Snow Climbing 2026

How long can you climb the highest snowy mountains on the planet? Rely on your partners in Snow Climbing, managing your resources in an innovative cooperative climbing mechanic. Be careful not to lose important items and try not to cause an avalanche. Surviving the cold is only part of this extreme challenge!

In this ladder climbing game, cards represent the players' gear when climbing the mountain. In each turn, a person plays a card that has a larger number than the card on the top of the climbing pile.

Another possible action is to "Change Route", adding the values of two cards of the same suit. The smaller card goes to the top of the pile - restarting the counting - and the largest goes to the "snow area". When no action is possible, players start the Camping Phase, creating pairs of cards with the same suit to save them from the "snow area".

Every round, a new avalanche condition is revealed: if, at the end of that round, the cards on the "snow area" met any of the conditions revealed, the players cause an avalanche and lose the game. Special abilities of each suit can be used to protect cards or save cards from the "snow area".

—description from the designer