Board Game
Ghosts of Christmas
Go on a time-traveling adventure
Trick Taking Out of Order
Grab that Victorian outfit from your closest and join the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future on a time traveling adventure. You'll play tricks to each time period as you try to outwit your fellow travelers and collect enough wreaths to decorate all the holiday doors.
Ghosts of Christmas is a new version of the acclaimed hard-to-find Japanese game "Time Palatrix" by Taiki Shinzawa. Have you ever played "spades" or "hearts" and thought "I wish this game had time travel?
Ghosts of Christmas
Ghosts of Christmas: Wooden Wreaths and Top Hat
Strategy
Beware Tricky Ghosts
Some trick taking games are relaxing affairs where you play your highest card and hope for the best. Ghosts of Christmas will challenge you, there are multiple ways to approach each round and navigate through the other players.
For example, when you don't have the cards to win in a straightforward way, sometimes you can engineer a change in who wins the "Past" trick in order to make the "Present" and "Future" trick work out better for you.
Or, if you want either a lower stress evening or are just learning, there’s the option to play the variant without bidding. On the flip side, you make it even more challenging by adding the fourth "Beyond" variant.
Components
What's inside the box
Box dimensions are 4.7 inches wide x 4.7 inches tall x 2 inches deep
- A4 Player score cubes
- B1 First player marker
- C1 Victory point score board
- D20 Doors
- E12 Wreaths
- F4 Dials
- G4 Player boards
- H48 Cards (4 suits)
Component upgrade
Wooden Hat and Wreaths
Please the Ghosts of Christmas with some deluxe upgrades!
This appropriately small and affordable upgrade over-delivers on charm with a wood Dickens hat to indicate the starting player (instead of a plain pawn) and chunky wood wreaths for scoring.
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The brains behind the game
Creators
Taiki Shinzawa
Designer
Taiki has been living and working in Tokyo designing original and unique board games since 2011. He enjoys origami and puzzles which has lead to a fascination with trick-taking games.
Maria Surducan
Artist
Maria creates illustrations with one hand, graphic designs with the other, comics with the third, and holds a coffee cup with the fourth. Only this way does she think she can draw herself the perfect life.
Anca Gavril
Graphic Design
She has a poster featured in the Board Game Geek Artist series. Her husband and baby girl are always involved in the projects, from mandatory play testing and prototyping, to artistic suggestion.
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Ghosts of Christmas
5" x 5" x 2"
13.6 oz.
GME-GOC
618149322633
$20
Ghost of Christmas: Wooden Wreaths and Top Hat