You participate in a hot air balloon festival where the goal is to get higher than your opponents. Throw as many sandbags overboard as you can — and try to collect rockets too! — to send yourself higher and higher to win.

Sandbag is a trick game where you have to avoid tricks, manipulate the trump and adjust your hand of cards. In each of the three rounds you configure your basket with two face-up cards; the most common suit among all players' cards is the trump suit. On each trick, players either play a card from their hand, a sandbag (to avoid winning the trick), or one of their opponents' face-up cards. During the round the trump card may change as the number and suit of face up cards are exchanged for reversed sandbags. Five rocket cards with negative points are in play each round, and you want to win these while avoiding the sandbag cards, because ultimately the player with the lowest score wins.

Sandbag is a highly interactive trick game for 3-6 players that excels at higher player numbers!