I worked on updating the rules card, which will be included for Crazier Eights: Olympus. It’s rephrased slightly to add clarity, and the win condition is now mentioned right away.
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Author Archives: JW Gray
Dundracon 44
James Gray, the designer of Crazier Eights, will be at Dundracon, a board game convention on Friday, February 13th, and Saturday, February 14th. This will be at the San Ramon Mariott hotel, near the the bay area of California. This will be your chance to play the Crazier Eights games with the maker of the games.
He will run two events on Friday:
- Friday, 12PM — Crazier Eights: Camelot. (Salon 1 Table 1)
- Friday, 4PM — Crazier Eights: 1001 Nights. ( Salon 1 Table 1)
Crazier Eights Group Giveaway #17
The official Crazier Eights Facebook group can be found here. This is often the best way to keep up with any updates and give me feedback regarding future versions of Crazier Eights.
Join the group, and you also have a chance of winning prizes. We will have two winners, who each get a free copy of Crazier Eights: One Thousand & One Nights. One winner will be randomly selected by active members of the group who write a meaningful post or comment about Crazier Eights starting in March 2019. The other winner will be a randomly selected new member who joined the group in March 2019 or after.
This contest ends at the beginning of November 24th, 2019.
Go here to see the contest’s terms and conditions. Shipping is free for the USA, $7 to Canada, and $12 to anywhere else.
Crazier Eights: Olympus Spoiler (Updated 4-2-20)
Crazier Eights: Olympus will be the next Crazier Eights game with a Greek mythology theme. I hope to start a Kickstarter crowd funding campaign for it in February 2020, and the release date is July 31, 2020. More information.
The spoiler was “complete” on 1-27-2020. It was updated 2-18-2020, 3-20-2020, 3-23-2020, 3-29-2020, 4/1/2020, and 4/2/2020.
All of the cards from the set are shown below.
Conquest Avalon 2019
James Gray, the Crazier Eights inventor, will be at Conquest Avalon in Sacramento, CA, on Saturday November 23rd to host Crazier Eights events. Continue reading
Protospiel San Jose 2019
Protospiel San Jose is a Bay Area play testing event with over eighty game designers. It’s your chance to help game designers improve their games, and have fun playing games. And it’s free for play testers.
The event will be on Friday October 11 – 13, and it will be at the Mountain View Game Kastle (550 Showers Drive Mountain View, CA 94040). More information can be found here.
James Gray, the designer of Crazier Eights, will be there to test new versions of the game. Continue reading
Victory Point Cafe Designer Event
The Victory Point Cafe in Berkeley, CA, is having it’s fourth year anniversary. To celebrate this Sunday, we will have a free game designer event on this Sunday, September 22. This will be your chance to play games with the people who designed them, and playtesting some new games will likely also be involved. James Gray, the designer of the Crazier Eights series, will be there between 12 PM and 2 PM to play his games as well.
Location: 1797-A Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709 Continue reading
1001 Nights Demo at Russian Hill Bookstore
The game designer, James Gray, will have a demo event for Crazier Eights: 1001 Nights in San Francisco, at the Russian Hill Bookstore, on September 24th starting at 7:00 PM. This is your chance to try the game out and meet the designer of the game.
Location — 2162 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109.
130 Stores Selling Crazier Eights
There are now over 130 stores selling Crazier Eights, but some of them could have sold out. Go here for the list.
Crazier Eights: Olympus Card Previews
The next Crazier Eights set will be Crazier Eights: Olympus, released around June 2020. We have been working on it for over three years, and we will be previewing some of the cards. It’s possible for some of the cards to change before the release date. Continue reading
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