Cards need to be put in the correct order. More than once we’ve pulled this one out at the end of a game night when we had a little bit of time left, but no desire to learn something heavy. The rules explanation takes all of 30 seconds, the gameplay is intuitive, and the playtime is about 10-15 minutes. In my opinion, Illusion is the perfect filler game. It’s a small box with minimal components, so I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it’s actually a lot of fun. I must say, I was pleasantly surprised by the gameplay in Illusion. The range of colors on the cards is quite impressive. Play continues in this manner until one player collects three arrows and wins. If it was correct, the previous player scores it. All cards are flipped over to reveal their percentage and if the order was indeed incorrect, you take the arrow card as a point. If instead, you think the line of cards isn’t in the correct order, you can challenge. So, if you think a card is 20% covered in blue, you’ll put it between the card you think is 15% and the card you think is 50%. The goal is to place the card in ascending order by the arrow color. If they choose to play, they draw the top card of the deck and place it into the line of cards. On a player’s turn, they can either play or challenge. The cards in Illusion are two-sided, with one side having an optical illusion/pattern of 4 colors, and the reverse side listing how much of each color is showing on the card (expressed as a percentage of the total card).Īt the start of each round, an arrow card is drawn, which shows the color players will be working with that round. This quick-playing game from Pandasaurus has 2-5 players trying to sort out cards based on the amount of a specific color showing. Today we are going to look at a card game called Illusion. So, a game about sorting out cards by color seems right up my alley. I even took a test once to measure my color acuity and did very well.

As a graphic designer by trade, I spend a ton of time working with color.

Illusion games official website