Rankster Game Review

During my visit to SPIEL 2022, I had the chance to try Rankster, a very light party game that I covered in one of our “First Take Friday” articles. At the time, I thought it was interesting, and when I got the chance to get a copy of the final game for review recently from our partners at Asmodee, I raised my hand.

The game hasn’t changed at all. In both cooperative and competitive formats, a player is selected as the judge who will display three famous characters—both real-world and fantasy—on the table, from a deck of about 200 different choices. Then, they will reveal a question.

Let’s say the three characters, known in the game as Nominees, are Lady Gaga, Barack Obama, and Don Vito Corleone, from the movie The Godfather. The judge reads a question: “Who would have the best Halloween costume?”

Then the judge secretly places their vote for who they believe would make the best, second-best, and third-best costume by placing their one, two, and three cards next to the appropriate Nominee. In competitive mode, teams would then place their ranking cards next to the people they think the judge would nominate as having the best costume, in rank order. Then there’s a reveal, and points are scored, and people laugh.

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