Keezbord

A partnership race game for four or six players (two or three pairs) that uses playing cards instead of dice. Players take turns playing cards from a hand to move their own or their partner’s pawns around a track, enter pawns onto the board with Aces or Kings, and use face cards and numbered cards to advance, swap, move backward, or send pawns home. Hands are dealt in repeated rounds (five cards in the first round, four in subsequent rounds) and players must play a legal card if able; unable players discard their remaining cards and skip to the next round. Pawns on their colored safety spaces cannot be captured or swapped, and captured pawns return to their start. The first pair to get all their pawns into home wins.

Players: 2–8 best 4
Playing time: 60 min
Age: 6+
Complexity: 1.4 / 5