Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Haggis is a shedding card game similar to Tichu, Zheng Fen, and other East Asian climbing games. Haggis has received praise for being the first to successfully create a climbing, trick-taking game, designed from the start for two to three players, where most previous games required four players or more. The evenly distributed, face card \"bombs\" are a notable innovation for the genre, helping even out hand strength enough to make two-person play workable, and enhancing the strategic element of the game.The game's designer, Sean Ross, developed Haggis over a period of several years, with first publication in late 2010 by Indie Boards and Cards. The game was named after haggis partly in a nod to Ross' Scottish heritage, but also because the game brought together the \"guts\" (scoring and play mechanisms) of several other climbing games. Haggis was a nominee for \"Best Card Game\" in the 2010 Golden Geek Awards by BoardGameGeek."@en }
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- Haggis_(card_game) abstract "Haggis is a shedding card game similar to Tichu, Zheng Fen, and other East Asian climbing games. Haggis has received praise for being the first to successfully create a climbing, trick-taking game, designed from the start for two to three players, where most previous games required four players or more. The evenly distributed, face card \"bombs\" are a notable innovation for the genre, helping even out hand strength enough to make two-person play workable, and enhancing the strategic element of the game.The game's designer, Sean Ross, developed Haggis over a period of several years, with first publication in late 2010 by Indie Boards and Cards. The game was named after haggis partly in a nod to Ross' Scottish heritage, but also because the game brought together the \"guts\" (scoring and play mechanisms) of several other climbing games. Haggis was a nominee for \"Best Card Game\" in the 2010 Golden Geek Awards by BoardGameGeek.".