The Icarus Club - How to Play

[@vawcer]

Great rundown! Thanks! Is the quantity of all player's point cards public knowledge during the round, or do you just have to remember who took what?

[@CardsUnbarred]

Thanks for watching it! It's not explicitly stated in the rules, but them being public knowledge is the way I've always played both the original game (Backhander) and this game. Seems silly to me to force hidden trackable information like that in this game. Of course, if you get to try it that way let me know how it goes!

[@vawcer]

agreed, I figured as much, but wasn't sure. Definitely going to preorder from new mill.

[@uplift-yourdailypickup6424]

FYI you missed one thing: the winner of a trick must choose one of the cards played, (but not their own) and place it on top of any cart in the lane. You taught it that you can pick any card played. It obviously doesn’t matter if all cards played were of the same suit.

[@CardsUnbarred]

Hey thanks for pointing that out. However, the version of the game that was sent to me was a pre-production copy which included a non-final paper copy of the rules. In there it states "The winner of a trick must choose one of the cards _played_..." I just noticed the newer rulebook (which I only found on BGG since I don't have a physical copy of it) that comes with the final version states "The winner of a trick must choose one of the cards played (but not their own)..." So, it looks like that 'but not their own' bit was only added in the final version and not the PPC version I have. So, yeah anyway, thanks again for mentioning it!

[@elqord.1118]

What makes no sense to me is why four cards are collected every trick. Every trick is worth four points. Never more, never less, correct? So might as score one point per trick. Why collect four? Is there ever a situation where you would collect more or fewer? If winning means having the second most points couldn’t you basically just say the winner is the person who scored the second most tricks?

[@CardsUnbarred]

The short answer: it is explained around 4:32 Longer answer: the winner places a card from the trick on one of the lane piles. This makes that pile have more cards in it which means more points. If there were 5 cards on a single lane pile, the trick winner would collect 8 cards in total (3 from the trick and 5 from the lane) Hope that makes sense! Thanks for watching the video!!

[@elqord.1118]

@@CardsUnbarred ahhhh ok ok got it! Makes perfect sense. Thank you for the video and the explanation