The Crew the Quest for Planet Nine

The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine is an award-winning, co-operative trick-taking card game for 2 to 5 players, aged 10 and up, with quick missions taking about 20 minutes. Working together as astronauts on a perilous space mission, players must navigate 50 distinct scenarios where success is determined not by winning the most tricks, but by ensuring the right players win the right cards at the right time under strict communication limits.

How It Plays

In this space adventure, players set off as astronauts to investigate rumours of an unknown planet. The journey is structured as a campaign spanning 50 unique missions, which can be paused and resumed between sessions. Unlike traditional competitive trick-taking card games, players win or lose as a team. Each mission assigns specific tasks to individual players, requiring them to win particular cards in their tricks. However, communication is severely restricted in the vacuum of space, meaning players must carefully use limited tokens to signal information about their hands without giving away the game.

Key Features

• Co-operative Play: A unique twist on classic card games where teamwork is essential to succeed.
• Campaign-Driven: Play through a narrative-driven campaign of 50 missions that increase in difficulty.
• Task-Based Challenges: Winning tricks is only useful if the correct player secures their required target cards.
• Limited Communication: Strategise with your team using restrictive signalling tokens, making every decision tense and meaningful.

Background and Legacy

Published by KOSMOS, The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine has quickly become a modern classic in the card game genre. Featuring 50 progressively challenging missions, the game also saw three bonus missions released in the specialised board-game magazine spielbox in early 2020. It has been widely praised for its innovative blend of classic trick-taking mechanics and co-operative puzzle-solving.