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High Hand
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Front of the High Hand box.
Rank of hands in High Hand.

High Hand (1963)

Players
2–4
Playing time
60–60 min
Age
10+
5.52
Average rating
51
Ratings
1.83/5
Weight
#26118
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Alternate names:Switch
Designer:Robert Abbott
Publisher:Milton Bradley +1 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 7, Complexity 3.7, Theme 3
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction7.0
Complexity3.7
Theme3.0

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

Card GameAbstract StrategyTeam-Based GameOpen Drafting

Overview

High Hand is a card game played on a board.

36 cards are placed on 6×6 grid. Each player moves their pieces like a Rook in Chess and captures the card they land on. The object is to form the best 5-card Poker hand.

In the four player Partnership game, one player picks any other player to be his partner. If the Partner has the high hand, the Declarer scores 50 and Partner 100. If one of the other players has the high hand, both score 25 each. If the Declarer has the High Hand, no one scores any points.

Game is highest score after 5 rounds.

It's almost identical to one of the games in the Abbott's New Card Games book, but played with a custom deck instead of a standard one.

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