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Have you ever played Spades or Hearts and thought "I wish this game had time travel?"

Ghosts of Christmas is a new version of the acclaimed (and hard-to-find) Japanese game "Time Palatrix" by Taiki Shinzawa.

$19

Ghosts of Christmas - $19

Trick-Taking Out Of Order
Time to play
40 min
Players
3 - 4
Main Mechanic
Trick Taking
Ages
12+
Series
Tricky Card Games
Box Size
Small[?]

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
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Ghosts of Christmas: Wooden Wreaths and Top Hat
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"It straddles the line perfectly between giving players choices but restricting them in very interesting ways."
Taylor's Trick Taking Table

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

  • A
    4 Player score cubes
  • B
    1 First player marker
  • C
    1 Victory point score board
  • D
    20 Doors
  • E
    12 Wreaths
  • F
    4 Dials
  • G
    4 Player boards
  • H
    48 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.

What You're Saying About Ghosts of Christmas

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.

Dimensions
Weight
SKU
UPC
MSRP

Ghosts of Christmas

5" x 5" x 2"

13.6 oz.

GME-GOC

618149322633

$20

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Ghost of Christmas: Wooden Wreaths and Top Hat