Sandbag

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It's a hot air balloon festival where your goal is to go higher than your opponents. Dump as many sandbags as you can and even try to gain rockets to send yourself higher and higher to win!

Sandbag is a trick-taking game of avoiding tricks, manipulating trump, and reconfiguring your hand of cards. In each of the three rounds, you'll configure your basket with two face up cards; the most common color of all players' cards is the trump suit. Each trick, players either play from their hand, play a Sandbag (to sluff, or avoid winning the trick), or play one of their opponents' face up cards. Each round, it's possible for the trump to change as the number and kind of face up cards are exchanged for face down sandbags. There are also 5 rocket cards in play each round, worth negative points (that's good for you); you'll need to try to win those while avoiding all of the other sandbag cards!

Sandbag is a highly interactive trick-taking game for 3-6 players that excels at higher player counts!

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Customer Reviews (4.8 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Henry J. ★★★★★ Sep 8, 2026

My group couldn't stop laughing as we decided whether to toss another sandbag or hold steady—the rocket cards really flip the game in the final rounds. Setup was quick and the rules clicked after one round, so we got three games in before anyone lost focus.

Evelyn X. ★★★★★ Sep 7, 2026

The push-your-luck balance is just right—every time I think I've dumped all my sandbags, someone else shoots up with a rocket and I'm scrambling again. Played three rounds back-to-back with my family and the tension never got old.

Sophia ★★★★★ Sep 6, 2026

The rocket cards add such a fun twist—suddenly everyone's scrambling to outpace each other instead of just dumping sandbags. Setup took us about two minutes and the whole table was hooked by the second round.