sluff Off!

2003·Stefan Dorra

3 - 5 players
30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

From BoardGameGeek

The gameplay for Sluff Off! follows the standard trick-taking formula: The cards are numbered 1-15 in five different suits, and blue is always trump. If someone leads a color, you must follow suit if you can; otherwise, you can throw off a card or trump the trick. It's an exact-bidding game, but you predict your tricks by taking colored chips. For each trick that you win, you toss a chip back. If you take a trick in a color for which you didn't have a chip, then you must take a black chip (worth -3 points). If you have any colored chips left at the end of the round, they're worth -2 points. If you have any white chips left at the end of the round (wildcards that you get when someone takes a colored chip away from you during bidding), they're worth -4 points. There's also the Sluffer, whose role is to feed unwanted tricks to other players. Instead of bidding tricks the Sluffer takes 4 black chips each worth -1 for him at the end of the hand. When players take tricks they didn't predict, they take black chips from the Sluffer. If the Sluffer feeds enough of the black chips to other players, it can zero out the Sluffer's score for that round.

Sluff Off!

Watch first

Learn to play

Wizard Extreme13:30

Wizard Extreme

Nox' Spellenzolder

Nox' Spellenzolder

Review

Sluff Off - First Play Review9:30

Sluff Off - First Play Review

Getting Games

Getting Games

Which Sluff Off! video should I watch?

Sluff Off! has 2 videos from 2 creators: 1 review and 1 how-to-play guide. They date from 2025 to June 2026.

To learn the rules, start with "Wizard Extreme" by Nox' Spellenzolder, which runs 14 min.

For an opinion before you buy, start with "Sluff Off - First Play Review" by Getting Games.

If you like it, try For Sale, Pergamon, Sardegna and Triqueta, also by Stefan Dorra.

All videos

Sluff Off - First Play ReviewReview9:30

Sluff Off - First Play Review

Getting Games

Getting Games

Wizard ExtremeHow to play13:30

Wizard Extreme

Nox' Spellenzolder

Nox' Spellenzolder

Creators who cover this

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Getting Games
Getting Games
1 video of this game
Nox' Spellenzolder
Nox' Spellenzolder
1 video of this game

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For Sale

1997·Stefan Dorra

Videos
57
Creators
49
Mainly reviews

3 - 6 players·30 min·Light weight

Pergamon

2011·Stefan Dorra, Ralf zur Linde

Videos
23
Creators
7
Mainly reviews

2 - 4 players·45 min·Medium weight

Sardegna

2005·Stefan Dorra

Videos
18
Creators
16
Mostly reviews and how-to-play

2 - 4 players·60 min·Medium weight

Triqueta

2023·Stefan Dorra, Ralf zur Linde

Videos
18
Creators
16
Mostly how-to-play and reviews

2 - 5 players·20 - 30 min·Light weight

About Sluff Off!

From BoardGameGeek:

The gameplay for Sluff Off! follows the standard trick-taking formula: The cards are numbered 1-15 in five different suits, and blue is always trump. If someone leads a color, you must follow suit if you can; otherwise, you can throw off a card or trump the trick. It's an exact-bidding game, but you predict your tricks by taking colored chips. For each trick that you win, you toss a chip back. If you take a trick in a color for which you didn't have a chip, then you must take a black chip (worth -3 points). If you have any colored chips left at the end of the round, they're worth -2 points. If you have any white chips left at the end of the round (wildcards that you get when someone takes a colored chip away from you during bidding), they're worth -4 points. There's also the Sluffer, whose role is to feed unwanted tricks to other players. Instead of bidding tricks the Sluffer takes 4 black chips each worth -1 for him at the end of the hand. When players take tricks they didn't predict, they take black chips from the Sluffer. If the Sluffer feeds enough of the black chips to other players, it can zero out the Sluffer's score for that round.

Designer

Stefan Dorra

Artists

Damon S. Brown, Oliver Freudenreich, Yusuke Mamada, Kwanchai Moriya, 別府さい (Sai Beppu), Franz Vohwinkel

Publisher

AMIGO

Categories

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Mechanics

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