The Beginning and the Idea

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The rules of High & Low are inspired by the card games Asshole or President and Shithead. We also added some other gamemechnics because we thought that these rules make the game more competitive and created with our own rules a great game. Strategy and luck are very balanced in this game. Also with bad cards you can win with forward thinking, proactive thinking, predictive thinking and strategic play 

We played the game in a school so of course we could not use the real name of the card games. At the beginning we named it "Hallo" or "OK" after a while the name "Hello Higher" was establish. At the end the name "High & Low - Card Game" was born. 

During some test plays we recognize that our friends created new rules and we really liked this process of development. That is why there all cards in High & Low has only numbers, also the special cards. We really love the philosophy of  house rules. 


We are looking forward to get many new rules from our community!


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