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8 out of 10
Larry Chong
This is a very innovative or unique trick-taking game with board game tactics added. And, it also has several boards and board overlays to create more interesting variants and varying replayabilitiy. If you enjoy trick-taking with an added board element/tactics, I highly recommend giving this a shot. The theme is good with players being hackers (info tech) trying to infiltrate a network system. This is comparable with Trains where Trains is equivalent to "Dominion or deck-building plus a board". This is trick-taking plus a board. I suggest customizing the card deck and scaling it based upon the number of players in order to suit the groups taste on randomness. You can moderate this by changing the quantity of each # (three in each # versus standard deck of four in each #). Or, by changing the range of values # (for example, use #1 to #10 instead of the standard of #1 to #13). With four players, we only utilized half of the standard deck in every hand. That's a high degree of randomness, if your group is okay with that. [Played one time with four players.]
7 out of 10
Adam9172
A nice out of the box take on hacking and bypassing security measures. I'll be honest, I was drunk playing this but remember it being quite fun. I'll need to give it a sober play through some time.
8 out of 10
TobiasG
Deceptively simple. You actually need neither to win that many tricks, nor do you need to race to the finish. The Black Hat adds a lot of strategic depth, the map overlays add complexity and replay value.

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Information wants to be free, but you charge by the hour…

In the world of network security, a “black hat” is a hacker who defeats computer systems for personal gain. These rogue data jockeys pit themselves against the most secure systems in the world for the thrill of it (and maybe to make a little money on the side). However, the most skilled hackers know it’s not about getting there first; it’s about ghosting in and out of the system without leaving a trace.

Black Hat is a hacker-themed, climbing trick-taking board game for 2-6 players. While trick-taking is the main mechanism used in the game, you can win the game even if you win only a few tricks — as long as you win the ones that makes the most for your game. Black Hat features a random and evolving game board that players progress through during the game, and while that progress helps you toward victory, the first player to finish doesn’t necessarily win.

Black Hat allows wide variety of game play strategies to be applied, none of them clearly superior over another, as you have to adapt to situation.

Ages	10+
Players	2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players, 6 Players
Play Time	30m – 45m
Designer	Thomas Klausner, Timo Multamäki
Mechanics	Area Movement, Hand Management, Modular Board, Set Collection, Trick-taking
Theme	Card Game, Science Fiction
Publisher	Cosmic Games, Dragon Dawn Productions