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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 30/08/2026

Rule explainer video for our flag making party game Flagrant! Pick up from Patreon or itch for fun night of vexillology with your friends. #indiegame #tabletop #partygame

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 28/08/2026

The next issue of the 52 Pickup tabletop game series is coming very soon!

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 15/08/2026

Playing some Warcraft wrath of lich king (basically Warcraft pandemic) tonight, victory for the first game! #boardgame

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 31/07/2026

Our latest party game, Flagrant, comes with free game sheets for designing your flag and for quick references. We’re experimenting with new ways to make key rules more visible to players around the table, preventing the need to constantly bring up and flick through the rulebook during gameplay.

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 28/07/2026

To do something special for our 40th issue (and because we couldn't decide between blue & purple) we're using this very unique card stock for our hand made game zines! Love how they look like shiny trading cards. Pick one up by joining our Patreon or finding us at a market in New Zealand.

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 23/07/2026

What games are in the free collection right now? Well... we've got: - Tinhorn Tell - The Black Spot & Captain Seven's Doubloons - Sentience - Guinea Pig Baseball - Dust Highway

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 16/07/2026

We couldn't fit this into the zine template, so we've published the 2-player rules for Tinhorn Tell for FREE! Tinhorn Tell is a card drafting game for 2-7 where players pass hands of cards, picking one to build a poker hand. patreon.52pickupstudios.com/posts/tinhorn-tell-two-163396554

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 02/07/2026

We love physical games so much that we: - make the zine templates available for you to print and fold at home - post our tabletop game zines all around the globe - let you download and keep everything forever! Keep analogue alive!

52 Pickup Echo City zine on grass
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52 Pickup zines being posted with the 52 Pickup custom wax seal

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 02/07/2026

Board game night is always fun when I'm around....

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 30/06/2026

Thinking about our overflowing zine stock boxes....

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 26/06/2026

Teaser for our new game, releasing soon... Any guesses? #indiegame #tabletop

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 23/06/2026

The real decision is between winning and staying friends... #boardgames #tabletop #cardgames

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 20/06/2026

Looking for a TTRPG that's about goblin goodness, base defence, and is great for one shots? Why not try Goblin Dungeon the TTRPG, FREE for the remainder of this month! patreon.52pickupstudios.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-159545453 #TTRPG #indiegame

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 19/06/2026

I did this a couple of months ago with Shroom Splicers, that aims to capture the feeling of a TCG or CCG combat while only playing with a standard deck of cards. 2/3 🧵 www.52pickupstudios.com/games/shroom-splicers

Shroom Splicers being played on the table

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 06/06/2026

Played my first game of Trench Crusade, and a 6 player game at that! Came tied second but no before three of my New Antioch soldiers were defeated in 1 Praetor’s activation. #tabletop

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 04/06/2026

Celebrating crossing 900+ Patreon members, thank you so much to everyone! Helps us keep publishing a new tabletop game every month :) patreon.52pickupstudios.com

52 Pickup Studios Patreon bio showing 909 members

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 30/05/2026

Welcome back to the dungeon! Introducing our newest original Tabletop Roleplaying Game... The Goblin Dungeon TTRPG. FREE to download for the first month! Play a clan of goblins defending their dungeon from those pesky adventurers. patreon.52pickupstudios.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-159545453 #ttrpg

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 30/05/2026

Picked up the Sky Team expansion today, first time I’ve seen it in NZ!

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 24/05/2026

Cheeseburgers (issue #36) is a solo memory puzzle game: flip cards, track the hidden cheese, build burgers before the kitchen collapses! Collab w/ @in2games.co.nz . FREE this week only! patreon.52pickupstudios.com/posts/156635383 #cardgame #tabletopgame #sologame #indiegame

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 12/05/2026

"Booked at the DOUG-FEST", the local band TTRPG, won Kirikiriroa's best music zine for 2026! A great collab game between 52 Pickup and Dougfest NZ. You can get your own copy here 👇 patreon.52pickupstudios.com/posts/52-pickup-booked-145737603 #ttrpg #zine #tabletop

