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All the components included with Puzzle Strike 3rd Edition: nearly 350 chips, privacy screens, game boards, bags, rulebook, and box insert to store everything. Image copyright 2012 Sirlin Games, uploaded with permission.
Half a cork is the perfect height for a five chip stack. The artificial corks seemed to work best. I've glued two together for the taller stacks.
An ocean of chips!
The Puzzle Strike 3rd Edition chips fit snugly in the box. Image copyright 2012 Sirlin Games, uploaded with permission.
gems!
Print-n-Play: Sample Opening hand
Print-n-Play: Trying for an interesting angle...
Puzzle Strike + Shadows chip holders
Custom Trapped Chips. Printed on label paper and stuck to blank chips.

Puzzle Strike: Third Edition (2012)

Players
2–4
Best: 2
Playing time
20–20 min
Age
10+
7.16
Average rating
1,890
Ratings
2.72/5
Weight
#2232
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Alternate names:Puzzle Strike: Das Deck-Hau-Spiel
Designer:David Sirlin
Artist:Long Vo
Publisher:Pegasus Spiele +1 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 5, Complexity 5.4, Theme 6
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity5.4
Theme6.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

Card GameFantasyVideo Game ThemeVariable Player PowersHand ManagementDeck, Bag, and Pool Building

Overview

Puzzle Strike is a card game played with cardboard chips instead of cards that simulates a puzzle video game such as Puzzle Fighter or Tetris.

It's a deckbuilding game, which means you build your deck *as* you play the game. Every game is different because the bank starts with a different set of chips each time. Also, there are 10 characters to choose from in the base set, each with different gameplay. Between all that, there are over 411 MILLION starting conditions in a 4-player game, and even more if you include the expansion.

A built-in comeback mechanic means that when you're on the edge of losing, you're also able to do even more combos than usual.

You don't have to worry about shuffling cards because you just put your cardboard tokens in a bag and shake them up to shuffle! Plus, it’s pretty ballin’ to play a game with chips. Play it on your yacht, impress potential mates, etc.

Though the game is fun even if you're terrible at it, it's also balanced for high level play by veteran asymmetric game balancer David Sirlin (Street Fighter HD Remix, Puzzle Fighter HD Remix, Kongai, Yomi, and Flash Duel.)

This 3rd Edition of the game has many changes including:

Panic Time to prevent games from going too long A 3-player and 4-player mode with no player elimination and that allows crashing your gems to whoever you want A 2v2 Team Battle Mode A Custom Clockwork mode to draft your own character Puzzle chips and character chips updated to ensure healthy competitive play in tournaments New components: game boards and privacy screens

Expansions

Puzzle Strike: Promo Chips
Puzzle Strike Randomizer Cards
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