Oh Crud Card Game

We love playing this card game with friends and family. Fairly easy to pick up on and learn. The directions are helpful and easy to understand. Fun game that allows for both strategy and luck. Box, cards, and dice all seem durable. Standard card and dice size. The suits are fun colors, but also different shapes, allowing for distinction for someone who may be colorblind. For those who don't know what this game is, the best way I have thought to describe it is by relating it to other games. I see this as a mixture between Phase 10 and Skull King.

We play a really fun card game called, "Minnesota Salad." This game was very much like that game if you've ever played it. Learning new games can sometimes feel intimidating. However, the videos the company provides were very well done and very helpful in learning how to play this game. This was something our entire family, aged 12 and up, enjoyed! Each round has a different objective which makes it really interesting. It is probably about 30 minutes a game to play. We will definitely be looking for more games from this company again in the future!

The video you can watch on Amazon before purchasing this game really does not do it full justice. This game is superb fun! Not in a laugh-out-loud funny way but in a play it again and again and again way. It's very difficult for one player to win continually, even if they play lots of card games, so boredom from repeated losing is not really a factor. It's extremely portable and pretty easy to learn - but keep the playing-card-sized instruction guide handy. Considering it's now $20 for, basically, two sets of specialist cards and two dice, it's getting to the upper end of fair pricing. But I will be buying a second set for my upcoming vacation - the first two decks of cards are now a bit gummy from 5 months of playing.

This game is only six rounds. Not very fun with only two people. We love playing spades, so we got the idea pretty quickly, but it is a different variation. What would be Trump in spades, I guess you would call Crud in this game and it changes every round by the role of a die or two dice, depending on the round. The first two rounds we thought the game was kind of stupid, because it seemed like there was no way for one person to win when the other person got so far ahead. My husband and I played by ourselves, just so we could learn how to play, so when the family gets together, we already know what we’re doing, then round three and four came and they were different, so it makes it interesting. Every round is different. The last round makes a world of difference. You can be losing badly and still win the game. Good family fun, but I would say for at least teenagers or adults to really get the full strategy of the game. I highly recommend not only reading the rulebook, but scanning the QR codes and watching the videos. If you’ve never played spades, the rules can be a little vague. Some things are not very clear, but it just takes some common sense to know the things that aren’t very clear in the instructions. The key is to not end up, taking the cards after everyone has laid down if there is “crud “in them, because you will get points, and the goal is to end up with the lowest amount of points. One thing that is not clear in the rules is if you throw off suit even if it is a higher card, you do not take those cards, because the person who leads the round determines the color or shape of the lead card. You must follow with that color or shape if you have it and if yours is higher with the number on the card, you take that round or stack of cards. if your number is higher, but it is not the lead color or shape you do not take those cards. It was OK with two people in the end, but I can’t wait to play with the whole family. It should be fun and not too complicated.

Fun card game. This is a standard trick, taking game with the addition of a die with color and symbols. You rolled the die in that determines what will be the crud suit. Try not to take any of those because those are worth points. Player with lowest number of points wins. I enjoyed the challenge each round being different. This is a great game to sit around and play with friends and have a good time.