Trailmaster Card Game
Mountains of Fun. No Lift line needed.
Choose mountains, build trails, strategize to win. Compete with your friends to become the Trail Master of your mountain as you flip, stack and score the most points for your trails.
Objective: The object is to build 4 trails, one for each of the suits with the highest score possible.
How to Play:
- Game play starts with a player flipping a card and deciding if they want to keep it for one of their trails or place it on an opponent's trail. If there is no card on a trail yet, then this is your starting base for that trail. (We say let the worst skier in your group start first).
- Players will then take turns in a clockwise manner flipping a card and placing it on their trail or an opponents card.
- You can only place cards of the same suit on top of each other. (think cascading trails like Solitaire)
- You can only place a card on top of another card if it is higher in value than the card already on the trail. (2s are the lowest and Aces are highest)
- If you draw a card that is not higher than any opponent's cards, you can keep that card and now your trail's highest value is reset to that card. (If you have a 3 of blue square, and it's lower than all other players blue squares, then you get to keep it and your top trail card is now reset to 3).
- Build the longest trails you can as each card counts as a point and the player who reaches the top of the mountain (in points) first wins!
- Use strategy by giving away higher cards to opponents so they are blocked from being able to build their trails.
- Watch out for conditions updates as one player is chosen to flip a Conditions Update Card at the end of the round and see if there are any updates to your scores!
Introducing Trailmaster: The Ultimate Trail-Building Challenge!
Welcome to the exhilarating world of Trailmaster, where strategy meets the mountains. Craft your own destiny as you strive to become the ultimate Trail Master. With every flip of the card, you'll be one step closer to conquering the trails and emerging victorious.
The object is to build 4 trails, one for each of the suits with the highest score possible.
Your mission is clear: construct four trails, each representing a different suit, and aim for the highest score possible. Choose your mountain wisely, as it sets the target score for your journey. The first player to reach this score claims the title of Trail Master!
Embark on the journey, embrace the challenge, and may the trails lead you to triumph!
Instructions: How To Play Trailmaster
Objective: The object is to build 4 trails, one for each of the suits with the highest score possible.
Setup:
Pick a mountain from the Mountain Card and use the total number of trails as your target score. First player to this score wins.
Put the Conditions Update cards off to the side, face down.
Shuffle and deal all the Trail Cards to each player, face down, and don’t look at the cards.
Gameplay:
Each suit will be its own trail. Each card is worth one point. Aces are highest and 2’s are lowest.
Players take turns flipping over trail cards and placing them on their own trail or opponents’ trails.
Trails are built in cascading order low to high. (This also helps see which cards have been played already.)
The first player flips over their top card and must decide to keep the card or give it to an opponent.
You can only place cards of the same suit on top of each other.
You can only place cards on top of another card if it is higher than the previous card on that trail.
If the card you flipped is not higher than the top card on your trail, you have to give it to an opponent.
If the card you flipped is not higher than any other players’ top card, you keep that card. This card is the new starting base for that trail.
Strategy:
Hold onto low cards and pass high cards to opponents.
Prevent opponents from collecting low cards by giving them high cards.
Giving away higher cards blocks opponents from getting more points.
End of Round:
The round is over once all the Trail Cards have been played.
Flip a Conditions Update card and have each player follow the instructions to adjust scores based on current conditions.
Keep score of each player’s trail counts at the end of every round. Continue playing until the score has reached the total number of trails for the mountain selected.
Have fun becoming the Trail Master!
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