Booked at the DOUG-FEST TTRPG zine cover

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 09/05/2026

thank you for everyone that came down, we had a great time talking games and slinging zines

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 08/05/2026

Kirikiriroa/Hamilton Zinefest is tomorrow from 10am at the Hamilton Library! Come down and say to many amazing creatives including us. We'll be bringing our TTRPG, board game, and card game zines, and we're super excited to show what we've done since last year's zinefest. #nz #newzealand #zine

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 05/05/2026

we are currently working on digitising cheeseburgers

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 29/04/2026

Cheeseburgers is out now! A 1 player memory-puzzle card game from 52 Pickup + @in2games.co.nz. Standard deck only. Track the Cheese, build burgers, survive the kitchen. Base rules are free this month: patreon.52pickupstudios.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-156635383 #CardGame #Solitaire #Tabletop

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 28/04/2026

Reminds me of this little chess variant game we made called Escape the Fluffy Black Cat!

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 27/04/2026

The next issue of the 52 Pickup tabletop game series is coming very soon!

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 21/04/2026

Shroom Splicers is only free for 1 more week! If you're looking for a TCG game like Magic, or Yu-Gi-Oh! that plays with a standard deck of playing cards this one is for you! patreon.52pickupstudios.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-154206074 #cardgame #tabletop #indiegame

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 19/04/2026

...and I would of gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids! #indiedev #gamedev

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 13/04/2026

...and we're tabling at Hamilton Zinefest on May 9th if you want to come pick up a physical copy in person! 🧵5/5 #NZ

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 13/04/2026

Issue 36 Shroom Splicers is out now, free for a limited time! A two-player card game about rival fungal intelligences splicing mushroom warriors together and sending them to destroy each other. 🧵4/5 #cardgame patreon.52pickupstudios.com/posts/designer-notes-154720868?postId=designer-notes-154720868

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 13/04/2026

Also this month: we renamed our Patreon tiers. City Square Supporter/Citizen/Stakeholder are now 52 Pickup Club Supporter, Regular, and Insider. same perks, new name that actually makes sense. 🧵3/5 patreon.52pickupstudios.com/membership

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 13/04/2026

The main one our 52 Pickup E-Zines are live! It's a digital zine reader, page curl physics, mood lighting, mobile and desktop layouts. Our 36 original tabletop game zines, all playable with a standard deck of cards and stuff you already own. At the moment exclusive to paid members. 🧵2/5

Introducing E-Zines, showing E-Zine pages being turned

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 10/04/2026

Every month we mail out original tabletop games in the mail Yesterday we mailed out prints of 52 Pickup issue #36, 'Shroom Splicers', a 2 player standard playing card game. Players grow mushroom warriors onto their Fields, splice them into stronger forms, and send them to attack the opposing brood.

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 03/04/2026

Playing more board games this, tonight my first play of Ark Nova. A close nail biter where I came second by a few points, beginners luck I'm sure!

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 01/04/2026

Playing some age of sigma doubles tonight. The dice have not been kind. #tabletop

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 31/03/2026

Shroom Splicers is the latest game in the 52 Pickup series and is currently free. A 2 player game, which uses a standard deck of cards, that pits two rival fungal intelligences against each other. Capture the feeling a TCG with just a deck of cards! patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-154206074

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 28/03/2026

4) Guinea Pig Baseball has a printable play area that doubles as a full rules summary; batting turn, pitch & swing, catch checks, all on one sheet. stuff you'd normally put on the cards goes on the sheet instead

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 28/03/2026

3) Primary Systems GO has three mech system types; Primary (King), Secondary (Queen), Utility (Jack). three manufacturers. three match types.

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 28/03/2026

2) Coin Workers: bigger sets = more income. three of a kind gives +2 coins, four of a kind gives +4. longer straights give more activations.

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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 28/03/2026

Here are some of the examples in our games for the techniques I mentioned: 1) Karate King 3100: only cares about suit for movement. spades = rook movement, clubs = knight, hearts = bishop, diamonds = king. A 2 of spades and a 10 of spades are the same card.

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