Wizard is now in Alpha

[MGoulet]

The trick-taking game Wizard uses a sixty-card deck that consists of the traditional 52-card deck (1-13 in four suits) along with four Wizards (high) and four Jesters (low).

After all tricks have been played, players tally their score for the round. If a player matched their bid, winning exactly as many tricks as stated at the start of the round, they score 20 points, plus 10 points for each trick taken. If a player missed their bid, they lose 10 points for each trick that they were off, whether they took more or fewer than predicted.

** For now, it's only the Amigo Artwork that is used. I'll check if I can use the "American" artwork for Wizards and Jesters.

More information is available here: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1465/wizard
Join the reviewer group here: https://boardgamearena.com/reviewer?game=wizard

[RaynManMD]

I was just talking about this game to my friends earlier this month after playing other bidding + trick-taking games on BGA with them like Whist 22 and Oh Hell. I've owned and played a physical copy for years. Thanks for adding it to BGA! Would love to help review once I can.

[MGoulet]

Release Alpha 0.3

Bug Fix

• #30642 : Display 100% at the end of the game

Improvement

• #30511 : Make the start player easy to understand
• #30634 : Highlight the playable cards
• #30635 : Sentence with wrong player gender
• #30512 : Make the card a little bigger
• Game preferences for Table Color and First Marker look

For standard card game, I'm waiting for a response from US Games System Inc.

[Joyce_W]

I haven't gotten to try it here yet, but I looked at the table settings and I would love to have one or more options for a shorter game. My husband and I have owned a copy (US Games Systems edition) for years, and we typically play ten hands no matter what player count we have.

[qwertasdfg]

yeah, ten hands is the "tournament setting" used by amigo, too. So there shouldn't be a problem by the publisher if that is implemented on here

[qwertasdfg]

If i recall correctly, with 3p it was the even rounds, with 4p it was 1,3,5,7,9,11,12,13,14,15

[MGoulet]

Release Alpha 0.4

Bug Fix

• #31194 : Trump determination, if the revealed card is a W

Improvement

• #30546 : Provide an option for the standard original deck (Standard US + Medieval in Game Preferences)
• #31298 : Display the log not only by race name (Humans, Elves etc) but also by color.
• #31373 : Highlighted cards block other cards in hand

[Tootles]

yeah, ten hands is the "tournament setting" used by amigo, too. So there shouldn't be a problem by the publisher if that is implemented on here

Let me answer as publisher on that variant.

Yes, we have the tournament rules for 3, 4 and 5 players with exactly 10 rounds per game:

5 players - number of cards during 10 rounds: 2-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12
4 players - number of cards during 10 rounds: 1-3-5-7-9-11-12-13-14-15
3 players - number of cards during 10 rounds: 2-4-6-8-10-12-14-16-18-20

For 6 players there is no setting because this number of players would be splitted into two groups of 3 players.

Best regards
Christian (AMIGO - Editorial Department)

[wizos]

Guess it's time to go to beta, isn't it?

[Hayden76]

Guess it's time to go to beta, isn't it?

Looks like it is now and I'm excited I got this in my collection!..