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
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Bid on tricks, discover your secret ally, and trigger a revolution that can turn the social hierarchy upside down.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Tax the Rich is a satirical partnership trick-taking game in which every hand begins with a bid. The winning bidder names trump, predicts a team result, and calls for a card whose holder becomes a hidden ally. Players must follow suit while reading who is helping whom, then decide when the lowly cards marked with flags can declare a Revolution and reverse the rank order. Winning with a one can even tax the leader by stealing a captured trick. Thirteen optional character rules layer new political complications onto later plays without changing the compact twenty-minute core.
