Matches Review, A modern card game for traditional playing card game fans

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Matches is a fantastic modern card game that will really appeal to fans of games played with traditional playing cards, such as Euchre, Poker, Hearts, Crazy Eights, Gin, and Rummy. The only problem with Matches is how difficult it is to classify it. While it has elements of card shedding, trick taking, and even bidding, it’s not fully any of those things, so we’ve taken to calling Matches a card burning game. 🔸This review is one segment of Episode 242 of The Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, Getting to Know You. Watch that here: https://youtu.be/HqkaPUe3pb8 🔸Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/tabletopbellhop?sub_confirmation=1 🔸Know what’s even hotter than matches? Our Patreon! Support everything we are doing and get access to some pretty cool bonus content over at https://www.patreon.com/tabletopbellhop Disclosure: Thanks to Daniel McKinley, the designer of Matches, for hooking us up with a copy of his game. ******************** 🛎️Timestamps: 00:00 WHAT IS MATCHES ALL ABOUT? 01:03 COMPONENT QUALITY IN MATCHES 01:25 HOW MATCHES IS PLAYED 03:26 ADDING BURN CARDS TO MATCHES 04:02 MATCHES WAS A HIT FOR US 08:03 WHO SHOULD PICK UP MATCHES? 09:24 WHAT WOULD YOU CALL MATCHES? 10:00 CLOSING ******************** 🛎️From the Publisher: When you play with fire, you're going to get burned! Matches is a trick-taking card game, with a unique spin on scoring and playing. 2-6 players 25-40 minutes Ages 8+ Set within the Thing 12 Games alternative Cthulian world! Matches is the 2nd game in our 'Cthulian Artifact Series'. And a thematic follow-up to the Dice Tower Seal of Approval-awarded: The Seals of Cthulhu! Designer: Daniel McKinley Art: Gus Gutierrez ******************** 🛎️ Head over to the Tabletop Bellhop website where you'll find more tabletop gaming content, including gaming and game night advice, reviews, and more: https://tabletopbellhop.com 🛎️ Check out Moe's written review of Matches over on the blog. It features some more detail and lots of images from our plays: https://tabletopbellhop.com/game-reviews/matches/ 🛎️ BUY IT 🔸Pick up Matches direct from Thing 12 Games where you can use our code BELLHOP10 to save 10%: https://thing-12-games.square.site/product/matches/304 🛎️ FIND US EVERYWHERE: 🔸The Tabletop Bellhop Discord: https://discord.tabletopbellhop.com 🔸Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/tabletopbellhop.com 🔸Dice.camp: https://dice.camp/@TabletopBellhop/ 🔸Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tabletopbellhop/ 🔸Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabletopbellhop/ 🔸Twitch: https://twitch.tv/tabletopbellhop