Park Life Hedgehog Pocket

Park Life: Hedgehog is a trick-taking game about careful timing, profiting from opportunities and adapting to the other players’ strategies.

Park Life has 5 weather-based suits. But the customers are shrewd, so only the merchant with the lowest price completes the sale. The lowest card in the suit wins the trick, but it is also worth fewer points in the end. On top of that, every sale drains your supplies, so you discard extra cards face down when you win a trick.

You can make many small sales quickly, but then you go home before the others, which gives them the chance of a dramatic comeback. Wait too long, though, and others will make some solid sales and secure their lead. The player with the most points once everyone is out of cards wins the round and flips their bonus point card to a lower value (another catch-up mechanism). Win two rounds to win the game.

For solo and co-op play there are set goals to reach in order to win, or you can play against the automas using the rules in the deluxe rulebook (the deluxe rules can be downloaded free of charge below).

As a must-follow trick-taking game, it lets you choose your strategy based on the cards you are dealt and the choices of the others. This well-balanced game of hand management and action economy avoids perfect information and fills Park Life with rich choices.

Although it is very similar to Park Life: People, this design differs not only in its look but also in the composition of its deck (5 suits numbered 1-10), its scoring (after every round), the resetting of the cards after each round and its winning condition (2 round wins to win the game). It is considered the more family-friendly of the two.