Holy moly. September was WILD and we received 228 entries for the Identical Card Game challenge. We've already started judging and it's amazing to see what everyone has come up with. As you may know, we're doing this as a video series and we just posted the teaser trailer for the series. If you want to follow the progress of the submissions and results, check it out and follow along. As for October... the new challenge is up! Yes, we are doing this every month. :) OCTOBER CHALLENGE: Create an 18 card game that does not use a table or...

This is the first of our new series of design challenges. They're small monthly contests for 18 card designs but with some unique additional restrictions. And we're starting off with a real hard one. Create an 18 card game where every card is identical. What does that even mean? Well, it means you have one card design, repeated 18 times. Like a Magic the Gathering deck full of zero-cost counterspells, where two players just counter each other over and over again. Ok terrible example. How about a game of poker with just aces. Nope. See how hard this is? Some...

Button Shy is proud to announce that the next game to hit Kickstarter in our Wallet Games series is Seasons of Rice, a 2 player game designed by Corry Damey. Seasons of Rice is an 18-card game where players will be Cambodian farmers expanding their rice paddies to ensure the most bountiful of harvests. Players will be drafting cards and placing them into their expanding Landscape area to close off Paddies in order to score the most points by the end of the game. CHOOSE YOUR ANCESTOR WISELY The very first thing you get to decide in a game of...

Button Shy is proud to announce that the next game to hit Kickstarter in our Wallet Games series  is Tussie Mussie, a 1-4 player game designed by Elizabeth Hargrave (designer of Wingspan). Tussie Mussie is an 18-card game where players will be collecting small bouquets of four flowers, known as Tussie-Mussies. During the Victorian era, where this fad originated, the flowers were assigned meaning and used to communicate with friends or lovers - in this game, the flowers are assigned methods of scoring and will be used to try and obtain the highest score. I CUT, YOU CHOOSE Whether playing...

Button Shy is proud to announce that the next game in our Wallet Games series is Penny Rails, a 2 player game designed by Travis Hill (designer of Reunification and Butterfly Collector’s Club). Penny Rails is an 18-card game where players will be constructing rail tracks beginning at New York City and ending when the St. Louis hub is placed. Each card in the game has three rail lines present: Lincoln, Jefferson, and Roosevelt. Scoring at the end is based upon payouts received from your Train Line Income, and the player with the most money will be victorious. Available now...