Grim Dance 2025

The Mexican holiday Day of the Dead is the one time of the year that the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead is the thinnest. At this carnival, all are welcome: take your neighbor’s hand (skeletal as it might be) and join the dance!

Coordinate the dancers’ movements by revealing cards laid out in a circle and applying their effects. Create chain reactions by moving cards or removing them from the circle altogether in order to collect even more cards. But be careful and try to keep track of the symbols hidden on the back of cards: while some dancers might grant you a token of good luck, others could very well jinx you!

Create a circle of face-down cards in the middle of the table, and choose a player to start. Then, each player takes turns revealing a card from the circle, applying its effect (optional), and resolving any chain reactions (if any). The turn then passes to the next player in a clockwise order.

The game ends when there are no more cards left in the circle. Players then turn their cards face up and proceed to score. Each light skull is worth 1 victory point, while each dark skull is a penalty point. The player with the highest number of victory points wins!

—description from the designer