I actually own this, but I find that, in practice, remembering the mappings is tricky for most players. Also, it's surprisingly annoying to not have rotationally symmetric cards, or needing to hold the cards in a different way.
I would love to own this deck but I can tell I would be way too irritated when trying to actually use it. It's like an art piece dedicated to combinatorics.
Yeah :c I feel the same way. They’ve made a variant with more traditional poker deck look but the same rank/suits of the ever deck that I’m excited to try one day
Really cool deck! Anyone out there play Mu? It's an _excellent_ trick taking card game. One of the few (complex, trick-taking... I'm not counting stuff like Uno in this genre) card games that I know of that works really well with 5 or 6 players.
This deck _almost_ would work for Mu, but it'd need different point values. (I keep having to rebuy new Mu games when the deck wears out so I've been contemplating other possibilities.)
Mu is awesome, one of my favorites. I especially like the "Mu and More" and "Mu and Much More" decks that have other games you can play in the box. It is a bit fiddly customizing the decks for the different games, but it is amazing how much game is in that one box. Njet was mentioned in another comment, and that is one of my go-to games when playing with non-gamers.
Mu is my favorite trick taking game of all time, but it is difficult enough that I don't get a chance to play it very often.
I went down the rabbit hole of alternative games for this deck, and saw Mü mentioned in the forums with some tips alongside a table. Hopefully that helps, though I did notice someone commented about needing to remember the point values.
Pagat is a wonderful source for all things card games. https://www.pagat.com - in particular https://www.pagat.com/class/trick.html which at that level is the groups of games (under the trump group is the euchre group which itself has six games)
Similar basic game and mechanics, though there are 8 additional cards to the 52 card deck - four wizards and four fools. A wizard can be played instead of any other card, the first wizard played takes the trick. A fool can be played instead of any other card and a fool will not take the trick (unless you've got the extreme oddball situation where you've got all the cards for a trick as a fool - then the first fool played wins the trick).
One of the things about it being a 60 card deck is that it evenly plays 3, 4, 5, or 6 players.
The European edition of the game has beautiful artwork (though confusing compared to the French suited cards) that make a long mural when an entire suit is laid down end to end.
I'd also suggest Nyet ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1107/nyet ) which is another odd deck count game (3x1, 1x[2...13]) x 4 suits. It was originally a ruleset for the Mü deck where you excluded rules from the next round ("no - not that rule" -> "Nyet")
The mystic bent limits the usability of the deck, since most people I play with, when playing games like Sheepshead try playing with more traditional decks. As well as traditional Tarot decks from Russia (OG tarot, not modern designs).
Vintage Tarot decks include more art/influence from the current ruling empire, not new-age mystic nonsense.
I think my biggest complaint with this deck is that the Os and 0s look the same in the chosen font. They are in opposite corners on the card and one should always be colored and the other black, so shouldn't be easily confused in an oriented spread or in orienting the cards, so it is mostly just an aesthetic complaint.
I’d love to see a variation on the concept that minimizes information on each card. It would of course result in a larger deck, but would reduce visual noise while playing games.
I think one colored suit symbol and one rank is the most needed. Some cards could have symbols like Uno’s “skip” card as their rank.
It's not the delivery that takes that long. It's the printing. It's a print on demand item, printed in the United States. The decks don't currently exist and the current print queue is just that long. If you want to jump the queue, that will be extra.
I own a few of these- they’re lovely things but I’ve not found them easy to bring out in a group. The same author’s made a variant that loses some features to gain looking like a very standard poker deck (with just more numbers and suits) that I really like the look of
> The Everdeck is designed with a ruthless combinatorial efficiency. Beneath its minimalist pen-and-ink design lies layers of mathematical and linguistic patterns. This isn’t just a deck with haphazardly placed extra glyphs; rather, it aims to be both beautiful and practical.
Mine is compatible with more games, has a companion website that helps you prepare games, and (in my opinion) is easier to understand.
I use this deck all the time too - it was well worth the $25 to print it out.
Mu is my favorite trick taking game of all time, but it is difficult enough that I don't get a chance to play it very often.
https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/303652/more-games-playabl...
Also I didn't know those were called trick-taking games [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-taking_game
Similar basic game and mechanics, though there are 8 additional cards to the 52 card deck - four wizards and four fools. A wizard can be played instead of any other card, the first wizard played takes the trick. A fool can be played instead of any other card and a fool will not take the trick (unless you've got the extreme oddball situation where you've got all the cards for a trick as a fool - then the first fool played wins the trick).
One of the things about it being a 60 card deck is that it evenly plays 3, 4, 5, or 6 players.
The European edition of the game has beautiful artwork (though confusing compared to the French suited cards) that make a long mural when an entire suit is laid down end to end.
There is an iOS version of it - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/m%C3%BC/id351448383 (and it runs on my mini - https://imgur.com/a/eJsx4Wd )
And yea, the point values would be the problematic parts.
Incidentally, there's been a new issuing of the game: from the publisher - https://shop.czechgames.com/mu-more/ though it appears to be out of stock there, there is a reseller with the new version https://www.cardhaus.com/mu-more/
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I'd also suggest Nyet ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1107/nyet ) which is another odd deck count game (3x1, 1x[2...13]) x 4 suits. It was originally a ruleset for the Mü deck where you excluded rules from the next round ("no - not that rule" -> "Nyet")
Vintage Tarot decks include more art/influence from the current ruling empire, not new-age mystic nonsense.
I think one colored suit symbol and one rank is the most needed. Some cards could have symbols like Uno’s “skip” card as their rank.
This paragraph was designed as ruthless LLM slop.