The Hedgehog's Dilemma
2025 · BGG
Avg rating
7.82
Bayes rating
0.00
Weight
2.00 (Medium Light)
Players
4-5
Playtime
45 min
Ratings count
21
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Description
The Hedgehog’s Dilemma is a trick-taking game featuring fragile partnerships, shared win and loss conditions, and completely open table talk rules. Based on Schopenhauer’s parable of porcupines illustrating the perils of human intimacy, players navigate fraught relationships with each other to trade cards and build exponential scoring opportunities. By winning tricks, players traverse an endless loop that rewards those who get close—but not too close—to one another. —description from the designer
Play mode
Competitive
How it plays
Trick-taking
Game type
Card game Family / kids game Board game
Publishers
Designers
Scott King