The twist in this trick taker is that there are two tricks happening at the same time. You can play either to the hunting trick or the gathering trick. There are three suits in each (and one of each is a trump suit).
At the end of the game you get positive points for one type and negative for the other. So if you have more gatherer cards you'll get one positive point for each of those and one negative point for each hunter card and vice versa. If you manage to get exactly equal you get a point for all cards.
You have a hand of six (4?) cards and you draw back up at the end of your turn.
The game has an uncertain ending. In the last third of the deck there will be a winter card and when that is drawn the game ends instantly.
If you want to play on the hunting trick but you don't have the suit, if you have the suit for the gathering suit you have to play that one, but if you don't have either you can play whatever you want on the hunting trick. You can play a lower number card of the correct suit to avoid winning the trick.
A trick is scored once there are as many cards in it as there are players, but since there are two tricks that isn't necessarily one round. If there are four players there will be eight slots to play. So you can play on the same trick more than once to force it to score. The person who scores a trick starts the new one.
I've tested this out a bit solo but still not sure how well it's going to work. Going to try to get it played with other people soon!
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