Weird little games
Odd Candy is Cardner & Alex Babakitis.
We like playing, talking about, and experimenting with tabletop games. Our goal with Odd Candy is to make games that we want to play: funny, weird, silly, thinky games that aren’t for everyone but might be for you!
Games
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ESP: Experiment in Supersensory Perspicacity
Do you know which cards your friends are holding? How about which cards YOU are holding?
ESP is a light, silly trick-taking game with opportunities to be creative and clever. Navigate through the hand using your wits and psychic prowess, narrowing in on your bid. The player with the truest sight will triumph!
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a trick-taking game by Cardner and Alex Babakitis
Daytime Minutes is a cutthroat trick-taking game about using your cell phone plan efficiently.
It’s 2003, and everyone seems to have a cell phone these days. You paid for those minutes, so you want to use them up. But getting stuck on a call and going over your limit is catastrophic. Luckily, evenings and weekends are FREE!
30-45 minutes
3-5 players
Ages 12+
Daytime Minutes is a trick-taking game for 3-4 players. First released through the Odd Candy website April 2026.
a trick-taking game by Cardner and Alex Babakitis
I brought a pack of 6 hot dogs to the cookout, but my partner brought a 12-pack of buns! No one wants to eat this pile of empty buns…
In Hot Dog, each card in the deck has two different values: the dog value and the bun value. Work with your partner to take tricks with both dogs and buns to fill your plate and score the most points. But your partner changes with every deal, and you may find yourself in a free-for-all!
30-45 minutes
4 players
Ages 10+
Hot Dog is a trick-taking game for 4 players. First released at Game Market Vegas in March 2025. The second printing with updated rules (variable partnership!) is now available.
expansion/extension for popular game by Cardner and Alex Babakitis
18CTN is sold out!
We are currently working on making a print-and-play version of the game available. Join our mailing list to receive updates!
In 18CTN, 3-5 tycoons compete to earn money and build the best stock portfolio by investing in and operating companies that develop and exploit a fictional island.
18CTN is an expansion/extension for a popular game. It adds an 18xx style stock & investment system, featuring the 4 player colors as major companies. It also adds a commodity value system that interacts with the 5th major company (robber) and the private companies (ports).
18CTN includes: a rules zine, stock certificates, company charters, stock market and commodity value boards, wooden discs to mark stock value and turn phases, printed tokens to track commodity value, wooden priority deal marker, and a sticker to update your popular game box
A copy of the popular game and a set of poker chips (or paper money) are needed to play.
90-150 minutes
3-5 players
Ages 14+
18CTN is an expansion/extension for a popular game, for 3-5 players. It adds an 18xx style stock & investment system. First released at PNW Tabletop Game Market at PaxWest in August 2025. 18CTN is sold out, but we are planning to release a print-and-play version summer 2026.
a trick-taking game by Cardner and Alex Babakitis
Numberwang is sold out!
We are currently working on some updates and improvements for the next printing. Join our mailing list to receive updates and be the first to know when it is back in stock!
Numberwang is a deceptively simple trick-taking game with shared incentive bidding.
Before each hand, look at every player’s cards and bid how many tricks you expect them to take. Score points for bids that you hit exactly, and score bonus points if you can force other players to miss their bids. Everyone’s seen your cards, so trip them up with counterintuitive bids and surprising plays.
Let’s play Numberwang!
45-60 minutes
4 players
Ages 10+
Numberwang is a trick-taking game for 4 players. First released at Game Market Vegas in March 2025. The second printing is sold out, but the game is playable with a standard deck of 52 cards. Print out some scoresheets and try it!