Author Archives: JW Gray

Magician (the Card Game)

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Magician is a combat oriented deck building game James Gray has worked on for years. The latest version of the game is untested. The main idea is that the game is something like a combination of Magic: the Gathering and Dominion. You spend each turn buying cards to add to your deck (originally added to your discard pile), playing cards, and attacking with characters. Continue reading →

General Tournament Guidelines

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Tournaments are events that rank players based on how many matches or “rounds” they win. A group of at least four players are needed. In general, each match can be 30 minutes for a single game (“best of one”), or 40 – 50 minutes for best two out of three. Tournaments usually have two player games, but multi-player is an option as long as one winner can usually be determined. Continue reading →

Olympus Was Released

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Crazier Eights: Olympus & Crazier Eights: Pantheon were both released on August 14, 2020, and we are now taking orders:

Crazier Eights: Olympus

Zeus, Artemis, Atlantis, and many other wonders from Greek mythology come to life with these 52 imaginative and unique cards. Each card represents a different aspect from a story, and new stories are created in each game. That’s 52 different card abilities.

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History of My Game Design

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crazier eightsThis is James Gray, the owner of Recoculous, and the game designer for the Crazier Eights games. I have made board games and RPGs as soon as I could. I have been told that I started making them when I was four, but I have no idea what I made at that point.

I suspect I was seven when I made a roll and move board game a little like Candy Land, except the winner was whoever got to the dragon’s treasure first. I know that the dragon’s treasure was drawn carefully and colored in. Continue reading →