WAVE
High tides and good times!
Designer: Thomas Weber | Publisher: Kosmos
Surfs up! Hang 10! Don’t play that card or we will lose! Wave is a cooperative card game in which player try to stay riding on their shared surfboard for as long as possible. This is done by playing cards from your hand into a central discard pile, matching the ebb and flow of the waves beneath.
In practical terms, each player holds a hand of cards, some facing towards them, some facing the table Hanabistyle. Your turn is easy, just choose a card and play it. Played cards must be higher than the one played most recently, this can either be a larger number or a “higher” colour, based on a chart in the middle of the table. Of course, the rub is that you can’t see some of your hand, but that’s where your teammates come in. At any time, players can give each other information about their hand, what cards might be good or bad to play at what moments, but they categorically cannot talk about relative or absolute card number of colour values when doing so.