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Calypso - Waddington's Version
Calypso (AAPCM) red box
Cover variant: "Blackstone" Calypso
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Playing cards from the Arrco Blackstone edition.  Photo courtesy of eBay seller "peacock636."

Calypso (1955)

Players
3–4
Best: 4
Playing time
60–60 min
Age
8+
5.15
Average rating
39
Ratings
2.00/5
Weight
#28093
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Alternate names:Blackstone Calypso
Designer:R. W. Willis, Kenneth Konstam
Publisher:Waddingtons +5 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 7, Complexity 4, Theme 5
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction7.0
Complexity4.0
Theme5.0

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

Card GameSet CollectionTrick-takingTeam-Based Game

Overview

A partnership card game that each player uses the cards won in tricks to form calypsos (all 13 cards of a the players given suit) for herself and her partner. Four regular decks are shuffled together but only 52 are used each hand. Each player has her own trump each hand.

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