Unplayable Lie - The Golf Card Game (Pre-Order)

Golf is a game of rules. This is a deck of worse ones.

Pre-order: the first print run is in production. Orders placed now ship in the first wave — ships the week of November 16.

Unplayable Lie rides in the cart with you. On every tee box, each player draws one card, reads it out loud, and lives with it for the whole hole. No wedges. Replay that shot. Everybody plays the forward tees. Your partner picks your clubs.

It takes nine seconds a hole and layers on top of whatever you already play — skins, Nassau, best ball, straight stroke play. The cards change how a hole gets played, not how it gets scored.

72 cards, five kinds of trouble

• 36 Challenge — a condition you have to play the hole under
• 12 Sabotage — point it at somebody else, your pick
• 10 Advantage — a real edge, good for one hole
• 8 Group — one rule, the whole foursome stuck with it
• 6 Wild — blanks and Your Call cards, so you can write your own

How it plays

Shuffle on the first tee. Everyone draws one card per hole and reveals it. Follow the rule. Most cards expire when the hole does. When two cards fight, priority runs Challenge → Group → Sabotage → Advantage. When in doubt, the group votes and you keep moving.

In the box

• 72 cards
• Rules card
• Tuck box that fits a bag pocket or a cart cupholder

Details

• 2–6 players
• 9 or 18 holes
• Ages 14+

Good golfers follow the rules. Great golfers make them.