Tricky Time Crisis (2023)

About this game

Tricky Time Crisis is a trick-taking game for 3-5 players with a Superhero and Time theme. It is a can't follow trick-taking game, where each player must play a different suit to the trick. If more than one card of the same suit would be played to a trick, two copies of the same person are in the same timeline and a paradox occurs with the hand ending early. In this game a time-jumping super villain named Dr. Tricky-Time is trying to destroy the timeline and it’s up to a group of heroes named Kid Cuckoo (the rookie), Double Take and Double Time (a pair of twins with the powers to double the speed of time or slow it by half), Doc Tock (a scientist in the body of a dog or perhaps just a dog that became a scientist), and the Daylight Saver (leader of the team) to try and stop him. —description from the designer

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 5.
• Rules load. At 2.0/5 this is a mid-weight game — expect a proper rules explanation before you start.
• Age. The publisher suggests 9 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.