Hammer Glamour

You are a contractor, submitting estimates for jobs and trying to get the best customers.

The savviest homeowners know to accept the second-highest estimate. Too high, and they worry you’re spending all that extra profit on a rhinestone hammer. Too low, and they worry you’re cutting corners on materials. Costs will change, so be ready to change with them. After the dust settles, be the most successful company to win.

Hammer Glamour is a card game for 4 to 6 people where everyone simultaneously plays a contractor card from their hand. The customer cards that players receive will be based on the strength (profitability) of their contractor cards.

The player who played the second strongest contractor card will take the most valuable customer card, and so on in order. The player who played the strongest card (tried to get the most profit) will take the last customer. That customer didn't really want to pay so much, but all of the other contractors are busy!

Materials and labor costs change, and what was profitable now won’t necessarily be profitable in the future. The player who played the weakest card may move the suit strength card of the suit that they played to any position within the card row to change its strength for the next round.

When all cards have been played, each contractor adds up the value of their customers. The most successful contractor wins.