Play a trick taking game across the food chain in FORK by Sunrise Tornado Game Studio.

This game caught my eye as one to cover because I enjoy trick taking games. And FORK doesn’t look too unique, but it looks solid and like it does some interesting things. You can see more details for that here. But what about it sets it apart that I’d want to look into it.

How to Play FORK

FORK, like I said, is a trick taking game. In FORK you are playing out different suits, terrains, and different animals or food. Fox, Owl, Rabbit, or Kale on the cards, hence FORK. The winner is the person with the highest card in the right terrain, or suit.

But that won’t always work. You play cards face down, so if two people play a Fox, for example, the foxes chase each other away. Now someone who played an Owl would score, unless no one did, then the highest rabbit would eat the Kale for scoring, assuming someone played the Kale.

The game is interesting in how you take cards for scoring. The Fox being the highest doesn’t score itself but instead scores a rabbit or an owl. So if you can get someone to waste a fox, they can score a low valued rabbit and it won’t be that worthwhile for them. As the player with the most points in the end wins.

Why Don’t Need This Game

This is a trick taking game, there are a lot of ones out there. In fact there are a lot of hot ones out there right now. So you can get those immediately and not have to wait on them. Plus, if you own a deck of cards there are quite a number of them that you can play.

It also has the potential to be too random. It definitely will benefit someone who is good at counting cards as you play through everything. But you’ll need to figure out how you play as you weed down your deck of cards. I am unsure if the game will feel that random but it is a concern.

Why You Need It

This is a faster trick taking game. A lot of them have you play multiple hands and add up scores over time. But FORK is going to be one hand and done. That is a big selling point for me as it becomes the trick taking game that I can pull out and play when there is a little bit of time. Yes, there are other faster ones out there as well, but FORK looks like it intentionally is going for that fast time frame.

I also think that the scoring is interesting. You don’t score everything. In trick taking like hearts, where you don’t want points, you take the whole hand and get all the points from the hears and queen of spades. Here, you want points and you keep one card from the trick and that is based off of what you won it with.

Also, the price point is great on this game. It is $10 for the pocket version and $18 for the box version. So the game isn’t big and it isn’t expensive to get. I like the idea of the pocket version best simply because it’ll make the game very portable. And trick taking games are good for taking to spots like a brewery or pub where you sit around for a while and hangout. It would give you something more to do while chatting and drinking.

Back or Brick – FORK

For me this is going to be a Brick. I saw it, thought it looked cute, but if it had cost more, I would be out. And I’m only in for the pocket version which is $10 plus $7 shipping. It’s because of that last point, I like the price point, but I prefer the portability. I will take this out places to play because I can stick it in my pocket.

But how about for you, do you like trick taking games? I don’t think that FORK will give you more than anything else and change your mind. But FORK, if you do like trick taking games, it might be interesting for you.

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