- Card football
Infobox Game
title = Card Football
subtitle = Premiere Edition
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designer =CSE Games
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publisher =SportFX International
players = 1-4
ages = 12+
setup_time = 5 minutes
playing_time = 40 minutes
complexity = Medium
strategy = Medium
random_chance = Medium (dice rolling, card drawing, luck)
skills = Strategic thinkingHand management
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bggid = 22924
bggxrefs =Card football refers to one of several card games that simulate
American football and/orSoccer .Card Football Premiere Edition is a poker-like strategy game developed in 2004 by brothers Paolo and Fabio Del Rio, former editors of "Canadian Sports Collector," [ [http://boardgames.about.com/od/cardfootball/a/interview.htm Card Football - Board Game - Interview ] ] . It employs what its developers call the
D54 Game System , a patented modification of the 54-card deck. The game was designed byCSE Games , published bySportFX International and was named one of the Top 10 Best Card Games of 2006 byAbout.com .An updated version of Card Football is slated to release in September 2008. Titled NCAA Football Hand-Off [ [http://www.csegames.com/ncaafho.htm CSE Games - NCAA Football Hand-Off ] ] , the new licensed version of the game includes 20 top U.S. college teams.
Other versions
Card Football is also the name of a game by collector and inventor
Sid Sackson , played using a normal deck of playing cards. A player who "catches" a pass turns cards from a pile; each number card moves the ball that distance. [Sid Sackson, "Card Games Around the World" (Dover Publications), p. 138.]Another form of card football, also employing a standard playing-card deck, was developed in 2006 by Scott Crawford, called "Card Bowl."Fact|date=March 2008
"Card football" in Britain is the name given to a
soccer simulation game.Fact|date=March 2008References
External links
* [http://www.csegames.com/cfpe.htm "Card Football Premiere Edition"] on CSE Games' website
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