Overview

Trio is a memory and deduction card game by Kaya Miyano, illustrated by Laura Michaud (Cocktail Games, As d'Or 2024).

The 36 cards show the numbers 1 to 12, in 3 copies. On your turn, you reveal cards one by one, in the middle of the table or at the ends of hands (a player's lowest or highest card). Three identical numbers in a row: you win the trio. A different number: everything goes back.

Every card revealed is revealed to everyone: remembering who has what, and where, makes all the difference.

3 to 6 15 min
Goal

Be the first to win 3 trios (or 2 connected trios in spicy mode), or the 7 trio.

Victory

  • ✓ Simple mode: win any 3 trios.
  • ✓ Spicy mode: win 2 connected trios (numbers shown in the bottom corners of the cards).
  • ✓ In both modes: winning the 7 trio wins immediately.
  • ✓ In teams, same conditions with the team's trios.

Defeat

  • ✕ No special way to lose: the game ends as soon as a player (or team) wins.

Turn sequence

  1. 1
    1. Reveal a number
    In the middle (any card), or the lowest / highest card of a hand, your own included.
  2. 2
    2. Keep going or stop
    As long as the numbers are identical, you may continue. As soon as two numbers differ, the turn stops.
  3. 3
    3. End of the turn
    3 identical: you win the trio, face up in front of you. Otherwise: everything goes back. Then the next player, clockwise.