Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
Luck-sensitive
How it plays
How does it play?
Climb higher or lower with sets of matching cards, track the haunted numbers left behind, and empty your hand without repeating a fatal pattern.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Ghost Lift is a light climbing card game with a mischievous memory trap. On a turn, play one or more matching-number cards that obey the lift’s current higher-or-lower direction, or pass and keep watching. Cards remaining when a trick ends become haunted, making their numbers increasingly dangerous in future tricks. Trigger the same number three times—or the same three-card combination twice—and the round ends immediately with a penalty. Emptying your hand is powerful, but surviving the ghost’s accumulating history matters just as much.
