2025 · Wargame

Verdun

Two-player or two-vs-two partnership trick-taking game set on World War I battlefields. Teams secretly place Assets behind a row of Fortifications, then play a predetermined number of Rounds in which each player holds a hand of 12 cards and plays 12 tricks. Teams alternate the Attacker role to recreate shifting offensives. In each trick players aim to minimize their own Casualties while protecting Fortifications and capturing opponent Assets; some plays must help the other side and are timed to reduce losses. Scoring rewards overruns and captured Assets and penalizes Casualties, with the highest (or least negative) total after the Rounds determining the winner.

groupPlayers

2–4 best 4

schedulePlaying time

30 min

cakeAge

9+

psychologyComplexity

2 / 5