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Card game Coup gets a Philippine edition

Card game Coup gets a Philippine edition

Jeeves De Veyra

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Updated Jun 22, 2024 02:32 PM PHT

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The Philippine Edition of Coup with the original in the background. Jeeves de Veyra 

The Gaming Library scored a coup by acquiring the rights to make a Philippine edition of hit card game Coup.

Coup, originally published by La Mame Games, is considered a "gateway" game. That is, one of the first games that welcome new gamers to the hobby. Compared to other games, Coup has a relatively simple setup with cards and some coins, relatively easy to learn rules, and can be played by two to six players.

The game is set in a world of political intrigue where influence, represented by players’ cards, is life. Players initially draw two cards, and depending on what’s on the cards, can initiate actions like take money from the bank, steal, force an exchange of cards, all the way to staging a coup where all the other players lose influence. 

The twist is that players can bluff about what cards they have and do actions they shouldn’t do. If someone calls that player out, they lose influence and lose one of their two cards. When a player runs out of cards, they’re out of the game. Whoever is the last man or woman standing with cards/influence wins the game.

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The Gaming Library has been a pillar of the Philippine board game community since its inception 13 years ago and has tackled other local editions in the past. However, these were minimal additions and nowhere as complete and comprehensive as what they pulled with Coup.

The Gaming Library has been a pillar of the Philippine board game community since its inception 13 years ago and has tackled other local editions in the past. However, these were minimal additions and nowhere as complete and comprehensive as what they pulled with Coup.

The Gaming Library founder Hans Kenner Fernandez with the Philippine Edition of Coup. Jeeves de Veyra

The Gaming Library founder Hans Kenner Fernandez met Coup designer Rikki Tahta in one of the board game conventions abroad. After talking to him, he secured the rights to making and modifying a special Filipino version.

While the original Coup was set in dystopian corporate Italy, The Gaming Library set the new edition in the Spanish colonial era replacing corporations with warring clans. The new era appropriate character artworks by artist Camille Chua Tan are inspired by characters from "Noli Me Tangere."  

A guwardiya sibil, the gobernador heneral, Padre Damaso, Elias, Crisostomo Ibarra, and Maria Clara are represented here. They have even gone as far as translating the rulebook, and summary cards into Filipino and by doing this, should attract more people to try the game and the hobby.

Coup components. Jeeves de Veyra

For the curious, you can playtest Coup at The Gaming Library and All Aboard shops where boardgame coaches will gladly sit down, teach the rules, play a round or two, or even recommend a couple more games to welcome you to the wonderful world of boardgames.

The Philippine Edition of Coup is now available at all branches of The Gaming Library as well as its online stores on Lazada and Shoppee with an SRP of P1,399



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