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Sluff Off!

A sharp trick-taker where you bid with colored chips and pay dearly for winning the wrong tricks.

A trick-taking game where you bid by grabbing colored chips, one per trick you think you will win. Follow suit, dump a card, or trump with blue, but land a trick in a color you have no chip for and it stings with penalty points. There is even a Sluffer role whose whole job is feeding unwanted tricks to everyone else.

Bid by taking colored chipsWrong-color tricks stingSluffer offloads bad tricks

Who it's for

Card-game groups who love exact-bid trick-taking with bite and careful prediction, and anyone wanting a clever half-hour filler with claws.

Not for you if…

You dislike trick-taking or punishing scoring. Missing a bid can hurt badly, and the color-chip system takes a round or two to click.

Vibe's take

A mean, precise trick-taking puzzle where nailing exactly which tricks you take, by color, matters more than raw card strength.

#2,050 on BGG

of over 30,000 ranked board games

Published 2003 Β· 23 years ago

older than 90% of games

In 5,291 collections

collected more than 60% of games

3–5 players Β· ages 10+

Best with 4 or 5

about 30 min

shorter than 69% of games Β· typical 30–90 min

Complexity: medium

One warm-up round Β· 1.9 out of 5 Β· lighter than 60%

Opinions: usual spread

A normal range of ratings

Language: no text

Playable without the language

Play style: competitive

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