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Dec 15, 2025·How to play·04:39·124·Watch on YouTube

How to Play 12 Days | Festive Card Game Rules Explained

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Watch “How to Play 12 Days | Festive Card Game Rules Explained,” a how-to-play guide for 12 Days from Tabletop Gaming Guild on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Tabletop Gaming Guild on YouTube:

Learn how to play 12 Days — the festive, gift-giving holiday card game full of clever trading, set collection, and strategy! 🎁 In this step-by-step tutorial, we explain the setup, rules, and gameplay so you can start playing in minutes. Compete over twelve rounds to collect the most valuable gifts and score big during the holiday season. Perfect for families, friends, and game groups, 12 Days is a quick and charming Christmas-themed card game that mixes luck, timing, and friendly competition. Whether you’re playing it for the first time or brushing up before game night, this guide will help you master the rules with ease. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKqfRANVatVXgR-JyzXLT2g/join About Tabletop Gaming Guild Tabletop Gaming Guild is all about the memories and experiences that playing games with friends and family can create. To celebrate these experiences we produce video reviews, unboxing, playthroughs, and how to videos for tabletop games. It is our belief that tabletop games can help bring people together and create a shared sense of community. Links: Website: https://tabletopgamingguild.com/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/tabletopgamingguild Discord: https://discord.gg/fEYRsWe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabletopgamingguild Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/tabletopgamingguild Our logo was done by Reed Pritchard. You can check out more of his art at https://www.instagram.com/inkfeatherhummingbird/ Music composed by Ben Stratton.

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12 Days

12 Days

2011·James Ernest, Mike Selinker

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

About 12 Days, from BoardGameGeek:

The holiday-themed 12 Days takes the familiar "Twelve Days of Christmas" song and twists it into a quick-playing card game. Over twelve rounds, players try to re-gift unpopular cards while keeping cards that are strong enough to win the day, while also keeping a careful eye for bonus scoring at the end of the game. The gift deck consists of eighty cards: one partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves, and so on up to twelve drummers drumming, as well as one card each for Mr. and Mrs. Claus. Shuffle this deck, then deal each player twelve cards. Each round a new holiday card is up for grabs, with the cards ranked from 1 to 12 and being worth 1-12 points. In a round, a player: Gifts a present to the player to his left, Opens presents and tries to win the day with the best present, and Buys a new gift to refill his hand. More specifically, all players simultaneously pass one face-down gift card to their left-hand neighbor. Then everyone chooses one gift card in hand and reveals them simultaneously. Whoever plays the lowest gift card wins that round's holiday card; in the event of a tie for lowest, with the Clauses counting as zero, then the next lowest card wins. Each player then draws one card to bring their hand back to twelve cards. After twelve rounds, players score points for each holiday card they've collected. In addition, whoever holds the most gift cards for each rank scores as many points as that rank, with all tied players scoring in the event of a tie. Whoever has the most points wins. Happy holidays!

Designers

James Ernest, Mike Selinker

Artist

Echo Chernik

Publisher

Calliope Games

Categories

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