TRIUMPH: A card-arranging strategy game (2016)

About this game

A card game that challenges your strategy, memory, and puzzle-solving abilities as you race to match three rows of the same suit. Objective: Be the first player to line up 3 rows or columns of the same suit. Setting up the game: Deal 9 cards to each player face down. Players arrange their 9 cards into a 3x3 grid in front of them. Place the remaining cards face down between players to form a Draw Pile. The dealer takes the top 3 cards from the Draw Pile and places them face up to form the River. Gameplay: Each player must complete 1 of the following 5 actions on his or her turn until a player has won the game by lining 3 rows or columns of the same suit. On your turn you may: Play a Switch Card, Replace Card, Collect Card, Steal Card, or Discard any card in your area.

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 4.
• Rules load. At 1.8/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 10 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.