Soccer 54

Playing soccer with playing cards!

Materials: standard deck of playing cards
Ages: 8 and up
Players: 1-2

Soccer 54

Using six cards in your hand, challenge for possession to move a soccer ball up and down a 3x3 field in order to get the best shot on goal. Whoever scores the most goals wins the half. Play another to decide the match!

• Playing time: 10 minutes.
  
• Rules: (see Download below)
• Play Soccer 54 online at PlayingCards.io (or download a room file).

More about the origin of Soccer 54.

PK Shootout 24

Learn to shoot and save in this standalone version of overtime in Soccer 54.

• Playing time: 5 minutes.
• Rules: (see Download below)
• Play PK Shootout 24 online at PlayingCards.io (or download a room file).

Foosball 74

Play the beautiful game in the pub!

• Custom designed cards based on Soccer 54 that fully separates forwards and goalkeepers from the rest of the deck.
• Added trick-taking for winning possession of the ball.
• Playing time: 15 minutes

Playtested

• Contact me if you would like to playtest these games.
• Follow my game design process on Bluesky using the #Soccer54 hashtag.

Testimonials

• Mike Berg: "I *love* the idea of doing it with a standard deck!"
• Nick Drage: "The game Soccer 54 divides a standard deck of playing cards into two sets, 4-10, and the A-3 and face cards combined; how common is that as a mechanism?"
• Northwest Game Labs: "Set up is a bit of shuffling, a bit of dealing, but you get into the game and start seeing a lot of clever, tight game design unfold. Hand management, bluffing, the way you have to juggle the ball around if you don't have the right cards to score... Nice!"
• Northwest Game Labs: "Nothing seems wasted or unnecessary, it all flows together very well and has an elegance to it."
• @kamilo6: "It's so simple and true to the way soccer flows."