In Bauer, you go on a journey through the Troll Forest to see who is the biggest adventurer. Collect cards that tell the story of your adventure and are worth different amount of points depending on what other cards you have collected. In the end, the player with most points has been on the biggest adventure and wins the game!

Bauer is a card drafting game for 2-5 players that features a unique draft mechanic and cards with multiple uses. It takes around 15 minutes to play and is recommended for ages 8 and up.

   

But how do you score points?

Well, there are four different card types that score you points in different ways. The basic cards are Event, Travel and Danger. In addition to points, these card types also have tags that you can collect to complete Quests from the last card type, Characters!

And that's how to play Bauer! If you want to dive deeper into the rules you can check out the rulebook for a little bit more detail. (Final design of rulebook is still in progress.)

John Bauer was a Swedish painter active in the early 20th century. He is known for his illustrations of enchanting forests inhabited by trolls, fairy princesses and other fantastical beings. Most of his illustrations was made to accompany stories in the book series "Among Tomtar and Trolls". And for over 100 years the wonderful illustrations by John Bauer has been introduced through these stories to Swedish children. His work has been a source of inspiration for fantasy illustrators and folklore enthusiasts for a long time and his legacy can be felt in everything from classic Disney movies to The lord of the rings.

Since John Bauer passed away in 1918, all his work have entered the public domain. Thus we decided to take this opportunity to further spread the magic of Bauer throughout the world using his original illustrations.

About the Free Print & Play

The Print & Play version of Bauer consists of one 6-page PDF that you download and print out. We recommend putting the cards in plastic card sleeves along with a regular playing card to make them easy to handle. The PDF is A4 size so make sure you print it out at actual scale if you're not using A4 paper. The size of the cards is a standard poker card/Magic the gathering card.

Update: You can also print out the backs for the cards now.

A Crowdfunded Game

We crowdfunded  this game on Kickstarter between November 22- december 15 2023. Now we are in the process of producing it which we hope to be finished with in February 2024. You can still pre-order a copy if you're interested in having the printed version.

This game is designed by Rasmus Karlsson, Robin Karlsson and Tobias Nordin.

We hope you have a good time playing Bauer!