Aw, Ducks! 2026

A quick and easy to learn press-your-luck (duck?) game for 2-4 players. Draw cards, score cards and claim ducks, and have the most points when the deck runs out! You can play one round or several to a set total. The deck has number cards in Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, and Black (2x each of 1-6), and four ducks of each color (Rainbow instead of Black).

On your turn you can Draw, Score, or Discard. If you draw, you take the top card of the deck face-up in front of you to your tableau. If it's a number, great! If it's a duck, it eats all your number cards that match its color, and swims off to the Duck Pond in the middle of the table - and you keep drawing until you get a number.

If you Score, you put all the cards in your Tableau into your score pile, face-down, *plus* any Ducks whose rules you match. Each color of duck has a rule (Yellow: 4 numbers in a row, Blue: 5 different colors, etc). Numbers are worth their face value, ducks worth +5!

If you Discard a card from your tableau, you get a special action. 1-2: (Safe Draw) Draw 2 cards, safe from ducks! 3-4: (Quick Quack) Draw 3 cards and score immediately! 5-6: (Secret Stash) Secretly put the top 2 from the draw deck on your score pile, then score your tableau!

When the deck runs out, count up your score pile. Be clever deciding when to score and take actions in order to win!

—description from the designer