Some trick taking games are relaxing affairs where you play your highest card and hope for the best. Ghosts of Christmas will challenge you, there are multiple ways to approach each round and navigate through the other players.

For example, when you don't have the cards to win in a straightforward way, sometimes you can engineer a change in who wins the "Past" trick in order to make the "Present" and "Future" trick work out better for you.

Or, if you want either a lower stress evening or are just learning, there’s the option to play the variant without bidding. On the flip side, you make it even more challenging by adding the fourth "Beyond" variant.