Calypso

1955 · BGG

Avg rating

5.37

Bayes rating

5.50

Weight

2.00 (Medium Light)

Players

3-4

Playtime

1 hr

Ratings count

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Description

A partnership card game that each player uses the cards won in tricks to form calypsos (all 13 cards of a the players given suit) for herself and her partner. Four regular decks are shuffled together but only 52 are used each hand. Each player has her own trump each hand.

Play mode

Team-based

How it plays

Set collection & pattern building Trick-taking

Game type

Card game Family / kids game Board game

Publishers

Arrco Playing Card Co. Association of American Playing Card Manufacturers De La Rue John Waddington Ltd. The United States Playing Card Company Waddingtons

Designers

Kenneth Konstam R. W. Willis