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Mar 6, 2026·Review·12:40·17·Watch on YouTube

Proving Ground Preview - Trick-Taking Skirmish

Tabletop Gaming Guild

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Watch “Proving Ground Preview - Trick-Taking Skirmish,” a board game review for Proving Ground from Tabletop Gaming Guild on BoardGameVideo.

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Join me for an exciting preview of Proving Ground, the upcoming trick-taking skirmish game set in the fantasy world of Zanziar! Players become rival orc chieftains battling in arena competitions to place sacred totems on proving grounds. Featuring flippable multi-use cards with dual values, a unique hexagonal suit-following system, passing mechanics, penalty tokens, and tense hexboard scoring for 3-4 players in 30-45 minutes. Watch as I break down the clever components, core rules, strategic depth, and why this 2025 release is a must for competitive card game fans. If you're a fan of trick-taking games like The Crew, Spades, or Skull King, this is a must-watch! 👍 Like, subscribe, and hit the bell for more board game previews, playthroughs, and reviews! What trick-taker should I preview next? Comment below! 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/ 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/ Review & Sponsorship Disclosure Some of the products featured in our video reviews are provided to us at no cost by publishers or manufacturers for the purpose of review. We are not paid for our reviews, and receiving a product does not influence our opinions or final assessment in any way. If we ever receive payment or financial compensation connected to a review, we will clearly and prominently disclose that information within the video and its description. Our goal is to provide honest, unbiased coverage to help our audience make informed decisions.

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Proving Ground

Proving Ground

2025·Ren Multamäki

3 - 4 players
30 - 45 min

About Proving Ground, from BoardGameGeek:

A trick-taking skirmish game set in the fantasy world of Zanziar. You're an orc chieftain winning competitions where each point scored allows you to choose the best spot for placing the sacred totems. Proving grounds reside between villages and are jointly populated and scored. In the end, only one village will honor the ancestral spirits the best! In The Proving Ground deck you'll find six suits, all the suits are used regardless of player count. Each card has two values (shown on both ends of the card), representing different suits and ranks. Each suit and rank is thus represented twice in the deck. Players can use either value at any time. Ranks form a hexagon, where each rank has adjacent and opposite ranks. Playmat hexagons have two sides, one for 3 player, one for 4-5 players. All playmats have to use the same side in the game. The lead player plays a single card at a time. In clockwise order, other players need to play a single card, doing one of the following: a) Play a card of the led suit of any value. b) Play a card of one of the two adjacent suits with a value greater than any previously played card. c) Pass. You can only pass if you have played something to this trick previously. So, each time a suit is led, there are three legal suits to play. If a player cannot play any of the three legal suits even once, they must discard a card of their choice and take a Penalty. A game lasts 3 rounds. The closer the end of the game reaches, the more restricting the board states are for the players - forcing them to think which suit of tricks you can try to win and which suits you just would need to give a pass.

Designer

Ren Multamäki

Publisher

Dragon Dawn Productions

Categories

Card GameFantasy

Mechanics

Hand ManagementRondel
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