In the land of Bollywood — that is, Bear Hollywood — the bears are out tonight looking good, but trying to make sure their suits aren’t too short!

Players try to balance the number of tricks they win with the number of times they short suit, i.e., play off-suit. Specifically, at the start of the hand, players create a personal draw deck from some of the cards they are dealt. Drawing from this deck can help players manipulate their hands for later play and short-suiting.

The game ends when any player is out of cards, allowing for player-defined hand lengths.

It’s nighttime in the kingdom of Owlberta and the Knight Owls are standing guard — but five in the morning was never the best time to defend anything really, and they’re all falling asleep. Can you allow enough of your Knight Owls to take a quick snooze, while not fully abandoning your post?

The moment one player sheds out, the other players score points based on the number of cards left in their hands. The fewer cards, the more points, so get as close to shedding as possible without doing so!

Hipparchus was an ancient Greek astronomer who calculated the ecliptic and orbit of the Moon, and the paths of the sun and the moon, discovering in the process that the center of the universe was not Earth.

In Hipparchus, players become ancient Greek astronomers and present their findings on the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth to one another. You want to share the study of one celestial body with your colleague without monopolizing it, yet still gain more authority than them.

Each player gets a hand of fourteen cards and cannot rearrange them. The lead player plays 1-3 cards of a single suit, and when choosing something to play, you can’t break up pairs or triplets in your hand. If you have three Earth cards in a row, you can play them only together as three Earths. The following player must play the same suit, if possible, but a different number of cards; if they can’t do this, they can play 1-3 cards from either other suit.

If both players play the same suit, the player who played more cards wins the trick, stacks the cards in their collection, then leads to the next trick. If players play different suits, then the player who has fewer cards of their played suit in their collection wins the trick. (In a tie, the following player wins.)

When a player runs out of cards, the round ends. Each player tallies their score. If you have more cards in a suit than your opponent, you score points equal to the number of cards they have. Whoever has the highest score wins the round; the first player to win two rounds wins the game.

Each round, players start with eight number cards in hand; cards come in four suits. The first player leads a card of their choice, then each other player plays a card of their choice. Whichever color collectively has the highest sum “wins” the trick.

More specifically, whoever played the highest card in this color takes one of the played cards and adds it to their collection; whoever played the second highest card in this color adds the two cards with the lowest values to their collection, then leads the next trick.

After eight tricks, the round ends, and each player scores 1 point for each collected card and 1 point for each diamond on those cards. Additionally, when a player has a set of one card in each color, they score a “pass pass”.

After three rounds, the player with the most points wins — except that if a player scores three pass passes, they win the game immediately.