If your game group has worn out The Crew and Cat in the Box, here is a trick-taker with a hook you have not seen before. Trick to the Future, a new card game from GameHead designed by Taiki Shinzawa, lets you spend fuel to change the value of the card you play, so the lowly two in your hand can leap up the table when you need it to.
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See how it worksEvery trick you win counts as a successful jump through time, and you score for them at the end of each of the game's three rounds. You can also bank bonus points for hoarding the spent fuel rods you burn along the way. The catch is the part that will make your group groan and grin: if you win more tricks than you have unspent fuel left at the end of a round, you overshoot, get lost in time, and score nothing at all. Greed and good card play pull in opposite directions, which is exactly what you want from a trick-taker.
It plays two to five and shines with the smaller counts, and it runs short, so it slots in as a filler or a warm-up before the heavier box comes out. The base game is priced at 20 US dollars (around 15 pounds), with a matching playmat sold separately, and GameHead has it down for release in September 2026. Developed by Paul Salomon and Pete Wissinger with art by George Bletsis, it is one of the trick-takers debuting at Origins Game Fair in Columbus this June, where the genre keeps eating up table space.
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Start organising for freeIf clever trick-takers are your group's thing, it is worth a spot on the watch list. Round up the usual suspects and find a game night near you to give it a spin when it lands.
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