Chicago Grand Slam (2025)

Chicago Grand Slam ups the ante of the classic Chicago card game with the elegance of a unique game board and ruleset, loaded with more strategic depth and replayability. Play your cards at the just the right moment and try to make the best poker hand, all while attempting to be the first player to obtain their Chicago Marker and get both of your pawns across the goal. But watch out, you may end up moving backwards! Chicago Grand Slam is best played with 2-4 friends, aged 10 and up, and takes less than an hour to play. ________________________ The classic Chicago game was allegedly invented in an underground poker club at Hammarbykajen, Stockholm in Sweden owned by the Russian mafia. The game is a variation of the Swedish card game, Fem-kort. The poker-related card game called Chicago is one of the most popular card games in Finland today. Relying on the keeping of score instead of the placing of bets, it is suitable even for environments such as schools, where gambling is often prohibited.