It’s a hot air balloon festival, and your goal is to go higher than your opponents! Dump as many sandbags as you can, and try to gain rockets to send yourself higher and higher to win.

Sandbag is a trick-taking game of avoiding tricks, manipulating trump, and reconfiguring your hand of cards.

In each of the three rounds, you’ll configure your basket with two face-up cards; the most common color of all players’ cards becomes the trump suit. Each trick, players either play from their hand, play a Sandbag (to sluff or avoid winning the trick), or play one of their opponents’ face-up cards. During each round, the trump can change as face-up cards are exchanged for face-down sandbags.

There are also 5 rocket cards in play each round, worth negative points (which is good for you!). You’ll need to try to win those while avoiding all of the other sandbag cards.

Sandbag is a highly interactive trick-taking game for 3–6 players that excels with higher player counts.

Contents:

• 71 Cards
• 1 Rulebook

Ages: 15+
Players: 3–6
Game Length: 30 minutes
Mechanisms: Trick-taking