Table feel
Moderate level of direct and strategic confrontation with high interaction frequency, but low emphasis on cooperation.
Rich game profile
Sluff Off!
The gameplay for Sluff Off! follows the standard trick-taking formula: The cards are numbered 1-15 in five different suits, and blue is always trump. If someone leads a color, you must follow suit if you can; otherwise, you can throw off a card or trump the trick. It's an exact-b...
Players
3-5
Time
?-?
Age
10+
Weight
1.85
Rating
6.87
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Moderate level of direct and strategic confrontation with high interaction frequency, but low emphasis on cooperation.
Teach
2.4
Teaching signal
Replay
4.1
High replayability
Interaction
3.9
Highly interactive
Scaling
4.4
Scales well
Strategy
4.7
Deep strategy
Control
2.2
Luck-sensitive
Replay value
Sluff Off! has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, impactful expansions, deep strategic possibilities, and good scalability. The game offers fresh experiences each time it is played, allowing players to discover new tactics and strategies. The player interaction score is average, but the game adapts well to different player counts without compromising its appeal or balance. Although it may take some time to learn, the depth it offers makes it worth the investment.
Luck profile
The final luck score for Sluff Off! is 4.33, indicating a game with a high influence of luck. The game outcome is predominantly determined by random elements like dice rolls or card draws. There is very little room for players to influence or mitigate the effects of randomness. The game is heavily dependent on luck, with little influence from player strategy.
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The gameplay for Sluff Off! follows the standard trick-taking formula: The cards are numbered 1-15 in five different suits, and blue is always trump. If someone leads a color, you must follow suit if you can; otherwise, you can throw off a card or trump the trick. It's an exact-bidding game, but you predict your tricks by taking colored chips. For each trick that you win, you toss a chip back. If you take a trick in a color for which you didn't have a chip, then you must take a black chip (worth -3 points). If you have any colored chips left at the end of the round, they're worth -2 points. If you have any white chips left at the end of the round (wildcards that you get when someone takes a colored chip away from you during bidding), they're worth -4 points. There's also the Sluffer, whose role is to feed unwanted tricks to other players. Instead of bidding tricks the Sluffer takes 4 black chips each worth -1 for him at the end of the hand. When players take tricks they didn't predict, they take black chips from the Sluffer. If the Sluffer feeds enough of the black chips to other players, it can zero out the Sluffer's score for that round.
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Designers
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Stefan Dorra
Artists
4
Damon S. Brown
Oliver Freudenreich
Kwanchai Moriya
Franz Vohwinkel
Publishers
4
AMIGO
Asmodee
Eagle-Gryphon Games
Fantasmagoria
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