The Great Dalmuti

A climbing card game where winning a round makes you royalty and losing makes you hand over your best cards.

👥 4–8 players⏱ approx. 60 min🪄 Rules in 5 min8+

★ 6.3 · BGG #1,856

Who it's for

Groups who enjoy President-style climbing games and do not mind a little good-natured class warfare between rounds.

Not for you if…

Being stuck at the bottom handing your best cards to the winner sounds annoying rather than funny to you.

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Vibe's take

quick, mischievous, socially spiteful, light, addictive

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About this game

The Great Dalmuti turns your table into a rigid little kingdom every single round. Play cards low to high, whoever runs out first becomes the Great Dalmuti and everyone else slides into their new social rank, right down to the miserable Greater and Lesser Peons who must hand over their best cards and worst seat. Then you play again, and the deck itself is stacked so the low cards are common and the high card is desperately scarce, meaning a lucky opener can coast while everyone else scrambles. It is card-shedding chaos with a mean little class system bolted on, and reversals of fortune are half the fun.

Social rank shifts every roundPeons must tax their best cardsFast climbing card-shedding gameplay

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