Soccer 54

Playing soccer with playing cards!

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

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

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)
• Quick play guide
• Video: watch a playthrough of Soccer 54.
• Play Soccer 54 online at PlayingCards.io.

More about the origin of Soccer 54 at HaoleBoyGames.com.

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)
  
• Video: watch a playthrough of PK Shootout 24.
  
• Play PK Shootout 24 online at PlayingCards.io.

Soccer 54: Premier!

A more tactical version of Soccer 54!

• Finalist in the 2025 Spring Deck Hand Games design contest (pitch video)! 
• I've added 18 action cards that can help or hurt your game.
• Playtested at Protospiel Online (May 2025)
• Available for purchase September 2025 at Game Market West.
• Playing time: 20 minutes.

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."