Deal Yourself New Challenges in Lepidoptery, 13 Leaves, Greasy Spoon, Beach Day, and More

by W. Eric Martin

How many card games do you like to play? One intensely over all others? A few? All of them?! If you fall in the latter category, then you’ll want to learn about everything covered below. Otherwise, sample as you wish.

▪️ U.S. publisher New Mill Industries is testing one’s ability to keep up on all things cardy. After debuting owner Daniel Newman‘s Agency and Gachapon Trick at PAXU 2024 <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogpost/168407/indie-games-night-market-small-batch-games-take-ce”>during the Indie games Night Market, in February 2025 it will open pre-orders for the following four titles:

— Lepidoptery, a two-player shedding and connection design by David Karesh and Srinivas Vasudevan in which you play card combinations and place tokens in matching spaces to either create four-in-a-row or shed your hand first.

— Greasy Spoon, a ladder-climbing, shedding game from Sean Ross in which you serve up menu items and menu combos to a diner filled with customers.

— Dickory, a shedding game from Ross and Hanibal Sonderegger in which cards have no suits and the order of ranks (singles, pairs, etc.) shifts during gameplay.

— Dino Trix: Tarot Adventures, featured three trick-taking games by Daniel Kenel that you play with a tarot deck, with this coming from New Mill’s <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepublisher/55934/little-dog-games“>Little Dog games imprint.

▪️ In Q1 2025, Italian publisher Cranio Creations will release 13 Leaves, a card game by Masato Uesugi for 3-6 players:

In 13 Leaves, players can play one or more cards of the same value that align with the sequence on the table. The cards must be of a value equal to or lower than the lowest card in the sequence, or of a value equal to or higher than the highest card in the sequence.

The game consists of several rounds. Each round is divided into turns that proceed clockwise. On their turn, the active player, if they can and if they want, plays one or more cards of the same value from their hand. Multiple cards of the same value are stacked on top of each other to show how many cards of that value are present on the table. cards of different values are placed in numerical order forming a sequence on the table.

The first player to play all the cards in their hand wins. At the end of the rules, you’ll find the expert variant, which consists of playing multiple games in a row with a scoring at the end of each game.

James Nathan passed along background info about this design, noting that it debuted at game Market in early 2024 as a printout under the name ふつうのゴーアウト, which translates as “Normal Go Out”, but which was labeled in the English rules “Just a Shedding game“. In August, ふつうのゴーアウト received an honorable mention in the 2024 Arclight game Awards, which are meant to help commercialize these independent releases.

▪️ Beach Day will be the debut title from <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepublisher/55128/cakepie-games“>CakePie games, started by designers Joshua Bowman and Brennan Smith. Here’s an overview of this 1-4 player game:

As you breathe in the cool salty air that gently brushes across your face, the sound of crashing waves fills your ears. The gentle heat of the sun warms your skin while the grit of the warm sand tingles your feet. On the ground, seashells and sandcastles are scattered about among puddles of ocean water making a beautiful tapestry in the sand. It’s time for your beach day!

In Beach Day, players draft cards to create a beach that is decorated with shells, sandcastles, water, and much more. After taking cards, you place them as tiles to arrange these objects in optimal formations based on modular scoring cards. The player with the best decorated beach wins!

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